Hamburger buns, brown sugar plain loaf and.... whoof.... whoof....

I am getting a little lazy in posting these few days but still enthusiastically engaged in my baking rituals. So what have I baked? As usual, I cannot get by without baking breads. I have just bought a bottle of peanut butter spread and thus decided that I should bake something simple and plain so as to make good use of the peanut butter. These humdrum hamburgers may look unenticing but they surely will taste different with a generous spread of peanut butter sandwiched between. The brown sugar plain bread alike... yummy!

And then there are these cute little doggy cookies that I simply had to have my hands on making them. They are just so adorable and tasty!

Ingredients:

180g butter
80g horlicks
200g plain flour
25g corn flour
25g milk powder
some chocolate rice, chocolate chips and Koko Krunch

Method:
Pre-heat oven to 140deg C. Sieve flour, corn flour and milk powder.
Cream butter and Horlicks for about three minutes at low speed. Do not overbeat.
Mix in flour, cornflour and milk powder to form dough.
Divide dough into 10g each and roll into balls.
Use two pieces of Koko Krunch to form the 'ears', chocolate rice for the "eyes", and a chocolate chip in the centre for the 'nose'. Bake at 140 deg C for about 25 minutes.

Orange butter cake

One of the butter cakes on my radar but never to got to bake it. Finally, today I got down to bake this cake for my relatives. But I think I had used the wrong pan size resulting in the height of the cake a tad too low. However, I find the taste good and I hope they will like the tingy and refreshing orange taste and smell.

Coffee Bread

Remember the craze over 'coffee boy' some years back? It is coffee bread topped with a layer of biscuit like crust with the decadent butter oozing out when you bite the bread. It took bread lovers by storm and long queues could be seen outside the sales counter. Somehow, the popularity has tapered. Nonetheless, I still love this bread but without the encased butter as I feel it is a bit overpowering. I prefer just the topping with the coffee bread. I made the bread into 2 big pieces in the shape of heart. It is best eaten about an hour after it's baked because the topping is still a little crispy and the bread soft. A great treat for tea break and breakfast!

Black Ku Kueh (with saltish bean paste)

As mentioned in my previous post, I love ang ku kueh with saltish bean paste. Normally, these kuehs come with black skin instead of the traditional red. I still have some bean paste left after making my previous batch of ang ku kuehs. So today, I decided to go for the saltish version. After mixing the skin dough, I was worried that the colour was too pale. Luckily, after steaming, the colour deepened and viola, I got the colour I wanted and the 'black ku kueh'.

Carrot Bread

One of my favourite breads got to be this carrot bread. I first knew of carrot bread was when I chanced upon it at Breadtalk some years back. It was selling at around $2.50 to $3 for just half a loaf! What an expensive bread considering carrots are not any exquisite ingredient. So when I started baking my own bread, I made this one of my to bake list. I am quite pleased with the result and best of all, it is cheap and healthy!

  

Ang Ku Kueh

I like ang ku kuehs, the sweet or the saltish ones alike. The most tedious part in making ang ku kueh should be the preparation of the filling. You probably will need 2 days to prepare, one for soaking the mung beans and the other to fry the filling. After that, the actual process is actually quite a breeze and fun. I prefer homemade ones to those commercial ones as the latter are a tad too oily for me. So these are the ang ku kuehs I have made today.

Pullman Bread

This is a plain pullman bread. The texture is soft and the taste milky. I think it will taste great with jam but I prefer to eat it just plain or dipped into a cup of hot cuppa. Yes, it is so good that you can eat it on its own....