All about Cakes & Cookies Baking

[Happy Mama]

peapot:

Btw, bread needs Gluten so you still need to mix bread flour with Spelt. FYI only.

:thankyou:

[Blessed Homemaker]

Recipe can be found here. I used a cookie cutter to shape them, very easy. If you are interested to buy the cookie cutters, pm me. I'm not the seller, just sharing lobang.


http://blessedhomemaker.blogspot.sg/

Blessed Homemaker:

I made mooncake piglets 豬仔餅

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[Funz]

Almond Meal Butter Cake


4 eggs, room temperature
227 grams butter softened
1 1/2 cups of flour
2 tsps baking powder
3/4 cup white sugar
1tsp vanilla essence
3 tbsps whole milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of almond meal
(I used about 1 cup of the chinese sweet almond (南杏)meal from the almond milk that I made the day before. It is very slightly damp.)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) and grease/ line your baking pans. Sift the flour and baking powder and together - this is to ensure they combine well. Add in the salt and mix well. Set aside.

2. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale yellow and light. Do not pour in the sugar all at once as you will ‘drown’ the butter. You should beat the butter and sugar till fluffy.

3. Break each egg in separately, mixing well after each addition. Add in vanilla essence and mix well. Add the almond meal and mix well.

4. Finally, add in the flour mixture in 3 portions, mixing well after each addition. Add in the milk and mix well.

5. Pour batter into whatever shaped pans you would like. Pour only up to a bit less than two-thirds of your pans to avoid overflowing.

6. Bake your cake (s) for about 45-60 minutes (30 minutes if making cupcakes). Check for doneness with a wooden skewer or toothpick - insert in center of cake, if it comes out clean - the cake is done. Do not overbake to avoid dryness.

7. Cool in pan for about 10 minutes on a wire rack before turning out.

Notes:
1. I prefer to start creaming the butter when it is still slightly hard. Waiting till the butter is fully softened to cream may result in a butter cake that oozes oil or one with a heavy bottom.
2. Omit salt if using salted butter
3. I reduced the sugar to 1/2 cup and it was still sweet enough.
4. As I am using a convection oven, I set the temp 10deg below what the instructions called for. And I turn it down a further 10deg about 20mins into baking.

[worldangel]

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Snowskin mooncakes I made

[worldangel]

maggicho:

does anyone has any good cream puff recipes to share?

I have yet to try it myself but my friends swore by this recipe:

http://www.joyofbaking.com/CreamPuffs.html

And it comes with a video to guide you through the step-by-step instruction!

[FairyPenguin]

Hi worldangel,


The snowskin mooncakes you made have a nice, unique colour & they looked lovely. As I can't bake at all, I'm very amazed by all your creations. Impressive

[worldangel]

Thanks for your kind words Snowskin mooncakes are actually quite simple to make as they don't require baking. As long as you have the right type of mould, you can make quite a number of mooncakes within an hour or two. Better than spending $50 - $60 on one box outside! Ever since I learnt how to make, I have been making them for my family and friends I can share the recipe if anyone interested

[Happy Mama]

Blessed Homemaker:

Recipe can be found here. I used a cookie cutter to shape them, very easy. If you are interested to buy the cookie cutters, pm me. I'm not the seller, just sharing lobang.


http://blessedhomemaker.blogspot.sg/

:thankyou: for the recipe.

[Happy Mama]

worldangel:

Thanks for your kind words Snowskin mooncakes are actually quite simple to make as they don't require baking. As long as you have the right type of mould, you can make quite a number of mooncakes within an hour or two. Better than spending $50 - $60 on one box outside! Ever since I learnt how to make, I have been making them for my family and friends I can share the recipe if anyone interested

Hi worldangel, your mooncakes look so yummy. I love the sweet pastel colours of your mooncakes. :love:
Do you mind sharing the recipe with me please? :please:

One question... You mentioned as long as we get the right type of mould.... What is considered the right type of mould? Wooden or plastic or those piston-like where you push out the mooncakes? Thank you.

[worldangel]

Happy Mama:

Hi worldangel, your mooncakes look so yummy. I love the sweet pastel colours of your mooncakes. :love:

Do you mind sharing the recipe with me please? :please:

One question... You mentioned as long as we get the right type of mould.... What is considered the right type of mould? Wooden or plastic or those piston-like where you push out the mooncakes? Thank you.

Thanks! I used pandan extract (very small drop) to achieve the green colour, red and yellow colouring to achieve the other two colours.

I got the recipe from here: http://auntyyochana.blogspot.sg/2006/09/rainbow-ice-cream-soda-snow-skin.html I modified the recipe a bit by mixing the ice cream soda with water (180ml ice cream soda, 20ml water) to reduce the sweetness.

I use the piston-like mould which you can get from Sun Lik/Bake King. I find these easier to use as compared to the traditional wooden/plastic moulds as my mooncakes always ended up sticking to the mould and tearing when I tried to knock them out.