Yuu's Food Diary

Ever see a lunchbox cake anywhere on IG, FB, or Youtube? I bet you do. It is small, pretty, and has a simple pipping design. It's been triggering me a while. Most of the recipes using sponge cake as a base. As the laziest person I am, I'm thinking about using microwave cake. Simple, easy, and the fastest way to get a cake. Normally it will be a 4-inches cake, but in my house, I try my best to find the smallest microwavable container I can. There isn't much that I can share in this 'Lunchbox Cake' Just my No Egg Microwave Chocolate Cake recipe and some leftover cream and chocolate ganache that I experiment in another dessert (which will update in the future once I have my free time). Just in case for reference, I share the 'Not' exact amount of ingredients and steps to this lunchbox cake. Ingredients: Microwave Chocolate cake ( https://yuufooddiary.blogspot.com/2020/10/no-egg-microwave-chocolate-cake.html ) 100ml whipping cream 60g cream cheese 2tbsp condense...

 My next mooncakes making is 'Piggy Mooncake'. My all times favorite types of mooncakes. It tastes very simple. It kinda tastes like molasses soft cookies. Even making this is very simple and easy. Not much of the ingredients and techniques you have to know. All you can do is mix everything, rest the dough, shape it, and bake.  Although it is called piggy mooncakes, in Chinese 猪仔饼/公仔饼, you can literally shape anything you like. Back in the days, what I saw was they shape into a pig and pack with a net shape packaging. But now, you can see it comes in different shapes. Well, since I don't have any fancy mooncake mold and I just do in a very little batch, so I just shape it with my bare hand. The most simple shape I can think of is fish.  The recipe I used is from Kitchen 101 but cut in half and a little modified. Ingredients: 100g low flour 60g golden syrup 1tsp alkaline water 3tbsp of beaten egg (for egg wash) 6 chocolate chips for eyes deco (can make 6 fishes) Steps: Mix...

 I've been doing a lot of online shopping lately (mostly window shopping) and found out there is a shop that sells powders. Various types of powders including food grade powders. I always want to buy different types of food powders that can dye my food in a more natural way instead of those food gel/food clouring.  When comes to those 'natural food powders' it always costs you quite expensive and has to buy in bulk. I kinda hesitate since I don't do a lot of baking that requires me to make it cute or pretty. I'm a simple and lazy person. If you want me to make something that needs effort, I need a plan and a lot of thinking. Of course, when you scroll through Instagram with people posting something amazing cartoonish/vibrant food/dessert, I am very anticipating trying it my own. And one more reason is that I always mess up something during the process. It may look good in the beginning then something was missing out or taste bad at the end. Well since there is an 8....

The day is the day (by the time I write this blog it is already passed a few weeks) that my desire to crave a cake so badly. I look at the fridge and found some leftover plain yogurt (not much left) and a few apples in it, so I'm thinking why not make an apple cake without milk instead of using yogurt. Since the plain yogurt of mine is not much left so I'm not planning to make it a big cake. Also, I have a big oven, to bake such little is gonna time-consuming and waste of electricity. Thus, I look at my air fryer and thinking maybe this could work.  I have seen so many Facebook post/youtube people baking cake with air fryer, so I want to see if this works. By the end result, it is indeed able to bake a cake! Further talking, lets straight jump to the recipe.  Ingredients: 30g salted butter 20g vegetable oil (or skip this just use full salted butter) 65g granulated sugar 1 egg (L size) 1/2tsp vanilla essence 62g plain yogurt 90g low protein flour/cake...

From the previous post, I've mentioned that i will be using the remaining pandan juice in the 2nd recipe. And thus, here it is, pandan roll cake with kaya filling(store-bought). Ingredients: 3 egg yolks 35g vegetable oil 35ml pandan juice 10ml coconut milk a pinch of salt 50g cake flour 3 egg whites 60g granulated sugar kaya (store-bought) Steps: Prepare a 23cm x 27cm , 2.5cm(tall) rectangular cake tin with parchment paper in it. Mix thoroughly the oil + pandan juice +coconut milk +salt. Add yolks and mix until combined. Sift in cake flour and mix until no flour can be seen. Beat the egg whites, gradually add in the sugar in 3 portions until soft peak. Take 1/3 portion of meringue and fold in yolks batter. Then pour back to the meringue and fold until combine. Pour the cake batter in the cake pan. Bake in a preheated oven 180°C for 20min. Once done baking, take out the cake from the pan to cool. Prepare a new and larger parchment paper (a...

A friend of my mom gave us a bunch? a bush? of pandan leaves. With this much of pandan leaves, we don't know what to do about it. All i could think is about cake, kuih and steam rice. So, I come out about 2 different types of cake today, but not kuih coz i don't really like to steam things as my gas stove's 'fire power' isn't that good. The final products alway came out with fail. So i'm gonna skip that.  Further blabbing, let's straight to the 1st recipe. Ingredients: 30g pandan leaves 100ml water 55ml pandan juice 20ml Santan(coconut milk)/ plain milk 25g vegetable oil 4 egg yolks 1/8tsp salt 80g cake flour 4 egg whites 60g granulated sugar Steps: Blend the pandan leaves+water. Squeeze and sift it 2 times to get pure pandan juice. Weigh the pandan juice and set aside.  Preheat the oven to 160°C. In a bowl, whisk the yolk thoroughly, add salt + vegetable oil + pandan juice + santan and mix it until all combined....

Alright, not gonna blabling at here let's straight to the recipe. Recipe from:   https://youtu.be/C8SvF8P5WeQ This is a bread recipe. Since i like bread texture and cinnamon, so I just take the idea from cinnamon rolls n add into here. Ingredients: Bread dough 250g high protein/ bread flour 25g sugar 3g instant yeast 20g salted butter (the recipe used unsalted) 110ml milk 1 egg (M size) Filling (less sweet ver. Feel free to add more sugar if you have a sweet tooth) 1 1/tbsp cinnamon powder 25g brown sugar 10g granulated sugar 30g butter (soften) Frosting 60g cream cheese 5tbsp powdered sugar 1tbsp milk 1/4tsp vanilla extract Steps: 1. Put everything into a bow except butter and knead to form a dough. 2. Add in butter and knead until it becomes a smooth dough. 3. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit in room temperature for an hour or double in size.  *As for me, i knead the dough before hand ...

My mom bought 2 mangos today and it was way too ripe. Before she tried to cut it and eat, I quickly stop her because I said I want to make a mango cake today. The first comes to my mind is that non-bake mango cheesecake but I always mess up with the gelatin part, it always come out soupy and not solid. Ban that idea, then come to the second idea. There it is, the mango Hokkaido cheesecake. Little complicated steps but the result reward you.  Ingredients: Chiffon cake 4 egg yolks (M size) (room temp) 10g granulated sugar 40g corn oil 45g mango puree 30ml evaporated milk/ regular milk (room temp) 80g cake flour 10g corn starch 4 egg whites  40g granulated sugar Cream  (failed) 35g cream cheese (room temp) 3tbsp mango puree 100ml whipping cream 1tbsp condensed milk Mango sauce 4tbsp mango puree 2tsp lime juice 2tsp sugar 1tsp water 1/2tsp  corn starch  Some mango cubes  Steps: 1. Prehea...