Chinese New Year Bakes

Chinese New Year is around the corner and most are busy baking new year goodies....

This year is a different year for me. Every year I will bake with my mum for the new year goodies without fail... Pineapple ball, peanut cookies and some special bakes I can lay my hand on new recipe...

But this year, with a new addition to my family, my mum help me to take care of him. The taking care of him part take a toll on my mum's energy thus this year
I bake alone....

Nevertheless l still try to pull through...
Here is the first bake: Cornflake cookies!!!!

The ingredients are simple and it's smell wonderful with every crunch in the bite.

Here is the recipe I obtain from with slight modification to my own liking

RECIPE FOR CORNFLAKE COOKIE
Adapted and modified from Food-4tots.com (http://food-4tots.com/2011/01/20/cornflake-cookies/2/)

Ingredients:
120g unsalted butter
75 icing sugar
1 egg yolk
½ tsp vanilla extract
120g plain flour
30g corn flour/ corn starch
30g milk powder
50g raisins*
150 cornflakes*

Methods:
-Transfer softened butter to a mixing bowl. Add icing sugar. Use a rubber spatula to combine well the ingredients.
- use mixer, beat them at high speed till light and fluffy. Do not overbeat the mixture.
-Add in egg yolk and vanilla. Beat until light and creamy.
-Add in flour mixture in 2 to 3 batches. Use a rubber spatula to roughly mix the flour mixture with the butter mixture (until no traces of flour). Do not stir the mixture in a circular movement. Use a mix of “cutting”, “pressing” and “scraping” actions to combine the ingredients.
- add in raisins to mixture to combine well.
-Use your measuring spoon, scoop 1 teaspoon mixture (make sure to include raisins) and drop it into mini baking paper cups. Repeat until the mixture is used up. Transfer the mini baking paper cups to a baking tray
-Bake in a pre-heated oven at 160°C for 18-20 minutes or until light golden brown and crispy. Rotating the baking tray towards the last 5 minutes.
-Remove the baking tray from the oven. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. Then store them in an airtight container.

Yum yum.... Here is the finish products


All packed nicely ready to be given... But wait there are more goodies on the way....


This is my first post to join this baking blog.. hope i got the link right.

* I am submitting this post to  Chinese New Year Delights 2013  hosted by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover

All time favorite cartoon character

Mickey Mouse.....an icon that is known by young and old.

Got a request from my friend to help do the cookies for her son birthday giveaway..

Good reason for me to get the cutter ... Was thinking if its worth to buy this cutter as I do not want to have too much baking stuff lying in my drawer. *space constraint* and this idea knock me and  volia !!! Here it is the cookies in process ......

Taking done time out from my new year bake to do this cookies. Hope I dun disappoint the birthday boy.  Here is the picture of the cookies pack nicely in a bag with ribbon.

After baking this cookies my small 6 years old oven gave in. Time to change new one for the new year?!?? Haahaa I still have to continue the Chinese new year bakess..... Time is running short...

Strawberry Cake...caki... Cake

Wohoooo baking frenzy this month ....

Bake this last min request. Phew manage to pull through...

Request came in the evening around 6 plus for next day dinner. I was like "oh my god, where got time to coordinate design... Buy ingredients....etc."

Wanted to turn down but was thinking maybe gif myself a challenge... Complete the cake within such as tight time and still need to work the next day due to not enough leave to take wahhaahaahaa

Luckily manage to pull the ingredient together by running to NTUC to grab strawberries , eggs and most importantly good whipped cream .

Started to bake the cake at around 11pm and finish decorating by 3am... Yes correct 3am! Here is the first cake without wording...

This round no recipe provided due to this cake is learnt from Glace cake shop. Thus not too nice to show the recipe out. Taste wise, small as what we bought from the shop.

At 3am can't find my "happy birthday" chocolate tag to be place on the cake. Haizz too tired and brain not functioning properly..

Before the dinner.... Did a last min pipping of words on. Eeeeek wrong move, coz difficult to pipe while strawberries are on it. nevertheless continue it.. n here is the final look. From professional to kiddy work arghhhhh.

Taste wise not too bad. Even hubby comment the cake is light n cream not too heavy... Another the Birthday boy is happy with the cake and keep snapping the cake using his mobile. Psst..... its not a small boy though... heehee

Anyway I have some left over batter and made some cupcakes... here is the cuppie for my breakfast. yum yumzz... light and fluffy but not as fluffy as the main cake coz i left it at the counter top till the main cake is cooked before sending it to the oven. Oven too small, only able to contain one cake.

Hm... the next challenge...... to make a 3D cake. wondering wanna to take the challenge or not.

Chinese New Year Goodies.......2013

Chinese New Year is around the corner. Bet all are busy spring cleaning and sourcing for goodies.
Look no where, I have the following goodies on sale.. All homemade with good quality ingredients and lots of love....
Do contact me for orders and tasting .

The goodies are as follows:
1) Pineapple Ball
2) Kueh Bangkit
3) Peanut Cookies
4) Almond cookies
5)cornflake cookies
6) spicy prawn roll
7)chocolate coated cornflakes
8) choco chip almond cookies
9)chco chip peanuts cookies

Email:jazznpop80@gmail.com

Here are the pictures for your viewing pleasure :)

All time favourite, full of crunch and bitesss.... Chocolate cornflakes almond cups
If you are into nuts... do not miss out this item.

Hot selling item......full of coconut flavor and melts in your mouth..... Small and easy to eat. Once start hard to stop.

Another hot favourite item...... Pineapple balls.
An item cannot be miss... 旺
来, 旺
来,....

Chocolate chip peanut cookies..... for the cookie monster in you...

Black or white.....

Cornflake cookies vs Chocolate cornflake almond cups. One for cornflake lover, the other full of nutty flavors.

There must be some goodies out there is your favourite and cannot do without during this festive season. So hurry grab a bottle from me or from your favourite store now. Chinese New year is drawing near..

Here I wish those who drop by my blog 恭喜发财....新年快乐！

Testing recipes.......

A year has passed. How fast can it be. December and January/February will be an exciting month for home baker. Coz home baker will all be busy baking up a storm!!!?

This year 2013, I will be baking as well as selling the bakes I do. Am I too adventurous ??? Without proper planning and want to sell haahaa let see if I can join the mass home baker to sell my bakes 😜

Anyway I have my first customer, my sister in law . She wants to order 20 bottle of cornflake cookies. Panic coz I haven't try any if such before and search on Internet for recipe to try. As my first customer and to satisfy her so tat I will have continuous business next year or maybe more biz nxt year. I bake a sample batch for her. Let see how it goes. Hope this will jump start my small baking biz ...

Here is the tested products!..... But but but still trying to perfect the recipe....