Year: 2018

Chocolate banana muffins

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I bought some bananas last weekend and was waiting for it to overripe to make some banana muffins. Now that Lent is over, I can finally stuff my face with chocolate. So I decided to make chocolate banana muffins today. As much as I love my Kitchen Aid, but I  find it really heavy and troublesome to use. Thank goodness, most banana muffin recipes uses the mixing method which makes my life so much easier. Baking has always been a therapy for me. I like how it is systematic and that I get to add my favourite ingredients into my own baking. Also, I enjoy watching television while baking. With the Commonwealth Games ongoing at the moment, I basically spent my whole Sunday baking and watching the different events happening – my kind of Sunday! Nutrition per muffin (one batch makes 12) Ingredients for the muffin 3 ripe bananas 125ml olive oil 2 large eggs 100g brown sugar 225g plain flour 40g cocoa powder 1 tsp bicarbonate soda Ingredients for the chocolate topping 150g dark …

Classic hot cross buns

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I’m on a roll with these hot cross buns! Having so much fun making them and adding my favourite ingredients into it. I adapted this recipe from Donna Hay but made a few adjustments to suit my liking. Traditionally hot cross buns included sultanas, dried fruits such as apricots but I am not a fan of any of those things so I added orange zest, walnuts, chia seeds and dried cranberries into my own rendition of hot cross buns. I had a few dramas this morning making the hot cross buns. I forgot that I left the dough in the oven to rise and I happily turned on the oven to preheat it for the cupcakes that I was making concurrently. After 20 minutes, I smelt this fragrance coming from the oven and then I remembered that my dough was sitting in there! It was too late… the cling wrap had melted all over the dough so I had to throw the whole thing away – what a waste! Fortunately, I decided to make another batch …

Banana hot cross buns

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Finally the long weekend has arrived! I’ve been so caught up with placements and uni work that I haven’t had the time to bake or post. I’ve never really enjoyed hot cross buns till I lived in Australia. It was definitely not a tradition to have it back in Singapore. But after living in Australia for four years, it is becoming one of my favourites. Initially, I wanted to make banana bread but then I thought, why not make a banana hot cross buns with all my favourite ingredients in it. So I added walnuts, chia seeds and chocolate chips into my banana hot cross buns. It was easy making these buns, the only thing you need is time for the dough to rise. The banana hot cross buns turned out to be delicious and now my easter is complete! Nutrition per serve (makes 9) Ingredients for the loaf 55g caster sugar 7g dried yeast 60ml warm water 4 large overripe bananas (mashed) 1 large egg (lightly whisked) 100g wholemeal plain flour 425g plain flour …

Love letters (Kueh Kapit)

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One of my favourite Chinese New Year snacks. I have no idea why they are called love letters because the direct translation from Mandarin should be egg rolls. Maybe people in the past used to roll up love letters in these biscuits. Anyhow, to make these biscuits, you will either need the old school charcoal machine or the electric press (which looks like a sandwich press but specially made for love letters). I found making love letters extremely therapeutic. Simply because it is repetitive and you can watch television while making it. However, it is extremely time consuming because it takes at least 1 min to make 2 love letters and you can’t rush it unless you have more than one machine. I got the recipe from my uncle and in the past, they used to use their hands to roll the biscuits and it is a painful process because the biscuit is really hot. To save his blistering hands, he fashioned a stick with a slit in the middle to roll up the love …