Throwback July 24th again. What can you do with papaya? This is one alternative and I like it. Papaya has many different names in Indonesia, even Minangkabau people has several names for it. In my hometown, papaya is called kalikih. So kalikih santan is papaya served with santan (coconut milk). During Ramadhan, it’s usually served for breaking the fast. I found UHT coconut milk here, so it’s easier to make it. Since the coconut milk was too thick, I added some hot water into it. I also added a pinch of salt because I like it a little bit salty. Then pour the coconut milk to papaya. For the papaya, you can cut it into bite size pieces, or just scoop it with spoon. You can add ice if you like it cold. 😀
That day I was very busy packing my stuffs that would be sent to Indonesia. But I couldn’t stop thinking about making any dessert. And finally I made this because I’ve already bought nutella several days before. As Laura said, it tasted like mousse but in baked version. 😛 Well, this was my last baking in Japan.
You can find the recipe here. (I skip cream of tartar)
Chocolate cornets or チョコレートコルネ, I can say that this is the first bread I made all by myself and came out with satisfactory result, kyaaa. I felt really stupid when yesterday I realized that I could set my oven to 40°C, a perfect temperature to ferment the bread dough. Previously I thought that the lowest temperature I could set was 170°C. Therefore I was not so interested to make bread because I was so lazy to use another way to ferment the bread dough on this cold season, haha. This bread is still not perfect, but good enough as the first experiment, right? 😛 And the chocolate custard is very yummy. I like it, and the texture is better than the custard I made before for my mille-feuille, hehe. 😀
You can find the recipe here.
This is my today’s experiment, Japanese Cheesecake, Cotton Soft Cheesecake, Soufflé Cheesecake, or whatever you named it. Really fluffy and melted in your mouth. It’s my first time making this cheesecake style, and I’m really happy that it’s perfect and even didn’t shrink, kyaaa.. It’s also the first time for me to bake using bain-marie (or water bath or double boiler) technique. I love the texture and the taste since the cream cheese flavor is not too strong. I only made a half of the recipe, using my leftover cream cheese after making red velvet cupcakes several days ago. And I just obtain a small cake, 12 cm diameter. In less than 10 minutes, I ate 3/4 of the cake, haha.
You can find the recipe here.
I had two ripe bananas and banana muffins were the phrase that came to my mind to do with that bananas. Previously I read several banana muffin recipes that use egg. Then I thought that if I used that recipe, I would get many muffins although I used only one egg (not in mood to eat many muffins by myself). If I made only a half of the recipe, I should also use a half of egg. I didn’t want to do that, so I searched the eggless one. In my opinion, the eggless cake recipe is really appropriate if you want to make only small amount of the cake. Like I did here, I only made 1/3 of the recipe and obtained 4 small muffins. 😛 Those muffins were not sweet for me, but they’re really nice to be accompanied by sweet drink.
You can find the recipe here.
Finally I had chance to make this red velvet thingy. It’s been looong time I want to try making red velvet cake, but this time I made the cupcakes version. I’ll make the cake version later. 😛 Today we had PPI Waseda gathering at TIEC Odaiba, and I think that’s a nice timing to try making this cake and bring them to the gathering. I planned to make the cupcakes early in the morning, but in fact I overslept, haha. I started preparing the ingredients and everything around 10 am. My oven is quite small, so I should bake the cupcakes in 2 batches. Rush, rush, rush, and in the end, the shape was not as I expected, haha. I finished around 12 pm, and therefore late to the gathering, hihi. I like the taste of this cake. At least I got this comment from Amil: the cake was soft and not too sweet, with sweet and sour taste from the cream cheese frosting, they produced a really nice combination. 😀
You can find the recipe here. (I substitute vinegar with lemon juice)
It’s been long time I want to try making something using puff pastry. I’ve never found it in the nearby supermarket, and I didn’t have enough will to make it from scratch since it would need looong time, hehe. Until one day Sre introduced me to a frozen pie sheet in OK Store. I guess it’s similar to puff pastry, haha. So here we are, my first experiment result. Mille-feuille, also known as the Napoleon, is a pastry of French origin. I first knew this dessert from Masterchef Indonesia. There was a challenge where Chef Marinka made a beautiful Napoleon and then the contestants should make it. My mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (crème pâtissière). The top pastry layer is dusted with powdered sugar and cocoa sugar. Well, still not perfect yet, but not bad for a first experiment. And trust me, if you have frozen puff pastry, this one is really easy to make. 😀
You can find the recipe here.
Several times ago I found a cake named Lamington, a dessert of Australian origin. I think it’s really easy to make. It’s simply a sponge cake coated with chocolate icing and desiccated coconut. So finally I tried to make it yesterday, and this is my result. 😛 Actually I feel the icing is too sweet for me (maybe because I’m more familiar with Japanese cake recipes which are never too sweet). No wonder, it contains much sugar. I think it’s better to replace some of the sugar with melted chocolate, but I don’t know if it still could be called as Lamington or not, haha.. By the way yesterday I used dark cocoa powder instead of cocoa powder. It’s my first time using dark cocoa powder, and it came really dark, almost black, haha.
You can find the recipe here.
It has been a long time I wanted to try this recipe, and finally I did it today. Well, apple and cinnamon are a nice combination. 😀
You can find the recipe here.
Yesterday I watched a youtube video about how to make microwave cookies. It is really easy and quick, so I feel I should give it a try. I remembered that I have white chocochips so I planned to use them. Since white chocochips will be invisible in the basic recipe, I modified the recipe into a chocolate cookies. The formula is: substitute 10% of the flour with cocoa powder (and these also works for cake recipe). I have 500W microwave, so I set the time exactly the same with the recipe. Wait until the cookies cold, and they came out really crunchy. Nice quick snack 😀
You can find the recipe here.
