Chocolate Cheese Tart

Favorite tart with favorite books

one is never enough for this chocolate cheese tart. I like it so much.

the cream cheese make it creamy and chocolate make it rich. nom nom..

 

Nothing much to say just going to the recipe 

Chocolate Cheese Tart

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Ingredients
Crust
100 gr all purpose flour
50 gr margarine
½ egg
Filling
50 gr cream cheese, room temperature
20 gr Dark Cooking Chocolate, melted
1tbsp castor sugar
1tbsp 60g butter
half egg

Method

1. Mix flour and margarine using fork / pastry knife until it look like a fine breadcrumbs
2. add the egg into the pastry to form a dough
3. Place into zip lock/bowl and chill in the fridge for 15 minutes
4. once the pastry dough is firm, mold the pastry into tart case. poke a tiny hole gently with a fork inside the tart base
5. Bake at preheated 200C oven for about 15minutes
6. Prepare the filling, cream the cream cheese with butter until light with electric handmixer, add in melted chocolate and egg continue mix just until well combine, don't over mix.
7. Pipped / spoon the filling to the baked tart case, and bake for another 10 minutes at 180degC
8. It is make about 7 - 5 cm base tart case

French Almond Cake with Honey & Almond Crust Topping

Good Morning everyone..

It Monday and raining here, really feels the blue monday, just wanna lazy~ing in my bed 

Several month ago (yes, it several month ago,its a late post) i have baked this french almond cake, trying experiencing cake with much amount of almond meal and small amount of flour, i get the recipe for the almond cake from happy home baking but i slightly change the method (i beat egg whites separately until stiff peak). and i topped this almond cake with honey crust almond topping, get the recipe from nasil lemak lover. 

Fresh from the oven

This french almond cake is really yummy is so moist and light, but too sweet for me, i will reduce amount of sugar from the cake. but if you want to try making this cake, i suggest don't reduce the amount of sugar because me and my family  sweet liked it below standard.. hahahahha

French almond Cake

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makes one 20cm cake

Ingredients
Almond Cake
110gr margarine
100 gr sugar
3 egg yolk
3 egg whites
90g ground almonds
40g all purpose flour
1/2 tsp BP
1 tbsp milk
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
Honey and almond crust
45gr almond slices
25gr honey
15gr butter

Method

1. Pre-heat oven at 180 C. Grease with margarine and flour the sides of a 20cm pan, line the base with parchment paper, set aside.
2. Place butter, sugar in a mixing bowl, beat until light and creamy.
3. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well. add in ground almond, flour, BP and milk, mix and combine well 
4. In a separate clean and grease free bowl, beat egg white until soft peak Take 1/3 portion of egg whites mixture, stir well to the batter. 
5. Fold in 2/3 portion of egg whites to the batter using spatula until well combine Slowly pour the batter to the cake pan, and bake for 30 - 40 minutes in middle rack. (when you inserted skewer to the cake it comes out clean). 
6. Prepare the honey and almond crust topping, add butter, honey and almond slices into a shallow saucepan. Heat to melt the butter and honey, ensuring that the almond slices are well-coated with the honey-butter mixture. 
7. Top the cake with honey & almond crust, bake for another 8 minutes until the almonds are well roasted and golden brown

Xiao Long Bao - No Recipe

Quite a few months ago, i am trying making xiao long bao, i am curios of this kind dumpling which have a soup inside. i found a few easy xiao long bao recipe from many food blog both domestic or foreign food blog, my keyword when i was searching is easy xiao long bao. so i combine few recipe for making the skin, filling and pudding stock.

I can say my first attempt for this xiao long bao is quite a failure, the outside skin is too dry, for the filling i can't stuff a lot of pudding stock inside. i got trouble with the pudding stock while i am using gelatine and some chicken stock it melts fast in room temperature. so my xiao long bao doesn't have soup inside when xiao long bao is typical soup dumplings or soup inside the dumplings.

Despite of all trouble while making xiao long bao, the filling is very delicious. Really, we finish it as soos as its cooks.
Pardon me, i am not sharing any recipe here because i don't think i already find a good recipe to make xiao long bao. any of you have a good xiao long bao recipe and tips for making good xiao long bao recipe? Mind sharing? hehehe