Nutella Fudge Brownies

Had the honour to bake for a church event and baked this really simple and hassle free Nutella fudge brownies. The key things is not to overbake them.

(Makes 12 standard muffin sized brownies)

Ingredients 

117g all purpose flour

444g Nutella

3 eggs

2 handfuls chopped nuts of your choice 

1. Preheat the oven at 175 degrees. Whisk the Nutella in a mixing bowl till smooth. 

2. Add the eggs 1 at a time, whisking to combine fully before adding the next. 

3. Add flour all at once and fold in gently using whisk. 

4. Once incorporated, spoon the batter into lined muffin trays till 3 quarters full and sprinkle the top with nuts of your choice. 

5. Baked in preheated oven of 175 degrees for 12 minutes. 

6. Remove from oven and cool completely before chilling in the fridge. 

The brownies will sink a little when cooled and may look uncooked, however, trust that once they set, they will have the nice gooey center. If over baked, they'll be really dry, which is what happened to my first trial. 

Have fun.:)

Pandan Honeycomb Cake

This has to be the strangest cake I've ever baked. This is also the first time I baked a cake using wheat starch and tapioca flour. I must say it looks easy but I did not achieve a very 'honeycomb' texture. Hmm... Why?? The flavour's great though, how wrong can pandan and coconut go right?

Here's the strange cake.

Fried Milk

And I tried fried milk too! It'll work better if I had a deep fryer, but I'll stick to Baking for now. It's a bit too oily for my liking, though the product was unique and aromatic. Subtly sweet and really soft in texture.

葱油饼

I just watched the most touching show ever, miracles from heaven which resulted in my tears flowing from start to end. By the end of the show, my makeup was ruined and my eyes swollen from crying for a good 1 over hour. I was tired by time I reached home. Crying is tiring.

Decided to do spring onion pancake though, since I've delayed this for over 2 weeks, with spring onions bought and used for other things numerous times. This time, I managed to make what I set out to do. It's not bad, but I'll add more salt the next time. 

Pandan Mung Bean Mochi

Because I made half a kilogram of mung beAns, I had to think of ways to use them. Since I'm exploring mochi at the moment, I made use of the precious mung beans to make mochi.

I thought pandan should go very well with mung beans and so I added pandan paste and the mochi turned out really fragrant. They were very well received.

Mung Beans

I made mung bean paste and 500g of it, no less! It's going to be mung beans everything from now on.

It's quite hard work making them because of the constant stirring and got to be very patient to allow the water to dry out and the paste to thicken, but it's well worth the effort and I am going to utilize every bit of the fruit of my labour.

First up! Mung beans mochi! Then mung beans bao and mung beans cupcakes?!?! 

Be still!

I left work feeling peace again! Be still! And know I am the Lord! It's wonderful to be at peace on the way home.

My mung beans are soaking and I cannot wait to make the mung bean paste for my mochi. 

Squeezing in a run too and then continue to mug. Well, I hope I won't procrastinate. 

More mochi

Currently experimenting mochi. Ichigo daifukus (Mochi with red bean paste filling and a strawberry surprise right in the middle) are unique and relatively easy to make.

Then I wanted to try other flavours and since I have quite a bit of matcha powder, I modified the recipe a bit, replacing water with milk and adding a few spoons of matcha powder. It was quite nice, but I think I might make my own redbean next time.

For the next experiment, I'm thinking decorated mochi, like those in Japanese boutiques. 

Be still!

I felt peaceful when I left work today, great!;)

Finally tried ichigo daifuku over the weekend and honestly, I overdid the flour, not too nice. Will try again soon. 

Not too bad in the looks part though. 

I tried again few days later and this time, it was good! Less floury and remained soft till the next day. Shall try sesame paste ones soon. :)