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Mar
27

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 …

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Mar
26

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 …

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Mar
25

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 …

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Mar
24

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 …

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Mar
21

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 …

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Mar
20

Royal icing

Royal icing is usually used to make wedding cakes and requires a more tedious job compared to using fondant. It sets hard. The cake normally use is fruit cake as this type of cake is compact and will provide a strong base. Three or more layers is spread over a cake, each layer will take …

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Mar
19

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 …

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Mar
18

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 …

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Mar
18

High altitude baking

Sometimes at the end of a recipe, we come across a small section on how to adjust the ingredients if we are baking at high altitude. This mention always makes me wonder. Do we really have to adjust our cooking or baking if we are living on high land, a mountain or if in outer …

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Mar
17

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 …

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