Custard Puffs

Samuel rang me up asking if I was available on Labour Day to teach him and Michelle on how to make Mango Pomelo. I agreed. So they were here at my place on a sunny afternoon, learning to make this yummilicious dessert. I also showed them how to make custard puffs as well. Glad all turned out well.


Vanilla Custard Cream



Strawberry and Vanilla Custard Puffs


Ice-Cream Custard Filling Recipe
* recipe adapted from TW variety show.

Ingredients:
500gm Ice-cream (your choice of ice-cream flavor; Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate, Durian etc.)
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp plain flour

Methods:
1) Add ice-cream, egg yolk and plain flour in a cooking pot. Mix well.
2) On low fire, melt the ice-cream and stir constantly till mixture thicken and smooth.
3) Put aside and let it cool before piping into puffs. Serve chill.

黄金酥 aka Golden Sunshine

I tried out another recipe from the same cookbook, Y3K today. It has got a nice name, 黄金酥 aka Golden Sunshine.

I hand moulded the shape as I do not have a square mould. However, I found it too buttery for my liking and it taste kind of bitter. I am not sure what's wrong with it, maybe of the ingredients or maybe over baked. Somehow, I still prefer our local Pineapple Tarts. These are like pineapple cakes. I am just not used to the taste so I packed and gave all to my mum






I used the packaging that I bought during my recent trip to HKG in March this year.

梅花酥 - Winter Plum Blossom Flower Flaky Mooncakes

My colleague got me a Y3K Cookbook from Malaysia. It's all about making Mooncakes. I gave one of the recipes a try just now. The mooncakes were out from the oven not long ago, still hot.... will let it cool well before storage. Will get Hub to try it out tonite when he is back from his night shift later.


one recipe yields 16 big pieces


I simply adore the shape of this pastry that I decided to give it a try...



Look! It's so flaky!

Puff... Puff... Durian....Blueberry Puffs

Is Durian Season again! These were the puffs I made with the durian meat. I didn't puree the meat.. just using a fork to simply smash them....still can see the big chunks of meat in there *lol*

I made some blueberry filling puffs for my elder son who is not a fan of durians.

Dh's craving for Tau-Sar-Piah (with recipe)

dh craving for Lee Lee's tau-sar piah so i made some for him yesterday :wink: Thanks for the recipe, Lee.

Verdict: the green bean paste is very nice...love the flaky skin.






the bigger TSP is for dh to tapao to work for his breakfast this morning...

Shepherd's Pie

Brandon has been pestering me to make Shepherd's pie for him after he ate lee's one. So i made one last nite using part of Curly's recipe and followed lee, that is, used whatever i have in the fridge for the fillings. It took me pretty fast to get it done! The taste?? hmmm... not too bad lah! *hehe*

Fruit Tartlets & Egg Tartlets

Fruit Tartlets

Chocolate Tartlets (specially for younger ds)

Home made fruit tarlets are always the best. I love baking them for my family.

This simple fruit tartlet recipe is taken from a cookbook and I've modified slightly.

Base - Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
Ingred:-
100g butter
160g plain flour
40g icing sugar
1 egg
a few drops of vanilla essence


Method:
1) Preheat oven to 180C.
2) Beat butter & sugar till well combined. Stir in egg and vanilla essence.
3) Add flour to egg mixture. Mix to a dough. Chill for 1 hour.
4) Roll dough thinly and cut into circles using a fluted round cutter.
5) Press pastry circles into tart tins.
6) Trim off excess pastry. Prick evenly with a fork.
8) Bake empty abt 15mins. Keep aside to cool.

Filling
Ingred:-
2 tbsps custard powder
120 ml milk
60g granulated sugar (i reduce to 40g)

Method:
1) Cook custard powder, milk and sugar over low heat.
2) Stir till boils and thickens. Leave it to cool.
3) Spoon mixture into empty tarts.
4) Decorate with fruits and brush with apricot jam.

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All time family favourites. Big Momma's Egg Tartlets. Thanks BM.