Bubur merah putih for Aliah's birthday

Cake and birthday is too synonymous. The tradition in our family is always bubur merah putih that signifies the life, the bitterness & sweetness in life, the positive & negative things in life, the black & white journey of life ... 

Simple ingredients but it requires a lot of patience to prepare it. You only need the normal rice grain, glutinous/sticky rice grain, coconut milk, water, palm sugar, granulated sugar, salt & to add flavour and smell pandan leaves (optional). the ratio for the rice is 1:3 (normal rice:glutinous rice). Cook the rice like you want to make rice porridge or congee. When it is done halfway and you are getting a smooth texture, add in the coconut milk, this is the time when you'll get blasted but the bubble fromn the boiling porridge, divide the porridge into two parts (like 1:2 ratio). The 1 ratio just leave it plain like that (the white part), cook until smooth. Add the palm sugar to the 2 ratio mix and cook until smooth.

Done. Serve it like in the above photos.

It has been 4 years...Need to start posting recipes more and more

My last post was in august 2011. Well, time flies.. so many things had happened. Okay, let's get started.

The craving for rempeyek, the traditional jawa kuih urged me to try and cook it myself. Living abroad..what do you expect? You cannot get it from the pasar tani or order it from wak jenab anymore. Luckily, everytime arwah wak siah make rempeyek for eid, I was there helping her or more accurately disturbing her..hahaha.. well, just recalled whatever tips she gave and as usual, the campak2 and agak2 recipe always do wonder to me...

here it goes...

Rempeyek (kacang tanah)..next on the list will be tumpi..

3/4 packet of rice flour  (this is what I found in the kitchen cabinet)
Kacang tanah (ground nuts) & some dried anchovies
1 egg
1 tin of coconut milk
2 tbsp garlic & ginger paste
2 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp cumin powder
2 tsp salt

sift the flour, beat the egg & add in the garlic & ginger paste,
combine all the dry ingredients
mixed everything til you get the batter

don't worry if you don't have the commercial mould of the rempeyek as the original rempeyek is not cook using that round mould.
take a spoonful of the batter, add the nuts (and some anchovies if you like it).. and slide the batter at the side of your deep fried pan... splash some hot oil at the side of the batter and the batter will glide down into the pan.. fry it til brown ...

All about Cheesecakes

Cheesecakes...my kids and my hubby's favourite. They can finish up one whole cheesecake of 1 kg and so in just one day. A pinch of cheesecake is enough for me. The good thing is I can polish my skill in the art of baking good varieties of cheesecakes and improvising the recipes to get the super duper yummy and healthy cheesecakes. The cake enthusiasts in the house will surely finish up the cakes that I baked and give good comments and recommendations to improve and maintain the A-star standard.

New York Style Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake

Very Berry Tiramisu

Recipes

New York Style Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake

2 small packs or 100 g of biscuits of your choice (Digestive @ Marrie @ Oreo)

2 tbsp of unsalted butter (melted)

1 1/2 tbsp brown sugar

- crushed the biscuits, add in melted butter & brown sugar, pressed it into the baking tin, bake for 10 minutes at 180C

500 g low fat low fat cream cheese (at room temperature)

1/4 cup of caster sugar

1 1/2 tbsp of flour

1 cup of sour cream (1 cup of low fat dairy cream + 3 tbsp of lemon juice), yogurt can be used

2 eggs

vanilla extract

lemon zest

Homemade strawberry filling

1 cup of fresh strawberries

lemon juice from medium size lemon

2 tbsp of brown sugar

- cook it on a medium heat,

- beat cream cheese, sugar & flour (medium speed)

- add in the sour cream (mix well)

- add in eggs (one by one), vanilla extract and lemon zest

- add a few tablespoon of strawberry filling in the mixture and mix well

- pour it onto the baked biscuits crust

- add a few drops of strawberry filling on the top of cream cheese mix, swirl it with a knife.

Bake at 180C for 20 minutes, lower down the temperature to 150C and bake it for another 20 minutes.

Let it cold on the cooling rack for 10 minutes, and chill it for at least 4 hours before serving .

*** make sure to cut the edge of the cheesecake right after you take it out from the oven, to prevent cracking in the cooling process.

revised and adapted from HowdiniGuru

Very Berry Tiramisu

24 pieces tiramisu biscuits / lady fingers

250 g low fat cream cheese (at room temperature)

2 cup of low fat whipping cream/ thickened cream (beat to soft peak)

- beat the cream cheese, add in sugar

- fold in the cream

Berries sauce filling

1 1/2 cup mix berries (I used fresh strawberries, fresh mulberries and dried cranberries)

Juice from 1 medium size lemon

3 tbsp brown sugar

- cook it, separate the juice from the sauce filling. The juice will be used to soak the biscuits

Layering process

- soak the biscuits in the berries juice, line them in a bowl, layer the biscuits with the cream cheese

- layer the berries sauce filling onto the cream cheese

- repeat the process

- the top layer can be dust with semi sweet cocoa powder or berries sauce filling

- chill it for at least 4 hours before serving

revised and adapted from SuperVeggieDelight

Chocolate Marble Cheese Cakes

This cake is a must eat cake for the chocolate cake and cheesecake lovers. The moist chocolaty taste is perfected with the combination of cheesy taste from the cream cheese.

Siri Resipi Warisan Mak - Biskut Cherry Nut

Biskut Cherry Nut

1 cawan mentega
3/4 cawan gula halus
2 1/2 cawan tepung kotak (anis guna tepung naik sendiri aje)..skrg ni nak cari tepung kotak Big Sister tak jumpa...heee
1/2 tin kelapa
1 biji telur ayam
1 sudu kecil esen limau
sedikit ceri

pukul mentega dgn gula sampai kembang
masukkan telur kacau sampai rata
masukkan esen, masukkan tepung dan uli sampai lembut
bulat2kan, golek dgn kelapa, letak ceri
bakar..