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Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

Sugar 75 g

Brown sugar 25g

Margarine 120g

Egg 1

Vanilla 1/4 tsp

Cinnamon 1/4 tsp

Baking soda 1/4 tsp

Salt 1 pinch

Flour 70g

Oats 1 cup

Dried cranberry 1/4 cup

White chocolate chips 60g ( or as much as you like)

1. Cream butter with sugar & brown sugar.

2. Beat in egg and vanilla.

3. Add in cinnamon, baking soda, salt and flour.

4. Fold in oats, dried cranberries, and white chocolate chips. Press a spoonful better to the baking pan.


5. Preheat oven to 190 degree C. Bake for 10-12 mins.

Blueberry Coffee Cake

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/

Easy Bread 

Actually, the orinigal recipe is for hotdog:

http://m.xiachufang.com/recipe/100550638/

Ingredients:

Bread flour 300g

Warm water 100g (original recipe said 37 – 40 degree C.)

Yeast 2 tsp (original recipe said yeast powder)

Sugar 10 g

Egg 1

Melted butter 25g

Salt 1/2 tsp

1. Add yeast into warm water till foam shows up. ( I followed it, but I didn’t see any foam. Maybe the temperature of my warm water was not high enough. But I still moved on).

2. Add melted butter and egg mixture into yeast water and stir well.

3. In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar and salt.

4. Add yeast water into flour. Fold flour into a big dough. (Original recipe said kneading for 10-15 mins) I kneaded it for around 15 mins.

5. Put dough in a large bowl, cover it with lid or plastic wrap till it becomes 2 times big.

6. Divide it into several small pieces and make it into shapes you like. (Original recipe said let them relax for 10 mins. But I forgot, so I skipped it).

7. Put them in the oven with a large bowl of hot water under the baking pan till they become 2 times big.

8. Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Bake for 20-25 mins.

They are perfect match for soup.

Lemon Pie

Crust:

Flour 140g

Sugar 40g

Butter 120g

Mix butter into flour & sugar till it clings together. Press into pan. Use a fork poke several times on it. Bake in the oven with 180 degree C for 20 mins till lightly brown.

Filling:

Egg 2 

White sugar 150g

Lemon juice 40ml

Flour 20g

Baking soda 1/4 tsp

1/4 lemon zest

Beat together eggs with sugar and lemon juice. Add in flour, baking powder and lemon zest. Mix well. Then pour filling over cooled crust.

Bake for 25mins with 180 degree C.

After it is done and cooled, sprinkle icing sugar.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredient:

Butter 120g

Peanut butter 120g

Sugar 100g

Brown sugar 100g

Egg 1

Vanilla 1/2 tsp

Flour 180g

Baking soda 3/4 tsp

Salt 1/4 tsp

1. Cream butter, peanut butter with sugar & brown sugar.

2. Beat in egg and vanilla. Mix well.

3. In a bowl mix flour, baking soda and salt. Then add flour mixture into butter mixture. Mix well.

4. Preheat oven to 190 degree C. Scoop dough and press into baking pan. Bake for 12 mins. 



Crunch outside but very soft inside. Even my husband doesn’t like peanut butter, he loves this cookie.

Chocolate Oat Square


Original recipe:

http://www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-oat-square-extravaganza-263499

I changed it a bit.

Ingredients:

Butter 80g

Brown sugar 120g

Egg 1

Vanilla 1/4 tsp

Oats 1 cup

Flour 100 g

Salt 1/4 tsp

Baking soda 1/4 tsp

Filling:

1/3 can sweetened condensed milk, around 100g

Chocolate chips 1 cup

Butter 1 tsp

Salt 1/4 tsp

Chopped walnuts 1/3 cup

Vanilla 1/4 tsp
1. Cream brown butter and  brown sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Beat in egg and vanilla.

3. Combine oats, flour, salt, and baking soda. Stir into butter mixture.

4. Press 2/3 batter into pan as base.

Filling part:

1. In a saucepan, melt butter, chocolate, with sweetened milk and salt. Stir evenly.

2. Turn off the stove. Stir in walnuts and vanilla.

3. Spread filling over the Oat base in the baking pan.

4. Sprinkle the rest 1/3 Oat batter over the filling.

5. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 25mins.

Pear Tart

Crust: butter 50g

Salt 1 pinch

Sugar 50g

Yolk 1

Water 10ml

Flour 100g

1. Mix flour with salt and sugar well.

2. Cut in butter. Use finger to mix butter with flour.

3. Mix yolk with water. Then add the mixture into flour butter mixture.

4. Roll dough into thin batter. Put into fridge after warped with plastic for at least 1 hour.

Filling:

Butter 20g

Sugar 20g

Egg 25 g

Ground almond 20 g

Pear 1 (peeled, cited and cut into thin slices)

1. Cream butter with sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Add in egg. Mix well.

3. Add in almond ground. Mix well.

For tart:

1. Press batter into baking pan. Make small holes with folk.

2. Spread filling in.

3. Spread pear slices evenly on the surface. And sprinkle some extra almond ground.

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

Mini Sausage Rolls


In a small bowl, mix melted butter,  a little salt, black pepper and mixed herbs.

Use a fork to poke a few times on mini sausage. Cut puff pastry (or roti prata) into long and thin strips. Dip the sausage in butter first. Then roll it with pastry strips. Brush egg mixture on the pastry’s surface.

Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Bake for 25mins.

Easy Banana Pie


It’s super easy. All you need are one banana, one puff pastry (or you can use a roti prata pastry like I did), one egg.

1. Cut roti prata in two halves. 

2. Put banana slices on one half. And put the other half on the top. 

3. Use a folk to press the edge. Put banana pie back to fridge for 10 mins.

4. Preheat oven to 180 degree C. 

5. Brush egg on the pie’s surface. And bake for 25 mins.

 

When it’s almost done, the whole kitchen is full of good smell. 

My husband loves it and soon finished it.

Easy Chocolate Lava

   
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!