Butter Cup Cakes

When I was younger these cupcakes will be gone very fast. The aroma and the taste of it just make you want to have more. Once you start , you simply cannot stop. Well this has been passed on to the next generation. When I was back in Singapore some time ago, my cousin asked me to teach her something simple so I suggested this. To her surprise, the 3 kids loved it and to make it more attractive she added M&M  chocolate too. This is just the basic, you can add whatever topping or filling you like. Its really easy as it look.

Ingredients:

• 250gm         Butter
• 200gm         Self Raising Flour
• 200gm         Sugar
• 1Tsp            Vanilla Essence
• 7                  Eggs

Method:

1. Whisk the eggs and sugar.
2. Then add in the butter, self raising flour and vanilla essence.
3. Continue to whisk till the batter is light & fluffy.
4. Heat up the oven to 175deg
5. Arrange the paper cupcake into the mold and pour in the batter.
6. Baked it for 25mins or till golden brown.

Mushroom & minced meat raddish cake

Well instead of just steaming plain raddish cake, we can also add more ingredients in to to make it more tasty. Having the same method as the steamed raddish cake, make it so much easier as we can alway divide it into 2 portions. The only way to eat this raddish cake with addition ingredients is to pan fried it and then dip it with chili or sweet sauce.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups          Shredded raddish
• 4 2/3 cups   Rice flour (sifted)
• 1/3 cup cup  Tapioca flour
• 9 cups          Water
• 4-6 cloves    Chopped garlic
• 2tsp             Salt
• 4tsp             Sugar
• 4tsp             Chicken powder
• 4tsp             Grounded pepper
• 2tsp             Oil
• 250gm          Minced pork
• 30 - 50gm     Dried shrimp (Soaked & chopped)
• 20-40gm       Dried Shiitake mushroom( Soaked & sliced)
• 1  pc            Chinese sausage Lap Chong (Diced)

Methods:

1. After shredding the radish leave it aside for 5 mins, water will come out of the raddish.
2. Squeeze away more of the water and pour it away.
3. Heat up the pan with oil.
4. Add in the garlic, fried till fragrant then add in the raddish.
5. Add in the salt, sugar, chicken powder and pepper.
6. Cook it till start to boil then turn it off.
7. Mix the rice and tapioca flour with water in a pot.
8. Add in the raddish mixture into the pot.
9. Heat up 2 tsp oil in a pan, then add in the dried shrimps & chinese sausage.Fry it till fragrant.
10. Then add in the minced meat & mushroom and fry it till the meat is cooked.
11. Put it into the pot of mixture.
12. Heat up the pot in low heat.
13. Stir constantly till it gets thicken.
14.  Pour it into greased tray and steam it from about 30mins or till set. ( Use  a stick or fork to poke into the middle to check.)
15. Cut it up and pan fried it till golden brown.

Steamed Raddish Cake

Been away for so long finally another blog after a year. Well today going to be something that I loved to eat since young which is what we usually call cai tou kueh. I missed it so much that I decided to make it myself. Usually those we can find from the hawker centre is call carrot cake but is actually raddish cake. With the steamed cake we can turn it to savory or sweet. For savory is to fried with it "cai po" preserved raddish and will end it with an egg. So as for the sweet one, is to add sweet sauce and also end it with an egg. A bit of hard job when stirring the mixture as there is a need to do it constantly to have it even. Need to get it to the right texture and etc but at the end of it will be very satisfactory. With just the plain steamed raddish cake, you can also just pan fried it.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups          Shredded raddish
• 4 2/3 cups   Rice flour (sifted)
• 1/3 cup cup  Tapioca flour
• 9 cups          Water
• 4-6 cloves    Chopped garlic
• 2tsp             Salt
• 4tsp             Sugar
• 4tsp             Chicken powder
• 4tsp             Grounded pepper
• 2tsp             Oil

Methods:

Steamed raddish:-

1. After shredding the radish leave it aside for 5 mins, water will come out of the raddish.
2. Squeeze away more of the water and pour it away.
3. Heat up the pan with oil.
4. Add in the garlic, fried till fragrant then add in the raddish.
5. Add in the salt, sugar, chicken powder and pepper.
6. Cook it till start to boil then turn it off
7. Mix the rice and tapioca flour with water in a pot.
8. Heat up the pot of mixture and add in the raddish mixture.
9. Stir constantly till it slightly thicken.
10. Pour it into greased tray and steam it from about 30mins or till set. ( Use  a stick or fork to poke into the middle to check.)

Fried raddish cake (Sweet):-

1. Cut up into smaller pieces from above product.
2. Heat up the pan and add 2 tsp oil.
3. Add chopped garlic and fried it till fragrant.
4. Add in the pieces and toss it around.
5. Add in sweet sauce (kecap manis) & fried it around.
6. Pour 1 beaten egg over it, flip it over when one side is ready.
7. Ready to serve when the other side is ready.