Triple Chocolate Cookies

Another batch of chocolate chip cookies this weekend...it's like a must to bake cookies every weekend just because the 2 year old has already stopped taking milk formula for the past one month, so his eating habit is like MASSIVE! Have to deal with his sugar overdosed as well...very hyper! This recipe was adapted from Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies from Williams-Sonoma book entitled  Essentials of Baking.

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour or cookie flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped milk chocolate
1/2 cup chopped bittersweet chocolate

 Let's bake'em!:

1. Preheat oven to 175 degree Celsius
2. Line baking tray with grease paper or silicone mat
3. Whisk the flour, salt and soda in one big mixing bowl, you can also sift it if you want instead of whisking it.
4. Using electric mixer, cream butter and both sugars until white and creamy. Add eggs one by one and mix just until combined. Pour the vanilla extract.
5. Fold in the flour mixture with the mixer running at low speed. 
6. Fold in the chips & both chocolate using a spatula.
7. Spoon the batter onto the baking tray, an inch apart from each other. I used an ice cream scoop to get an even size.
8. Bake for 10-12 minutes, turning the tray after 3/4 baking time.
9. Let the cookies cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer them to wire rack to cool completely.

Sweet Dinner Rolls

Sweet Dinner Rolls

Ingredients:
1/2 cup warm water
1/2 cup warm milk
75g unsalted butter
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1/3 cup caster sugar
3 3/4 cup bread flour
1 tbsp dry active yeast
1/4 cup butter, softened

Directions:

1. Place water, milk, egg, 75g butter, sugar, salt, flour and yeast in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Set for Dough/Knead and press Start.
2. When cycle finishes, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough in half. Roll each half into a 12 inch circle, spread 1/4 cup softened butter over entire round. Cut each circle into 8 wedges. Roll wedges starting at wide end; roll gently but tightly. Place point side down on ungreased cookie sheet. Cover with clean kitchen towel and put in a warm place, let rise 1 hour. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 200 degrees C.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes, until golden.

 Source: allrecipes.com



 
 

Kuih Lapis Red Dots

The tagline of this blog includes experience and experiment...why? so that I don't feel bad if I failed to do or achieve something for the first time :). I have never attempted traditional kuih just because I love them so much so I wouldn't even dare to try and mess with them. Apart from puteri ayu, kaswi, kuih talam, talam suji and so many more, I love kuih lapis since my childhood days. Those days, whenever there is a kenduri kahwin in my kampung, you can find easily find them there. In our canteen school, it was like a must to sell kuih lapis. I like to eat it layer by layer...indulging it to the last layer on top which normally in dark pink. So, I challenged myself to make kuih lapis...thanks to a friend of mine HAH who was willing to get me the much awaited periuk kukus cap boyo from Kelantan, today is like Hari Ini Dale Sejarah...

I was trying to get the yellow and green that were used my Kak Siti Delima from her blog. But I didn't get the right color so I just go with the flow...hehe..which includes the red dots.

Here is the recipe for the kuih lapis which I took from Kak Siti. But of course the color didn't as attractive as hers. Thanks for the recipe ye Kak.  

Kuih Lapis 3 Warna

Resipi : Che CT

Bahan-bahan:
2 cawan tepung gandum
1/4 cawan tepung jagung
1/4 cawan tepung beras
3/4 cawan gula pasir
3 1/2 cawan santan - tambah jika perlu
1 camca teh garam
1 sudu kecil pewarna Kuning + 1/ 2 sudu teh perisa pisang
1 susu kecil pewarna Hijau + 1/2 sudu kecil pandan emulco

Cara-cara:

1. Panaskan periuk kukus. Sapukan loyang 7/8 inci dengan sedikit minyak. Dan alas dengan plastik bersih dan lebihkan sedikit keluar loyang agar mudah untuk mengeluarkan kuih lapis nanti. Masuk loyang dalam periuk kukusan.
2. Campurkan kesemua bahan kecuali pewarna dan perisa. Kacau dengan whisk hingga gula larut.
3. Tapis adunan dalam mangkuk lain dan bahagikan kepada tiga bahagian sama banyak.
4. Satu bahagian diwarnakan kuning dan perisa pisang, satu lagi warnakan hijau dan perisa pandan satu lagi biarkan plain saja.
5. Mulakan lapisan bawah dengan warna putih. Kukus selama 7 - 8 minit atau hingga masak baru tindih dengan lapisan hijau dan seterusnya warna kuning.
6. Buat berulang-ulang hingga habis adunan tadi. Dan yang akhir sekali balut tutup kukusan dengan kain bersih dan kukus selama 15 minit.
7. Bila dah siap 15 minit, buka tutup kukusan dan biar adunan dalam periuk kukusan 3 minit lagi. Kemudian baru ditutup api dan angkat kuih. 8. Sejukkan betul-betul dahulu kuih barulah dipotong dan hidang.

Balik kampung & belated birthday party

Ini la rambutan dari pokok nan sebatang ni rumah kampungku. Satu merah satu kuning. Inilah juga pemandangan yang dapat dilihat di sepanjang jalan dari WP ke N9. Semua pokok-pokok rambutan di kampung-kampung yang ku lalui semuanya sedang masak ranum, yang merah dan kuning. Kebanyakan rumah-rumah kampung mempunyai halaman yang besar jadi banyaklah pokok-pokoknya...mungkin sampai tak termakan dek tuan rumah. Manggis juga sedang bebuah dengan hebatnya tapi masih muda, mungkin bulan depan musim manggis pulak.

So, ceritanya minggu ini aktiviti balik kampung together-gether dengan kakak-kakakku, anak-anak saudaraku dan cucu-cucu saudaraku. Sangat meriahlah kannn... Memandangkan ada 2 November birthday boys plus sorang birthday boy tua bangka...so kami pun memang nak celebrate lah sekali Saturday night semalam. Iman on November 18th and Suhail, cucu saudaraku on November 27th ...and yang tua bangka tak yah sebutlah. Happy Birthday anyway...dah hit 3 series ok!

 

Hearty Birthday Brownie

These are the boys trying to hembus the magic candle...makin hembus, makin sparkle, makin besar apinya....GOTCHA!!!!

Mak Yam in the pink pants also tried to blow from afar...hehe

For the makan-makan, I made the Hearty Brownie (Brownie Kasih Sayang from the earlier entry) and RV also from the previous entry. Mashy ordered the recent craziness of Durian Crepe and some blueberry cheese tarts, my sis L made the cream caramel and my sis F cooked the nasi & gulai daging lomak lado api. Thanks all for the simple birthday party at our kampung. Can we like do this for January babiessssss.....ramai wooo Jan's birthday! Makcik, Hariz, Ikram, Nazira, Nazihah...sapa lagi angkat tangan! :)

RV

Blueberry Cheese Tarts

Sapa punya Durian Crepe

Baby paling kuat makan!