Carrot cake

I was sent home by my Charge Nurse because of the low census.Blame it on the festive season.But hey I'm not complaining anything. :)

So I decided to bake some cake today,something new.
And wallaa..Carrot cake pops up in my mind.Plus my brother advise to eat more vegetable.
So I'm baking a healthy cake. :P

Goggle for the recipe.
*The wonder of googling*

And decided to try one from Joy Of Baking.

One word.
Divine!!

So here is my version of carrot cake.

1 cup of walnuts.

2 1/2 cups of grated carrot.

2 cups of all purpose flour.

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/12 teaspoon baking powder.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon.

4 large eggs.

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar.

1 cup vegetable oil.

2 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Cream cheese frosting.

1/4 cup butter.

227 gram of cream cheese.

2 cups icing/confectionery sugar.

1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest.

1.Preheat the oven at 180 Celsius and grease the pans.

2.Toast the nuts till its lightly brown and fragrant.Let it cool and chop it coarsely.

3.Whisk the flour,salt,baking soda,baking powder,cinnamon.Set aside.

4.Beat the eggs till it turns frothy with mixer.

5.Gradually add the sugar and beat it till the batter turns thick and light in colour.

6.Add the oil slowly and beat it together with vanilla extract.

7.Add the flour mixture.Beat it till mix together.

8.With spatula mix together the carrot and chopped walnuts.

9.Pour the mixture to the pan and bake for 45 minutes or till the center of the cakes comes out clean.

once bake remove and let it cool.

slice the cake into 2.*if you want too*

Cream cheese frosting.

1.Mix the butter and cheese together with mixer.Beat with low speed till no lumps.

2.Gradually add in the icing sugar.

3.Once mix well,add in the vanilla extract and lemon zest.

Once the cake is cool.Spread the frosting on top of both cakes and sandwich it together.

Ready to eat!!

I brought the cake to my ward to get some review and here is what my charge nurse have to say.Apparently her favorite cake is carrot cake.Perfect person to comment.

The frosting is too sweet to her liking.She advise to cut down the sugar to 1 cup and add more of the cheese, probably till 300 gram.

Don't grate the carrot to fine.Can't really see the carrot.

But the rest of the cake..THUMBS UP. *beaming with pride*

Butter cake.

Decided to bake butter cake today for 'berbuka puasa'.Anyway its my housemate favourite cake.

Butter cake was the first cake I ever tried to bake and I still remember how my first cake looks like.
The top part was burnt.LOL.
Since then it was trial and error with the oven temperature.

And I have to say, I just love to bake butter cake because its so damn easy.

The original recipe comes from rasamalaysia.com

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups of multipurpose flour
1 1/4 cups of sugar * I only use 1 cup.Too much sugar is not good anyway but then if you have sweet tooth go ahead*
3/4 cups of fresh milk.
3/4 cup of butter,softened *I use 200 gm of butter*
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs.
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Preheat oven at 180 Celsius

Mix all the ingredients and beat till its fluffy and smooth.

Grease the loaf pan with butter.

Pour the batter into the pan and bake it for 50-60 minutes.
Use the fork as tester.Insert it into the center of the cake.If its clean its done if not try to bake for another few more minutes.

Serve with hot tea/coffee.

Chocolate lava cake.

Yesterday I was so disappointed that my lava cake was a failure..just because of 50gm of flour.
So today I keep on reminding myself don't forget to add the flour..don't forget the flour.

Anyway today I proudly to present you with my yummylicous lava cake..yum..yum..


So here's the recipe.
Serving for 2.
Got the recipe from videojug.com

100 gram of dark chocolate.Only dark chocolate.NO white chocolate.
100 gram of butter.
100 gram of sugar
50 gram of flour.
3 eggs.
cocoa powder.If not can substitute with Milo.Cocoa powder can be kinda pricey.And you would only using teeny weeny amount only.
Some butter to grease the aluminium ramekins or whatever container/cups you want to bake it with.Make sure oven proof.
Vanilla ice cream.

1.Set the oven to 200 celcius.

'Steaming' the chocolate

2.Cut into cubes the butter and chocolate.Place it over in a bowl  over  a saucepan with half or quarter full of water.ala-ala steaming the chocolate and butter.So it will melts together.Stir occasionally.

3.In another bowl mix the 3 eggs and sugar together.Beat it until the sugar dissolve.

4.While waiting for the butter and chocolate to melts,grease the cups with butter.Generously please..
After that take some cocoa powder and put inside the cups.Turn it around so it will coats the cups.

5.Pour the chocolate/butter mixture into the egg mixture.Mix together.Add in flour.
Do all of the steps quickly because the chocolate mix will start to cool down.

6.Pour into the cups.

7.Put it into the oven and bake around 6-8 minutes.
The edge should be cooked but centre should be soft.

Put into the plate.Be careful not to tap it too hard.if not the centre would break and the chocolate filling would leak out..*like mine*
Serve with ice cream.Yummy!!!