Author: Ting-a-ling

Orange poppy seed cake

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Spring is here and it’s time to experiment on some light and tangy cakes! I’ve always loved the taste of oranges and I thought hmm… let’s make an orange and poppy cake for tea today. One thing I love to use in my cakes is yoghurt. You can use greek yoghurt or vanilla low-fat yoghurt or even buttermilk – they help to make the cake light and moist. This also means that you can cut down on butter slightly so you’ll feel less guilty when eating! Orange poppy seed cake Preparation time: 20 min Baking time: 40min or when skewer comes out clean Nutrition per slice (8 servings) Ingredients 150g unsalted butter 120g caster sugar 300g self raising flour 3 large eggs 150ml yoghurt 125ml freshly squeezed orange juice – about 1 orange Zest 1 orange 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 tbs poppy seeds Directions Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Grease an 8 inch bundt ring tin Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy Add in the 3 eggs gradually, beating throughly …

Baby chocolate eclairs

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For some strange reason, I had a sudden urge to bake yesterday and I thought, let’s try making eclairs for my dinner party later that night. So I dug out a cookbook of mine and went online to watch videos on how to make eclairs. I’ve always thought that eclairs were challenging to make but after trying it out myself, it turned out to be very easy and fool-proof. Things that you need to make eclairs are pipping bags with a large round tip and a middle round tip. I always struggle with pipping bags – just not good with it and I made a mess in the kitchen haha. You also need a flex edge beater to make the eclairs. To make the eclairs, start off by making the custard first as it takes time for the custard to set. To make the custard, mix all the dry ingredients into the milk first before heating the milk up. This allows the corn starch to dissolve. You can use skim milk but honestly whole milk makes the …

Cornflake cookies

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It has been a while since I’ve posted any recipes. For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new website to sell my cakes and cookies online so it’s going to be an exciting new start for me! Also, I’ve been trying to improve my photography skills and work on food styling – gosh it is quite a challenge and I look ridiculous standing on chairs, squatting, playing around with props just to get the perfect shot haha. After multiple attempts – finally a few good shots! So the recipe for the day is cornflake cookies! This is an adaptation from my previous post on almond cornflake cookie. I’m still obsessed in trying to recreate the cornflake cookies sold in Bengawan Solo but this is good enough to satisfy me! This cookie is really simple to make. All you need is flour, cornflakes, sugar, butter, eggs and bicarbonate soda. The first thing to do is to make sure that your butter is at room temperature. This can be struggle during winter as it …

Banana marble cake

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I love it when bananas go on sale at Coles – it means that I get to make banana bread or cakes again. Coles shopping is like my favourite thing to do – I love to see what is on sale and I can’t help myself whenever baking tins or equipment goes on sale. It is like an addiction haha. So my new toy for the week is a Wiltshire bundt cake tin – it was half price! How can anyone say no to that? Look at that perfectly shaped bundt cake! Oh that baking tin is now my favourite thing to use for cakes! So back to baking… today’s recipe is banana marble cake. Marble cakes are really easy to make even though it looks complicated. But essentially it is separating the cake batter into two and adding cocoa powder into one of them. Simple as that! So I adapted this from my ultimate banana bread recipe and split the batter into two. In one of the batter, I added one tablespoon of cocoa …