Lemon Curd Hokkaido Cupcakes

Source : Kitchen Corner

I only use 1/3 of the full recipe, it yields around 10 cupcakes. 

Ingredients

60 gr Egg yolks

30 gr Caster sugar

50 gr Vegetable oil

60 gr Full cream milk

80 gr Plain flour

180 gr Egg whites

50 gr Caster sugar

Filling

150 gr Whipping cream

50 gr Lemon curd

Method:

- Preheat oven to 100℃。

- In a bowl, whisk egg yolks and 30 gr sugar until pale in colour. Then add oil and milk, whisk till well-blended.

- Fold in flour mixture and set aside.

- In another bowl, beat egg whites and sugar to stiff peak.

- Scoop 1/3 of the egg white mixture to the yolk batter, fold well, then pour batter back to the remaining egg whites. Fold lightly till well-mixed.

- Fill baking cases till 90% of batter. Bake in 100C preheated oven. Bake at 100C for 10 minutes follow by 120C for 10 minutes (original 20 minutes) then 140C for 10 minutes (original 15mins) and lastly 150C for 10 minutes. Bring out the cupcakes from the oven to cool down while preparing the cream.

- In a separate bowl, beat whipping cream till stiff.

- Use a straw to make hole into the chiffon cupcake.

- Once the cupcakes completely cool down, pipe some lemon curd into the cupcakes then follow by the whipped cream. Pipe leftover lemon curd at the center of the cake and lastly pipe out the whipped cream.

- Chill in the fridge and it is best serve cold.

Lemon Curd

Source : Kicthen Corner

Ingredients:

2 Large eggs

60 gr caster sugar (add more if you find it sour)

60 gr lemon juice

2 Lemon zest

45 gr Butter (I only use 40gr)

Method:

- Combine the eggs, sugar, lemon juice and zest and cook over a double boiler until smooth and thicken. 

- Add butter and stir for the final shining and silky consistency.

- Set aside to cool before keep in the sterilised bottle. (Best consume within 2 weeks in the Fridge)

Yam Bean (Bengkoang) Cake with Chinese Sausage

Source : TasteHongkong.com

Below recipe is only 1/3 of the original recipe.

Ingredients:

700 gr Yam Bean (shredded) **

1 Chinese sausage (chopped finely)

3 pcs Dried mushrooms (soak till soften and chopped) **

3 pcs small Dried scallop (soak 30 mins and shredded) **

10 gr Dried shrimps (soak 10 mins and discard water)

2 Shallots (finely sliced)

2 Tbsp cooking oil

** some used water reserved to be used for the flour

Mixed Together :

100gr Rice Flour

15 gr Corn Starch

250 ml of Water (inclusive reserved water from yam bean, mushroom and scallop)

Marinades seasoning:

1/4 tsp Salt

1/4 tsp Sugar

1/2 tsp Cooking Wine

Seasonings:

1 tsp Sugar

1/2 tsp Salt

1 tsp Soy sauce

1/2 tsp Ground white pepper

1 Tbsp oil

Method:

- Peel and rinse yam bean, then grated it. Rest the grated yam bean to the strainer and collect its juice (reserve for combining with the rice flour and cornstarch)

- Marinades seasoning together with chopped mushroom, scallops &  shrimps for 10 mins.

- Mix the flour with 250 ml combination of reserved water. Stir & mix well until smooth, set aside.

- Heat the wok with 2 tbsp cooking oil over medium heat, sauté shallots till fragrant followed by chopped sausages, stir fry till they are also fragrant, then add in shrimps, mushrooms and scallops, keep stir frying. As all of them turn golden, about 3 minutes, toss in the yam bean strips, add seasonings, and stir well. In about another 5 minutes, the strips will be softened and juice will exude from them.

- Turn to low heat, slowly stir in flour mixture (give the mixture a good stir before pouring in to avoid flour settling at the bottom) into the yam bean. Turn and mix well until all incorporated well like a soft batter but is not runny, which almost like a sticky dough. Turn off heat.

- Grease the tin with oil for steaming (mine is a 22cm diameter, 3cm depth round tin). Transfer the yam bean batter into the pan, flatten it into same height. Steam it over high heat for 30-40 minutes (depending on the thickness of your batter). Check doneness by inserting a toothpick to see if it comes out clean.

It's ready to serve in steam and fried version. I like the fried version, which type do you prefer ?

Oreo Banana Sponge Cake

Source : Richard Goh via Wen’s Delight

Ingredients:

2.5-3 Eggs (Room temp - Approx 150g)

130 gr Sugar (Reduced, original-150g)

200 gr Banana (Ripe & cut into small pcs)

150 gr Cake flour

1/2 tsp Baking powder

1/4 tsp Baking soda

100 gr Oil (any vegetable oil except olive oil, if prefer richer flavour replace with melted butter but it may cover the banana fragrant)

Optional : Few pieces Oreo biscuits (crushed)

Method:

- Preheat oven to 160 degree C.

- Sieve flour, baking powder & soda together.

- As I only use hand mixer, I whisk eggs and sugar at max. speed till stiff/ribbon, then add-in banana, mix until well incorporated.

- Fold in flour & Oreo, mix well. (Can use spatula or hand to mix)

- Add in oil & mix well till batter is shiny & flowing.

- Bake for 40 - 45mins or until cook.

Below is the original flavour, if you want to bake into bigger cake (9 or 10 inch square tin), you may refer here.

Baileys Chocolate Cake

Source : Jasline N. ( originally. Bakers Royale Guiness Chocolate Cake )

INGREDIENTS

95 gr Cocoa powder ** (I used Valrhona)

300 gr Sugar

250 ml (1 cup) brewed strong coffee, can be hot or at room temperature

225 gr Butter, chopped

375 ml Baileys Irish Cream

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

250 gr Plain flour

1¼ tsp Baking Powder **

½ tsp Salt

Optional: Chocolate ganache topping or icing sugar

METHOD

- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius.

- Combine the plain flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl. Set aside.

- In a small pot, heat the mixture of cocoa powder, sugar, coffee and butter on medium heat, and whisk frequently until all the butter has melted, and the cocoa powder and sugar has dissolved.

- Pour the cocoa-coffee into a large mixing bowl and let it rest for 10 minutes to cool down.

- Stir in the Baileys. Crack in one egg into the cocoa-coffee mixture and whisk it in until it has been fully incorporated. Whisk in the second egg then whisk in the vanilla extract.

- Sift in the flour mixture and whisk in gently until all the flour has been incorporated. The cake batter will be thin (in liquid) and bubbly (because of the reaction between the baking soda and the cocoa powder).

- Pour the cake batter into the 8 inch square tin. Lift up the tin and drop it on the table counter-top gently 3 to 5 times to remove excess air bubbles.

- Bake the cake for 1hour. Cover the top of the cake with aluminum foil and continue baking for 30 minutes or until it cooked.

- Leave the cake to cool on a wire rack.

- Optional, spread with chocolate ganache or sprinkle with icing sugar before serve.

Note :

** If you use Dutch-Processed or Alkalized Unsweetened Cocoa Powder ( eg. Valrhona, Van Houten, Lindt or Poulain) use Baking Powder for this recipe. However, if you use Natural Cocoa Powder (eg. Helshey’s or Ghirardelli) you may substitute with Baking Soda. (Reference. JoyBaking - Cocoa Powder)