Chocolate Butter Cookies 巧克力德国酥饼

Made this right before Chinese New Year, but now only get to blog about it. :p This biscuit is inspired by German Butter Cookies from Min’s blog.

Below is my modified recipe, I use the dough to make 3 type of cookies with different decoration.

Ingredients：

(A)

250g         Butter牛油

  80g         Icing Sugar糖粉

(B)

250g         Potato Starch马铃薯粉

100g         Plain flour面粉

2 tbsp       Coco powder可可粉    

For Decoration Purposes:-

Sugar Beads糖珠

Chocolate Chips巧克力片


1.  Mix butter with sieved icing sugar with hand mixer.
2.  Add in sieved ingredients B and form a dough.
3.  Divide the dough into small balls (depends how big you want your cookies to be)
4.   Now you can choose to decorate your cookies with different style:-
  (i) Press the small dough with fork

 (ii) Press the small dough into sugar beads then shape it.

(iii) Press the small dough with fingers then decorate it with chocolate chips.

5.   Pre heat oven to 170’C. Bake for 15-20 minutes.

I am submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #7 – Chocolate Delight (May 2011) hosted by DG from Tested and Tasted

Afternoon tea

Hot Dog Buns

 A loaf of bread

 Danish Pastry

 Strawberry Pie

 Donuts

 Waffles with honey butter or Waffles with orange ice cream+strawberry sauce?

 Assorted ice creams

 It will be great to end with a cup of Milo. :)

Smaller Roses

Trying to make smaller roses (at least less than 1cm). hmmm... not really satisfied with the result. >.<

White Sugar Cake (光酥饼)

After googled only realized English name of this cake is White Sugar Cake. First tried this cake in Hong Kong, I love the taste and the texture.

Here is some of the recipes googled online.  I tried first recipe, my white sugar cake is a bit hard and it look yellowish but taste good. Will try 2^nd recipe tonite.

Ingredient：

 (A)

100g                 High Protein flour高粉

  50g                Low Protein flour低粉

    1g                Baking soda小苏打

 3g                Baking Powder泡打粉

 (B)

  80g                Sugar白砂糖

  55g                Milk牛奶

  15g                Egg蛋液

 

 (C)

  20g                Melted Butter牛油

Method:-

1.      Sieve (A), then add in (B), mix well.

2.      Add in melted butter. Mix lightly.

3.      Rest the dough for 15 minutes then divide into 6 small flat ball

4.      Bake for 15 minutes at 180’C.

Translated and by reference to :- http://www.xinshipu.com/%E5%85%89%E9%85%A5%E9%A5%BC-5108.htm

Ingredients: (8 pieces @ 6cm diameter)
(A)
 2g     yeast
30ml   warm water

(B)
90g     plain flour
10g     corn starch
  4g     baking powder

(C)
4g       skim milk powder
35g     sugar
10g     condensed milk
20g     lightly beaten egg
½ tsp  vanilla essence
 1 tsp  corn oil
Method:
1. Mix (A) well and stand aside for 5 - 10 minutes.

2. Sieve (B) into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture, add in (A) and (C). Stir with a pair of chopsticks (or use your hands) till a sticky dough is formed.

3. Cover the mixing bowl with a piece of glad wrap and rest dough for one hour.

4. Flour working surface and hands. Divide dough into 25g pieces each (or any size you desired) and shape it into a flat round disc.

5. Place shaped dough on to a floured baking paper and dust some flour on the surface of the dough. Cover it with a damp towel without touching the surface. Rest shaped dough for 30 minutes.

6. Cover the Guang Su Bing with a piece of foil (make some holes in the foil with a toothpick) loosely and bake in the middle rack at 180C for 13 minutes

Edited and by reference to:- http://wlteef.blogspot.com/2008/06/guang-su-bing.html

Eyes Lasik Anniversary

I did my eyes Lasik last year on 23 Apr 2010. Wanted to get rid of my spec for quite some time but not dare to take the risk and Lasik operation is quite expansive. Oh… u might be wondering why not just wear contact lens. I start wearing contact lens since secondary school time. Maybe I didn't take care of my eyes so much back then, I kind of having mild dry eye syndrome which contact lens will make it worst.

So happened that me and my family passed by Vista road show on a random weekend, after check up I am qualify for eye Lasik surgery. Life is short. Just do it. The package i selected is Intralase + Advance Aspheric B&L Lasik for both eyes @ RM5,596.(Original price RM5,996, discount RM400)

Before Eye Lasik

	Sph.	Cyl.
Right	-4.75	-1.25
Left	-2.75	-1.75

The drastic different after eye Lasik with perfect eye sight is I can check out the clock whenever I wan without glasses. It’s is very irritating that at night or early morning you need to get up and wear ur glasses just to find out what time is it.

I can run and swim without worrying blurry obstacle. Hahaha…. Sound like I’m so keen in sport. ;p But I can walk under rain without unnecessary clumsiness with wet spectacle now for sure.

My doctor is Alan Koh Kok Khiang (oh… now oni I realized he is triple K) ;p He is very patient and gentle. He did calm me down a lot during surgery. He also did eye Lasik for Myfm DJ Gan Mei Yan. The sales person showed me their picture during promoting time.

Oh... found tis website online. Very informative. Please read this before you decide whether or not to opt for eye lasik surgery. 
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/default.htm

 Vista consultant analysing and explaining the test result

 Very colourful graft for my eyes

 The papers are to test whether I have dry eye syndrome or not

 Operation time!! noticed i circled the green duckie soft toy? That is for patient to hug during eye lasik operation. 

 Cant really remember what doctor is doing after numbed my eyes.

Can't remember whether creating flap on the cornea here or on the next machine.

 Lasik time, I need to stare at a tiny red light for 60 second for each eyes then voila "it's done!!" :D

 can c my eye on the screen at top left corner.

They gave me a very manly sunglasses coz after lasik eyes are very sensitive to sunlight.

 Picture taken with Doctor Alan right after operation. In fact i cant c anything at all. but still managed to put on my V V hand. ;p

Vista Brochure. I lost the original one i got in 2010. This is new price list. Yeah... price increased already.

My eyes lasik for both eyes are RM5,596.(Original price RM5,996, discount RM400)

Click on the picture to enlarge it.

More clays

Finally i got all the colour i can buy from the store!!!

Yeah..... what shd i do with colourful clay? unlimited possibility..

 What you need for Domo-kun- red, brown,white

 the scary mouth

 Fixed the mouth into his body but eyes still scatter around. ;p

   Domo-kun bite me?? 

No... I was too concentrated and cut my finger by pressing down on the wrong side of cutting blade... >.<

 Orange cupcake

Lollipop

 White fondant velvet cake

 yummy. ;p-

Chair Cover

Material & tools needed:-

Sewing machine

Fabric

scissors

Marking tools (the blue triangle thingy)

Ruler 

L-shape ruler(Optional)

My dirty old chair- more than 10 yrs old. >.<

C the stain... Washed b4 but couldnt get rid of the stain. -___-"""

Dang dang dang dang...... new look. the cover is removable & washable. :)

Side

Back

Sewing Journey

This is my birthday gift in 2010. I have an old tiny sewing machine which makes me super frustrated coz not all fabric can sew nice with it. Finally I have a proper sewing machine. Bought this from J.P. Doshi . http://www.jpdoshi.com/contact.html

My old little tiny sewing machine

Brother- Innov-is 50

 Sewing station

 Have 135 diff stitches

 Wit Pretty Hardcover. So in "Project Runway" mood.

 Handmade pillows for my cutest nephew, BX

 close up for details

 same fabric for pillow covers

 close up

 Another set of cover

Pillow for my cousin, Keh Xin 

Steamed white sugar sponge cake ( Bak Tong Gou 白糖糕)

This dessert is quite easy to make but a bit time consuming as it need about 6-8 hours for fermentation.You can choose to prepare at nite and let it ferment before sleep. Next morning just steam for 15-25 minutes then you will have nice fluffy dessert for breakfast. But please take note; it will turn sour if it gets over fermented.

Ingredient：

(A)

200g      Rice flour粘米粉

140g      Sugar白砂糖

410g      Water水

1. Add all ingredients into a pot, mix well and keep stirring with low heat. Make sure the pot is big enough for double the ingredient coz after fermentation, the mixture will almost double the size.

2. Cook until the mixture is a bit sticky and increased thickness (like sesame paste) removes from heat. Bear in mind that the mixture will continue to cook until it is completely cold off. Please continue to stir for a while and sieve it to remove clumps.

 (B)

½ tsp     Baking Powder泡打粉

1 tsp      Dried yeast乾酵母

2 tbsp    Water水

1. Add baking powder and dried yeast into water. Mix well then add into cold off mixture (A). Cover with cling wrap, let it sit for at least 6 hours.

2. Laid a layer of cloth or baking sheet on steamer tray/baking mould. Steam for 15-25 minutes, depends on the size of the mould. Bigger mould, lesser time coz thinner layer. J

This is how the mixture of water, rice flour & sugar look like before heating it up.

 1 hour after added yeast mixture

 

 5 hours after added yeast mixture

 I used white clothe for steaming.

After 20 minutes.

  This dessert is best to serve at room temperature.

I got the recipe from this blog

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!RfGjM9iaBRmFZGnSATz.Hd.B/article?mid=1514