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."

STRONG ENOUGH

I don't need your sympathy
There's nothing you can say or do for me
And I don't want a miracle
You'll never change for no-one
And I hear your reasons why
Where did you sleep last night?
And was she worth it, was she worth it?

Cause I'm strong enough to live without you
Strong enough and I quit crying
Long enough, now I'm strong enough
To know you gotta go
There's no more to say
So save your breath and walk away
No matter what I hear you say
I'm strong enough to know you gotta go

So you feel misunderstood
Baby have I got news for you
On being used, I could write a book
But you don't wanna hear about it
Cause I've been losing sleep
And you've been going cheap
And she ain't worth half of me, it's true
Now I'm telling you

That I'm strong enough to live without you
Strong enough and I quit crying
Long enough, now I'm strong enough
To know you gotta go

Come hell or waters high
You'll never see me cry
This is our last goodbye, it's true
I'm telling you

Now I'm strong enough to live without you
Strong enough and I quit crying
Long enough, now I'm strong enough
To know you gotta go
There's no more to say
So save your breath and walk away
No matter what I hear you say
I'm strong enough to know you gotta go

Song by CHER - Strong Enough.. 

 

Joke - SMART WOMAN

There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real miser when it came to his money. Just before he died, he said to his wife,
"When I die. I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me."

And so he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket; his wife was sitting there in black, and her friend was sitting next to her.

When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, "Wait just a minute!"

She had a box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down, and then rolled it away.

So her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband."

The loyal wife replied, "Listen, I'm a Christian, I can't go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."

"You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!!!!?"

"I sure did" said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my account and wrote him a cheque. If he cash it, he can spend it."

Jokes - COFFEE

Coffee

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.

The wife : "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee."

The husband : "You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee."

The wife : "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."
The husband : "I can't believe that, show me."

So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him the top of several pages, that it indeed says....

"HEBREWS"

Be Careful of Your Thoughts

· Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words

· Be careful of your words, for your words become your deeds

· Be careful of your deeds, for your deeds become your habits

· Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character

· Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny

famous qoute by Paulette Francesca Sedgwick

DON'T QUIT

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit