Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts

12/27/2008

Brandy Fruit Cake

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An Traditional British cake, special on christmast day. Combination of mixed fruits, nut and use brandy for the flavour. This recipe is the best cake i ever made ;)

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7/24/2008

Carrot cake

Its requested by my friend to prepare carrot cake, she wanted to treat everybody in her office. Her collage was happy and enjoying the cake ^_^

source: joy of baking

Ingiderents:
1 cup walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
2 1/2 cup carrot, grated
2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cup sugar ----> i reduced it up to 1 cup
1 cup sunflower oil
2 tsp vanila extract
1/2 cup pineapple crushed


Direction:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Butter or spray two - 9 x 2 inch (23 x 5 cm) cake pans and line the bottoms of the pans with parchment paper
2. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon. Set aside.
3. In bowl of electric mixer, beat the eggs until frothy (about 1 minute).
4. Gradually add the sugar and beat until the batter is thick and light colored (about 3 - 4 minutes).
5. Add the oil in a steady stream and then beat in the vanilla extract.
6. Add the flour mixture and beat just until incorporated. With a large rubber spatula fold in the grated carrots and chopped nuts
7. baked for 30-45 min
8. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. After about 5 -10 minutes invert the cakes onto the wire rack, remove the pans and parchment paper, and then cool completely before frosting.

Frosting:
· ¼ cup unsalted butter
· 227 gr cream cheese
· 2 cup powder sugar, I reduced it until 1 cup
· 1 lemon, grated
In bowl of electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the cream cheese and butter, on low speed, until very smooth with no lumps. Gradually add the sifted powdered sugar and beat, on low speed, until fully incorporated and smooth. Beat in the vanilla extract, and lemon zest.

7/12/2008

Banana cake w/ cream cheese frosting

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There is no best treats like homemade cakes! my banana cake with cream cheese frosting was success last night. Everybody enjoyed and love it. The fragrant of banana was extremely came out, and the texture was moist and delicious :) Its simple and fall proff, even for beginner they can make something special for their family and relativies!

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Source: my recipe book

-2 1/2 cup self raising flour
-banana approx 4, smash well
-baking soda 1 tsp
-caster sugar 1 cup
-oil 1 cup
-cinnamon pow 1 tsp (optional)
-egg 4

Frozting:
-1 pack cream cheese
-butter 60 gr
-1/2 lemon juice
mix with slow speed until smooth

Direction:
1. Sieve the flour, cinnamon pow and baking soda, keep a side
2. Make hall in the center of flour mixture and break the egg
3. Blend together egg, flour and oil
4. Add the banana smash and whisk again until mixed through
5. Pour into prepare pan and baked until cake inserted in the center comes out clean
6. Cold in the wire rack and remove from the mould
7. Add the cream cheese frosting

5/12/2008

Banana Bread

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I made several times banana bread and this time i used recipe from tabloidnova. Its very simple and quick banana bread, I love the flovour and moist of this cake, Especially when cames out from the oven you can feel bananas fragrant sorrounding your kitchen ;) If u desire frosted with cream cheese or chocolate frosting.

In bahasa Indonesia

Bahan:
250 gr tepung terigu
½ sdt baking powder
300 gr pisang ambon, haluskan
125 gr gula palem
2 btr telur
125 gr mentega
50 gr almond flakes
1 tsp spekoek

Cara Membuat:
1. Kocok mentega dan gula hingga lembut. Masukkan telur satu per satu sambil dikocok rata.
2. Tambahkan pisang ambon sambil dikocok rata. Masukkan tepung terigu sambil diayak dan diaduk rata, baking pow dan spekoek
3. Masukkan cokelat chips, aduk rata. Tuang adonan kedalam loyang loaf yang sudah diolesi margarin dan dialas kertas roti.
4. Panggang dalam oven suhu 180 derajat selama 30 min

English version
Ingiderents
250 gr all purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
300 gr banana, smash
125 gr brown sugar
2 egg
125 gr butter
50 gr almond flakes
1 tsp spekoek

Direction:

Beat sugar and butter until soft then gradually add egg whisk well
Add banana and stir, add flour, baking powder and spekoek
Pour into greased loaf pan and sprinkle with almond
Baked with 180 degree oven for 30 min

5/04/2008

Mocha Pound Cake

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source: recipezaar

2 cups unsifted cake flour ( i used all purpose flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1 2/3 cups sugar
5 large egg, at room temperature
2 teaspoons mocha paste

  1. Preheat oven to 325* (F).
  2. Spread solid shortening on bottom and sides of 9x5x3 inch loaf pan, or 9-inch tube pan.
  3. Dust evenly with flour; tap out excess.
  4. Set prepared pan aside.
  5. Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder.
  6. In a mixing bowl, beat butter until soft and fluffy.
  7. Gradually add sugar and beat until very light and creamy.
  8. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  9. Beat in mocha paste
  10. By hand or on low speed, gradually stir in flour mixture-- blend well.
  11. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes for loaf pan (40-45 mins. for tube pan), or until toothpick comes out clean.
  12. Cool the cake in its pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
  13. Slide a knife around the edges to loosen the cake from pan.
  14. Remove cake from pan, flip up-right, and cool completely on wire rack.

4/23/2008

Brownies kukus (steam brownies)

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Akhirnyaaaa bikin juga brownies kukus yang terkenal itu, setelah sekian lama kepengen baru kali ini tercapai. Sebenerya kuenya enak banget lembut dan nyoklat rasanya, sayang kayanya kebanyakan coklat deh soale malahan agak pahit dilidah kalo pas abis makan, aku udah ngikutin resepnya cuman kayanya coklat disini terlalu kentel dan kuat rasanya. Kalo dikurangi pasti rasanya PERFECTO :D

Rich, moist in every single bites, perfect cake for chocolate lovers ^_^ Yayaya finally i made it, i made the famous chocolate steam brownies. Its special gift away for your relativies or friend when u had visited Bandung, West Java. I did small mistaken by over quantity the amount of chocolate, i just follow the recipe but i felt its bit bitter. Maybe bacause the chocolate powder was too strong.

4/14/2008

Pandan Cake

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Pandan leaves are famous in Southeast, widely used to made colors in baking or cooking but also give special flavor on variety of curries. Pandan cake are sometimes not made with the leaf juice but instead simply flavoured with pandan extract. I’m pandan lover, the flavor and the beauty colors of pandan really fantastic: D I used coconut milk instead milk and the result is more scrumptious!

Ingiderents:
-egg 6
-250 gr all purpose flour
-1 tsp baking powder
-1 tsp emulsfier (optional)
-1 tsp pandan essence
-100 gr butter / oil
-250 gr sugar ( i used 200)
-150 ml coconut milk


Direction:
1. Preheat oven 350 F
2.Melt butter and let it cool complate then mix with coconut milk and pandan essence
3. greased the moul pan with butter and little flour
4. whisked egg, emulsfier and sugar until light and fluffy
5. gradually add flour and baking powder and stir with coconut milk batter
6. pour into greased moul and baked for 35 min


3/25/2008

Cake for him

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Kue ini aku bikin atas permintaan dr abang, sebenernya aku ga pede sama sekali bikinin cake yang mau dibawa kekantor dan dibagi ketemen temen terdeket beliau, akhirnya dengan segala keberanian ce ilehh bikin juga deh cake ini. walaupunn hasilnya kurang okeh maklum amateur tapi rasanya enak lho "promosi". Gara gara kehabisan coklat parut makanya aku campur dengan meises untuk bagian luarnya, untung aja masih punya sisa stok mudik hihihihi (pdhal ditoko indonesia sini juga ada) :p


Rich and chocolaty cake with blueberry and whiped cream filing. Decorated with a dazzling layer of cherry topping and drizzled chocolate, this is best chocolate lover cake for birthday celebration. Special made for sayangku on his special day. Happy many returns of the day sayangku, may u have always good health, long life and God bless us.


source: all recipe

INGREDIENTS
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups buttermilk

1/2 cup kirschwasser
1/2 cup butter
3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon strong brewed coffee
2 (14 ounce) cans pitted Bing cherries, drained

2 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon rum
1 (1 ounce) square semisweet chocolate

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line the bottoms of two 8 inch round pans with parchment paper circles. Sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda and 1 teaspoon salt. Set aside.
Cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Beat in flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, until combined. Pour into 2 round 8 inch pans.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool completely. Remove paper from the cakes. Cut each layer in half, horizontally, making 2 layers total. Sprinkle layers with the 1/2 cup rum

In a medium bowl, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add confectioners sugar, pinch of salt, beat until smooth. Spread first layer of cake with 1/3 of the filling. Top with 1/3 of the cherries. Repeat with the remaining layers.
In a separate bowl, whip the cream to stiff peaks. Beat in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1 tablespoon rum. Frost top and sides of cake. Sprinkle with chocolate curls made by using a potato peeler on semisweet baking chocolate. decorate with red chery

3/19/2008

Orange Cake

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Ya ya ya finally my cake turning well hehehehe. After had break cause baking blue (rested baked because of failure previously). Its perfect and off course moist on the texture. I used silicon mould so easly to remove cake from the tray :)

Ingiderents:
-egg 4
-all purpose flour 2 3/4 cup
-orange juice 1 cup (fresh one is better)
-2 tsp baking powder
-1 tsp orange grated orange skin
-1 tsp orange essence
-sugar 2 cup (i used 1 1/2 and its perfect for me)
-oil 1/2 cup

direction:
1. shifted flour and baking powder together and keep a side
2. whisk egg and sugar until floofy with high speed, gradually add flour.
3. Mix with other ingiderent with spatula
4. Pour the cake batter into mould and baked for 40-45 min

8/15/2007

Steam pandan brownies



Did u heard about steam brownies? yes steam brownies was famous in Bandung (part of Indonesia). In stead of baked we use steamer to steamed the cake. The history of brownies they said origin coming from a careless cook that forgot to put baking powder in the chocolate cake batter recipe. Since this time there are many brownie recipes in different version.Brownies are often served ice cream and sometimes whipped cream or just covered with fudge which contain nuts or choco chips.



Steam pandan brownies is steam cake with pandan essence and white melted chocolate, very rich, moist and offcourse scrumptious!

Here i share with you the famous steam brownies by Mrs. Liem, i made little modification because i dont use butter cream for the decoration :)



Source: brownies book by Mrs Liem

Ingiderents A
6 egg yolk
5 egg white
sugar 125 gr
8 gr cake emulsfier ( u can skip)
vanila essence 1/2 tsp

Ingederents B (sifted)
milk powder full cream 20 gr
baking powder 1/2 tsp
all purposed flour 150 gr

Ingiderents C (melted)
butter 120 gr ( original recipe 60 gr butter & 60 gr margarin)
cheese spread 75 gr
white chocolate 80 gr
pasta essence 1 tsp

Topping
chedar cheese
ready butter cream
chocolate chips (optional)

Direction:
1.Heat steamer before using it.
2. In large bowl whisk A until light and floofy then gradually add B and mix until well blended.
3. Add C then stir frequenly with wooden spoon
4. Pour the mixture into moul pan then steam for 25 min
5. Let it cool and slice as u want, spread with butter cream and sprinkle with chedar cheese and melted chocolate.

2/15/2007

Banana moist cake

Wah aku dapat kejutan dr New Zealand, 2 buah buku resep baking. Yang satu resep roti dan satu lagi resep cake slice. Hmmm senengnya dapat kejutan yg ga dikira. Gara gara liat resep cakenya koq jadi penasaran pengen langsung coba. Kali ini aku coba banana moist cakenya, ternyata beneran hasilnya moist banget, berhubung aku pake pisang yg manis, maka kuenya juga berasa bgt manisnya. Ditambah toppingnya dengan aroma lemon, kayanya cake ini layakk untuk dicoba, buatnya juga simple lho. Anyway makasih atas buku nya yah mba, tunggu kabarku soal resep yg lain, hihihihi...
Ingiderents:
2 1/2 cup raising flour
1 tsp baking soda
4 large egg
1 cup oil
1 cup sugar (castor)
banana (over raipe 4 pieces)


Topping: cream cheese 100 gr, 1/2 lemon juice + 2 tsp lemon zest, beat all ingederents untill floopy

Direction:
Place self raising flour sugar, and baking soda in large bowl, then mixed togetther. Add egg, oil and banana smashed. Beat all the ingiderents until smooth (approximately for 15 min).

Spoon batter into a greased and floured tube pan; bake banana cake at 160F o for about 1 1/2 hours. drizzle cake with glaze when cooled.