Bread & Butter Pudding with L.O.V.E

New year's resolution to update blog promptly.  Oklah slightly late... hee hee ... I made this last saturday.
I will try to update one a week lah eh if I'm free. Umi ask for bread & butter pudding a few weeks back so I gave her.  I realised that I've not been baking for a super long time.

Since she (my cousin and my niece) visited ibu last sat I decided to surprise her. I took the recipe from Livin' In The Kitchen. The recipes here are all mouth watering ... my gawd!!! I wish I can try everything in there ... but .... I have to be focus ... one at a time.

So here we go Bread & Butter Pudding with Vanilla Sauce. I did the Vanilla Sauce first cos I chill it before serving.

Bread and Butter Pudding with Vanilla Sauce

Recipe from “Lenôtre’s Desserts and Pastries”
7 ounces fresh sandwich bread, uncut
Butter for bread
2 cups, (generous, 1/2 1) milk
1 vanilla bean (I used vanilla bean paste)
3 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup, generous (125 grams) granulated sugar

Optional

1 cup of sliced almond

1 cup of chocolate chips

Remove the crust from bread and slice very thin (set crust aside)
Lightly butter the slices, cut them in half, corner-to-corner so that they are now 2 triangles.
Brown the buttered side of the bread under the broiler for 3 minutes, cover oval baking pan with bread, toasted side up in overlapping pieces.

Sprinkle sliced almonds and chocolate chip.
Preheat the oven to 425F.
Boil milk with vanilla bean. Beat the eggs and the egg yolks with the sugar for a few minutes, until mix whitens. Slowly pour hot milk (not boiling) into egg mix while stirring.

Pour the combined mixtures over the bread while pressing down bread that floats with a spoon.
Place the Bread Pudding into a larger dish. Pour boiling water in the larger dish until it reaches half way up the sides of the smaller dish.
Bake 30 minutes, continue to press down bread when it rises to the surface in oven. When baked, allow to cool then place in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Make Vanilla Sauce (can be served without).

Vanilla Sauce
1 cup (1/4 1) milk
1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
3 egg yolks
1/3 cup granulated sugar

Place milk and vanilla bean in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower the heat, cover the pot and let the vanilla bean infuse for 10 minutes.
Beat egg yolks and sugar on medium speed until the mixture whitens. While beating, add milk to yolks. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan. Heat slowly, stirring constantly. When liquid coats spatula, remove the saucepan immediately and place in a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking. Remove the vanilla bean.
Cool mixture in bowl of cold water for 30 minutes. Whip sauce occasionally while cooling.
Once cooled, pour over your Bread and Butter Pudding and return to the refrigerator,
Wa-La!

Un-fruitful Day... Sigh

I am quite upset actually.  I've read the recipe again and again but its a disaster.  A simple recipe but very tricky temperature and timing ... Its 200C and baked it for 5 to 8 mins only.  By 6 mins the side are oleidie brown but the top still wet so I have change it to top heat ... slightly before 8 mins, it got burn haiyaaaaaaah so wasted ... I think this recipe cannot make it lah cos its so tempremental and I have to 'jaga' oni... lots of 'chao-da' and cracks ... SIGH ..... I noe im not suppose to but arrrrggghhh its so frustrating ... after all that I end up with 1 miserable small bottle thats look ok and pretty lah.  My first batch I put 1/2 tsp of batter and 2 inch apart ... and it came out super big!!!! SUPER!!! ... so the rest I oni 1/4 of tsp.  Need new recipe so last mins haiz ... I dunno wat to bake oleidie .... eeeeeeeik ...

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 Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, soften
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/4 all-purpose flour
1/2 cup groung almond
Some almond flakes

Methods

Preheat oven to 200 degree C
In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar.  Beat in the eggs, ground almonds.  Gradually mix in flour until well blended.  Drop teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.  Press almond flakes on cookies.

Bake 5 to 8 mins in the preheated oven, or until cookies are lightly browned.


Note:  You can dip the cookies in melted chocolate for extra ooomph!

My miserable bottle and its not even full.  

Source: Library Book

The Mood is here ... Finally

Wednesday. Mid-week. Urrrgghhh ... Mid-week syndrome.  Some how I smell the weekend. I have mix feelings about it. Yey!!! Because I have full pack weekends that starts on Friday ... Iftar with NA & fiancee, Saturday is Baybeats so will be meeting the Ex-Starbuckian (not mine hahahah ... they are E's ... cos I was never a barista =D) and Sunday is a stay home with ibu day and our "Curry Feast" the menu will be Roti Kirai Insya-Allah... not to yey: Ramadhan is coming to an end ... lots of things to do so little time.

So that means we left out 10days before we leave Ramadhan to see syawal.  So to all thought we will be busy preparing goodies for raya, redecorating our houses do not forget your prayers and doas ... that last 10 days lah we want to really utilized that every mins and sec to prayers and doas ... May Allah bless us and keep us safe and hopefully what we doas be granted Insya-Allah ... The last 10 nites any one of it can be the Lailatul Qadr nite. Hope we all have a fruitful Ramadhan. Insya-Allah ... Amin.

So ... for iftar, I have left over soup from Soto Madura so I just boiled some pasta to go with it.

 I've oleidie plan that I will do a lil bit of baking after tarawih ... decided on AFC lar ... looking at the recipe I should be somewhat expert oleidie lah rite?! WRONG!!! ... I over beat the wet mixture so its alot sticky than usual ar ... and this batch is much flatter ... I'm contemplating whether I should add a lil bit more flour ... I decided not to cos worried I will ruin the batter .... So I let it as it is.

Almost Famous

Ingredients
250g salted butter,softened (i used SCS)
200g light brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt 
1/2 tsp coffee oil
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup oats,processed to bits in a chopper (i omit this)
1/4 cup ground almonds
1/2 cup of your favourite nuts,chopped finely (optional)(i put in chopped walnut)
1 pack of Nestle Tollhouse semi-sweet chocolate chips OR chocolate chunks 
300g self-raising flour 

Method
This is the most important step,at least 2 hours before,or the night before,beat the egg with the vanilla and the coffee oil to infuse or you can do this the night before,refrigerate it then bring it to room temperature before baking.

Preheat oven to 160C.

To the softened butter,beat in the sugar and the salt to combine. Beat in the egg and stir in the processed oats,ground almonds,optional chopped nuts and the chocolate chunks. Sift the flour and fold it in,this dough will not be too stiff but not too wet either.

For small cookies,place half-tsp of the dough,spaced slightly apart on the cookie sheet and bake for 9 to 10 minutes.

For large cookies, place rounded tbsp of the dough spaced apart on the cookie sheet and bake for 20 to 22 minutes.
Cool completely and let it sit overnight in an airtight container,this is for the flavour and fragrance to develop further

Source: Kak Rima @ www.bisousatoi.com

Chocolate Snowballs

Orite the pressure is on, 13 days left. Next weekend burn cos of the PE and I'm on duty again ... aiyah of all time they have to do it during fasting month.  But its otey cos will get 2 days off .. yippie ... anyway back to the baking ... I think I got this recipes from one of the library books I've loan cos I did not indicate any link while copying it over hee hee ...

Why Chocolate Snowballs? ... erm cos not many ingredients use and the method is quite simple very idiot proof hahahha ... cos I'm quite a klutz in the kitchen so less and simple is good. It takes about 20mins to bake so while its in the oven I did my laundry hee hee ... So by the time 20mins is up, I'm done with my laundry ... ta-da hee hee ...

Ingredients


25g sugar
250g butter
200g ground almond
200g chocolate chip
30g corn flour
30g cocoa powder
250g flour
1 egg
1/2tsp vanilla essence
icing sugar

Methods


Preheat oven 160C
Mix well the dry ingredients: ground almond, chocolate chip, corn flour, cocoa powder and flour in 1 bowl and put aside
Beat butter, vanilla essence and sugar til smooth
Add in egg and beat well
Fold in all the dry ingredients (it will a little bit wet dough)
Make balls out of the dough the size of your thumb or slightly smaller
Bake for 20 to 25mins depending on the size of the balls =D
Let it cool for 1hr or so ... and coat the cool balls in icing sugar

ps: its up to u to put it in cups... no cups oso can (org cakap kiter buat dia buat dia buat kiter ape2 pong boleh)

Its a simple recipe and quite 'muai'... in this entry i type quite so many kan ... haiz ... anyway I manage to fit all in 3 bottles. Awesome-possum.