Marble Cake with Chocolate Chips

Marble Cake With Chocolate Chips

Well, my mother and neighbour wanted this recipe and without hesitation, given to them.

Now, I am sharing this recipe with you.

Yesterday, baked two of it.

One given to neighbour and one for ourselves.

As of today, left only three slices.

This Marble Cake is special because it is my son who suggested to scatter

the chocolate and white chocolate chips on top of it before baking and it turn out great.

Get ready two of these baking tin.

Grease and flour the side and line base.

250 g butter or margarine

220 g castor sugar

4 medium size eggs

200 g self raising flour (sift twice)

3 tablespoons golden syrup

25 g cocoa mixed with 3 tablespoons of milk (stir until combined)

25 g chocolate chips and 25 g white chocolate chips

Beat the butter or margarine and castor sugar until light and creamy or

until the sugar or margarine pale in colour.

Whisk in eggs one at a time.

If the batter curdle after beating in each egg,

then pour 1/2 tablespoon of self raising flour

before whisking in the next egg.

Then, pour in the golden syrup and then beat for a short while.

Pour in the self raising flour and beat until done.

Do not over beat the batter.

Look like this, once the self raising flour is folded into the batter.

Pour the batter into the baking tins.

Dividing equally.

Then, spoon the cocoa mixture into the batter and

swirl to make marble effect.

Look like this after you have swirl the cocoa mixture

with the batter.

Then, scatter the chocolate and white chocolate chips on top evenly.

Bake for 40 to 60 minutes at 180 degree celsius or until the cake done.

Once the cake is baked. Take it our from the oven and cool it before cutting.

Happy Baking and Eating.

Fish and Chips

Fish and Chips

Tomorrow, Sunday lunch, my husband and kids wanted to eat Fish and Chips and after our dinner, off we go to Tesco Kajang to buy some ingredients to cook it. When we reached Tesco, I suddenly remembered that today is a Saturday and the Selangor State had started a campaign called "No Plastics Bag Day In Selangor Every Saturday" and my whole family said it is cool as long as we're contributing to this campaign. When we are at the cashier, the cashier politely told me about this campaign and if we do not agreed to it, they will charge us RM0.20 cents per bag and told him that we agreed to the campaign. While he was scanning our purchases, I asked him whether there are customer who scolded him about this campaign and he said "YES". Pity him. Well, there are some stuck up people out there and we all hope that those people will learn fast and if not, their children or grandchildren will suffer in years to come. Make this world a clean world to live.

This recipe of Fish and Chips is very easy to cook.

Happy trying! Have a happy weekend.

I bought 800 g of Frozen Dory Fillet.

Some of it still inside the fridge.

Thaw the Dory Fillet.

Wash and cut 8 potatoes into strips.

Pat dry with kitchen towel.

130 g of flour

250 ml of milk

some salt and pepper

Make a well in the center and then pour in milk slowly while stirring.

Keep on pouring and stirring until done.

Once done, you will notice that there will be a lot of bubble

and then keep at one side.

Heat up your fryer.

Pour all the potatoes into the fryer.

Lift up the fryer basket for 3 minutes after frying more than 5 minutes

or slightly brown and then fry again until brown.

I did it this way in order for my fried potatoes to be crispy outside

and fluffy inside.

Once done, pour all the fried potatoes on top of the kitchen towel

to absorb those oil and sprinkle some fine salt.

Dip the dory fillet into the batter.

Make sure you submerge the whole dory fillet into the batter.

Place the dory fillet into the basket fryer and fried until golden brown.

Make sure you don't off and on try to lift up the dory fillet,

if not, your dory fillet will be broken into pieces.

Be patience! In order to have a perfect fried fish.

Once done, place the fried dory fillet on top of the kitchen towel

to absorb those oil.

Now, you can place the fried potatoes, fried dory fillet

on to the serving plate and squeeze some tartar sauce

or maybe you prefer ketchup sauce.

Happy Eating!

(Note : This dish for my whole family of 4 cost us only less than

RM16.00. Imagine how much it will cost us if we go out and eat...plus drinks.)

Lorraine Quiche

Lorraine Quiche

This Lorraine Quiche is one of my family favourites.

(Please get the pastry recipe from "Shortcrust Pastry.)

Cut the bacon into pieces.

I do not have milder onions, so ending up using these onions, cut into pieces.

Grate the cheddar cheese.

Pour out 1 1/3 cups of whipping cream.

Break 3 eggs (can you see the yellow dot inside the picture?

it is the eggs submerged inside the whipping cream).

Sprinkle some pepper.

Beat together.

Saute the bacon (do not over cook) and put at one side.

Saute the onion (do not over cook) and put at one side.

Arrange the bacon and onion in the pastry.

Pour the whipping cream with eggs, pepper into the pastry.

And then sprinkle the cheddar cheese into the pastry.

See...my son fingers...he can't help himself with more cheddar cheese.

He said the more the tastier!

Bake at 180 degree celcius for 60 minutes or until golden brown.

Once baked, take it out and cool it before cutting.

See for yourself the creamy Lorraine Quiche waiting to be eaten.

Shortcrust Pastry

Shortcrust Pastry

Happy Happy New Year 2010.

Hope you and your loved ones will have a very good year ahead.

You can use this shortcrust pastry for Quiche, Apple Pie and etc.

Happy trying!

I prefer to use a food processor because it ensures my dough stays cool.

Ingredients :-

400 g of flour

1 teaspoon of salt

200 g of unsalted butter

3 to 4 tablespoons of cold water

Put the flour and salt into the food processor.

Then put the butter (cut into cubes) on top of the flour.

Process it by pressing the pulse button until the mixtures resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Then sprinkle two tablespoons of cold water and process by using pulse button.

If it does not hold together like this picture shown, then pour some more cold water,

for mine, I have used total 4 tablespoons of cold water.

Do NOT over pulse it, because the dough will become hard to handle and

Do NOT allow the dough to form into a ball.

Pour the dough out and form it into a ball and

knead for a few seconds ONLY until it's smooth.

Wrap the dough with cling film and chill it in the fridge for 20 minutes.

In order not to make my pastry to become messy, I prefer to wrap

my pie dish with aluminium foil.

Take out the dough from the fridge and then roll the dough by

using rolling pin.

Roll the dough into the thickness of your choice.

E.g. 3 mm

Gently unroll the dough into the pie dish.

Cut out the extra pastry by using the back of the knife.

Ain't it perfect?!

Now, we have to blind bake in order for the pastry not to become soggy.

Place baking paper and rice or beans on top

and bake for 15 minutes with 180 degree celcius.

Remove the baking paper with the rice or beans.

You can see that the side of the pastry is dry but not the centre and

we have to re-bake for another 10 minutes.

Make sure that you do NOT over bake it until brown.

See......the whole pastry looks dry and

ready to use for quiche or apple pie.

Note : Please refer to my Lorraine Quiche recipe.