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Easy Chocolate Cake

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I followed this recipe:

http://www.food.com/recipe/sue-bs-chocolate-cake-31804?photo=3558
Ingredients:

3/4 cup cocoa powder

3/4 cup boiling water

1 cup buttermilk

1 cup canola oil

4 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2 cup sugar

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp baking soda
1. Mix cocoa powder with boiling water.

2. Mix buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla.

3. Mix sugar, flour, salt and baking soda.

4. Add dry ingredients into buttermilk mixture.

5. Add cocoa mixture into batter.

6. Pour into baking pan.

7. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 30 mins.
It’s really an easy cake to bake. Yet, it’s very moist and delicious.


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Banana Walnut Cake

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I baked it according to this recipe:

http://www.food.com/recipe/starbucks-banana-walnut-bread-384181

But I changed a bit.
Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 egg

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup olive oil ( original recipe said vegetable oil)

1/2 tsp vanilla

3 mashed banana

1/2 cup walnut

1/3 cup walnut

1. Preheat oven to  170 degree C.

2. Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl.

3. Blend egg, sugar and olive oil in another bowl.

4. Combine flour mixture with egg mixture. Blend well.

5. Add in vanilla and mashed banana.

6. Fold in 1/2 cup walnut. ( I just put walnut in a plastic bag and roll it with a rolling pin).

7. Place batter in baking pan.

8. Sprinkle 1/3 cup walnut on the top.

9. Bake for around 50 mins, till toothpick comes out clean.



It tastes really great.

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Coffee Cake

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Ingredients:

For topping

1 cup flour

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 tsp cinnamon
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and make into crumbs.
For cake:

1 cup butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

2 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/3 cup milk

Cream butter with sugar & brown sugar till light and creamy.

Beat in egg and vanilla.

In another bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt.

Add flour mixture and milk alternatively into butter mixture. Mix them well.

Pour the batter into baking pan.

Sprinkle the topping crumbs.
Preheat oven to 170 degree C. Bake for around 30 mins.


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Homemade Donuts

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For original recipe, please refer to:

http://m.xiachufang.com/recipe/100486965/

Ingredients:

Bread flour  130g

Warm Milk 35g 

Yeast 3/4 tsp

Sugar 25g

Egg 1

Butter 10g

Salt 1/4 tsp

1. Add 1 tsp sugar and yeast into warm milk and stir evenly.

2. Mix the rest sugar, salt and flour in a big bowl.

3. Add milk yeast mixture and egg into dry ingredients mixture. And knead them into a dough.

4. Cut in butter. Knead till the dough absorbs butter.

5. Wrap dough with plastic wrap and let it rise twice as big as before, which needs around 2 hours.

6. Roll the dough into a big one with thickness around 1 cm. Cut into shape of doughnuts.

7. Put donuts dough in the oven with a big bowl of hot water underneath. And let them rise for about half an hour.

8. Fry them till golden brown. Actually, I didn’t deep-fry them. I just added a thin layer of oil in the pan. Fry their one side and then flip over.



They are really delicious. My husband loves them.

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Strawberry Cheesecake Pie

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For the crust, please refer to:

https://chewbaccascook.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/lemon-pie/

Filling:

250 g cream cheese softened

100g evaporated milk

2 small eggs

100g sugar

2 tsp flour

1/2 vanilla

1. Cream cheese with sugar till smooth.

2. Add in milk and eggs one at a time. Mix well.

3. Add in vanilla, flour and mix well.

4. Pour filling into crust. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 35-40 mins.


For the strawberry topping:

In a saucepan, put in chopped strawberry and sugar. When strawberry turns soft, add in a little cornstarch. Stir evenly for another minute or 2 till sauce boils again. And pour it over the cheesecake pie.

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Blueberry Coffee Cake

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For the cake:

Butter 50g

Sugar 70g

Egg 1

Milk 60g

Flour 140g

Baking powder 1 tsp

Salt 1/4 tsp

Blueberry 1 small box ( because I only had 1 small box, which is around 120g. You can add more if you like rich blueberry flavor)

1. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.

2. In another bowl, cream butter and sugar till creamy.

3. Beat in egg and vanilla.

4. Add in flour mixture and milk alternately till flour mixs in. Stir in blueberries.

Pour the batter into pan.

For the top:

Brown sugar 50g

Flour 3 tsp

Cinnamon powder 1 tsp

Butter 2 tsp

Combine all the topping ingredients in a small bowl (except butter). Cut in butter. And make them into crumb. Sprinkle over batter.
Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Bake for around 45 mins. Or when it can pass the toothpick test.

It is very similar to the blueberry cake I baked before:
https://chewbaccascook.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/blueberry-cake/

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Creamy Banana Cheesecake

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I found this amazing recipe:

http://www.food.com/recipe/banana-cream-cheesecake-copycat-49337

I just made a small change according to original recipe:

Crust: 12 Oreo cookies, 30g margarine

Filling:

250g cream cheese

45g sugar

1 tsp cornstarch

2 eggs (medium size)

1 banana (cos I only had 1 banana at home, if you want banana flavor to be stronger, you can add 2 bananas)

40g whipping cream

1 tsp vanilla

1. Blend finely chopped cookies with melted margarine well.

2. Press cookie margarine mixture into pan and put into fridge.

3. Beat cream cheese till creamy.

4. Add in sugar and cornstarch.

5. Add in egg one at a time.

6. Add in mashed bananas, whipping cream and vanilla.

7. Pour cheese mixture onto crust.

8. Preheat oven to 180degree C. Bake for 15 mins. Then turn the heat down to 110 degree C and bake for 70 mins or till center gets firm.

Very rich and yummy. It tastes great!

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Easy Chocolate Lava

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Part A:

Butter around 25g

Chocolate 40g

Heat butter and chocolate in a bowl which is in hot water.

Keep stirring till they melt.

Remove them from hot water to get cool.
   

Part B

Whip an egg with around 15g sugar till the color becomes light.   
1. Pour Part B into Part A. Do make sure the chocolate is cool already.

2. Put around 15g flour into the mixture. Stir evenly. Then put the bowl into fridge for 30 minutes.

3. Preheat oven with 200 degree. Brush butter onto the inner wall of baking bowl.

4. Pour the chocolate mixture into baking bowl.

Put into oven for ten minutes.

When there are some small cracks on the surface of cake, the cake can be removed from the oven.


   

If you like, you can spread some icing sugar.

Try to scoop it with a small spoon.


And you will be surprised!
   

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Banana Cake

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Ingredients:

Butter 80g

Sugar 140g

Egg 1

Flour 140g

Milk 2 tsp

Baking Soda 1 tsp dissolved in milk

Baking powder 1 tsp

Bananas 2

Vanilla 1 tsp

Salt 1 pinch

Cinnamon powder 1 tsp

1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Add in egg, vanilla and baking soda that’s dissolved in milk. Stir well.

3. Add in bananas. Stir well.

4. Add in flour, salt and cinnamon. Mix them well and pour into baking pan.

5. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 30-40 mins.


The cake is very moist and full of fresh banana flavor. My husband is a big fan of it.

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Blueberry Cake

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I found this recipe on YouTube.

Streusel: 

Flour  45 g

Sugar 65g

Cinnamon 1/2 tsp

Mix them well. Cut into butter around 50g. And make them into crumbs.
Cake:

60g butter stir till smooth.

Add in 100g white sugar and stir till fluffy.

Beat in 1 large egg & 1/2 tsp vanilla.

Mix them well.
Prepare:

130g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt. Mix them well.

80ml milk.
1. First add 1/3 flour part into butter mixture. Then add 1/2 milk. Mix them well.

2. Add another 1/3 flour & rest milk. Mix well.

3. Add the rest flour. Mix well.

4. Put batter into the pan evenly.

5. Spread blueberries (video says 2 cups blueberries, but I didn’t have that much) on the batter.

6. Sprinkle crumbs evenly on the top.

7. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 40-50 mins. ( I baked 40 mins. You can test with a toothpick).


My husband loves it.