Banana Cake

Really love the banana cake I had from back home. Moist and soft. Finally found a great recipe from Mrs Leong cookbook. Had a try of it and really love it to the max. So here you go,

Ingredients:

8-10 Small Bananas
440gms Butter
4 Tbsp Condensed Milk
440gms Castor Sugar
½ Tsp Salt
1 Tsp Banana essence
1 Tsp Vanilla essence
9 Eggs
340gms Self-raising flour (Sifted)

Methods:

1.Mash banana with a fork.
2.Cream butter, condensed milk and 220gms sugar for 5mins.
3.Add salt, vanilla essence and banana essence.
4.In a clean mixing bowl, whisk eggs with 220gms sugar till thick and creamy. When all bubbles are gone.
5.Fold in 1 cup of the egg mixture to the creamed butter till well mixed.
6.Add the rest of the egg mixture, mashed bananas and lastly the sifted flour. Stir as lightly as possible.
7.Pour into a greased cake tin. Bake in oven at 150° for 1 – 1 ¼ hrs.

 

 

Muah Chee

A snack that can only get to eat it when there is pasar malam going around the neighbourhood but nowadays is like hard to find one not to say find a good one. After being back for some time, had a few disappointed ones so decided to make my own again. Did not realise that it is so easy to make such a nice snack. This one that I made, I think the texture is better.

Ingredients:

200g               Glutinous rice flour
2 tsp               Sugar
1/2tsp             Salt
1Cup              Water
1 tbsp            Vegetable oil
1 tsp              Shallot oil / Oil
100 -150g       Peanuts
40 - 50g         Sesame seeds
75g                Sugar

Methods:

1. Roast the sesame seeds and the peanut
2. Grind the peanut into coarse 
3. Mix the sesame seeds, peanuts and sugar put aside.
4. Mix the Glutinous rice flour, sugar, salt vegetable oil and water together.
5. Mix it well and pour it into a deep dish and steam for 20 to 25 minutes. Use a stick to check if it is well cooked in the centre.
6. Brush the dough with a little oil. Leave to cool down slightly.
7. Spread the peanut mix on a tray.
8. Cut out a stripe of the dough, then into pieces. 
9. Coat it with the peanut mixture, press it lightly for maximum coating.