One Cake Four Ways

Because I needed to use up ingredients. I made a basic sponge and whipped cream. I varied the flavour of the whipped cream, vanilla, red bean, durian and caramel. I had left over red beans and durian pastry cream.

So here's the results 

Clockwise from the top, durian, redbean and caramel. 

For the last flavour, I was doing a trial cake and did a vanilla sponge with fresh blueberries. 

Cookie Cake

I made cookies into a cookie cake! Was requested to make one like those of Famous Amos, but I haven't tasted one, so I imagined it must taste like a cookie, but cut like a cake, so I adapted one recipe and it worked! Tastes best with a scoop of ice-cream.

I basically changed the flour to plain flour, sugar to brown sugar and baked in a 8.5 inches cake tin at 175 degrees for about 25 min. 

Mooncakes

Finally! I started using the pastes I bought for mooncakes. Not bad for a first time! I have more to bake though.

Just in case I forgot, my mooncake mould needs 50g of paste and 22g of dough. 

Yogurt Red Bean Potong

I made a big pot of red beans for a cake and I reckoned potong will be a good way to use these up. Really nice, minus the guilt because coconut milk is replaced with yogurt and there is no added sugar other than the already sweetened red beans.

Ingredients

2 cups cooked sweetened red beans

1 cup yogurt

1/3 cup cream

A pinch of salt

1. Put all ingredients into a blender and blend away until smooth. 

2. Pour into Popsicle mould till frozen.

3. To unmould, run through with hot water. I realised hairdryer works even better! :)

There! Enjoy! 

The moment when help becomes an inconvenience..... eat ice-cream... 

Durian Choux Puffs

I decided to try the durian choux puffs and researched for a few recipes. Decided on a durian custard recipe and regretted because It wasn't complete! I was supposed to heat the custard with the milk first and it just stated mix custard with durian and of course the filling didn't set!:( In an attempt to salvage the very expensive durian pulp, I heated up the custard after leaving it in the fridge for like 6 hours. Angry!! Never trust a recipe blindly!

But! I made a second batch! And it worked! 

The custard's smooth and fragrant! I'm going to be careful with online recipes. Lesson learnt. 

August bakes

Right, I've not been baking a lot, I need inspiration! I bought and made quite a bit of ingredients and to help me remember to use them, I shall pen down August bakes. Waste not the ingredients! 

Red beans- puddings or potong?

Chocolate coated coffee beans- I don't know why I bought them for, what do I do with them??? Decoration on desserts? Gotta use them fast, a lot! 

Chestnut purée and spread- Because they were on sales when I made Mont Blanc, so I bought like 3 cans of purée and to encourage myself to use them, I bought a can of spread. What was I thinking ?😓

Mooncakes ingredients- I bought them in July with the grand plan to try 5 nuts mooncakes, then I got distracted and did piggies, then I bought another 2 pastes on top of the 5 nuts.😭 why.....

Durian pulp- you know Phoon huat has 15% storewide and I saw 猫山王 pure pulp and the rest is history. 😪 

So the good thing is, I have all the the ingredients I need to make a lot of things! The challenge now is to stop buying and start baking! 

And so, August bakes...

1. Durian puffs

2. Mini piggies mooncakes

3. 5 nuts mooncakes

4. Red bean potong 

5. Chestnut cream cake maybe 

Note to self- Stop the retail therapy! Start the baking therapy!