All about Cakes & Cookies Baking

[Jennifer]

Jennifer:

Has anyone made a raspberry buckle before?


http://www.oprah.com/food/Raspberry-Buckle-Recipe_1

how does it taste like?

I could not find small tub of vanilla ice cream at NTUC, so I changed the recipe as follows:

200g cake flour
1 n 3/4 cup fresh milk
100g unsalted butter
1 tsp baking powder
1 box of Korean strawberries

As I started to mix, I realised I forgot to add sugar. Thought it was too late, so I substituted with golden syrup 2 Chinese tbsp. Baked for 25 minutes.

Result: cake is soft n the strawberries were sweet n moist. Unfortunately, the cake is not sweet enough.

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[zeemimi]

Funz:

I used Pampas Butter puff pastry. Comes in a pack of 3 sheets. Bought it from NTUC. Have never been truly successful in making puff pastry, you need cold hands for that, mine are too warm. Cooked the custard and apples myself. No whip cream for the custard, I used low fat fresh milk.


For this batch that I made I used the following estimates

Apple filling
3 Fuji apples cut into small cubes
2 tbsp sugar
50g butter
juice of 1/2 a lemon (add the zest in if you like)
dash of cinnamon powder (add more if you like a stronger cinnamon fragrance)

Dump everything into a pot and cook till the apple is soft. If there's too much liquid, thicken with a little corn flour solution.

Custard
1 egg
1 cup low fat fresh milk
1/4 cup castor sugar
2 tbsp plain flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
25g butter

Whisk the egg, sugar, flour, vanilla and about 1/3 cup of milk. Heat the balance of the milk and add that to the egg mixture while stirring. Put the whole mixture into a pot and cook over low fire. Be sure to keep stirring or it will burn or curdle in lumps. Once the custard thickens, turn off the heat stir in the butter and let it cool.

Follow the baking instructions on the packing of the puff pastry. Once the puff pastry is done, all you need to do is assemble and dig in.

Do adjust the amount of sugar according to your taste.

Funz,

this recipe is really good! not too sweet. thanks so much for it!

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[Funz]

Hi zeemimi, glad you liked it. I just bought another type of frozen puff pastry to try. Think I will make apple turnovers.

[zeemimi]

Funz:

Hi zeemimi, glad you liked it. I just bought another type of frozen puff pastry to try. Think I will make apple turnovers.

please share pix and recipe after you are done. my family, especially dh was so impressed with what i made. they never think i could make something that remotely resembles Ritz Apple Strudel. :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[Funz]

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Jap Cheesecake I baked yesterday.

[jtoh]

Funz:

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Jap Cheesecake I baked yesterday.

Funz, that looks delicious.

[moom]

Funz:

Hi Moom, I am using the Sharp Healsio Steam oven now. Previously was using a Panasonic convection oven. No space in my kitchen so cannot have separate oven and microwave.


So far, both works pretty well.

thanks funz, will check them out.

[Funz]

http://www.hungryhippobakingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/oreo-cheesecake-mini-bites.html


Made these with DD but modified the recipe.

Firstly reduced sugar, 2ndly used the Oreo biscuits sans cream, 3rdly added gelatine to help the cheese set.

This is an easy recipe, even kids as young as 6-7yrs old can manage it on their own.

[schen]

Funz:

http://www.hungryhippobakingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/oreo-cheesecake-mini-bites.html


Made these with DD but modified the recipe.

Firstly reduced sugar, 2ndly used the Oreo biscuits sans cream, 3rdly added gelatine to help the cheese set.

This is an easy recipe, even kids as young as 6-7yrs old can manage it on their own.

Hi Funz,
How much of gelatine do you add?

[Funz]

schen:

Funz:

http://www.hungryhippobakingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/oreo-cheesecake-mini-bites.html


Made these with DD but modified the recipe.

Firstly reduced sugar, 2ndly used the Oreo biscuits sans cream, 3rdly added gelatine to help the cheese set.

This is an easy recipe, even kids as young as 6-7yrs old can manage it on their own.

Hi Funz,
How much of gelatine do you add?

I tried 1 tsp with 2 tbsp of hot water. The cheese was still pretty soft and the shape did not hold well. I think can try 2 tsp with 3tbsp of water.