Chocolate Chips Ponds Cake

Ingredients :
    3      eggs
150 gr caster sugar
160 gr butter (unsalted)
    1 teaspoon salt
180 gr flour
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
 75 gr chocolate chips

Method :
1. Preheat oven 180c, grease and flour cake pan, 9" x 5" loaf pan, I use round pan 9"
2. Mix salt, flour, baking powder and vanilla extract
3. in another bowl , mix together sugar and butter until whiter and fluffy use hand mixer medium speed
4. add egg one at a time, mix a couple second until incorporated
5. mix the flour mixture into the batter mixture (slow speed) or using a wooden spatula to avoid over-mix
6. mix the chocolate chips into the batter
7. put in the loaf pan

8. Bake for about 30 - 40 minutes

Chocolate Chips Muffins

After a week of failed-baking Onbitjkoek and muffins, last night I try again to make muffins, and this time I made Chocolate Chips Muffins.

Wet Ingredients :                                                       

2 eggs

240 ml milk 

120 gr unsalted butter (melted and cooled it)

Chocolate Chips Muffins

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Dry Ingredients :

240 gr all purpose flour

120 gr caster sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

50 gr chocolate chips

Method :

1. Preheat oven for 200c

2. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl, set aside

3. In another bowl mix together all wet ingredients using spatula or wooden spoon

4. Add the wet ingredients into dry ingredients, all at once, just until the dry ingredients is moistened (don't over-mix or your muffins will be toughed)

5. Scoop the batter into the muffins pan or muffins paper-cup until almost full,

6. Bake for about 15 - 20 minutes

I adopt the recipe from http://joyofbaking.com/muffins/ChocolateChipMuffins.html

APPLE CRUMBLE

Modified from http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/478/perfect-apple-crumble.aspx

Ingredients:

• 6 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced
• 200g caster sugar
• 200g plain flour
• 120g butter
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder

 

 

Preparation method

1. Cook the apples into a pan, add about 150gr of the sugar and the cinnamon. 

2. Stew gentle using the low heat for about half an hour. Keep checking to avoid burned apples

3. Mashed the apples using wooden spoon, the apples should be soft but not pureed

4. Put the apple into serving dish and cool it. 

5. Set the oven into 150 C degree.

6. Using a bowl, smooth the butter using fork or your fingers .

7. Mix flour and  50gr sugar into the butter until it becomes like a breadcrumb

8. Cover the apples with the breadcrumb without pressing down

9. Bake for about 30 minutes or until it golden brown

10. Scoop the apple crumble and serve with ice cream (optional)

No Electric Mixer BANANA CAKE

Doesn't have any electric mixer? Try this recipe...

Last Night, I saw a banana on my table which was almost rotten. So I decided to make banana cake. It's very simple recipe and did not use Electric Mixer, just use spoon or fork to mix.


Ingredients :
2 ripe banana, smashed (I use Sunpride, it's about 240gr)
75 gr melted salted margarine/butter
140 gr white sugar 
2 egg yolk, beaten
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of ground nutmeg
Pinch of ground cloves
150gr of flour (I use low protein)


Methods :
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Mix melted butter into the mashed banana with a spoon in a large bowl.
3. Mix in the sugar, egg, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove. 
4. Add the baking powder over the mixture and mix in. 
5. Last, add the flour and mix. 
6. Pour mixture into a buttered 4×8 inch loaf pan. (Spray the loaf pan with butter & powder it with flour)
7. Bake for 45 - 50 minutes or insert a toothpick until it comes out clean. 
8. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

I only had one banana so I made half of the recipe and use a round big muffin pan. 

Warren Buffet - Interesting aspects of life

Got this from milis......

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second Richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity.

Here are some very Interesting aspects of his life:

1.  He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late
2.   He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers
3. He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence
4.  He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him
5.  He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.
6.  His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis
7. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch Television
8. Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet
9. Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk

He has given his CEO's only two rules

Rule number 1 : Do not lose any of your share holder's money

Rule number  2  : Do not forget rule number 1

His advice to young people:

"Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself and Remember:
A. Money doesn't create man but it is the man who created money.
B. Live your life as simple as you are.
C. Don't do what others say, just listen them, but do what you feel good.
D. Don't go on brand name; just wear those things in which u feel comfortable.
E. Don't waste your money on unnecessary things; just spend on them who really in need rather.
F. After all it's your life then why give chance to others to rule our  life."