Category Archives: Cake

Vanilla Cupcake

September 16, 2016 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

Original recipe:

In a large bowl mix flour (90g), baking soda (1 tsp), salt (1/8tsp, but if you use salted butter, you can delete salt).

Cream 60g butter till creamy and smooth. Add 70g sugar, mix them till light and fluffy. Then add in 2 small eggs (one at a time) and 1/2 tsp vanilla.

Add flour mixture into butter mixture. First, 1/3 flour mixture, 15g milk. Then 1/3 flour mixture, another 15 g milk. And last add in all the rest flour mixture.

Beat till flour all mix in.

Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 17-20 mins.

These cupcakes are very moist.

I also made buttery frosting according to the video. Very creamy.

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Carrot Cake

September 13, 2016 chinesetuition88 1 Comment

This is an easy recipe to bake carrot cake.

Ingredients:

Canola oil: 180 ml

White sugar: 100g

Brown sugar: 50g

Eggs 2

Flour: 140g

Baking soda: 1 tsp

Salt: 1 tsp

Carrot strips: 2 medium carrots

Cinnamon ground: 1 tsp

Vanilla: 1/2 tsp
1. In a large bowl, mix oil and sugar, mix them well.

2. Beat in eggs. Stir well.

3. Add in flour, baking soda and salt. Mix well.

4. Then add in carrot, cinnamon and vanilla.

5. Put batter in the pan.

6. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 30-35 mins.

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Apple Cake

August 29, 2016 chinesetuition88 2 Comments

This is the first time I tried apple cake and it turn out to be very good.

I made changes based on original recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/german-apple-cake-16883
Ingredients:

1 egg

90 ml canola oil

150g icing sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

120g flour

1 tsp cinnamon powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 Apple ( chopped into small pieces)

1. Put egg and oil in a bowl and stir smoothly.

2. Add sugar, vanilla, flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Stir well before adding another.

3. Add in Apple pieces. Mix well.

4. Pour batter into pan.

5. Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Bake for 30 mins. ( because the cake I baked is a small one, so 30 mins is enough. If your cake is bigger, it will take longer time). You can check whether it’s done by a toothpick.

Because I used less sugar, so it’s not that sweet but to me it’s perfect.

I also used homemade caramel sauce as topping. Very tasty.

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Crumb Cake

August 26, 2016 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

I found the recipe online:

http://www.food.com/recipe/new-jersey-crumb-cake-33645

This is my first crumb cake. And It turned out to be a big success. I did a little change based on the original recipe.

For cake:

Butter 60g

Sugar 80g ( I’m afraid the original recipe would be very sweet, so I reduced the sugar)

Egg 1

Milk 80g

Flour 140g

Baking powder 1tsp

Vanilla extract 1/2tsp
For topping :

Biscuit mix is used in original recipe. I changed it. I used flour and ground almond powder instead. I reduced butter and sugar too. Cos my husband is on a diet.

Butter 40g

Sugar 40g

Flour 40g

Ground almond powder 20g

Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
1. Cream butter and sugar.

2. Beat egg and milk, mix with butter.

3. Add flour and baking powder to the butter mixture. Then add in vanilla extract.

4. Pour batter into pan.

5. For topping: put all the topping ingredients in a bowl. Rub them by hand. And they will become crumb.

6. Sprinkle crumb topping over batter in the pan.

7. Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Bake for 30 mins. ( you can check with a toothpick. Poke the cake with toothpick, if it comes out clean, then the cake is done).

Powdered sugar is used to top the cake when cool. I didn’t use it.

It tastes really good. Since I reduced sugar, it’s not too sweet.