Bread Pudding

My girl Nana likes this dessert very much..and because it is easy to make she can make them herself with the recipe book beside her of course... You can use white bread, wholemeal bread or even baguette..and even a combination of left over bread you have..

Bread Pudding

Ingredients:

1/2 cup instant oat
6 pieces bread - cubed
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups fresh milk
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
50g melted butter
choc chips for deco

Method:

1. Mix milk with eggs, sugar, vanilla essence and salt
2. Toss the bread with the milk mixture. Add the melted butter and oat, stir slowly.
3. Pour into greased pan/casserol (7" square)
4. Sprinkle choc chips and bake for 30-45 minutes at 180deg Celc

Custard Sauce

20g custard powder
80g sugar
1 cup fresh milk
1 tsp vanilla essence

Put all ingredients into saucepan and heat up slowly until dissolved and thick.

Note: You can add sliced green apples for a different taste..kinda sour sweet liked pudding.

Apple Strudel

I love green apple. And one of the dessert that use apples is strudel and again I like Apple strudel because of the layers of crispy filo pastry and the juicy apple inside. More tastier if having them with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce drizzle on top...Hmmm..heaven..

The ingredients:

6 granny smith apples ( cored, peeled and thinly sliced)
1/2 cup white
1/4 cup brown sugar
lemon peel n juice of half lemon
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup slivered almond
1/2 cup apricot (sliced)
1 tbs cornflour
10 sheet filo pasrty
extra caster sugar
bread crumb/ ground almond



Method:

1. Prepare the filling : Put all ingredients into saucepan and heat up for about 5 minute.



2. Place one sheet of filo pastry and apply butter to entire sheet. Sprinkle caster sugar and bread crumb and add another sheet of pastry and repeat the same process. Repeat to 5-6 layers.









3. Add apple filling and brush border with butter. Roll the pastry tight and brush some more butter. Put on cookie sheet and bake for 20-30 minutes at 175deg Celc. Cool on wire rack and serve warm. Makes 2 roll of strudel

Ginger Snap

I baked this cookies for my bake sale recently..and most of my customers like it..It's a crispy thin like cookies with taste of ginger. I like ginger, so of course I like this cookies. I think the taste will be even better if I add ginger glace as well.. Hmm will try it out next bake..

Ginger Snap

170g butter
105g dark brown sugar
100g white sugar
1/4 molasses
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
280g flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
3 tsp ground ginger
Extra caster sugar for coating


Method:

1. Preheat the oven at 180deg Celc. Sift together dry ingredients.( flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon and ginger)
2. Beat the butter with sugars until light and fluffy ( about a minute)
3. Add egg. Mix well and add in molasses.
4. Add dry ingredients mixture and mix until well incorporated. Chill for 1 hour.
5. Roll into a ball and roll into caster sugar, coating them thoroughly. Put onto greased tray and flatten them with glass bottom.
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes and cool on a wire rack.

Chewy Chocolate chips Cookies

Chocolate Chips Cookies...I have been baking them countless time I guess and yet still trying to find the good one. Most of the recipes are similar with may be slightly changes in amount or ratio of the ingredients. I found that cookies with baking powder in it will make the cookies crispy rather than if baking soda is used; where you will find the cookies will be a bit chewy liked or cake liked cookies. It depends on you of course whether youu like very crispy cookies or chewy cookies. As for me, I like those chewy and soft cookies with the taste of melted chocolate chips in between...mmm..yummy...

Hence, this is one of the recipe of chewy like cookies that I have tried and as usual my 'tester master'...I mean my kids..said they love it...

Chewy Chocolate Chips Cookies

2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
240g butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/4 cup caster sugar
1 tbs vanilla essence
1 cup choc chips
2 cups toasted almond/ walnut

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 deg Cels. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
2. Beat the butter and sugars for about a minute or until light.
3. Add in egg on at a time. Pour in vanilla essence and mix well.
4. Slowly mix in flour mixture with spatula and lastly add in chips and nuts. Mix until well incorporated; do not over mix.
5. Chill the dough in the fridge for about 1 hour.
6. Scoop 1 teaspoonfull of dough and arrange them on the tray with 2 inch apart.
7. Bake for about 10-14 minutes and cool on a wire rack.