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Modelling paste & gum paste recipes
If you can find gum tragacanth (berbelit lidah..) you can use this recipe to make your modelling paste. Suitable to make all 3D figures. 280g icing sugar 3 teaspoon gum trag 1 teaspoon liquid glucose 6 teaspoon water 315 g ready fondant/sugarpaste (refer to my earlier post for the recipe) Method Sift icing sugar and …
Cupcakes recipe
Here’s the basic recipe I used : 3 eggs 1 cup butter (softened) 3/4 cup caster sugar 1/2 cup of milk 1 1/2 cup of self-raising floor (sifted) If you don’t have self-raising, see here for substitute. 1 teaspoon vanilla essence Method First, preheat oven to 160 C and arrange all the cupcakes paper in …
Fondant recipe
I have been buying pre-made fondant for my cake decorating projects. It cost about RM15.00 per kg here in KL for a medium quality type, the best would cost around RM50.00 for 2 kg. My daughter is always bugging me to let her have her own ‘play dough’ too. So I thought of making my …
Quiche
I love quiche. The taste is so good, because the filling is made of custard, usually containing eggs, whip cream or cheese. I know I can never get thin eating food like this, but I can’t resist it ! It’s been a while since I made one myself.. so I baked one today. The recipe …
Fun with fondant
Today I was experimenting doing some 3D motif using the left over pre-made fondant I bought. I made some cute figures – frogs, snail, mushroom etc. I had so much fun doing it. First, I colour the pre-made fondant I bought with gel colouring. I prepare all the fondants in the colours I needed. This …
Fondant designs
I bought 1 kg of pre-made fondant and started experimenting using the icing gel colouring I got yesterday. I wanted to make my own flower sugar paste but then I couldn’t find any shops selling gum tragacanth. Anyway, it was fun, just like playing with plastercine when we were kids. Me and my maid just …
Wilton gel colours
My hubby was at home this morning and took me to this one really fantastic shop in Kepong called PastryPro. It’s like a dream come true shop for bakers, all sorts of cake decorating gadgets, ingredients and brands are available. Most are imported items, which explains why the price is quite high. Nevertheless, I splurged …
Min’s bread recipe
I was going through some cook books this morning and got an inspiration to bake this bread. I don’t know what to call it, since I modified some of the ingredients (original recipe from Alex Goh ‘The world of bread’ book). Anyway, here’s my version : 150 g bread flour 150 g Hong Kong flour …