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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 …

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 …

Coconut pretzel cookies

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Yay! I’m finally done with my exams! To celebrate, I’ve turned to my favourite pastime – obviously baking. Since I didn’t have much time for grocery shopping during the week, I just went through my pantry and found some left over desiccated coconut… hence the cookie of the week shall be coconut pretzel cookies! It’s really easy to make doesn’t take much time too. Hope that you’ll enjoy it! Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Preparation time: 15 min Baking time: 10-15 min (or when the cookie turns golden brown) Ingredients for the cookies 220g plain flour 120g caster sugar 140g butter 2 egg yolks 1 tsp vanilla essence 150g desiccated coconut 1 tsp baking powder Nutrition per cookie (one batch makes 60)  Click on the images for baking instructions

Triple chocolate cookies

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The thing about making cookies is that once you have a good cookie dough recipe, you can basically add any ingredient you like into your cookie. Since I’m a huge chocolate fan and I can’t make up my mind what chocolate to add in, why not include all three types of chocolate into one cookie? No one can resist that. Nutrition per cookie (one batch makes 24) Ingredients for the cookies 200g plain four 40g almond meal 140g unsalted butter (softened to room temperature) 100g caster sugar 2 egg yolks 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp vanilla essence 50g milk chocolate chips 50g dark chocolate chips 50g white chocolate chips Directions Preparation time: 20 min Baking time: 10-15 min Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy Add in the two egg yolks and 1 tsp of vanilla essence and continue to cream Sieve the flour, almond meal and baking powder into the creamed mixture. Fold it in until a dough forms Add the chocolate chips into the dough. Mix it well then cling wrap it …