Saute French Bread

My son can eat the whole plate... crunch outside, soft inside...

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookie

What you need:

1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter

6 tbsp sugar

6 tbsp brown suger

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/8 cups AP flours

1 egg

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chip

1 tsp vallina extract

Learnt from the following great video.


Maomao Mom's Chiffon Cake @ Yahoo! Video

And mine is here:

Another perfect loaf

Same recipe I have been using. Just baking strategy changed a bit. Now I just use the bread machine to make dough, and let it rise in pan. Then bake at 375F degree for 20-25 minutes.

Orange Meltaway Cookie

1.5 stick unsalted butter
1/3 cup sugar
Orange zest
1 tbsp vallina extract
2 tbsp orange juice
1 3/4 cups AP flour
2 tbsp corn starch
1/4 tsp salt
wrap dough with plastic wrap into long stick
fridge dough for an hour

cut dough into thin pieces (~5mm thick)

350F degree, 12-15 minutes, or until edge slightly brown.

Happy valentine's Day

Kids' favorite sugar cookies:

the Perfect Loaf

Same old recipe, but now I start to use breadmaker to make the dough, let it rise for 45 minutes, then bake for 30 minutes at 375F. Better shape then bake in the breakmaker and no whole at the bottom. This is Perfect!

Craving for sweet: Chocolate Chip Cookie

1 cup margrin
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1-2 tsp flexseed oid
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chip
1 cup nuts

Dim Sum: velvet crisp wrap

It is hard to put an English version of recipe here :) This is a traditional Chinese dim sum.

For the wrap, need to make two types of dough: water dough, oil dough then mix together, roll it into small round wrap (of course, this can be simplied by using pie crust). for the filling, you can use anything you like.

Egg Tarts

Many of my friends have asked about the recipe for this egg tarts. :)

Making the crust might be a little complicated (it was my first time to do, and a little too thick), that can be replaced by pie crust.

The egg filling is:
3 eggs
1 3/4 cups milks
1 tsp Valina extract
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp corn starch

375F degree, 30-40 minutes or until the egg filling is firm.

Some Holiday Baking

French Bread:

Pound Cake:

Egg Tart:

Simple Pound Cake

Recipe:
1 3/4 cups (230 grams) all purpose flour, sifted
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup (226 grams) (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup (200 grams) superfine or castor sugar
4 large eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Zest of a lemon or orange (optional)

350 degree, bake for 50-60 minutes.

I pured batter into muffin mold, rest baked into a loaf.

Each kids ate two "pound cake muffins" + 2 slices from the loaf, then skipped dinner.

Simple desert

All you need is pie crust as wrapper, red bean paste as filling.

Cut pie crust to any shape of your own choice, fill the red bean paste, press fork along the edge.

Bake for 10 minutes or till golden brown at 350F degree.

July 4th

Decided not to travel this 4th long weekend and just stayed home.

To satisfy kids, food and play are sufficient.

Then once a year, the firework can't be missed

Banana Cromb Muffin

Found another excellent recipe: Banana Cromb Muffin. There are 3900+ reviews, all five stars. It is really easy to make and delicious.

Sweet Dinner Rolls 2: Transform --> Bread Stick

The same well rated Sweet Dinner Rolls recipe, you can have your imagination and be creative to transform into many other shapes. :) How do you like my bread stick and bread bear?

Sweet Dinner Rolls

Found a wonderful sweet dinner roll recipe. It has almost 1000 reviews, all 5 stars. So many people have said good about this recipe, and I have tried it too many times, there is no reason you can't do it or not coming out well. :)

And you can do any shapes, they all came out great.

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
1/2 cup warm milk
1 egg
1/3 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
1/4 cup butter, softened

Butter Milk Bread, again

Yay! Thanks for the bread machine -- that's why busy working mom can bake :)



9PM in the evening, my son reminded me he finished last piece of the Butter Milk Bread and he would like to have more for breakfast next day. How could I do it? It needs 3 hours to make a loaf of bread with the bread machin.


Yeah! Timer, my first time to use the timer function, and it just turned out greaaaaaaaaaat. The next morning, the bread was done 5 minutes after I woke up. Everyone was happy to have the freshest bread for breakfast.