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Putting up this really feels like my blog is turning into a food blog -_- but it is such a satisfactions when ever I managed to cook (good) food and took a (good) picture. /masuk bakul angkat sendiri..

Eherher. I'm busy trying out new recipes - from blogs and recipe books. I think it's good. For myself, and I'm sure my future husband going to like it ha ha ha. I'm pretty impressed with myself because I have zero baking skill, yet my cake turned out nicely and yummy /what the hell, masuk bakul angkat sendiri lagi.

So siapa kata baking susah? You don't need to have any skills to bake. Asal got recipe and oven, therr you blow!

Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A (dry)

- 2 1/2 cup (250 gram) of all purposed flour, sifted

- 1/2 teaspoon of salt

- 2 tablespoon (15 gram) of cocoa powder

B (wet)

- 1/2 cup (113 gram) of unsalted butter

- 2 1/2 cup (300 gram) of caster sugar ( I always put less sugar when I baked, so, I used 200 gram)

- 2 large eggs

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

- 1 teaspoon of distilled white vinegar

- 1 tablespoon of red or pink food colouring

- 1 teaspoon of baking soda /bicarbonate soda

- 1 cup (240 ml) of buttermilk

* now don't need to worry if you can't find any butttermilk at the store, you can prepare this by yourself,

--> just add 1 tablespoon of distilled white vinegar or lemon juice, and leave it for 8 - 10 minutes

Method

1) Preheat over 175 degree Celcius

2) Sila ayak your dry ingredients - flour, cocoa powder and salt in one large bowl and mix them.

3) Add in your red food colouring into your buttermilk.

4) In another bowl, beat in your butter using electric mixture until they are light and fluffy, and add in caster sugar by batch. Maksudnya, jangan put in everything sekali gus, masuk sikit2, gradually, then pukul the mixture until kembang and sebati.

5) Beat in eggs, one at a time, follow by vanilla essence.

6) Gradually add in ingredient A and buttermilk into your batter. Selang-seli juseyo! masukkan tepung, then mix, masukkan buttermilk, mix lagi, masukkan balik tepung, mix .......repeat sampai habis. Jangan derhaka dekat recipe okay.

7) In a small bowl, mix your vinegar and baking soda. They will fizz (bubbles) then quickly add them into the batter, kemudian terus masukkan ke dalam loyang.

8) Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, then let it cool, put inside your fridge for 1 or 2 hours, because the cake is a bit fragile after you take it out from your oven, nanti pecah if you wish to put cheese frosting in between the cake, so tak cantik, tapi kalau tak sabar, no problem, belasah je letak topping,

Oh yeah, recipe for topping!

- 250 gram of cream cheese

- 30 gram of butter

- 100 gram of icing sugar

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essense

- 1 tablespoon of fresh milk

- 1 tablespoon of lime / lemon juice (but I didn't put any)

* place cream cheese and butter and mix them using electric mixture, blend blend blend then add in the rest of ingredients. Mix them again. Ta-da, your cream cheese frosting are done! By the way, you can always substitute icing sugar with 3/4 cup of honey for a bit more healthy recipe! :D

s i a p !

Have you tried red velvet cake or had a go at making your own? :)

Welp, I just made mashed potato for the first time and it was pretty good! More or less like the KFC ones. Ha-ha. Anyway, I never thought it was so easy peasy to do! Giler kentang! ;P

So here's the recipe peeps!

Mashed Potato

- 4 potatoes (medium size) - more or less depending how much you want to do your serving.

- butter / or mayonnaise

- milk

- salt & black pepper

1.Skin the potatoes, and simply boil them until they are soft. How to know they are done boiling? Just pick up a fork, poke, and it should go through the potatoes softly. Saya jenis tak sabar, so I actually cut a potato into 4 pieces and boil hahahah.

2. Drain the water, and smash potatoes with a fork/spoon while they are still hot or you can dump all of them into a food processor.

3. Add some butter, or mayonnaise, salt and pepper as you smash, oh well, to the consistency as you like.

4. Don't forget to add milk as well. Put it a little by little, kalau nak creamy and more softer, you can add more.

Black pepper gravy

- 1 1/2 cups of water

- 1 cube of chicken stock (I used half, yang Maggi brand tu)

- 50g onion chopped (I used half big onion)

- 50g celery (but I tak letak pun)

- 1 1/2 table spoons of butter

- 1 table spoon of flour

- 2 table spoons of oyster sauce

- few drops of soy sauce (for colouring)

- Salt and black pepper

1. Heat butter until it melts over the low heat.

2. Add in water gradually and put them to boil.

3. Add in chopped onion and celery, as well as the chicken stock, then simmer!
(This one depends, when I looked up for recipe, some discard the onion and celery after 10 minutes, some just let them be)

I actually cook this one in a pot, and then transfer the gravy into another pan before adding flour. (without onion.... and celery! of course, because I didn't put any haha)

4. Make sure you dissolve your flour with a bit of water before adding them to the gravy. Flour helps in thickening the gravy.

5. Add Oyster sauce. Also, few drops of soy sauce - enough just to give it a nice browny colour.

6. Lastly, add salt and black pepper. Note that the soy sauce and chicken stock already salty, so you would want to taste the gravy a bit before adding salt.

Walahh! You are done baby. Serve the gravy on top of the fluffy mash potatoes.

Good Luck!