Cover [A-Lin 现在我很幸福]

Attached below is a cover done by me 2 days ago.

Cover by Venny [A-Lin 现在我很幸福]

Well, I admit it's not perfect. Still trying to improve on my vocal. Anyway, enjoy =)

Chocolate Brownie

Having a sudden craving for brownie, so I went to google some brownie recipes online. The recipe that I followed was from bestrecipes.com.au and it came out to be delicious! The brownie was crunchy at the outside and soft in the inside.

Here's the recipe for it.

Ingredients
125g butter
1 1/2 cups caster sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup plain flour (sifted)
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup white choc bits

Procedures
1. Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat.

2. Stir in the sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla essence and salt.

3. Remove it from heat and allow it to cool slightyly, then quickly whisk in the eggs.

4. Fold the mixture through the sifted flour and baking powder, and add in the white choc bits and mix well.

5. Spoon the mixture into the baking tray with baking paper on it.

6. Bake at 170C for about 25-30 minutes.

7. Allow the brownie to cool before cutting it into small pieces.

8. While serving on the next day or so, heat up the brownie for bout 15 seconds in the microwave and serve with vanilla ice cream.

It's very simple. Hope you like it =)

Cheers!

Apple Crumble with Custard

So, after watching My Kitchen Rules, I got inspired by Mick & Matt to try out their apple crumble with custard recipe but I did not use berries and coconut as used by them.

Well, here's the recipe.

Ingredients
Crumble:
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp plain flour
30g butter
45g (1/2 cup) rolled oats

Fruit Filling:
4 large/6 small granny smith apples, peeled, core removed and cut into small pieces
60ml water
80g brown sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Custard:
300ml thickened cream
125ml (1/2 cup) milk
3 tsp vanilla essence
4 egg yolks
75g (1/3 cup) caster sugar

Procedures
1. Preheat oven to 180C.

2. To make crumble, combine sugar and flour in a bowl. Add in butter and using your fingertips, rub in the butter to form crumbs. When butter is well combined with the mixture, add in the rolled oats until well-combined.

3. To make fruit filling, put apple, water and sugar in a large saucepan over medium heat and cook, stirring it occasionally, for 10 minutes or until apples are almost tender. Add in the cinnamon when sugar has completely melted.

4. Dish the fruit filling onto the baking tray and top with the crumble.

5. Bake, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes or until the top is lightly browned.

6. To make custard, put cream, milk and vanilla essence in a pot over low heat and cook, stirring for 10 minutes or until almost boiling. Set aside the mixture for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in another mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks and sugar until the mixture turns pale. Gradually whisk the hot cream mixture into the yolk mixture. Transfer the mixture into a clean pan and stirring it over medium-low heat for bout 10 minutes or until custard is thick enough.

7. Cut the apple crumble into your desire size and serve it with custard and vanilla ice cream.

Bad presentation =( Will try harder next time...

Enjoy the dessert. Hope you like it!

Tiramisu

Made tiramisu the other day! It's equally easy as the green tea tiramisu that I made before. Below are ingredients and steps that I followed and would like to share with you. Hope you like it =)

Ingredients

3 tablespoons of espresso
3 tablespoons of rum

500g Spongefingers

For Mascarpone Mixture:

3 Egg yolks

1/2 Cup of sugar

250g Mascarpone Cheese

1 Cup of fresh cream

1 Tbsp of vanilla essence

Procedures

1. Beat the egg yolks and sugar in a mixing bowl set over the water bath. Beat till the mixture turns pale yellow and has doubled in volume. After that, cool the mixture in an ice water bath.

2. In another mixing bowl, beat the mascarpone cheese until it becomes smooth and creamy. Don't overbeat it or it will become clumpy. But if that happens, don't worry as you can still smoothen it with the cream later on.

3. Next, fold the mascarpone cheese into the slightly cooled egg yolk mixture above (step 1).

4. In another separate bowl, whip the fresh cream to soft peaks. Add in vanilla essence into the cream.

5. Fold the mascarpone mixture (step 4) into the whipped cream until well blended.

6. Add in the espresso or coffee powder, together with rum, into a bowl of hot water. *Amount of espresso/coffee & rum is up to personal taste*

7. Dip each spongefinger into the brewed espresso (don't let it sit in too long as it will become very soggy and wet but do give it a second or two so that it gets a little softer). Place the dipped spongefingers onto the baking tray that you're using (I used pyrex dish).

8. Spread the mascarpone mixture on top of the dipped spongefinger, and repeat this until the dish is filled up. *It's up to you to put the spongefinger or a layer of mascarpone as the bottom later, but the top layer must be the mascarpone mixture!*

9. Refrigerate it for a couple of hours (preferably overnight) to let it set well.

10. Dust some cocoa powder on top of the tiramisu before serving.

*The final product*

So, just try it out yourself! It's awesome =)

Your feedbacks are most welcomed!

Cheers.

God Bless You!