Intense Baking

Bake ... Bake ... Bake ... Sunday Bake


Promised colleague to bake her nutella scones and she is due anytime soon ... so I've decided to bake over the weekend and not forgetting house-warming invite to HS new home. So I've baked muffins too.


Yati share this site with me which I find it very useful cos it comes with tips and case scenario which I can relate at times.  
Source: Oven Haven


Nutella Scones

(adapted from Baked Explorations; Matt Lewis, Renato Poliafito)

2 cups plain flour

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

6 tablespoon cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks

1 large egg

1/2 cup heavy cream

3/4 cup toasted hazelnuts, coarsely chopped (I omitted this)

1/2 cup Nutella, divided

Preheat oven to 375°F / 19°0C. Line a baking sheet with parchment or a silicon mat.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

Add the butter to the flour. Using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour until the chunks of butter become pea sized and the flour holds together when squeezed.

Whisk the cream and egg together. While mixing, slowly pour the cream mixture into the flour mixture until the dough just comes together.

Stir in the hazelnuts, then pour the dough onto a floured surface. Knead the dough into a rectangle.

Spread 1/4 cup of the Nutella over the dough, then roll it into a cylinder. Flatten the cylinder into a disk, then slice it into wedges (6 or 8).

Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Once baked, place on a cooling rack.

Warm the remaining 1/4 cup Nutella, then drizzle it over the cooling scones.

Simple and easy recipe. My 1st batch turns out great! so I decided to bake the 2nd batch ... and I forgotten to put the brown sugar and it looked and tasted horrible.  tsk.
Source: taste.com
Mini Toblerone Muffins

Ingredients

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 60g butter, melted, cooled
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 egg, lightly whisked
• 100g Toblerone milk chocolate, chopped

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease two 12-hole 2-tablespoon capacity mini muffin pans or line with paper cases.
2. Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder into a bowl. Stir in sugar. Make a well in the centre.
3. Whisk butter, milk and egg in a jug. Pour into well. Add chocolate and gently fold until just combined. Three-quarter fill muffin cases with mixture. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand muffins in pan for 5 minutes. Serve warm.

Notes

• Hint: To make 12 regular-sized muffins from this mix, bake in a 1/3-cup capacity muffin pan for 15 to 18 minutes.

Beautiful Sunday

We were expecting visitors but they called to said that they were not coming.  The whole family were not feeling well, poor thing.  Its tough to have family members falling sick one after another.  So we stayed home cos we did not plan to go out.  I cooked ayam masak merah for lunch.  I was planning to bake for my visitors, since they were not coming, I kept everything in the fridge heeh... Lazy me.

Ouh ya and we need a new rice cooker cos ours' spoiled liao... haiz.

Ayam masak Merah

Ingredients:

1/2kg boneless chicken (clean add salt and tumeric powder and fry)

Blended Ingredients:

1 cup dried chilies

1 thumb ginger

3 cloves garlic 

1 red onion

1 red onion (sliced)

Lime leaf (I used lime zest)

1/2 cup tomato sauce

season with salt and sugar

Oil for frying

Methods:

Heat oil, pan fry chicken (half cook) and put aside

Saute sliced onions once soft add in the blended ingredients (constant stirring, until you can see oil come out from the sides)

Add in salt, sugar, tomato sauce and lime leaf (i used lime zest)

Mix well and add the half cook chicken in.

Mix well cook until the gravy is slightly reduced

This is my mom's recipe. 

After lunch we watched tv.  It was a sunny Sunday .... and ... Esa suggested we go for a shoot. And we did lol ... so much for a stay at home Sunday... I had film to finish anyway.  I brought my fisheye 2 and superheadz.  Esa brought his Fed 5B and LCA+.  We took the MRT to Punggol.

We walked to the waterway.  I'm so excited cos there's a lot you can capture ... father-daughter cycled ... mom and kids kite-flying ... kite-flying enthusiast flew huge kites.  At the sides there's a man giving away FREE kites ... so we took and play ... so random ... rite??!! ... it was fun ... after that we continued our walk and shoots.

We went to the water playground. So many kids!!!! ... families with they picnic mats, food, bicycles, bathing suits ... wow ... the last time we were here it was quite dead ...guessed now people get to know about it so it was quite packed.  I had so much fun ... I finished my 2 roll of films so we decided to go home.

We went NTUC to get some stuff ... and hmmm ... I think I should do baking lah since I won't be cooking dinner.  I baked Pepperoni Pizza Puffs. But this time round there's no pepperoni at home so I substituted it with hotdogs.  I cut it into small cubes. 

Pepperoni Pizza Puffs

This recipe was taken from Kirbie's Cravings

Ingredients:

171g cup flour

3/4 tsp baking powder

200ml milk

1 egg

1 1/4 cup shredded cheese (I used cheddar and mozzarella)

4 ounces chopped pepperoni (or hotdogs)

Directions

1. Grease a mini muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray.

2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, milk, egg, cheese, and pepperoni, stirring until completely mixed.  Spoon batter into the prepared mini-muffin cups about 2/3 full.

3. Bake in an oven preheated to 400 degrees for 15-17 minutes. Serve while warm.

So we had puffy for dinner.  I was blog-hopping when I was The Kitchen Witch's blog. went to the kitchen took out everything ... ahah ... I have all the ingredients ... so another round of baking for me.

Banana, Chocolate Chip and Granola Muffins

• 1 1/2  cups plus 2 tbs. all purpose flour, divided
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (2 or 3 bananas) (I omit)
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/3 plus 2 tbs. butter, melted and divided
• 1 1/2 cups granola, divided
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/8 tsp. cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375F/190C.  

Lightly grease 12 muffin cups or line with muffin paper liners.  

In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.  

In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter.  

Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture until moistened.  

Then stir in the  granola, and chocolate chips.  

Do not over mix.  

Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.

In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2 tbsp. flour, cinnamon and melted butter.  

Then stir in 1/2 cup granola.  

Sprinkle topping over muffins and gently press into batter.

Bake in the oven for 18 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of muffin comes out clean.

This recipe is super easy and fast.  After all that it perfumed the whole kitchen with cinnamon's smell lol ... I brought to office cos I think its nice to have muffins for breakfast.  Definitely nicer to consume while its warm cos of the melted chocolate chip.  Yummy goodness.  

Sunday was beautiful and fruitful too.  See you soon Sunday!

Man Muffin

Is this muffin man enough?

Aside from cheering myself up ... I would like to bake for my dear boss a cake ... not just any creamy ... sweet ... elegant cake ... nope ... not that kind of cake ... i wan to make him a 'man' cake ... no cream ... no chocolate ... and definitely no cutesy mutesy ... hee hee ... since i borrowed some recipe books from the library ... i decided on the ...... *drumroll* ... Pizza Muffin!!!

Why Pizza? ... cos there pepperonis in it ... nice strong character for my manly cake ... hee hee ... =D

Pizza Muffins
Makes 12 muffins

• Preheat oven to 190C
• Muffin tin, greased

375ml chopped pepperoni sausage
1 green bell pepper, finely chopped (i omit)
1 can (284ml) sliced mushrooms
1 onion, finely chopped
300ml shredded cheese (such as Monterey Jack) i use mozzarella + cheddar squares
125ml pizza sauce
10ml garlic powder
5 eggs
50ml vegetable oil
300ml all-purpose flour
15ml baking power

In a large bowl, combine pepperoni, green pepper, mushrooms, onion, cheese, pizza sauce and garlic powder.
In another bowl, beat eggs,. Blend in oil, then flour and baking power. Beat until smooth. Stir in the pepperoni mixture and mix until well blended.
Spoon batter into prepared muffin tin. Bake in preheated oven from 20 to 25 mins or until lightly browned.

ps: I did not use all-purpose flour, I used self raising flour ... with self raising you can omit the baking power.

Recipe taken from: 1500 Best Bars, Cookies, Muffins, Cakes & More - Esther Brody