Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Muffin

Call me a muffin freak ..... coz I just bake 3 batches of muffin in 2 days only ..... well 1/2 recipe each batch ......

This recipe is my modification of the last muffin, just replace the banana with 2 grated granny smith apple, replace the cocoa powder wit 4 table spoon of flour or oatmeal & add some cinnamon powder & a hand full of raisin .......

Second best muffin recipe I've ever tried ........

Cocoa Banana Oatmeal Muffin

So, I still crazy about muffin ... This recipe I got also from Mbak Vania blog .... & she got the recipe from Quaqer Oatmeal site ...


So far this the best recipe I've ever tried ... Dense, yet so moist & is not crumbly .... perfecto, just like muffins from the professional bakery ...

This time I'm not using any baking paper ... just a non stick muffin pan grease with margarine ...
The recipe is for 10-12 delicious medium size muffins .....

Ingredients
1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup baking cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 small)
1/2 cup fat-free milk
5 tablespoons margarine or butter, melted
2 egg whites or 1 egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
Powdered sugar (optional)
I add a hand full of chocolate chip on the batter & topping


Heat oven to 180°C.
In large bowl, combine flour, oats, granulated sugar, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda; mix well. In medium bowl, combine bananas, milk, margarine, egg whites and vanilla; blend well. Add to dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. (Do not overmix.)
Fill muffin cups almost full. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool muffins in pan on wire rack 5 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool completely.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired. Store tightly covered.


I promise you ... you will not taste any oatmeal on this muffin .... !!!

Oatmeal Muffins

I have to admit that, I've been crazy for muffin lately .... so easy yet so delicious ... just 1 2 3 than voila .... breakfast ready!!!


This is the healthy muffin, I got the recipe from one of the NCC's member Mbak Vania .... she got the recipe from the book Muffin Mania.....

Source: Muffin Mania by Cathy Prange & Joan Pauli.

1 cup oatmeal
1 cup boiling water
Mix and let stand for 20 minutes.

1 1/2 cup brown sugar or less *
1/2 cup butter or margaring
2 eggs well beaten
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup dates cut fine or 1 cup raisins**

Cream sugar and butter.
Add eggs and beat.
Add the dates to the dry ingredients and add.
Add vanilla
Stir in oatmeal mixture gently
Bake 375 F for 20-25 minutes.

* I use 1 cup of palm sugar
** I use Chocolate chip

Dark .....

No electricity .... what year I living in ??????


Hope PLN will finish their business In the time soon ....

Cake Tape

Old fashion .... classic ... old school .... this cake is refferring to those kind of word ... Nowadays not much people, especially youngster will like this cake ....

But for me, this cake is the taste of home .... It's both my parent favorite cake .....




Recipe :
8 Eggs
1/2 table spoon of emulsifier
200 gram sugar
200 gram cake flour
200 gram margarine melted / 200 cc tick coconut milk
400 gram tape singkong blend with 5 table spoon of fresh milk
50 gram raisin for topping

Preheat oven at 170C

(1) Mix egg, sugar & emulsifier untill fluffy.
(2) Add tape, make it several batches, continue mixing.
(3) Add flour, make it in 3 batches, fold with spatula.
(4) Add melted margarine.
(6) Pour batter to a tulban pan, 26cm in diameter.
(7) bake for 35-40 minutes.

Measuring tools ....

Your baking success will need this kind of tools .... there's so many kind of them with different price depends on the material & precision .....

This below stainless steel measuring spoon cost about 30 thousand rupiahs, with only 4 spoon available ...



But this plastic measuring cup & spoon only cost about 10 thousand rupiahs ...


But if you don't have it, just use whatever available in your kitchen ... for example use tea spoon for 5 cc measurement or a table spoon for 15 cc measurement ....

Paper Cup

There's so many kind of paper cup available in market nowadays ... choose the one you like .....


My favorite would be the burbery .... aren't they cute?! ... but it's quiet expensive, it cost about 800 rupiah each ... the classic paper cup only cost 1700 rupiah for 50s .... but here in Jakarta the most popular must be the "momma" becoz it's perfect for cup cake ...

Gedong Gincu: Put your make-up on !!

This is a kind of mango my mother loves so much, it's really sweet & fragrance .... gincu actually means lipstick, it's refer to a shade of red on the skin of the mango ....


The flesh is so orange in color unlike other mango that has color yellow ....

Pandan Cheese Butter Cake

I was browsing around for muffin recipe when I found the Filipino Butter Cake recipe. I saw the recipe on aunty Yochana’s blog & amazed by the texture of the cake shown on the picture …. I was thinking, this cake must be so moist … so I decided to give it a shot …


Coz I didn’t like plain vanilla cake, I added a pandan pasta & small cubed cheddar cheese, chocochip & Chocochip for topping. I also modified the recipe a little bit coz I didn’t have some ingredient, the measurement is too exact for me, & the method is the way I make a butter cake ….

This is the real recipe: Aunty Yochana's Filiphino Butter Cake

This is my modification:
260 gram. Cake flour
8 gram. Baking Powder (double acting)
140 gram Margarine
225 gram Sugar
140 gram Eggs
150 cc evaporated milk
50 cc water
2 drop of pandan pasta
100 gram cheddar cheese, cut into small cube
50 gram chocochip for the batter
10 gram chocochip for the topping

Method:

(1) Sift flour and baking powder together. Set aside.
(2) Cream margarine & sugar and milk powder together until creamy and fluffy
(2) Add eggs in 3 stages by turns with a table spoon of flour each time and continue creaming after each addition.
(3) Pour all the flour, continue mixing.
(4) Pour the water & milk in 3 stages. Continue mixing
(5) Add in the cubed cheese & chocochip, mix with a spatula
(6) Pour batter into loaf pan, sprinkle with grated cheddar cheese
(7) Bake at 180C for about 50 mins. or till cooked.
(8) Test cake with a skewer and if if it comes out dry, it's done.
(6) Cool on cooling rack and slice when completely cooled.

As expected the cake is delicious & moist …. I love it so much ……
& really, I don't bother the crack ....

NCC's SoesWeek .......

Hmmm ... even yang ngga bisa dilewatkan, jangan sampe kayak kejadian pas donat week ......


Belum bisa bikin kue sus yang macem-macem, jadi bikin yang basic aja .... resepnya diambil dari majalah sedap ......

Resep dasar:
100 gram margarin
4 butir telur
125 gram tepung terigu
225 cc air
sedikit garam

Panaskan oven 180C

(1) Rebus margarin, garam & air hingga mendidih.
(2) Masukkan tepung terigu, aduk cepat dengan sendok kayu
(3) Teruskan mengaduk hingga adonan kalis, angkat & dinginkan
(4) Pindahkan adonan ke dalam baskom, tambahkan telur satu persatu, aduk dengan wisk
(5) Masukkan adonan ke dalam kantong segitiga yang telah dipasangi spuit
(6) Semprotkan ke atas loyang yang telah disemir margarin
(7) Panggang dalam oven 25 menit



Setelah dipanggang hasilnya akan seperti di bawah ini ... angkat dari loyang, beri lubang di bawah sus untuk mengeluarkan uap di dalam kue sus, dinginkan di atas rak ..... atau kalo mau kulit sus lebih garing, taruh kembali di atas loyang dengan keadaan terbalik, panggang lagi selama 3 menit ... bari setelah itu dinginkan di atas rak ...


Resep Pastry Cream Coklat:
600 cc susu
50 gram tepung maizena
75 gram tepung terigu
150 gram gula atau sesuai selera
25 gram coklat bubuk
3 kuning telur

Aduk semua bahan, saring, kemudian masak sampai mendidih sambil diaduk agar tidak menggumpal, hilangkan uap panas, masukkan ke dalam lemari es sampai dingin & siap disemprotkan ke dalam kue sus ....

Hasilnya ..... taraaaaaa ...........


Kue sus pertamaku sejak punya oven gas nih ...

Pizza Frenzy : Mini Pizza

Who doesn't like pizza ... most people love this Italian dish. So why don't we try to make it our self, make it in small size, & serve it in small family party ... hmmm ..

Recipe:

Pizza dough:
2 teaspoon sugar
125 cc warm water
250 gram bread flour
6 gram of yeast
1/2 tea spoon salt
25 cc of olive oil/salad oil

Topping:
Bolognese souce
Cucumber pickle, cut in to small cube
Smoked beef, sliced to small strips
Mozzarella Cheese, grated


(1) Mix together water & sugar, set aside
(2) Mix flour, yeast & oil.
(3) Add water to the flour mix, mix well until the dough are not stick in your hand
(4) Knead briefly with your hands until the dough becomes soft & smooth.
(5) Rest the dough for 30 minutes, cover with plastic wrap
(6) Roll the dough & cut with a 7cm ring cutter
(7) Bake for 10 minutes on 180c oven
(8) Put the topping, cheese is the last
(9) Bake again for 10 minutes or untill the crust is light brown

How Far is Heaven ?

I was driving home one night .....


Not to far ... it lies under your mothers feet........ !

My Chocolate Muffin : Cracks !!!!!

This is my first muffin attempt, It's pretty good, incredibly easy, & looks beautiful. I like the crack on top ... For the recipe I use the one from Info Kuliner Tabloid !

Recipe for Chocolate Muffin

200 gram cake flour
25 gram cocoa powder
1 table spoon baking powder (I use 1/2 table spoon double acting)
100 gram sugar
75 gram dark chocolate (compound), melted
1 egg medium size
150 cc milk
50 gram margarine/butter, melted (I use 25 gram butter & 25 gram margarine)
30 gram chocochip for the batter (I use 50 gram)
20 gram chocochip for topping

Method:

preheat oven for 180C.

(1) Mix together (dry ingridient) flour, baking powder & cocoa powder, set aside.
(2) In large bowl, put the sugar, milk, egg & melted dark chocolate,
wisk together untill sugar is dissolved.
(3) Add the dry ingredient to the sugar batter, stir evenly with spatula.
(4) Add the melted margarine/butter, stir evenlty with spatula.
(5) Add the chocolate chip, stir evenlty with spatula.
(6) Spoon batter in to muffin cups
(7) Bake for 20-25 minutes. (real recipe is 15 minutes)

Makes : 5 Big muffin or & 8 medium sized muffin

Although is a good muffin & so chocolaty, I'm still looking for other recipe ...
This recipe is too crumbly & dry for me ... Maybe becoz I baked it too long ...