Stack-O-Cookies

Yes, it has been a month or so since my last post (thanks to my dear friends, for your encouragment). I am learning on how to deal with my new-bought laptop, and guess what, i think i know how to do it, do i ?

There are many stuff to write about. Let's do it from the lastest happenings.......the last 3 photos in my digital camera is the Chocolate Chip Cookies.

My cookies always ended spreading into the size of the baking tray. I had to cut it into bite sizes.

I love to see how Little Corner of Mine and Leslie stacked up their home-made cookies.

Jayne & me baked cookies on Friday again. This time, we got it right, a stack of cookies!!!

We used Betty Crocker Chocolate Chips cookie mix. All it takes is to mix the flour with one egg and a stick of butter. (I did not follow in using a whole stick of butter, just a tablespoon.)

This is how i like my cookies to look like - pieces by pieces.

Pumpkin Cake

Another first bake of my life - Pumpkin cake. I have been "bug" lately, spending the afternoon in the kitchen to bake.

This is Jayne's snack box with our home-baked pumpkin cake, sharing it with her friends.

Isnt this snack box cute ? She loves the picture on the cover very much, and it comes with a fork and a spoon.

This is the recipe that i got from Little Corner of Mine, a blog of a SAHM sharing her cooking and baking experiences in her kitchen. She uses cup to measure her ingrendients, hence it is also my first time using the measure cup. Since there isn't any cinnamon powder (i bought a bottle from a supermark yesterday), I did not add in the 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon and she uses the All Purpose flour with baking soda, while i use the Self-Raising flour that i still have, and instead of 1 can (15 ounce) pumpkin puree, i use 1/2 of a small-sized pumpkin, i try to use whatever i can find in my cabinet and only 1 cup of castor sugar instead of 2 cups.

Ingredients :

(A)

3eggs

1 cup canola oil

1/2 the size of a small pumpkin, cut into cube size and microwaved till soft

1 tsp vanilla extract

(B)

1 cup castor sugar

2 1/2 cups self raising flour

1/2 tsp salt

Method :

1. Preheat oven at 170 deg C, for 10 mins.

2. In a big mixing bowl, whisk together A, then add in B, mix well with a spatula.

3. Pour into a round baking tin, lined greased paper, bake for 1 hr.

4. Inverted to cool on a wire rack.

Strawberry Cheese Cake

This is my first blog in 2009, my first time baking a Strawberry Cheese Cake, my first time understanding what is a Steam-Bake method, and my first time using a Cake Emulsifier.

80gm of plain flour for Sponge Cake base of the Strawberry cheese cake.

Sift plain flour is as easy as ABC.

Look at these small hands, whisking the sponge cake ingredients at a high spped until fuffy. A very old fashioned type of hand mixer handed down from my mum.

Baking is always a family-get-together kind of activites for us. I need strong hands to stir and mix the cream cheese with the strawberry mixture well while double-boiling and at the same time taking note of the fire and the only person who can do well in this task is my dear hubby.

The sponge cake base freshly-baked from the oven.

This is the Stream-Baking method that i learned while baking my first cheese cake.

Strawberry Cheese Cake anyone ?

Baking time

We were busy in the kitchen again..this time we baked a Chiffon cake.
The whipping of the egg white is the key to make a good Chiffon cake.

Jayne and I enjoyed watching the cake "grow" in the oven. Chiffon cake is another snack in our tea menu.