Chocolate Chip Cookies

I love this recipe. It spreads nicely and shaped nicely even though u only use 2 spoon to shape them. The problem is, they are extremely sweet. I'm thinking of either reducing the granulated sugar (tapi kalau kurangkan, mungkin dia tak jadi nicely shaped sebab gula tu yang buat dia spread masa bakaq) or i'm gonna add more cocoa powder / instant coffee to make it darker..

This recipe is taken from www.allrecipe.com (Urban legend Choc chip cookies)

Ingredients
(cream this together)
1 cup / 225 gm butter (farmcow) at room temperature
1 cup / 200gm granulated sugar
1 cup / 220gm brown sugar

(add this one by one, continue creaming)
2 egg
1 tspn vanilla

(mix together and add, use spatula)
2 cups / 250gm All-purpose flour
2 1/2 cup / 200gm rolled oat (processed in blender mill)
1/2 tspn salt
1 tspn baking powder
1 tspn baking soda

(add finally)
2 cup / 335gm choc chip (nina chop choc masakan)
4 ounces / 110gm grated milk chocolate (nina ganti dgn choc masakan je, tapi lepas ni nina tak nak masukkan, malas nak grate choc-melekit-lekit)

Method
1. Process the oats.
2. cream butter and sugar
3. add egg one at a time and cream some more
4. add the flour mixture (at this point nina guna spatula je)
5. add the choc chip
6. use 2 teaspoons, 1 to scoop, 1 to drop the cookies

7. Bake at 190 c (alamak.. masa kena check rasanya 7 minit)

8. Leave about 1 minute on the baking tray, then transfer on wired rack so that they can cool completely..


Tip:-
Cookies macam lemau masa keluar oven but then, it'll get crunchy bila dah sejuk..

Butter Sampret (metric)

Butter Sampret

As I sell my Butter Sampret, I tend to alter the recipe to get a modern one that is softer and easier for me to make..

250gm butter (room temperature)
130gm sifted icing sugar

3 yolk
vanilla essence

400gm corn flour
120gm AP flour
a pinch of salt

cherry / silver dragges for decoration

Method:-

1. Using a mixer, beat butter and icing sugar until fluffy (not that fluffy though)
2. Add yolk and vanilla essence one by one. Mix until combined.
3. Add flour bit by bit. At this point, do not overbeat unless you want those really big 'kembang' dahlia which doesn't look nice at all!
4. Pipe using nozzle, and decorate with silver dragees (easier than the cherry - a lot of my customers prefer the cherry - looks more traditional he he)
5. Bake at 170 c for 7-10 minutes

Tips:
This recipe yield 150 pieces

Traditional Sampret (Dahlia / Bunga Cina)

This recipe is my mother in law's recipe when I started learning my very first kuih raya. I don't use this recipe for the sampret I'm selling because it's difficult to measure margarine / butter using cups. But a lot of my friends like cup recipes better, so here it is..

1 1/2 cup margarine (she really uses margerine, brighter colour than my pale yellow)
1 cup of powdered sugar (she uses a blender mill using coarse sugar - of course you can use icing sugar, but it's definitely less sweeter than the coarse sugar

2 yolk
vanilla essence

3 cup corn flour
1 cup AP flour (All purpose flour - tepung biasa la tu)

Method:-

1. Beat margarine and powdered sugar with a wooden spoon. The colour will be a bit pale.

2. Add the yolk and vanilla, continue beating

3. Add the sifted flour bit by bit, do not overmix, your sampret will be really "kembang" and ugly.

4. Use nozzle and pipe to make sampret. Decorate with cherries or silver dragees or raisin.

4. Bake for 7-10 minutes at 170 c. (time depends on the quantity of the sampret - I bake 150 pieces at one go, of course the time is 15 mins). My small Pensonic oven will only take 7 minutes.

Tips:

It's cooked when you can smell aroma of the sampret! If you can take up one without sticking to the pan.. especially the middle part of the kuih. it's done!

Honey Cornflakes

I love this recipe, it's just subtle,not too sweet and does not really stuck to the cups. I don't like adding peanuts or confetti, I just like it plain. Feel free to add. What I do know is using pink paper cup will make it even more tempting.

Honey Cornflakes

Ingredients
50gm butter
50gm honey
20gm castor sugar

200gm cornflakes slightly crushed

paper cups

Method


1. Put the cornflakes in a big container
2. Arrange paper cup in cupcake mould
3. Melt butter, honey and castor sugar using low heat
4. Immediately pour on the cornflakes and mix well, or else the butter and honey will thicken
5. Scoop into paper cups and bake at 180 c for 10 mins (depending on how many you bake at one time)
6. The cornflakes will only stick together and get crunchy when they are cool. So don't just keep adding time.

Baking Tips:
You will know if any cookie is well baked when you can smell the aroma

Marble Shortbread (definitely not for beginner bakers)

Marble Shortbread memang agak remeh nak buat tapi memang berbaloi buat kalau anak-anak suka makan sebab harganya agak mahal (50 pieces = RM25.00-RM30.00). Kalau buat sendiri, boleh guna coklat yang lebih mahal dan sedap ataupun guna coklat perisa strawberi / oren yang anak-anak suka.

MARBLE SHORTBREAD

Bahan A

1 butter farmcow
170 gm brown sugar

Bahan B

2 telur putih (50gm)

Bahan C

320 gm tepung
70 gm tepung jagung
1 sudu kecil baking soda / bicarbonate soda

Bahan D

800gm choc masak
(selalu nina campur choc 500gm bake with yen dan 300gm KC)
kalau pakai choc bake with yen sahaja memang sedap tapi cepat cair.. Kalau KC dia manis, kurang rasa choc. Kalau nak sedap lagi pakaila 100% choc tulip tapi mahal la sikit

1. Pukul butter dengan brown sugar (bahan A)

2. Masukkan telur (B), pukul sebati

3. Ayak tepung gandum, tepung jagung dan soda (Bahan C) sekali, masukkan sikit demi sikit. Jangan pukul lama sangat. Kalau kembang nanti bila tarik besi, dia akan pecah..

4. Terap dlm loyang yang dah di gris dan dilapikkan kertas minyak.. kertas minyak tu kecikkan sikit dari loyang sebab nanti coklat melekat kat kertas. Lepas tu semua dok pakat makan kertas coklat..

5.. Ratakan dengan penggelek tapi lapikkan dengan plastic

6. Lubangkan tepi-tepi loyang dengan penekan kuih lapis atau pakai lidi pun boleh

7. Masukkan besi, tekan sampai masuk habis.

8.Bakar 30 minit. Selalu nina kalihkan selepas 15 min. kalau garing sikit pun takpe.. Nampak macam hangit sikit tapi bila dah bubuh coklat ok..

9.Keluarkan dari oven dan sejukkan betul-betul..

10.Bila dah sejuk, keluarkan besi dari Loyang, jangan kalih-kalih Loyang tu, nanti susah nak masuk besi balik..

11.Cairkan coklat sama ada pakai double boiler atau pun microwave. Kalau pakai double boiler, kena potong kecil-kecil choc tu. Kalau masuk dalam microwave, tak yah potong kecil-kecil..

12.Microwave = 340w, 2 minit 30 saat. Tapi kalau pakai microwave, nampak dari luar macam coklat tu tak cair lagi, bila kacau dengan sudu baru tau dia dah cair kat dalam.

13.Curahkan coklat cair atas biskut, gelek-gelekkan dan hentak beberapa kali, bagi coklat turun sampai bawah, baru cantik biskut semua cover dek coklat. (kalau jual tu kan coklat dia kat atas je)

14.Cairkan coklat putih, masukkan dalam plastik kecil, potong bucu plastik dan buat line melintang.

15.Gunakan lidi, buat garis menegak dan menurun.. nak dapatkan corak. Kalau susah, buat corak marble je..

16. Masukkan balik besi terap tu.. Pastikan tekan betul-betul. Nanti biskut tu tak terpotong pulak.

16.Bila nak keluarkan besi, sejukkan dulu dalam peti ais, nina masuk freezer dlm 3 minit, cabut dgn playar.

Honey Corn Flakes - doesn't stick to the cup

Honey Corn Flakes Cookies – 180°C, 10 mins, makes a lot..

Ingredients:
A
50 gm Butter
50 gm Honey
20 gm Castor Sugar

B
200 gm Corn Flakes

Method:
1. Arrange paper cups on a baking tray.
2. Melt butter, honey and sugar in a large pot.
3. Turn off the stove, quickly add the corn flakes and mix until incorporated.
4. Quickly spoon the corn flakes in the paper cups (if not the honey will stick to the bottom of the container.
5. Bake for 10 mins at 160°C or until brown.
6. Let cool, it'll stick together once they are cool.

*I know you guys didn’t ask for this recipe but this recipe is a hit among my kids, nieces and nephews (and Azly mostly). This is the best as it doesn’t take that much effort. Naufal, Nurul and Haziq normally help me to spoon them in the cups (and eat almost half of it while doing that). I’ve tried other recipe like this but they are either too sticky, too sweet or break when you are eating it.

You can add peanuts or chopped cherry or even sesame (to add colour). This recipe is perfect as they are not too sweet. The corn flakes stick together without sticking to the paper cups. Try it!!