Banana Cake

This is another recepi from kuali.com that I love so much! The cake turned up so well. Beautiful texture, spongy and the aroma.... Hmmm yummy...

Since I don't have lemon with me at the time, I used lime juice instead

Ingredients
175g butter
175g castor sugar (I reduced it to 150g)
4 egg yolks (I used large eggs)
1 cup well-mashed ripe bananas (add 1 tsp lemon juice when mashing)
235g self-raising flour, sifted
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda, sifted
4 egg whites
1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp grated lemon rind (I omitted this)

Note: I would probably try adding extra egg yolk or reduce the flour so that the cake would be less crumbly.


Method
Grease and flour a 21cm cake tin. Preheat oven at 170ºC. Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Add mashed bananas and beat well. Fold in sifted flour gradually. Beat egg white until stiff and stir into banana mixture. Add lemon juice and rind.

Pour batter into prepared tin and bake for 45-55 minutes or until cake is cooked. Cool cake in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

Genting Highland

Ever since we bought Genting annual theme park pass, we have been bringing the two monsters there quite often.

Waiting to check-in to FIrst World Hotel.


Can we go down now? Please.....


The 2 monsters favorite rides... bumper cars. My guess is the next round we go to Genting Highland, Big M would have to go to adults bumper car already... either that or I find him a super duper thin shoes...





Yaey... (Small M don't dare to join)


Weeeee..... (Small M afraid...)


Yes! This is my ride...


Ferris wheel

Happy Mother's Day

Big M bought this for me.....




He bought this from a lady selling those flowers at the psdestrian bridge at his school. It cost him RM1.50 and he bought extra one for Small M so that Small M can give it to me too. Thank you two monsters!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all mothers!

Butter Cake

I have been lazy (again) to update my blog. After using steaming method to make cakes, finally my oven is up and going again. So the fist cake that I baked was the extremely easy butter cake.

This recipe is from http://kuali.com/. This is one of the best butter cake recipe. It was moist, aromatic and best of all, it was so simple to make.


Ingredients
250g butter
210g castor sugar (I reduced it to 170g)
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
200g self-raising flour, sifted with 1/2 tsp salt
4 tbsp fresh UHT milk
Method
Grease and line a 20cm cake tin with greased greaseproof paper. Preheat oven to 170°C.

Cream butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition until mixture is light and fluffy. Add essence.

Fold in sifted flour gradually to mix. Finally stir in milk. Mix until well combined.

Turn out mixture into prepared tin. Level out mixture at the sides but allow a shallow well in the centre. This is to enable the cake to level up evenly during baking.

Bake in preheated oven for 55-60 minutes or until cooked through when tested with a skewer.

The cake was finished in one day. Gosh! That was whole block of butter!