Fairy Flyaway Cupcakes

It was a rainy Sunday morning. I love rainy day but only on the weekend.

Why’s that? Because the best thing to do is laying on the bed for as long as I want under the warm quilt. It’s just so comfortable...

While I was half awake and half dreaming, out of sudden I had the mood for baking right away. It’s been awhile since I had an inspiration to do some baking. Hell yeah, I rushed to washing up and get busy in the kitchen with my first baking since??? (dunno how along ago)

Here you go…

Ingredients

375g self raising flour

180g butter, softened
180g castor sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1tsp vanilla extract
1-2tbsp milk
Colored sprinkles, to decorate


Buttercream
Scant 100g butter, softened
380g icing sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract


What to do

(1) Preheat the oven to 190 degree. Put paper liners into shollow muffins pans.

(2) Sifted the flour into a large bowl and add the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Beat well until the mixture is smooth, then stir in enough of the milk to make a pourable consistency.

(3) Divide the mixture among the paper liners. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, or until risen, firm and golden brown. Transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool.

(4) For the buttercream, beat together the butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract until smooth.

(5) Use a serrated knife to cut a round from the top of each cake, then cut each round in half. Spread or pipe a little of the buttercream on top of each cake, then press the pieces of cake into it to resemble butterfly wings. decorate with the colored sprinkles.

Hot Salami Pizza

Pizza – my all time favourite. I prepared this for our lunch over the weekend which is a simple yet fulfilling lunch. Love it to bits.

Ingredients

2tbsp tomato paste

100g hot salami

6 grape tomatoes cut into half

5 button mushrooms, sliced

1 green onion, sliced

150g cheddar cheese, grated

 

What to do

Preheat oven and prepare pizza tray. Place pizza on the prepared tray and spread tomato paste over the base. Place all the ingredients evenly and top with cheese. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

 

For pizza base, please refer here

Pineapple and White Choc Muffins

It’s been a while I didn’t bake muffins. So it’s time for me to get working now…

They look good, don't they? And of course... they taste absolutely gorgeous too! Enjoy~

Ingredients

75g unsalted butter, chopped
300g white chocolate, roughly chopped
3 eggs
90g castor sugar
2tsp vanilla extract
200g self-raising flour
1x432g can pineapple


What to do

(1) Preheat oven to 175 degree. Paper line the muffin cups in muffin tin.

(2) Melt the butter and chopped chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch water).

(3) Whisk the eggs, castor sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl. Stir in the melted chocolate mixture. Fold in flour. Add in the pineapple and stir to combine.

(4) Pour into prepared muffin tin. Place a piece a pineapple on top of the batter. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the top has a firm crust.

Tuna and Vegie Patties

While I reading my “Super Food Ideas” magazine and I came across this simple and healthy recipe - Tuna and Vegie Patties. Honestly, the patties are quite difficult to handle as they were so soft. However, I managed to shape them in round shape. I am happy with the outcome. =) It has a think layer crusty outside and soft favourable mash potatoes inside. Yum!

This recipe can makes up to 16 patties. In the magazine, they also included some guide to freeze the leftover. Wrap the leftover patties individually in plastic wrap and place in airtight container. For the next meal, you may just thaw the patties in fridge overnight and cook the patties in the frying pan.

Ingredients

1kg red rascal potatoes, peeled, roughly chopped

2x185g cans tuna in oil, drained, flaked

500g frozen vege mix, thawed

4 green onions, thinly sliced

Some finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves

2 egg yolks

180g breadcrumbs

What to do

(1) Place potato in a large saucepan. Cover with cold water and bring to boil. Boil for 15 minutes or until tender. Drain. Mash in a bowl. Set aside to cool completely.

(2) Add tuna, vegetables mixture, onion, parsley and egg yolks. Season with salt and pepper. Stir to combine.

(3) Using 1/3 cup mixture at a time, shape into 16 patties. Place breadcrums on plate. Coat patties in breadcrumbs.

(4) Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Cook patties in batches for 3 minutes each side or until golden. Serve.

Stir- Fried Spaghetti

This morning I had a sudden urge to fry noodle as our breakfast instead of having toast and scrambled eggs. Having some leftover spaghetti,  I started to make this simple and quick breakfast for less than 15 minutes.

What a yummylicious hot and fast food for breakfast! =)

Ingredients

Spaghetti (portion for 2 serves)
1 piece of chicken breast fillet, cut into pieces
5 small Roma tomatoes, cut into small pieces
some green beans, celery, dried beancurd and champion mushrooms
Salt and pepper, to taste


What to do

(1) Heat 2tbsp olive oil in frying pan, add the chicken fillet and stir fry for 3-4 minutes.
(2) Add in tomatoes, green beans, celery, beancurd, mushrooms and stir fry.
(3) Add seasoning and stir fry for 1 minute. Pour in some water if it is too dry.
(4) Stir in spahettin and mix well.

Baked Chicken Drumstick with Home Made Sauce

We had been eating out quite often recently. It is time to prepare some healthy home cook food. =)

I wanted to prepare something quick and easy for our dinner so I could have enough time to watch my TV show at night. Before I leave home to work this morning, I had marinated the drumsticks with the gravy mix and leave it in the fridge.

All I need to do tonight is just put the drumsticks in the oven and cook through. Pretty convenience, right? ;)

Enjoy the hot food together with the “hot” TV show – MasterChef!. = D

Ingredients

2 chicken drumsticks,
a dash of mix herbs
a dash of extra virgin olive oil


Marinate the chicken with:-
a pinch of salt
a dash of grounded black pepper
1 tbsp of gravy mix
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
3 cloves of grated garlic
a dash of mixed herbs

What to do

1. Marinate the chicken drumsticks and cover the bowl in a zip bag. Leave it for few hours in the fridge.

2. Preheat the oven at 200 degrees. On a baking tray, wrap up the chicken with aluminium foil. Bake the chicken for 20-30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.

3. Place the chicken drumsticks on a plate and serve with potatoes and salad.

Cinnamon Sugar-Coated Maple Apple Cakes

Another recipe taken from Donna Hay! It looked tempted to me when I browsed on her website so I had decided to give it a try. I don’t have the Bundt tins so they were replaced by muffin cups.

Freshly baked from the oven

This is yummy! I love ground cinnamon so much… they taste so good. ^_^

Ingredients


375g self-raising flour, sifted
1tsp ground cinnamon
250g butter, melted
175g brown sugar
175g maple syrup
4 eggs
6 red apples, peeled and grated
2tsp ground cinnamon, extra
220g caster sugar


What to do

(1) Preheat oven to 180 degree. Place the flour and cinnamon in a bowl and mix to combine.

(2) Add the butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, eggs and apple and mix well to combine.

(3) Spoon into muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes or until cooked whr tested with a skewer. Turn out immediately.

(4) Place the extra cinnamon and sugar in a bowl and mix to combine.

(5) Coat the cakes in the sugar and cool.