Salam Ramadhan and Happy Fasting :)

Sorry for the long silence :( Still figuring out on few things..

Good news is we are back in Semenanjung for Hari Raya's orders! Sabah's order is still open though. But since a lot of people requested to have the cookies in Semenanjung, might as well I take some whilst visiting the family.

Please do take note that we'll be taking limited number or jars this time. So, to avoid disappointment (or in another word; kempunan), please make a full payment within two days after booking to confirm your order ;)

1.       Choose between M&M’s (RM28) or Original chocolate chips (RM25) cookies.

2.       Send me a msg/sms/whatsapp/email and let me know how any jars do you want.

3.       You’ll be getting a reply from me together with account number to make a payment.

4.       Let me know once again if you have made a payment.

No delivery, strictly pick it up yourselves (unless you choose to Poslaju it) from;

Me: at Taman Rinting, Masai from 31^st July until 6^th August

Obe: at Menara Celcom, Jln Semarak from 7^th August onwards.

*Each jar: 55-60pcs

*I do send out the cookies via Poslaju, contact me for more info!

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Ombre cake

I have been wanted to try ombre effect cake, eversince it became phenomenal this year. I did try to baked it for my engagement but I was too lazy to divide the batter to another three different tints. Haha. So this time, when one of my friend asked me to do a cake for her engagement hantaran, I told her I wanted to do ombre cake for her. Send her the picture and she said yes immediately.

But between ombre cake and ombre buttercream, which one is better?

So I made a trial cake;

Ombre cake. I used a vanilla cake recipe for this one, don't remember which one, but the cake was a bit bitter. Maybe from the baking powder?

But luckily my friend asked for a red velvet cake, so I made her Roses cake with ombre effect.

Definitely my favourite. And I used the leftover cream cheese filling for the topping as well.

And she requested for the same design from Purple Garden, but instead of purple, she wanted it to be in choc. So here goes :)

Thanks Fai!

Ultimate Carrot Cake

Before I start, I'd like to clear something up - sometimes (or most of the time) things that you have planned, that you thought would be perfectly goes smoothly, might just crushing you, bit by bit. And you might ended up of having nothing at all.

One day, I was perfectly baking at home for families, then the anticipation grew and so I began baking for others. Until one day I just kept on having meltdowns in the kitchen.

It was fun. But I don't get the fun that I used to get back then.

Or maybe I was stressed out with few other things at the moment, which at times might look the best choice but most of the times made me ponder, 'Did I made a good decision?'.

So yeah, whatever. I am here.

I know I didn't post that much nowadays. But that's explained - I don't bake that much nowadays.

I was feeling mellow one day, my cousin brought this local carrots that was oh-so-sweet, left almost rotten on the rack (all of us forgot to check and keep it in the fridge!) and so I decided to bake, a carrot cake!

But this time, I went for something that was out from my comfortable zone when its come to carrot cake, I searched for a new one, The Ultimate Carrot Cake as what they claimed.

Ultimate Carrot Cake

Adapted from The Essential Baker (via Zoe Bakes)

2 1/4 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp ground ginger *I omitted

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

4 large eggs

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup canola oil

1/2 cup buttermilk

2/3 cup brown sugar

2 tsp vanilla essence

1/2 cup crushed pineapple *too lazy to find one but I should next time!

1 pound grated carrots *well, I just grate all the carrots I have and I got about 3 cups?

1 cup chopped pecans

1 cup raisins *I don't like raisins

1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Or 180 degrees if you use same as mine.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a medium bowl.
3. In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, sugar, oil, buttermilk, brown sugar and vanilla essence (and pineapple). Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and continue mixing until fully incorporated. Stir in the carrot, pecans (and raisins).
4. Divide evenly on two greased and floured pans.
5. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

Serve with your favourite cream cheese frosting!

Was it good?

I forgot.

Yes I am forgetful like that.

*sigh*

Marbled Nutella Banana Bread

Don't worry. I am perfectly well and healthy :) Other than all the wedding preparations going on (not that much actually) and ongoing life as a student, I am safe and sound. Except that I bake less nowadays since I don't have that many mouth to feed here in Sabah :p

With the occasionally orders from acquaintance, nothing beats the feeling of having a freshly baked cake at home kan?

Since I had some banana left from the chocolate banana cake, I decided to bake this. I saved it in my baking book ages ago, not knowing when I would be able to bake it.

I remember buying banana cake as a energy food for my students everytime during training or competition. Banana = energy. Banana cake = energy. Chocolate = craziness. Seriously, they went extremely hyper with chocolates! And I stop feeding them with choc since then, except for big competition.

And this, banana+nutella? *gulp*

This has become my favourite marbled banana cake so far!

Marbled Nutella Banana Bread

Adapted from Vision Plum

2 1/3 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/4 cup mashed ripe banana (I used 4)

6tbsp unsalted butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 large eggs

1/2 cup nutella

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9" loaf pan or 7" cake pan.
2. Sift together all the dry ingredients; flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, beat together banana, butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla essence on medium speed until creamy about 2 minutes. Add in eggs one at a time and continue beating for another 2 minutes.
4. Reduce speed to low and add in the flour mixture gradually until well combined. Divide half of the batter and stir in Nutella.
5. Alternate spoonful of nutella batter and the normal batter in your pan until finish. Swirl gently with a knife. Bake for 1 hour.

The thing is, I love banana cake! So much!

ps: Its still me. I'm using my main account. Too lazy to sign out each time I wanna post something here :p

Chocolate Banana Cake

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