I love scones! Since I reached home quite early yesterday, so i baked some scones for my breakfast today.

Never thought that making scones is super easy and not messy! The ingredients are not that much too and very easy to find. Lucky me..i have all the ingredients at home. :)

So, here I wanted to share my scones recipe taken from a recipe booklet!~


Since it was my first time making scones, so I just follow the recipe given. First time buat tak boleh derhaka ye kawan kawan. Haha.

Ok..here's the recipe!



**Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees celcius

Ingredients:

• 225g self raising flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 25g caster sugar
• 50g unsalted butter, softened (but I melted it)
• 150ml milk
• 1 egg, beaten

Methods:

1. Grease the baking tray with a little butter. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Stir in the sugar.
2. Add the butter and rub it into the flour mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
3. Add the milk, a little at a time, until it becomes a smooth dough
4. Lightly flour the work surface and then roll out the dough until it is about 2 cm thick.
5. Use the pastry cutter to cut the dough into round scones. Re-roll any dough that is left over and cut out more scones. Place onto the baking tray.
6. Brush the tops of the scones with the beaten egg. Place in the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
7. Serve with clotted cream and jam.

Ola!

Yesterday I took MC. As i mentioned in my previous post, I was (and still) having fever, flu and cough.

Oh well, I know you will expect me to lay down and sleep for whole day at home. Well, not for me. Hahaha.

So, before I went to clinic yesterday, i searched for any cake recipes i should try. And then..TINGGG! Banana cake! Because I love banana cake.

There are lots of banana cake recipes on the internet, so i picked the banana cake recipes from the famous Jamie Oliver's website but I did  some changes in the recipe.

It was so fluffy, tasted nice and smells good! Yummeh!



Ingredients:
175 g margarine
175 g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
175 g caster sugar
Pumpkin seeds
2 large free-range eggs
1 1/2 ripe bananas, mashed

Happy Monday morning!! :)

I love baking nowadays! Bila rasa stress and pening je mesti nak baking. lol. *wink* Guess this is one of my real passion besides art, music and photography.

So today, i wanna share a cookies recipe - pumpkin seed cookies (originally was Whole Weat Almond Cookies). I used pumpkin seed instead of almond because i dont have almond at home.

Here's the recipe :)

Note: The original recipe I took from here -> http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/2010/03/03/whole-wheat-almond-eggless-cookies/

Ingredients:

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon green cardamom seed coarsely powder (ilaichi)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (8 tablespoons or 4oz)
• About 2 tablespoons of milk or as needed

• Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.
• In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, salt, pumpkin seeds and cardamom powder well.
• Next add soft butter and milk to the flour mixture to make dough. Dough should be very soft.
• Divide the dough into about 24 equal parts and make them into balls.
• Press each ball between your palms lightly; every piece should be about 1/2” in thickness.
• Place the dough balls on an ungreased cookie sheet about inch a part.
• Bake the cookies for about 18 minutes or until cookies are lightly gold brown.
• After they become lightly golden brown remove the cookie sheet from the oven. Let the cookies cool down for two to three minutes before taking them off the cookie sheet.

Semalam, sampai rumah awal sikit dari office.
So, i baked kek sarang semut uolls.
Actually that was my second attempt buat kek sarang semut. Previously i did with my mom but tak menjadi pulak. Kek nya masak tapi sarang semut nya tak ada. Haha...
So, yesterday I tried to make it again and thanks God..menjadiiii.. hahah...
Mula-mula cuak jugak sebab adunan kek sarang semut tu cair semacam je tapi i pasrah je masukkan dalam oven.
But then lepas tu i google-ed..rupa-rupanya adunan kek sarang semut tu memang cair. Baru rasa lega sikit. Hahahah...

• 1 cawan tepung naik sendiri 
• 2 sudu kecil soda bikarbonat
• 4 biji telur
• 1/4 cawan susu pekat manis
• 2 sudu kecil esen vanilla
• 100 gm marjerin/butter
• 1 cawan air masak
• 2 cawan gula perang (kalau nak guna gula pasir pun boleh tapi kena kurangkan sukatan kepada 1 1/4 cawan gula pasir - sebab nya gula pasir ni lagi manis dari gula perang)

1. Cairkan marjerin/butter. Sejukkan.
2. Ayak tepung naik sendiri + soda bikarbonat.
3. Di dalam bekas yang berlainan, pecahkan telur dan pukul sehingga kembang dan pekat. Selepas itu, masukkan susu pekat manis. Pukul perlahan.
4. Di dalam pan pula, goreng gula sehingga "hangus" dan cair. Lepas tu masukkan air sehingga gula larut dalam air tersebut. Sejukkan.
5. Masukkan marjerin/butter yang dicairkan tadi ke dalam adunan terpung + soda bikarbonat. Adun hingga sebati.
6. Masukkan telur + susu pekat manis.
7. Masukkan gula hangus tu tadi. Kacau rata. (Note: Adunan kek sarang semut ni memang cair)
8. Akhir sekali, tuang adunan ke dalam pan loaf. Perap adunan selama 1 jam. Masukkan ke dalam oven dan bakar selama 45 minit.

Hye!

Woke up @ 5.30am today to cook baked macaroni for breakfast.
It was my first time making baked macaroni. Felt nervous and excited at the same time because I am gonna eat it with my friends in office.
Luckily, they love the taste of my baked macaroni. It's just that I need to add more cheese. Phew! :P

• Macaroni (boil for 10-15 mins)
• Olive oil
• Tomato puree
• Chopped onion
• Chopped garlic
• Minced beef
• Oregano
• White pepper
• 1 tsp salt

• Shredded mozzarella cheese
• Cheddar Cheese
• Half cup of tomato puree

Directions:
For macaroni

• Heat the oil and saute the chopped onion and garlic until fragrant.
• Put in minced beef. Add in white pepper and oregano as much as u want.
• Put in tomato puree and stir evenly.
• Put in a lil bit of salt (or as much as you want depends on your taste buds)
• Cook until the sauce thicken slightly.
• Put in the boiled macaroni and stir evenly.
• After cooked, put the macaroni inside the non-stick loaf pan

**at the same time heat the oven @ 250 degrees celsius**

For cheese topping

• Mix up cheddar cheese and tomato puree. Cook the mixture in a pan until the cheese melted.
• Pour over the mixture on top of the macaroni.
• After that, put on shredded mozzarella cheese on top of the mixture as much as you want.

Bake at 200 degrees celsius for 15 minutes or until the cheese turn into golden brown color (please refer the picture)

Easy, right? Best to eat while it is still hot. Mmmmm yummeh!!

I baked vanilla cupcake last Saturday and it turned out soft and moist.

• Self-raising flour (200gm)
• Butter (200gm) - melt
• Caster sugar (200gm)
• 4 eggs
• 1 tea spoon Vanilla essence
• Raisins
• 4 table spoon milk
• 1 table spoon horlicks (optional)
• 1 table spoon nestum (optional)

1. Pre-heat the oven 200 degrees 
2. Whisk the self-raising flour, horlicks, and nestum in a bowl.
3. Beat butter and caster sugar until fluffy.
4. Beat in the egg, one at a time.
5. Beat in the vanilla essence.
6. Beat in half of the self-raising flour, horlicks and nestum mixture, then the milk, then the remaining flour mixture.
7. Beat in raisins until just combined. (See the picture)
   
8. Divide the batter among the cake cups, filling each three-quarters full. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean.