tres leches revisited

And after having bubur ayam as breakfast, general tso's chicken for lunch, I somehow had the crave for sweet, soft cake =9

And so another tres leches was made.

The condensed milk (160 ml) + evaporate milk (160 ml)+ heavy cream (80 ml) mixture



The cake :

general tso's chicken

Resep
1 lb chicken thigh, boned and cubed --> 1/2 ayam super gede, kira-kira 1 kg, potong kecil sebisanya, tetap pake tulangnya aja
3 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup cornstarch, plus 2 teaspoons cornstarch
5 dried chili pods --> ga punya dried chili, jadi pake 5 cabe thailand hijau yang ada aja
1 1/2 tablespoons rice vinegar --> 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons rice wine --> 1 tbsp lemon
3 tablespoons sugar --> 5 tbsp sugar
3 tablespoons soy sauce --> 6 tbsp sweet soy sauce
Change Measurements: US | Metric
Directions:
Prep Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
1 In a large bowl, thoroughly blend the 1/2 cup of cornstarch and the eggs; add the chicken and toss to coat.
2 If the mixture is too thick, add some vegetable oil to separate the pieces.
3 In a small bowl, prepare the sauce mixture by combining the 2 tsp cornstarch with the wine, vinegar, sugar and soy sauce.
4 First-Stage Frying: Heat 1-2 inches of peanut oil in a wok to medium-high heat (350-400).
5 Fry the chicken in small batches, just long enough to cook the chicken through.
6 Remove the chicken to absorbent paper and allow to stand (this step can be performed well in advance, along with the sauce mixture, with both refrigerated).
7 Second-Stage Frying: Leave a tablespoon or two of the oil in the wok.
8 Add the pepper pods to the oil and stir-fry briefly, awakening the aroma but not burning them.
9 Return the chicken to the wok and stir-fry until the pieces are crispy brown.
10 The General's Favorite Sauce: Add the sauce-mixture to the wok, tossing over the heat until the sauce caramelizes into a glaze (1-2 minutes).
11 Serve immediately.
12 Serves 4, along with steamed broccoli and rice.

bubur ayam jakarta

One fine sunday morning...
and I was suddenly craving for chicken porridge (bubur ayam)

J's bday 2011

J's birthday feast this year features the following menu :

Chicken pie!


The pie crust was made from the night previously, and the filling was cooked concurrently while I was baking the cake. As always the timing just never went as planned so that this pie was then consumed as a late breakfast rather than an early breakfast treat as planned :D

The pie also served as the lunch too, as the cake was proven taking too long and too much effort to put together. And resulting in some horrendous looking monster wandering in such a wasteland lol



Luckily the dinner wasn't that hard to put together :



Now, that I think of it, the menu was exactly the same as last year's birthday menu @_@
I guess I better get creative with the menu next year xP

Minecraft birthday cake! (wannabe)

Once upon a time, the story has it, that a birthday boy is in craze of a game called minecraft.

Thus, his loving wife then ventured to do her first ever cake designing mission: to create a minecraft world cake =D

The game world layout was then surveyed, sketches been made, actual pencil-ruler graph design of the cake layers were drawn.

The cake of choice was dobos torte, the birthday boy's favorite cake. The amateur baker thought that was perfect as each cake layer could represent the minecraft map different layer.

And so the quest began...

The original design of the round dobos torte was modified into 20 x 20 cm rectangle layers.

And then one by one the layers were cut according to the laid out plan :



The base and the second layer :



The third layer :


The jig-saw-like-topmost layer:



And finally all those layers put together :



Looks like a quite promising terrain map right? =D



But, then began the turn-out-to-be-not-so-piece-of-cake task of frosting them all :



And after putting together the topmost layer partially (and randomly) covered in caramels...
and adding a thing that's supposed to be J'sminecraft character... (which now that I think of it looks kinda like a mummy with the layers xP)



but waittt, J's minecraft world has a tall tower for animals to spawn and fall down to earth later (don't ask me, it's his world design)



And of course making the tower and the character from piling thin cake layers one after another wasn't really a good idea as shown in this picture of almost falling tower :D



The tower goes down just some milliseconds after this picture is taken, and the character had the exact same fate too :D
We happily ate them all of course =9

The cake was yummy as always, but it was then concluded that we'll just stick to the original dobos torte design next time to maximize the layers of cake we'd eat in each portion :P

And so this story is concluded with my utmost kudos to all the bakers out there who successfully bake and decorate their cake resulting in utmost beauty unlike my own first (and only ever?) design cake.
I'd never underestimate your work again!

Roti tawar whole-wheat

Bahan :
2.5 cup tepung serbaguna
1.5 cup tepung whole wheat
1.5 tbsp gula
1.5 tsp garam
1/2 cake yeast (1/2 pak ragi)
30 grm butter
1.25 cup susu + 1.5 sdm air.


hangatkan susu + air, campurkan 1 sdm gula dan yeast, tunggu sampai berbusa-busa
campur di baskom : tepung-tepung + gula + garam, hancur-hancurkan mentega dengan tangan ke terigu.
tuangkan campuran yeast ke terigu, aduk sampai membentuk adonan (tambahkan 1.5 sdm air lagi atau lebih sampai semua terigu tercampur ke adonan)
Uleni dengan cara pemalas :D (tutup dan tinggal 10 menit, uleni 10 detik, ulangi 2 kali lagi, lalu ditinggal sampai mengembang menjadi dua kali)
tinju adonan sampai kempes, bagi dua, masukkan setengah ke freezer karena untuk porsi berdua untuk sehari setengah adonan cukup :D
gilas 1/2 adonan sisa membentuk kotak selebar cetakan yang akan dipakai. Gulung searah panjang adonan, taruh di cetakan. Tinggal semalaman di kulkas/ tunggu sampai mengembang dua kali lagi.
Panaskan oven 150 derajat, panggang 15-30 menit sampai permukaan atas coklat banget dan permukaan bawah diketok terdengar kosong.



recipe source

Roti Sobek

Bahan:
300 gr tepung terigu protein tinggi
200 gr tepung terigu serbaguna
(aku pake 500 gr tepung terigu serbaguna = 3.5 cup terigu)
125 gr gula pasir --> 1/2 cup gula
2 sdm susu bubuk
185 ml air hangat
(aku langsung pake susu 185 ml)
1,5 bungkus ragi instant (1 bungkus = 11 gr ) --> 1 cake fresh yeast
1 sdt garam
2 butir telur ayam
75 gr margarin/butter

Cara membuat:
- hangatkan susu + 1 sdm gula pasir, kalau sudah suhu suam-suam kuku(jangan terlalu panas, nanti ragi mati), masukkan ragi/yeast, biarkan hingga berbuih, tanda raginya baik, kira-kira 5 menit
- dengan jari, hancur-hancurkan mentega/butter pada terigu sehingga berbutir-butir (ga usah halus halus gpp)
- campur telur, gula, garam, dan susu+ ragi di adonan terigu, aduk dengan spatula sampai semua tercampur rata,
tutup dengan plastik/lap basah, diamkan 10 menit
- buka plastik/lap basah, oleskan minyak di pinggir-pinggir baskom dan di tangan, uleni adonan di baskom selama 10 detik : angkat adonan, lipat setengah ke arah kita, tekan dengan pergelangan tangan, putar seperdelapan lingkaran, ulang 10 kali.
- tutup lagi adonan, tunggu 10 menit lagi,
- ulangi lagi uleni adonan selama 10 detik saja, tutup adonan tunggu 10 menit lagi
- ulenan terakhir minyaki alas untuk menguleni, tuang adonan, uleni selama sepuluh detik lagi, bulatkan adonan, minyaki lagi seluruh bagian baskom, kembalikan adonan ke baskom.
- Tutup adonan, kalau memakai plastik, minyaki plastiknya, tunggu sampai mengembang menjadi dua kali lipat(di resep: 30 menit, kalo saya, ditaruh di kulkas dibiarkan semalaman)
- bulatkan adonan menjadi 20 bagian kecil-kecil, biarkan sebentar, isi dengan 10 gram isian : i.e., 1/2 lembar keju slice atau 1 sdt kacang cincang + 1 sdt coklat cincang
- taruh di loyang dengan jarak 1-2 cm di antara adonan, tutup loyang, biarkan hingga mengembang (kata resep 15-30 menit)
- olesi permukaan dengan susu 1 sdm + telur dikocok
- panggang 15 menit pada suhu 150 derajat / sampe kecoklatan.

Sang bulatan-bulatan roti sobek sebelum dipanggang:


Roti sobek keju :


Roti sobek coklat :


Close up roti sobek keju nan empuk :P