Pineapple Tart (Rolled) - Tart Nenas Gulung

I am always in search for the best Pineapple Tart recipe. For this round I tried 2 tart pastry recipes found from other blogs. Thank you.(w^o^w)

Pineapple Tart (Rolled)

Filling/Pineapple jam

Ingredients
2 medium size pineapples
half cup water
castor sugar
yellow coloring

Methods:

1. Peel pineapple and cut into medium-small chuck.
2. Blend pineapple with half cup water
3. Pour blended pineapple and cook in big pot with medium-low heat. 
4. Stir continuously until half dried, add sugar and taste. Approximately 1-2 cup sugar to desirable sweetness.
5. Continue to cook until become jam thick consistency. Let it cool and keep in fridge.

Pastry 

Ingredients

Recipe 1 - using 3 types of flour.
Based on original recipe from Spices Journey with my little twist.

200 grams butter
50 grams ghee
3 cups all purpose flour
2 tablespoon corn starch
1 tablespoon custard powder
1 tablespoon icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg yolk

Recipe 2 - using only all purpose flour
Recipe from HaSue

115 grams butter- 115 gram
115 grams Ghee
1 egg ( B size)
450 grams all purpose flour
a pinch of salt
1 tablespoon cold water
egg yolk (put a drop of yellow color)


Methods:

1. Combined all ingredients and mix pastry dough with hands
2. Using Nastar Roll, press the pastry. Add pineapple jam on top and slowly roll the pastry over it. 
3. You can round the pineapple jam for easier process.
4. Brush with egg yolk
5. Bake at 180 degrees C for 20 minutes. 
6. Let it cool before store in airtight container. Cautions :Storing warm tart may cause your tart to grow mildew..
7. Check this useful YouTube video showing how to roll the pastry with the pineapple jam.

Recipe Review :

Both recipes are equally good and yummy.  I would personally prefer Recipe 1 as it melt in my mouth but it's quite difficult to roll because of the soft pastry. Recipe 2 pastry is firmer and easier to handle, but it doesn't melt in mouth as Recipe 1 . If you don't like the feel of pastry stuck between your teeth and palate, Recipe 2  is better. 

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Hari Raya Cookies ~Honey Cornflakes ~

Does this consider as cookies? well, there's butter, so maybe it is.

Crispy & yummy, honey cornflakes. It is such a simple recipe or  but spooning it into the paper cups was quite tedious task (^^;).

Baked this for last Eid-fitr celebration. I took the recipe of Cornflakes Madu from Masam Manis the awesome cooking blog, but I'd opted raisin out in my version. 

Honey Cornflakes

Ingredients

1 box of 325 grams cornflakes. ( I used Kellogg's Cornflakes)

100 grams butter

3/4 cup honey

1/2 cup brown sugar

100 grams chopped almonds

colored chocolate rice for decoration-optional

small paper cups

Methods:

1) Preheat oven to 150°C.

2) Melt butter, brown sugar & honey in sauce pan with low heat.

3) Pour cornflakes and almond into a bowl.

4) Pour melted butter+sugar+honey into the bowl with cornflakes. 

5) Mix well. Spoon cornflakes into small paper cup. Sprinkle with some colored chocolate rice.

6) Bake for 10 minutes. Let it cool before store in airtight container.

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Chocolate Cake - Malaysian style :) - Kek Coklat

I have a lot of Chocolate Cake recipes, including from Mum's blue recipe book. But this one I get from HaSue blog, said to be originated from Chef Zubaidah recipe is really good and easy. If you live in Malaysia or Indonesia, this recipe is easy for you because one of the ingredient is Condensed Milk. It's not easily available in other country though (can be quite pricey to get one). In Japan, condensed milk usually being sold in tube, to be eaten with bread or strawberry. Not much variety compare to condensed milk sold in Malaysia.

Condensed milk sold in Japan. Isn't it cute? (^o^) ( picture Google d)

If you can get condensed milk, try this recipe. Original recipe call for the cake to be steamed. I tried both, steamed and baked, I prefer baked version. No electric mixer required for the cake.

I put my super multipurpose chocolate filling in between the cake at photo below .. (^o^) enough to satisfy my sweet craving.

Chocolate Cake 

Ingredients

A:

100 grams Cocoa powder

200 grams Sugar

1 can (400 grams) evaporated milk / Full cream milk

200 grams vegetable cooking oil

250 gram Condensed milk

B:

4 eggs - whisk with fork to lightly foam

C: 

150 grams all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

Methods

1. Grease and line a 9x9 inches square cake pan with baking paper.
2. If you choose to bake in oven, preheat oven to 180°C. If you want to steam it, setup the steamer with boiled water.
3. Combine A in a sauce-pot, slowly stir with low heat until combined and sugar dissolved. Remove from heat to cool. Do not heat until boiled.
4. Let the mixture cool to room temperature. Add whisked eggs.
5. Add sifted C gradually until combined.
6. Pour in cake pan and bake for 45 minutes.

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This cake is good to be eaten by itself but for my son's birthday last June, I baked this chocolate cake and layered with orange Krimwell frosting and frosted the top with Chocolate ganache. Chocolate cake with twist of orange flavored cream balanced the milky chocolate sweetness.

 I had very little time to prepare this at night, hence the simple deco with M&Ms. Chocolate ganache frosting wasn't so smooth though. I'm not good in frosting yet... shaky hands..(^o^;) Still, kids love this cake, M&Ms stolen their view and they don't seem to care about the frosting flaws...

Krimwell Frosting 

Original recipe  from NinaMirza

Ingredients

250 grams Krimwell ( you can buy this from bakery shop)

icing sugar 

1 tablespoon orange Sunquick  or squeezed juice from half Orange - optional or you can use any flavor

Methods

1. Beat Krimwell with electric mixer-medium speed for 1 minute.
2. Gradually add icing sugar to desirable sweetness. I think  I had put around 3 tablespoon icing sugar.
3. Continue beating until light and fluffy. Add Sunquick or squeeze orange juice to taste.
4. Layer cake with Krimwell frosting. 

Chocolate Ganache

Ingredients

250 grams cooking chocolate

200 gram UHT Whipping cream

20 grams butter

Methods

1. Cut cooking chocolate into medium-small chuck; set aside.
2. Place whip cream in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Turn off the heat.
3. Pour cooking chocolate and stir until combined. 
4. Add butter and stir until smooth. Let cool slightly before using.

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My Mum's Orange Cake Recipe - Kek Oren

When I was 12 and started baking, this orange cake was the first one that I'd baked. (^o^)

It was written in mum's blue recipe book, probably passed down from generations. This is mum's favorite cake until now. 

This simple and delicious cake will do good without any frosting and great with cuppa hot tea.

*Choose your butter. Cake baked with Buttercup won't taste the same as baked with Anchor or SCS butter. 

My Mum's Orange Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

8 oz salted butter

8 oz all purpose flour

8 oz icing sugar

4 eggs ( A Size)

1 tsp baking powder

4 table spoon Orange juice (or juice from half Sunkist orange)*

Sunkist orange zest (shred the orange skin for fragrance)

*opt with 3 tablespoons of orange Sunquick if you don't have any fresh orange around.

Methods

1) Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line an 9x9 inches square cake pan with baking paper.

2) Sift flour and baking powder twice.

2) Using an electric mixer, cream butter and icing sugar ain a medium bowl on medium-high speed until light and fluffy

3) Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to combine. Add half the flour. Stir to combine. Add orange juice. Stir to combine. Repeat with remaining flour. Add orange zest and stir to combine.

4) Pour in cake pan and bake for 30-40 minutes. Depend on your oven.

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