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Jun
22
2017

Chocolate brownie mousse cake

RECIPE FOR CHOCOLATE BROWNIE MOUSSE CAKE
Adapted from Rasa Malaysia & Life Love Sugar
Makes: 12 slices
Bake time: 55 mins

Brownie:

280g dark cooking chocolate (broken into pieces)
100g Butter
100g Brown sugar
2 Eggs
70g Plain flour

Butter cake:

1 tsp + 1/8 tsp powdered gelatine
1 1/2 tablespoon water
250g dark chocolate chips
2 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Grease a 9 inch springfoam pan and line the bottom and sides with baking paper.

2. To make brownie base, melt chocolate and butter over low heat. Remove and leave to cool slightly. Stir in brown sugar until blended. Add in egg, mix well. Fold in flour, mix until well combined. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove and cool.

3. In a small bowl, sprinkle the gelatine over the water, let stand for about 5 minutes.

4. Place the chocolate chips in a medium bowl .Set aside.

5 . Microwave 3/4 cup of heavy cream until it comes to a full boil. Then add the gelatine mixture to the heavy cream and whisk until dissolved.

6. Pour hot cream over the chocolate chips and let sit for about a minute. Whisk until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Set aside, cooling for about 5 minutes.

7. Whisk remaining 1 1/2 cups heavy cream at high speed with a mixer until it begins to thicken

8. Add powdered sugar then continue to whip until stiff peaks form.

9. Fold about a third of the whipped cream to the lightly cooled chocolate mixture until well combined.

10. Add remaining whipped cream and fold in until well combined.

11. Spoon chocolate mousse evenly over the brownie base and spread evenly. Optional: Decorate the top with some extra whipped cream or with strawberries if you wish.

12. Place in refrigerator for about 2-3 hours, until completely firm. Preferably overnight.

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Jun
30
2016

This is one of my favorite kuih raya (eid cookies) and every Malaysian would know this biscuit! Don’t ask why its called “London Almond”, because it has not association to London what so ever lol! But its bloody awesome ait (Brit accent :P )

LONDON ALMOND RECIPE
Adapted from this recipe with slight modifications

Ingredients

Biscuit
250gram butter, room temperature
125gram caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
100 gram cornflour
100 gram custard powder
300 gram plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
220-250 gm roasted almonds

Finishing touches
700 gram cooking chocolate (more or less)
2 tbsp butter
1 cup of crushed nuts (to decorate)
100 or so mini cupcake cases

Method

1. In a food processor,beat butter and sugar until fluffy.

2. Add the egg & vanilla essence and pulse a few times until incorporated.

3. In a bowl, sift plain flour, custard powder, cornflour and baking powder and then add it to the food processor. I dont bother adding bit by bit, I just let my food processor do its thang!

4. Once fully incorporated, transfer to a bowl, scrape down the sides of the food processor. Then cover the bowl with a cling wrap and refrigerate until it hardens a bit. The reason you let the dough go a bit hard is because it’ll be too soft when it comes out of the processor and you wont be able to handle the dough as its too sticky.

5. Preheat oven to 160 degrees celcious (with fan) and in the meantime, remove the dough from the fridge and shape the dough into tiny 20cent pieces. Fill each one with an almond inside and cover it up. Follow the elongated almond shape.

6. Bake for 20mins. Repeat until all of them are done.Let cool

7. In a double boiler, melt the chocolate with butter. Once melted all over, dip each biscuit and then transfer to a cupcake case. Add a pinch of crushed nuts to finish.

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Category: chocolate, desserts, eid, halal, in my kitchen

Apr
07
2016

kek batik | hedgehog slice

This is by far the easiest & yummiest NO BAKE cake ever! The time is takes to make this cake is pretty much just 10mins. You just have to chill it overnight though, but hey, its worth it! It doesn’t have eggs unlike some recipes, so its safe for pregnant women too!

KEK BATIK (Hedgehog slice)

Adapted from here

Ingredients

120g Milo
100g melted choc
125g butter
125g unsalted butter
4 tbsp cocoa powder
1 packet of Arnotts Marie biscuits (broken in halves)
1 can of Nestle condensed milk

Ganache
1/2 cup cream
100g dark chocolate

Method

Line a square baking tin with baking paper or glad wrap (so you can remove the cake easily after it has been chilled). I used 2 loaf tins instead

In a large saucepan, heat the butter on low. Once melted, add the condensed milk and stir until evenly mix.

Add the Milo and cocoa powder and stir until it is thoroughly dissolved without any lumps.

Add broken Marie biscuits and mix it through.

Pour the mixture in the prepared pan and press to get an even top. Cover with glas wrap and refrigerate overnight.

An hour before serving, remove the cake from the pan and let it come to room temp slightly before cutting (as it can be quite hard to cut)

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Jan
30
2016

jaffa mousse cake

JAFFA MOUSSE CAKE RECIPE

Cake Base
Adapted from, myself! Literally just tasted and go!

Ingredients

1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup almond meal
1/4 cup sugar
60g melted unsalted butter (more or less)
pinch of salt

Method

Preheat oven at 160 degrees, fan forced. Line the bottom and sides of a pan with baking paper.

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, then press into the pan base. Bake for 10minutes. Cool.

Chocolate Jaffa Mousse
Adapted from My Kitchen Rules, with slight changes

Ingredients

225g dark chocolate
1 sachet of gelatine, mix with 1/4cup boiled water
300ml thickened cream
1 tbs orange juice, squeezed and sift pulp out
3 tsp orange essence (more or less to taste)

Method

To make mousse, melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Set aside.

In a small saucepan, bring 1/4 cup water to a boil and mix in gelatine until dissolves. Let it cool slightly.

Meanwhile, whip the cream until soft peaks form.

Add the gelatine into the chocolate mixture.

Add orange juice and essence to whipped cream and mix evenly.

Then gradually fold in the cream into the chocolate gelatine mixture.

Spread over cooled cake in pan. Refrigerate for 3 hours or until set.

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Jul
05
2015

chewy fudgy brownies

I kid you not! This the most chewy-fudgy-brownies you will ever taste! My Sister in law came over for iftar last week and she brought over her brownies, ever since then, I am hooked! I got her to give me the recipe so I could make it for tonights iftar at my parents. The smell is simply amazing once it goes in the oven. I was fasting while I was taking these photos, and had to control my nafs to not lick my fingers!

RECIPE FOR CHEWY FUDGY BROWNIES
Adapted from my sister in law

Prep time: 15mins
Cook time: 50mins

Ingredients

185g butter, chopped
300g dark chocolate
1.5 cups (330g) caster sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1.5cups (225g) plain flour
1/4 cups (25g) cocoa powder
Pinch of salt
Hazelnuts, chopped roughly (or any nuts of choice)

Method for Cake

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Grease a rectangular baking tray (30x20cm) and line bottom and sides with baking paper.

2. Stir butter and chocolate in a saucepan over ow heat until smooth and combined. Remove from heat. Stir in sugar. Cool for 5 minutes.

3. Stir in eggs. Add sifted flour, cocoa and salt. Stir until combined. Spoon into prepared pan. Bake for 50-60 minutes until set and just firm to touch. Cool in pan.

4. Dust with icing sugar is desired.