Orange Cake

Saw this recipe on ST "Mind Your Body" so tried it out! Orange cake, one of my favourite! Heehee... This recipe is easy & do not require any butter, healthy cake huh! Top with some icing sugar to add some taste! ;)

Looks wet even the top & sides had dried up n crunchy huh! Think is my initial beating of eggs w sugar! Coz using 6 eggs with 230gm of sugar so took some time in beating the mixture to light & fluffy! Maybe is that part wrong or maybe is the folding in of flour & orange puree coz the egg mixture is too much which reaching the brim of the mixing bowl.

Comments for the cake: Overall nice after toasting but can be less sweet!

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Orange Cake Recipe (Quoted: from Straits Times)

Ingredients:
3 medium-size oranges
230g sugar
6 eggs
140g cake flour
100g ground almond
1 heaped tsp baking powder

Method:
1. Wash the oranges before boiling them whole for around 20mins. When cool, puree them in a blender, orange peel and all.
2. Beat the eggs & sugar together until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture is light & fluffy.
3. Sift the flour & baking powder together and fold this inti the beaten egg mixture along with the ground almonds. Gently mix in the blended oranges.
4. Pour into a lightly greased cake tin and bake in oven for about 1 hr at a temperature of 180C.
5. Test whether the cake is cooked by inserting a knife or skewer - if wet, cake mixture clings to skewer, then bake a little longer.
6. Dust top with icing sugar & serve.

My comments on the bake:
1. I used self-raising flour to substitute w the cake flour & baking powder coz I ran out of cake flour at home. Tot the cake will raised after baking so I only pour into the tin 1/2 full. But dun understand y my cake din raised? Looks like orange shortcake instead?????!!!!!

2. Recipe calls for 6 eggs w 230g sugar so it took me quite a while to beat till light & fluffy and when done, the mixture is already at the brim of the mixing bowl! So it's quite difficult to fold in the flour, almonds & the blended oranges. Guess when I finished all the mixing & pour into the baking tins, most of the blended oranges already sink to the bottom of the mixing bowl. So think 2nd tin got more of the blended oranges.

Cappuccino Cheesecake

Baked this today! Spend quite a while baking it as need to prepare the cake base, the cream cheese & water bath etc. Outlook like very furry hor! Haahaa...

Anyway, this is not a perfect cake! Saw the crack on the top? My plain cream cheese cracked when baking, guess i din spread the cheese evenly. The sides got a bit of "bald" as the cream cheese din covered that part, maybe the cake base sticked to the cake tin & I din realised it!

This is the internal view of the cuppuccino cheesecake? Looks a bit messy hor!! Heehee...

Comments were the cheesecake is a bit dry but not sure izzit too much cocoa powder on top that makes the whole cake tasted dry? Always feels that the cocoa powder makes me sore throat after eating... so had to scrape off some of the powder.

Teacher Day Cake

This is what I baked for my son's childcare Teacher's Day celebration. Nothing special, juz a 8" square banana cake!Heeeheee... Not sure how izzit coz no feedback yet. Ds cannot explained to me whether how is the cake & if the teachers & kids like it or not! Juz hope it is nice!!!

This is the closed up picture of the banana cake! Top looks good but inside is really a mystery now!


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Recipe

Ingredients:
125g butter, softened
112.5g caster sugar
2 eggs
2 large ripe bananas, mashed
225g self-raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 tbsp milk

Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in eggs until combined.
2. Fold in the mashed banana.
3. Fold in half the sifted dry ingredients and combine.
4. Add remaining flour and milk, stir until smooth.
5. Pour mixture into greased 20cm cake tin.
6. Bake at 160ºC for 1hr or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. (If the top layer turns brown after 15 minutes, cover it with a piece of aluminium foil.)
7. Cool cakes in the pan then remove. Slice and serve.

Pandan Chiffon Cake

Baked this last week too! My new pandan chiffon cake. Haahaa... Looks nice but upside down hor.... how come the sides n center all not brown? Still wondering what went wrong? Izzit I greased the sides of the pan which I shouldn't? Hmmm......

Flipped over but "bald" at the side.... Top was brown! I guess my tube pan was too low for baking chiffon cake? The cake will rised over the edge of the pan, that's why it's impossible for me to flip over once I removed the cake from the oven... Time to get a new pan liao... $$$...

This is the cut-out piece... How izzit? Can pass or not? Heehee... I feel that the cake is still not "chiffon" enough... Haa... Not many "holes" in the cake hor! Only that it tasted really like chiffon cake!

Well, my girl need supper before bed so she won't wake up for night feeds. So, dh feed her this cake! Wah, she loves it! She can finished a piece of this size!! Kudo to her! Or to me? Haaa...

Japanese Light Cheesecake

This is my 2nd try on cheesecake! The outlook is not vv nice even tho it is not "botak" like my previous try! Haahaa...

Rem my previous mistake on using a loose based baking tin but FORGOT to wrap aluminium foil below (silly me!), this time I used a covered based baking tin & line with greaseproof baking sheet so easier for me to remove the cake out! But the sides dun looks too nice liao!

Closed-up of my new try! Does it looks better than the previous cake? Haahaa...

Fluffier huh? Heh heh... See the holes? Opps, looks like chiffon or not? As compare to the previous cake, guess this cakew is slightly better a bit! Waiting for comments from dh!!! Will update again when rec'd comments!!! Haahaa!

UPDATE: Dh's comment is still SOUR! Funny leh... think his taste bud got problem leh!!!! Haahaa... Another thing, he mentioned is: It will taste better if the cake is softer! AGAIN! Hiazzz... Guess I should try again, again & again!!!

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This is what I had baked yesterday afternoon! Japanese light cheesecake or cotton cheesecake! Sorry abt the disgraceful top as I "flipped" up n down to remove the cake out from the cake tin so it became "botak" after the flip.

This is closed-up view of the cheesecake! Looks vv thick n dense huh!

Well, it certainly dun taste cottony! sob sob! Comment by dh was the cake is vv sour! Maybe added too much lemon juice? Guess I had to reduce the juice for the next try!

Sneak Peak on the cheesecake when still baking in oven:
Btw, made a "serious" mistake! I used a loose base cake tin but forgot to wrap it w aluminium foil coz need to do "water bath" when baking! LUCKY, water did not sip in... as u can see that the water is not cloudy! Phew!!! Anyway, cake still come out lousy lah!

Mango Cake

Just made this mango cake on saturday, using home-made mango puree. Err... lousy decorations on the top! :"p As dh came home, so I need to finish up my stuffs asap! He is cutting a mango to eat so I ask him help me to slice some for my cake... that is what he did! *faint* heh heh! (Can't expect much from someone who just came home from work & just wanna find something to eat!)

This is the sides of the finished cake! The cream "dripped" down to the sponge cake. Should have whipped some cream & cover it up! Haahaa... too bad no time to do that yet! The top jelly is actually apricot glazing gel. This is something which I did wrong for this cake as I should just brushed the gel on top of the fruit & not pour it over the whole surface like making jelly! Lucky, result looks good! ;)

This is the interior of the cake. Saw the sponge cake? Very soft huh! But the cream is uneven & unbalanced for the center part & top parts! Must do better for the next round!!


Verdict: Dh is the only one who get to taste this cake. His comment was, this is the best cake from what I had previously did! Haahaa... Yeah, he say overall the cake tasted vv nice, the jelly is a bit sour but goes well with the cake! What maked me happy is, he finished up the whole pc of cake! 1 pc consider very good already as he is not a cake-lover! Norm, he only took a bite & that's all! He asked for another pc the following day! Hmmm...

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Recipe (Quoted: HugBear)

Ingredients for Sponge
4 eggs
100g cake flour
100g castor sugar
12g spongecake stabliser
20ml water
90g melted butter

Method for Sponge
1. Put all the ingredients except the melted butter into a mixing bowl. Beat everything on high for about 6 mins or until fluffy & creamy. Add in butter and mix well.
2. Pour into a 9" x 9" lined square tin and bake at 200C for 10-15 mins.
3. When cake is cool, cut away top layer and then into two pieces.

Ingredients for Mango Fillings
300g mango puree
13g gelatine powder
1/2tsp mango essence
a few drops of yellow colouring
300g diary whipping cream whipped to a soft peak

Method for Mango Fillings
1. Boil mango puree and gelatine powder until gelatine dissoved. Leave it to cool down.
2. Mix the whipped cream into the mango puree mixture. Add in mango essence and colouring. Mix well.
3. In a cake ring, put one layer of cake in it. Pour half the filling into it and top it off with another layer of cake. Press gently on the top layer of cake and then pour in the rest of the filling.
4. Chilled in fridge for at least 2 hrs before serving.

Note:
For the Jelly part:
You can either make a clear jelly (the normal agar agar jelly) and pour over the fresh mango and leave it to harden. Or you can decorate your cake with fresh mango and fruits and boil 50g of natural glazing gel with 50ml of water and brush this gel mixture over yr fruits to give it the geelak geelak effect (shiny effect).

My comments for this bake:
1) The sponge cake part is very similar to the cup spongecake recipe. It's easy as we just "throw" all ingredients except butter and mixed till creamy & fluffy!

2) Cutting the spongecake into half needs skill! Saw my "spoilt" cake? Yeah, due to my lousy slicing skills, you can see that some parts had "dropped" off. ;"p

Mango Marshmallow Cake

This is what I had tried making today, mango marshmallow cake! Very nice & sweet cake, esp for people like me with a sweet tooth! Made a few mistakes on the way but lucky still taste good & edible (for me only lah!). Heehee...

Pls check below for recipe & my comments on it!

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Recipe (Quoted: Cranberry)

Ingredients
(A) Base:
200g digestive biscuits
80g melted butter

(B) Marshmallow filling:
10 pcs of marshmallow
300ml of HL milk
80 ml of diary whip cream
150 gm Mango Puree
8 pcs of gelatine leafs (or substitute w 2 tsp of gelatine powder)
80g sugar

(C) Gelatine Topping:
6 pcs of gelatine leafs
200 ml of water
4 tbsp sugar

Method
(A) Crushed digestive biscuits and mix well with melted butter. Press into a 8” or 9" square or round cake ring. Refrigerate for later use.

(B) Put all the ingredients into a pot. Double boil over small fire until gelatine leafs, marshmallow and sugar are dissolved.

(C) Boil all ingredients until dissolved.

Assembling the cake
Pour marshmallow filling (B) into the prepared baking tin with biscuit base (A). Put in freezer until slightly harden but not totally frozen. Take it out and arrange sliced fresh mangoes. Put it back to freezer to harden a little. When slightly harden take it out and pour the slightly cool Gelatine (C) on it. Put in fridge to chill. Cut and serve.

My comments for this bake:
Generally this is not a difficult recipe. Every step is vv simple but how come I can still make mistakes??? :(

1) Okie, I had decided to do a smaller cake for testing purposes so I divide the recipe into half (so all ingredients above are supposed to be 1/2). But I forgot to half the mango puree (b) & water (c)... OMG! SO I think that's y the marshmallow layer is so soft (b) & no wonder the gelatine mixture din hardened when waiting for it to cool down (c) ;(

2) The lower 2 layers (base & marshmallow) dun stick together, they fell off once cut!

3) Base is too thin, the marshmallow layer covered it... *FAINT*

Banana Cake

Baked another banana cake again! Haahaa.... Tks for viewing!!

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Just baked this. 2nd output from my new mixer. Okie, it's banana cake again! I'm using a another recipe for this cake. I'm using half the ingredients only so the cake looks quite small.

Wonder how does it taste? Wonder Jx dare to try again? Haahaa...

Feedback from vevey: This cake is fluffier than all previous cakes! Not densed n hard... 再接再利！


This is the interior of the banana cake. Taken by vevey. (Tks vevey!)
Inside looks fluffy huh!

Recipe (Quoted: Yochana)

Ingredients
180g butter
180g fine sugar
2 extra large Eggs - beaten lightly
250g cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. Bicarbonate of Soda
220g bananas - mashed
50g Dairy whip cream (can substitute with evaporated milk)
1/2 tsp Banana essence
2 bananas - slice

Method
1) Cream butter and sugar till light and creamy.
2) Pour in eggs gradually and beat till creamy.
3) Add in whip cream, mashed bananas and banana essence and mix well.
4) Add in cake flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and beat for a while only.
5) Pour into an 8" round tray, and arrange sliced bananas on top.
6) Bake at 175C for about 50 to 60 mins or until cooked.

My comments for this bake:
1) Very easy recipe but baking time is quite long abt 1hr. I tested the cake w a stick, some parts still a bit wet at 50mins, so i con't to bake for another 15mins.
2) This is suppose to be a drier & fluffier cake, hope it dun look wet like my previous batches. ;)

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This is the banana cake which I had baked today. Looks lousy hor. So sad... sob sob!!! Banana cake is something which I had to put in extra extra effort. This is a flop again! Will do better the next time (i hope?) heeheee...


This is the interior of the banana cake. These are my guesses for the failed cake:
1) Over-mixed the batter? (Tips from paw paw: HAND-MIX my batter!)
2) Wrong temp or did not bake long enough?
3) Too much liquid in the batter?


This is my previous batch of banana cake. Looks better huh? But taste wise... not sure if I got make any improvement. Haaahaaa....

Waiting patiently for my tasters, Vevey & Jx for comments!!! ;p

Feedback: Vevey's comment on it was good! Real or not?! Pls re-cfm!! keekee....

New updates: Since vevey say is nice, haaahaa... I will try again next time to improve on the looks of the cake!!! As I'm an idiot in decorating...

Cup Spongecakes

Baked some cup spongecakes today to ease my cravings for cake! Can get a nice photo on a cupcake alone, so post this photo 1st... Will add in more photos if available! Thanks for viewing! ;)

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Just baked these cup spongecakes... tho looks far from what's selling in Crystal Jade Bread but the taste is really nice and soft! All thanks to Hugbear's recipe! My kids loved them, esp my little girl will ask for more & more.

Heehee... rem a joke by vevey! Haaahaa...
Mum: Auntie Cherie is baking some spongecakes for you!
Jx: What will happened if I eat sponge, mummy?
Mum: Then you will become SPONGEBOB lor...

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Recipe (Quoted: HugBear)

Ingredients
4 eggs
100g cake flour
100g castor sugar
12g spongecake stabliser
25ml milk
90g melted butter

Method
1. Put all the ingredients except the melted butter into a mixing bowl. Beat everything on high for at least 7 mins until ribbon stage. This means that if you use your whisk with batter to write an "8" on the batter won't sink in but will appear visible for a while. This will be the right constitency for your batter. Add in the melted butter at this point. Mix thoroughly.

2. Line some waxed papercups with baking paper. Pour batter into the lined cups abt 3/4 full and bake it in a preheated oven at 190C for about 20 mins. When done, remove the cake from the cup immediately and leave it on wire rack to cool.

Note:
To line the cup, cut out some baking paper or greased proof paper in square or rectangle shape. Roll it loosely like the kacang puteh style and push it into the cup. Adjust as necessary.

My comments for this bake:
1) Very easy to do recipe. Follow closely & you can't get it wrong! ;)