Pineapple Tarts (enclosed version)

This is my final bake for Chinese New Year...enclosed version of pineapple tarts, yes, I need to clear the pineapple paste from my previous baking. I didn't use the previous recipe but try something new, I want the pastry which is not too soft and easy to handle, I don't like something which is too creamy or cheesy...so I chose J3ss Kitch3n Super Melty Pineapple Rolls. 

I bought the QBB pure ghee from NTUC, when I whisked the ghee with sugar, and sifted in the flour I knew that it was going to be an interesting bake! The mixture was so smooth and soft, the dough is very easy to handle, the dough didn't melt even until I rolled the last ball! I would suggest this recipe to whoever like to bake pineapple tarts because it wouldn't dissappoint you and not much skills is required to roll the dough into balls. 

Germany Butter Cookies 德国酥饼

Gabriel was not happy these few days because mama spent too much time in the kitchen. Today I decided to let him joined me in the kitchen, we made this Germany butter cookies using Min's recipe but I reduced the butter content to make the dough not too sticky. Gabriel loves to play with the dough! I let him sprinkled sugar stars on the cookies, I think the sugar stars made the cookies look prettier.

I was busy juggling both my son and the cookies, tried to make the cookies in seconds. Most cookies are not totally round, there are faults in each of them. But to me these are the best cookies for my family because Gabriel is so happy to eat them! He run in the kitchen, tiptoes to reach the cookies container, grasped the cookies with his little fingers...I told myself, I should let him join me baking CNY cookies in future.

Almond Cookies

The Fourth cookies ... Melty Almond Cookies...oh, I should say crunchy melty almond cookies. The flaked almonds provides extra texture to this cookies, when I popped the cookies into my mouth, it melted-in-my-mouth; leave behind the almond flakes for me to crunch. The recipe is really easy and not difficult to achieve the desire result, Jess, you are right!

Flossy Buns

I think I have improved in shaping and glazing the buns, what do you think ^_^ It looks more lovely this time compared to my presentation for anchovies and cheese breads.

Pistachio Maple-Syrup Butter Crisps 开心糖浆酥

My third cookies for CNY is ... Pistachio Maple-Syrup Butter Crisps, I name it 开心糖浆酥！I baked this crisps because Gabriel likes butter crisps and the recipe is simple. The butter crisps recipe is taken from The Australian Women's Weekly: Maple-Syrup Butter Cookies.  

Foodbuzz: No. 5 on 11 Jan, 2011

It was a surprise and great honour for being selected to the Top 9 in Foodbuzz on 11 Jan, 2011. To me, it seems unreal. I want to thanks the Foodbuzz community editors and users for chosing my Cranberry Pineapple Tart Cookies as the best of no. 5 out of 4,055 posts. Thank you!

Cashew Nut Peanut Cookies

My second cookies for this year CNY... Cashew Nut meet Peanut, they become lover forever. One-year seems a very short period but for me I have walked a far journey in my baking life. A year full of thanks. I'm thankful to God that I've linked up with some bloggers that unselfishly guiding the beginner like me, sincerely pointing out mistakes in my baking. When I saw the end result of this peanut cookies, I was overwhelming with emotion because one year ago, I didn't know 糖粉 is icing sugar. This end result is to share with you all.

Cranberry Pineapple Tart Cookies

This is my first cookies for this year CNY...Cranberry Pineapple Tart Cookies! I'm pretty satisfy with it pastry texture, it is light and full of butter flavour! 

Chelsea Buns: Success with Gelatinized Dough 烫种面团

This is my third attempt on baking Chelsea Buns. It is successful. The buns is soft, supple and fluffy! Thanks to the gelatinized dough method.  

 

Ingredients for making gelatinized dough(A)

100g bread flour

70g boiling water

Steps:
1. Add the boiling water into flour, mix until well blended to form dough. Cover and set aside to cool. Keep it into refrigerator for at least 12 hours.

Race On-Wheels Challenge

I was tidying my drawer when I discovered the tag for "Race On-Wheels" challenge which organized by Faith Dads' Ministry on 20 Nov 2010, at East Coast Park. I remember I didn't upload the photos on my blog because I was waiting for WT to transfer the video clips he took on Gabriel during the challenge from his handphone to my computer, well, he has good reason for being too busy travelling until he forget about the video completely :)

Anchovies and Cheese Breads : Gelatinized Dough (烫种面团）

                                      Two cheese and six anchovies breads.

I know it looks more like a Bao because of my limited skills in shaping and glazing the bread.

After two failure attempts on Chelsea buns I decided to do more research on making soft bread. I have heard about the Magic Bread which uses "gelatinized dough" 烫种面团 as its main ingredient for making a soft and supple breads, but this is the first time really look into how to make one myself. I bought the book “Magic Bread by Alex Goh"（吴景发：烫出面包香）and it really help!

Ingredients for making gelatinized dough(A)

100g bread flour

70g boiling water

Steps:

1. Add the boiling water into flour, mix until well blended to form dough. Cover and set aside to cool. Keep it into refrigerator for at least 12 hours.