Yogurt Cake in a rice cooker

Yogurt cake in a rice-cooker

After so long, I finally found time to try out a recipe from Bake-for-Happy-Kids. And since I still haven't get an oven, am using the rice cooker instead.  And the result - Great! Definitely a keeper!

ingredients:

100g cake flour - shifted

80g sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder (abt 2g)

1/8 tsp baking soda (abt 1g)

1/8 tsp salt (1.5g)

125g low-fat yogurt

20g grapeseed oil

1 egg

Buttered the bottom of the rice cooker pan. Select steam function and let it 'steam' for 3 mins. Then off & select 'keep warm' function.

Mix the dry & wet ingredients separately before putting them into a big bowl. Fold them till just mix without over-mixing.

Pour batter into pan and select 'bake' function to start.

Off the cooker after 35min and remove pan out to cool.

Buttermilk Mini Donuts

I have been trying out various donuts recipes & decided that this is the best. I think it’s because of the use of buttermilk, which makes d donuts ‘proof’ very nicely. Esp when it’s used with my mini donut-maker machine, heehee..

Ingredients

2 cups bread flour

1½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 egg

1½ cups Buttermilk

1 tbsp maple syrup

½ cup of blueberries + cheese cubes

Mix all together.

Grease donut-maker & heat it up be4 pouring 1 tbsp of batter into each ring.

Add 1-3 blueberries / cheese cubes onto each batter be4 closing d top for baking.

After 2mins, remove from donut-maker & allow cooling for 10mins be4 moving into container.

Best eaten warm!

Hokkaido Milky bread - another version

Another version of Hokkaido Milky loaf - adding whatever ingredients that I was trying to finish;-p

6g salt
38g Sneaky Chef's Healthy version of flour blend
20 g milk powder
155g self-rising flour
200g bread flour
53 g sugar
1 Egg (abt 60g)
170 g Fresh milk
100 g heavy cream
2 tbsp raw wheat germ
¼ cup raisins
¼ cup of crushed almonds

Put all ingredients into d ABM & select normal cycle with light crust
End result – not as fluffy as d original recipe but good enough with all the goodness in it.

SourCream loaf

Finally, I found time to try out a new recipe from Bakespace. However, I added some bal Gelatinized Dough (烫种面团) in order to utilize whatever that’s left from previous baking. End result was ok because it’s soft enough to make some sandwiches out of it, but still not as soft as d Hokkaido loaf.

½ cup low-fat milk
1/3 cup sour cream
1 large egg
1 tbsp butter, softened
3 cups bread flour
3 tbsp sugar
5g / 1 tsp salt
2 tsp yeast
60g Gelatinized Dough (烫种面团)

Put all d ingredients into my ABM & select basic white loaf setting

Buttersquash Loaf

I found out abt Happy Flour’s blog thru BH’s blog & have alrdy tried few of her recipes. However, not every one turns out ok.

So here’s 1 that turn out really, really soft & fluffy - sweet potato crown bread.

Overnight Sponge Dough: (yield about 150g)
100g bread flour
60g water (room temperature)
1/4tsp instant yeast

1. Mix yeast with water until well blended.
2. Add in flour & knead to form dough.
3. Cover & set aside to prove for 30mins.
4. After 30mins, keep it in d fridge to rest overnight or up to 48hrs.

Bread Dough:
(A)
300g bread flour
40g sugar
3g salt
1 1/2tsp instant yeast

(B)
140g water
30g egg

(C)
60g overnight sponge dough

(D)
120g sweet potato (steamed and mashed) (I replaced with buttersquash)
30g butter

(E)
100g golden raisins

Being lazy me, I just put all d ingredients into my ABM & select basic white loaf setting.

Healthy version of Jaime Oliver's basic bread recipe

I have been trying out lots of recipes from famous chef & recently, am into Sneaky Chef. Basically, all her recipes have ‘secret (healthy)’ ingredients that most children hate to eat. But she manages to ‘hide’ them well enough that children don’t know they r eating something healthy. There’s this 1 sneaky method that I really like – healthy version of flour blend. She used this for most of her pancakes & muffin recipes. I like d idea of Hayden eating wheat germ & whole wheat so I gave it a try by using this healthy flour blend for his wkend donuts. Hayden took 4 mini donuts that day! I was really happy abt it so I decided to try more recipes using this healthy version of flour blend. Well, sad to said but out of the 7 times I tried incorporate this flour blend into some of d bread recipes, I had to throw away 6 uneatable loaves. And d 1 loaf that was eatable, Hubby said it’s too dry for him.


So, it’s not always that easy but I really didn’t want to just give up like that so I decided to give it another go using Jamie Olive’s basic bread recipe. I hope that by just starting at d basic, I might just be able to figure out what really is needed to make this healthy version bread a success. Therefore, I made modifications along d process as I watch d bread maker knead d dough. And when Hubby tried d end result, it was considered a success! Phew!
So here’s d recipe for anyone who wants to give it a go.

Sneaky Chef's Healthy version of flour blend

• 1 cup of All-purpose flour
• 1 cup of whole wheat flour
• 1 cup of wheat germ

Mix all together for later usage. It can also be kept in d fridge for up to 3mths.

Jamie Oliver’s basic bread recipe (modified)

• 4 cup bread flour
• 3 ½ cup Healthy flour blend
• 3 tbsp (30g) yeast
• 2 tbsp honey or 30g sugar
• 110ml warm milk + 400ml tepid water
• 26g salt

Put all into d bread maker & select basic cycle for 1kg load. Check after 5mins & add 2-3 tbsp of water if dough is too dry. But from past (failure) tries, less water is needed if using wheat germ so try not to pour all d water in so fast.

Mini Donuts_II

Hayden kept asking for d donuts this morning so I decided to give it another go. But this time, I made some modification to try out using self-rising flour instead of all-purpose flour. I also added thicken cream cause I do not have large egg on-hand. Success! At least half of d batch were. I think it’s mainly because I was still afraid to fill d hole too much, thus, d uneven result. But at least half looks ‘tall’ enough & even color throughout.

Adjusted ingredients

• 75g self- rising flour
• 35g sugar
• 2 tbsp coco powder
• 60ml fresh milk
• 15ml thicken cream
• 1 egg
• 2tbsp unsalted butter (melted)

Method same as previous rd.

Baked mini Donuts

Bought this donut maker during my last wk in Bkk & decided to give it a try last nite. However, as I have mis-read d recipe, d end pdt was not very good looking – flat & discolored. D recipe requested for 10ml but I have spooned only 6-7ml onto d cup because it’s alrdy overflowing to d side! Thus d flat looking donuts. But am not able to explained d 2-tone color.

But Hayden loves it! He finished 7 pieces during d walk from home to his sch!

• 75g All-purpose flour
• 35g sugar
• 2 tbsp coco powder
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 75ml fresh milk
• 1 egg
• 30g unsalted butter (melted)

1. Preheat donut maker for 5 mins.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl be4 adding d wet ingredients.
3. Stir till well mixed & smooth.
4. Fill each hole with 10ml of batter.
5. Close the lid and lock the latch.
6. Bake for 2 mins. Allow to cool & if desired, coat with icing sugar or top with jam for a sweeter version.

Hokkaido Milky bread

Was shopping ard d supermkt & decided to make some changes to d Hokkaido Milky bread recipe by making it a bit more healthy by replacing ½ cup of bread flour with raw wheatgerm.
Wheat germ is d heart of d wheat. It has a nutty flavor & is also cholesterol/sodium free. It’s also full of nutrition. Just 2 tbsp serving will provide:
a) 2g of dietary fiber;
b) 13% of d recommended daily value of folic acid;
c) 10% of d recommended daily value of phosphorus, magnesium & zinc; and
d) 15% vitamin E

End result – a super fluffy loaf but d middle top collapsed. So am not really sure does that means my modification is successful or a failure.

• 500 g Bread flour
• 40g raw wheat germ
• 60 g Cake flour
• 10 g Yeast
• 30 g Milk powder
• 80 g sugar
• 9 g Salt
• 1 Egg
• 250 g Fresh milk
• 150 g heavy cream

Put all ingredients into d ABM & select normal cycle with light crust.

Cream Cheese Bread 6th attempt

After a long break, this is my very 1st post from Spore. I have been buz meeting up with old friends & cleaning up after d move back home. Then my shipment arrived last wk & I have been busy unpacking. So far, ½ d boxes has been opened & flated. But now am struck with no more spaces to house d bal stuff so am leaving them in d boxes till I figure out where to put them. But d most important thing is – I managed to located d ABM & baked my 1st loaf last nite!

With limited ingredients, I decided on d cream cheese bread recipe since I was given a block of cream cheese from a friend. However, for reason unknown, I added 21g of egg yolk into d ABM be4 realizing that d original recipe does not even asked for egg??? D fact is – I even bother to separate d yolk from d white & weight out both to c which is closer to 20g & used it with d rest into d freezer. Mmmm???
Anyway, by d time I realized my mistake, I have alrdy started d ABM so I decided to add another 1½ tbsp of cake flour to bal out d dry/wet ratio.
End result – a surprisingly fluffy loaf! However, d crust was a bit too thick for me, soft but too thick. Other than that, it actually turns out great!

• 160g water/fresh milk
• 250g bread flour +

1½ tbsp cake flour

50g cream cheese

20g unsalted butter

21g egg yolk

10g powder milk

15g sugar

3g salt

4g yeast

Put all into bread maker on fast loaf cycle. If u prefers soft crust, do not remove from bread maker after cycle ends. Just leave it there overnite.

Pear & Ginger muffins

Packers will be coming tomorrow to pack all d stuff, thus, tonite will be my last bake post unless it’s ABM baking related cause I don’t have oven in SG. For my last bake, I selected this recipe simply because I happened to have most of d ingredients on hand. & for tonite’s bake, I even happened to have a friend over to help out, who also became d 1st to taste it.
End result – very soft & tasty batch of muffins! Hurray! My last bake is successful! For this recipe, I actually reduced d amt of sugar & taster said that d sweetness is just right, coming mainly from d pears. Do note that it’s best eaten while still a bit warm out from oven.

• 1¾ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup granulated sugar (I used brown sugar)
• ½ cup plus 6 tsp packed light brown sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1/3 cup whipping cream
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp honey
• 2 eggs
• 1½ cup peeled & diced pears,
• ¼ cup candied ginger, diced

1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Whisk d flour, sugar & baking powder in a large mixing bowl.
3. In another bowl, mix sour cream, oil, honey, & eggs well be4 gently fold in into d dry mixture. DO NOT OVERMIX (note that this can be done d nite be4)
4. Fold in the diced pear & candied ginger. Again DO NOT OVERMIX.
5. Spoon batter evenly among the muffin cups to 2/3 full.
6. Then sprinkle d top with ½ tsp brown sugar & bake for 20mins. Remove & allow to cool be4 eating.

Chocolate Cheesecake

In 2 days time, we will be packing & moving out of Bkk! Time really flies! 3yr in Bkk (including 9mths of baking) & with no future plan of getting an oven in SG, d only regret that I have is – why I didn’t try out this Chocolate Cheesecake sooner! OMG! Hubby’s ofc gals felt that it tasted just like d cheesecake from Secret Recipes! WOW! Maybe this is really a good reason to get a new oven?

Base Ingredients

• 100g digestive biscuits, crushed
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 45g unsalted butter (melted)

Mix all well & press on d bottom of a 16cm spring form pan.

Fillings Ingredients

• 110g dark chocolate (chopped)
• 2 tbsp whipping cream
• 250g cream cheese (room temperature)
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 egg (room temperature)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

1. Melt chocolate in the heavy cream in a double boiler.
2. In another bowl, mix cream cheese & sugar well be4 adding in d egg & vanilla extract.
3. Then fold in d chocolate mixture. If u prefer a cake with marble effect, dont overmix.
4. Pour fillings into the spring form pan.
5. Bake in a preheated 150C oven until it is set, ard 45-60 mins.

Raspberry Coffee Cake

Another day of trying to ‘utilise all bal ingredients’. Long, long ago, I saved this recipe on my to-dos cause I love d simplicity of it. But then, I realised I cant find d main ingredient – Bisquick mix, in d local supermkt & recipe was 'shelved'. Then last wk, for some forgotten reason, I ‘researched’ on d word Bisquick & found out what Bisquick mix is made up of! Thus, tonite, I finally get to give this simply/easy recipe a try. Of course again, I made some changes. For example, instead of a green apple, I used frozen raspberries. And because of d frozen raspberries, I reduced d milk amt to cater for d liquid that will be released from d frozen raspberries during baking.
End result – quite a bland cake, 1 can only taste a bit of saltiness here & there (although am not sure why since I only added ¾tsp of salt). D top is a bit crusty but underneath is a very soft cake. Both Hubby & MIL prefer yesterday’s peach-a-berry tart as compared to this cake. In fact, Hubby's ofc's gals thot I forgotten to put in sugar! That's how bland it was!

• 2 cups Bisquick mix*
• ½ cup low-fat milk
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup frozen raspberries (unthawed)

* replaced with 2cups flour + 3tsp bking powder + ¾tsp of salt + 2tbsp melted unsalted butter

1. Preheat oven to 190C.
2. Grease 9" round pan. Mix all ingredients & spread ½ batter onto pan.
3. Put in d raspberries & spread d rest of d batter onto of it.
4. Bake 30 mins or until golden brown, testing with a toothpick.

Peach-a-Berry tart

Another interesting recipe for me to utilize some of my bal ingredients – Peach-a-Berry pie. As usual, I made some changes in order to finish up my ingredients. Also, recipe requires 2 pie crust but I only used 1 as base, thus, my pie is kind of ‘topless’, looking more like tart than pie.
End result – a very ugly looking pie but taste GREAT! D sour taste of d raspberries adds a very nice ‘touch’ to d overall sweetness of d pie. D bal streusel topping that I added on top also added a crusty ‘bite’ to d pie, which to me, is a nice additional too. But might slice up d peaches next time in order to make it look better. Or maybe it's supposed to look so ugly, thus, d need for a 2nd crust to cover it up... mmmmm

• 1 can of halves peaches – drained
• 1 cup frozen raspberries – thawed & drained
• ½ cup white sugar
• 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 pie crust
• ½ cup Streusel Topping

1. Preheat oven to 190C.
2. Gently mix peaches & berries with sugar, flour, & cinnamon. Transfer all onto d pie crust. Sprinkle with streusel toppings be4 spreading thin slices of unsalted butter across d top.
3. Bake 50 mins in d preheated oven, until crust is golden brown.

Nutella Cheesecake w/pie crust

OMG! I have 3 blocks of Phil cream cheese to finish up within 1 wk be4 our big move back! OMG! Thus, shortlisted these 2 recipes for testing. Recipe does not required blueberries but I added whatever bal I have in my freezer to finish it up.
End result – d crust does not goes well with d cheesecake fillings cause it needs to be bake longer. Thus, will definitely need to blind bake it first if planning to use it for cheesecake fillings again. Other than that, both testers love it. In fact, Hubby took 3 slices!
Pie Crust ingredients

• 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ cup (113g) unsalted butter, chilled
• 4tbsp ice water

Whisk flour & salt in mixing bowl be4 cutting d cold butter into d mixture with a pastry blender. Stop once mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Drizzle ice water over flour tbsp by tbsp until d dough comes together. Wrap dough in plastic wrap & chill for minimum 30mins be4 rolling it out into crust base. Blind-bake it for at least 20mins @ 170C be4 adding fillings.

Cheesecake Fillings ingredients

• 1 block (250g) Philadelphia Cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup sugar
• ¼ tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp nutella
• some frozen blueberries

Whisk cream cheese & sugar until well mix. Then add egg & vanilla till well blended. Lastly, stir in nutella. Don’t over-mix so that u can c a slight marble effect. Pour fillings onto crust & tap it to even out d fillings across d crust. Bake in d pre-heated oven for 20min @ 170C. Allow to cool be putting it into d fridge for 2 hrs or overnite be4 serving.

Cinnamon Cranberries bread

As mentioned in my previous post, am trying to finish up as much bal ingredients as fast as I can be4 d big move. Thus, I modified this recipe a bit to include whatever I can ‘throw’ in.
End result - very tall & soft loaf with only a slight tangy lemon after-taste.

• 1 cup low-fat milk
• 3 tbsp unsalted butter
• 3 cups bread flour
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 1½ tsp salt
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2½ tsp yeast
• ½ cup dried cranberries
• Grated zest of 1 lemon

Put all ingredients into d ABM according to made. Select basic with light crust setting & start.

Cornflakes Cookies

When I saw BH’s post on d cornflakes cookies, I was very eager to try cause I, too, has many bags of cornflakes in my freezer. However, as usual, I made some modification due to limited ingredients on hand. For example, recipe requires self-rising flour & since I have none, I decided to search d web for a solution & found this instant fix recipe.
End result – very crispy cookies but a bit too sweet for my family. Can u c d star cornflakes?
(A)
100g unsalted butter (melted)
1 normal size egg (ard 53g)
¼ cup sugar + 1/8 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

(B)
1¼ cup all-purpose flour
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1½ cup cornflakes

1. Mix (A) & (B) in separate bowl first. Then mix them together well in a big mixing bowl.
2. Use 2 tsp to round d cookie dough onto small paper case.
3. Bake at preheated 160C oven for 10-15 mins.
4. Let cookies cool in pan for 5 mins be4 moving it to cool completely on a wire rack.
5. Store in air-tight container.

Water Roux starter loaf

Had some water roux starter left & decided to use it for the bouncy cheese loaf again. However, this time, I didn’t sprinkle any cheese on top. Also I adjusted some of the wet ingredients cause I only have 70g of water roux starter.
End result – still bouncy & fluffy! Am so happy that I gave this another go!

• 200g Bread flour
• 100g Cake flour
• 2tsp (6g) yeast
• 1tsp (6g) Salt
• 2tbsp (30g) Sugar
• 1 large Egg (est. 60g)
• 60ml low-fat milk
• 70g Water Roux Starter + 10g whipping cream
• 45g unsalted Butter

Put ingredients into ABM as per manufacturer's instruction & select normal white bread setting with light crust.

Vanilla SourCream bread

Another interesting ABM recipe which turn out very well - super fluffy & tall loaf! Another keeper. As usual, I made some changes so u might want to go back to d original post if this does not work out.

• ½ cup low-fat milk
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1 large egg
• 1 tbsp butter, softened
• 3 cups bread flour
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp yeast

Put ingredients into ABM as per manufacturer's instruction & select normal white bread setting with light crust.

Pandan Milk bread

Had this recipe on my to-dos list for d longest time because I didn’t have a loaf pan with a cover. So tonite, I decided to go ahead & bake this in my ABM instead. With a twist, I added pandan water instead of pandan essence. Also, I didn’t want to waste d rest of d egg so I leave d whole egg & reduced d milk instead.
End result – a very ‘springy’ loaf (holes in d pic proof that)! Cant really c d pandan green & also not much of a pandan taste but ‘springy’ enough for my family. However, it does not freeze well. But still a keeper!

• 52g low-fat fresh milk
• 66g pandan liquid
• 60g egg (1 large egg)
• 25g caster sugar
• 5g salt
• 250g bread flour
• 4g Instant yeast
• 38g butter (unsalted)

Put ingredients into ABM as per manufacturer's instruction & select normal white bread setting with light crust.