Best Carrot Cake

Recipe source: Shereen

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c sugar

1c oil

3 eggs

2c shredded carrots

1/2c minced pineapple 

2 1/2 c flour

1 1/2 tsp baking soda 

1 tsp cinnamon 

1/4 tsp cloves

1/4 tsp nutmeg 

1 tsp salt

375f for 40mins

Substituted 400f for 8 mins for better browning.

1LB cream cheese softened 

1c butter softened 

4c powder sugar 

1 tsp vanilla

Walnuts or pecans optional.1/2c

Shredded coconut optional.

*****I substituted 1/2 c oil for apple sauce 

1/2 c of pineapple for apple sauce. ( it was a 15oz unsweetened apple sauce).

Added 1/4 additional shredded carrots*****

Best Blueberry Muffin

 

I substitute buttermilk to sour cream and I use 400f for baking these muffins.

Sources:

Honey Whole Wheat Pancakes

 

This recipe was adapted from something edible on YouTube with my personal modifications. I don’t like to add syrup to my pancakes. If you do, omit the sugar to this recipe. These pancakes are great on the go.

-2 c of wheat flour

-2tsp baking powder

-1tsp baking soda 

-1tsp of cinnamon unleveled

-1/2 tsp salt

-5 tbsp sugar unleveled

-2 tbsp honey

-2 tbsp oil

-2 large eggs or 3 medium brown eggs

-1c buttermilk

Mix dry ingredients with a whisk, make a hole in the middle add in all wet ingredients and mix until combine.

Add a little bit of oil to pan and wipe the oil with a paper towel. On medium heat 3 minutes in each side. 

-

Portuguese Egg Tarts

 

This recipe yields about eight Portuguese egg tarts for the filling but 12 shells for the dough.

I used store bought tart shells for the egg tarts.

Special thanks to Molala on YouTube!

Dough:

- 30 g butter

-150g flour

-2g salt

-3g sugar

-60g water

-80g frozen butter for the filling to make layers

Filling mixture:

-1egg

-2egg yolks

-71g sugar ( originally 45g)

-150g whipping cream 

-75g milk

Bake at 410f for 25 to 45 mins depending on your oven.

Chinese Sticky Rice Baos

 I used left over wonton wrappers for this sticky rice buns.   I used one piece of wrapper for the small ones and two wrapper roll into one for the bigger baos.

-1 big soup bowl of glutinous rice

-2 Chinese sausages

-salt

-white pepper

-sugar 

-oyster sauce

-a little of sesame oil

-green scallions

I steam the glutinous rice in non-stick wok with the two sausages. I dice the sausages into tiny pieces. And then mix with all seasonings and green scallions last.

Steam for 15 mins. 

Apple Hand Pies

I use my own flaky crust recipe as follows|

- 1 1/4 c flour 

-1/4 tsp salt

- 1/2c frozen butter 

-1/4c ice water

Additional water as needed and refrigerate for 4 hrs or overnight.

For the filling, I used the recipe from the cooking foodie and video is below.

- 3 apples

-2tbsp butter

-1/4 c sugar

-1/2tsp cinnamon 

-1/4tsp nutmeg 

-2tbsp cornstarch 

Egg wash ( 1 yolk and 1 tsp water & pinch of salt) for brushing.  Bake at 400f until golden brown.

I 

Mango Crepe Cake

 

I used my crepe recipe and my whip cream recipe from my own blog. But I double the recipe to make this crepe cake. And I follow video below to create the mango layers. Enjoy!

Crepe recipe

Whipped cream recipe