Fruit Yogurt Salad

The fruit yogurt salad is something we learnt from TFB's auntie.. It is really easy to put together and really tasty too.

Good for desserts after a heavy meal or during hot days....

Ingredients:
2 huge mangos
3 normal size oranges
3 normal size apples
4 - 5 small sweet pears
2 bottle of marigold non fat yogurt (peach and mango flavour)

Method:
Dice everything up and pour into a big bowl (pour the mango in as the last fruit on top)
Pour the yogurt in and mix
Chill and enjoy your dessert!

Honey Walnut Muffin

Found the recipe at My Baking Diary last year, tried making it and I love it! Love everything with honey and these muffins got a really pleasant honey taste and smell.

Remember to toast the walnut for that extra kick!

Ingredients:
140g self raising flour
1/8 tsp baking soda
salt
140g butter
40g castor sugar
3 tbs honey
3 eggs
1tsp vanilla essence
40g walnuts

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 1810 deg C about 15 minutes. Grease muffin tins
2. Sieve self raising flour with baking soda and salt
3. Beat butter until soft. Mix in sugar and beat until creamy. Add honey and beaten eggs. Mix well
4. Add vanilla essence and sieved flour. Mix in walnuts
5. Pour batter into muffin tins
6. Bake for about 18 - 20 minutes until golden brown and done.
Set aisde on the rack to let cool.

Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookie

I found this recipe because i wanted to make nutella cookies and this seems to be one of the simpler one that i could follow.. It is actually by Giada De Laurentiis from food network and you can view the original recipe here

Plus the description says that the cookie will be the soft and chewy type which i like! So here it is..

Did not have much expectation for the cookies as i cant really bake well.. but it received raving reviews from both TFB and the bro-in-law...

Actually it is really good.. but it doesnt taste that good after about two to three days later... so have it while it is fresh!

1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup nutella

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3/4 cup chopped toasted hazelnuts (i did not add this thou)

I added milk chocolate chip instead of hazelnuts and it tasted very sweet! I will add semi sweet dark chocolate chip in the future to give it a twist and depth and reduce the sugar abit as we found it abit sweet....

Nutella Muffins

Found this recipe from In Our Kitchen

Baked this twice within the week as it is really nice! As the nutella is not mixed into the batter evenly and topped at the top of the muffin, the bottom of the muffin has a very nice vanilla taste and the top crust taste like nutella chocolate cookie...

Will definately make it again!

Chocolate Truffles

Found this recipe from 8 Days a while ago and have been using it all the time when i feel like doing some chocolate truffles.. (=

Ingredient:

100gram semi sweet dark chocolate

100gram whipping cream

Cocoa powder

Steps:

1) Melt semi sweet dark chocolate

2) Mix in the whipping cream when chocolate is fully melted

3) Fridge the mixture until harden

4) Roll harden chocolate trufles into balls of chocolate and coat with cocoa powder

Happy birthday to me...

Celebrated my birthday recently and had mee suah cooked by my mum... ^_^

The mee suah included two eggs, a few prawns, a few slices of fish and LOADS of bao bei... hehe

Sorbet Cake

Was supposed to do a cake for TFB for his birthday in Oct, so this post is about one mth late...

Due to the milk problem... I decide against baking a cake in case we used any harmful product for the cake..... so i think and think and think and thot of sorbet cake... thinking that the idea should be quite funny plus shouldnt be possible, i googled and i really found a receipe for sorbet cake!....

Followed the receipe and came up with the following cake... We used one tub of mango sorbet + one tub of lime sorbet for the cake..

We used fresh blueberries + blueberries jam for the topping and used blueberries jam plus almond for the middle layer...

The result is a extremely refreshing and quite sour cake which taste nice and is a good change from the heavy meal that we just had...

Receipt gotten from About.com: Gourmet Food

Prep Time: 15 Minutes

Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespppons blueberry preserves or jam, divided
- 1 pint orange sorbet, slightly softened (in my case I used mango sorbet)
- 1 pint lemon sorbet or other cirtrus sorbet, slightly softened
- 1 cup fresh blueberries

Preparation:
Line the bottom of sides of a 8 X 4 inch loaf pan with a double layer of waxed paper, folding the paper to fit smoothly.

In a small bowl, stir together walnuts and 1/4 cup of the blueberry preserves, set aside. Spoon orange sorbet into the lined pan, smoothing the top to make an event layer. Spread the reserved walnut preserves mixture evenly over the orange sorbet. Spoon the lemon sorbet evenly over the preserves and smooth the top. Cover tightly with aluminum foil. Freeze several hours or overnight.

Just before serving, in a medium bowl, stir remaining 2 tablesppon preserves until smooth. Fold in fresh blueberries. Invert the cake into a chilled serving plate. Remove the pan and waxed paper. Sppon about one-fourth of the blueberry mixture down the center of the cake. Cut the cake into 8 (1-inch) slices

Serve on chilled dessert plates. Top each slice with a spoonful of the remaining fresh berry mixture. Serve immediately and enjoy!