Category Archives: Cakes

How To Bake Carrot Cake With A Breadmaker

The last time i used my breadmaker was when i was still pregnant with Gordon. he’s 8 years old now, LOL!!!! I keep reminding myself that i must somehow bake something with it. I dunno what got into me one night, i went and bake a carrot cake with it instead of bread, haha. Well, maybe it’s because i’ve never used the cake function before. And so……..

Ingredients for Breadmaker Carrot Cake

I got all the ingredients needed to bake a carrot cake.

Batter in the breadmaker without carrots and ground almond

Dumped everything into the breadmaker and let it do the mixing for me.

Carrots & ground almond added to the batter

Added the carrots and ground almond to the batter after 5 minutes of mixing.

Gordon the investigator

Here’s Gordon, checking out the contents of the breadmaker before the actual cycle starts. Oh gawd….. it takes 2 hrs 50 minutes for the whole cycle to complete. Compared to an hour when baked with an oven!!!

Carrot cake inside breadmaker

And this is how the carrot cake looks like as soon as the breadmaker beeped and with its lid off. Wuah….. the aroma wafting up is mmMmMmMmmMMMmMMMMmMmm. Checked with a skewer and nothing’s stuck to it. Finger test all springy and firm. PASS.

Carrot cake cooling on rack

The bottom of the cake is rather dark although i set the crust setting to “light”.

Carrot cake made with a breadmaker

Texture wise, really not bad worrrrr…..

Soldiers guarding breadmaker carrot cake

According to Malcolm, my 5 year old, his bravest soldiers will guard the carrot till he wakes up the next morning, LOL. Geeeee…. i just love cooking and baking for my family. So, if you have a breadmaker sitting somewhere in your kitchen, go bake something with it. The best part of it is that you can leave the mixing to the breadmaker. Less washing to do if you have to take your miser out, right. Just remember to make sure your butter is really soft and not stuck to the bottom of the pan. One more thing, pull the paddle out once the mixing cycle stops so that you wont get that huge hole under your cake.

Add comment | October 2, 2011 - 11:21 pm | admin

Steamed Butter Cake Recipe

It’s a long weekend for folks in Malaysia. We’re all celebrating Deepavali holidays at home since hubby isnt home for the weekend. The kids still woke up early at 8am despite today being a public holiday. What to do, have to follow suit. Lucky for me MIL bought breakfast of wantan meen for us. :)

Steamed Butter Cake - Getting ingredients ready

Malcolm’s been bugging me to buy him a cake since last night. He saw his brother’s Children’s Day Celebration pics on the phone and wanted to have too. I remembered the Dutch Oven in the kitchen and went to rummage the fridge for ingredients. I wanted to try steaming a Butter Cake with it. Malcolm’s a lucky boy today. I have everything needed for a Steamed Butter Cake!!! You can see them all in the pic above.

Ingredients:

A) 280g butter
240g sugar

B) 4 eggs

C) 300g flour
2 1/2 tbsp double action baking powder

D) Some chopped Toblerone chocolate ( or whatever you fancy. Can be raisins or nuts)

Method:

1) Lightly grease and line a 20cm round mould

2) Beat A until light and fluffy. Add in B slowly, and cream till smooth and light.

3) Add in sieved C, mix until well-blended.

4) Pour batter into greased mould. Add D to it and mix it a bit.

5) Steam for 70 minutes.

6) Leave the cake aside for 5 minutes before taking it out of the mould. Best served warm.

Steamed Butter Cake With Toblerone inside

Here’s the Steamed Butter Cake batter all ready for the Dutch Oven. (I halved the ingredients as i only have a 15cm mould. If you intend to do that, the 70 minutes steaming time remains the same, ok.)

Steamed Butter Cake in the Dutch Oven

Placed it into the Dutch Oven at 5.35pm on high. (water in the pot already at boiling point when i placed the cake mould in)

Steamed Butter Cake @ 10 minutes

At 5.45pm, i turned the heat down to low. I placed the mould in slightly to one side of the Dutch Oven. Dare not open the cover to adjust it as i was afraid it might interfere with the steaming process due to temperature change. I’ll be more careful next time.

Steamed Butter Cake @ 25 mins

At 5.50pm, i can see that it’s rising beautifully albeit a little high on the left side, lol.

Steamed Butter Cake Ready @ 70 mins

As the recipe calls for a 70 minutes steaming time, i turned the heat off and left the butter cake inside the Dutch Oven for a short while. The first time i steamed my corn cake, i took the lid off the wok as soon as i turned the heat off and the cake just shrunk, LOL!!!! Smarter now.

Malcolm looking at the steamed butter cake anxiously

And here’s a very anxious-looking Malcolm waiting for his steamed butter cake.

Malcolm helping to cool the cake to cool down, lol.

Beh tahan liao….. started blowing at the cake to help it cool down faster, LOL. CUTE!!!!

Steamed Butter Cake. Perfectly Steamed.

And this is Malcolm’s Steamed Butter Cake with chopped up Toblerone in it. Yummmssss…… have some?

Steamed Marbled Butter Cake 2

This is the Steamed Marble Butter Cake my friend, Keyna, made with my recipe. She replaced the Toblerone with Hershey’s Choc Syrup. See how beautiful the cake turned out.

Steamed Marbled Butter Cake

Here’s another pic of the cake. She said she whacked it all up!!!!!!! So, go try the recipe out. Dont forget to send me a pic so i can add it to this post.

Add comment | November 5, 2010 - 9:15 pm | admin

Doraemon Cake

I shouldnt call this a Doraemon Cake. It’s only a small Doraemon figurine placed on top of the cake to trick kids into getting their parents to buy it for them. I had to fork out Rm6 for it just so my kid wont scream the whole Parkson down, damn. The darn cake doesnt even taste good. It’s crumbly, and the chocolate rice is so dry and hard. The cream is lousy, and the cake is a tad too sweet for my liking. And no, the flowers arent edible. My kids stopped eating after a few bites and of course, Doraemon came home with us. And yes, i know what you’re about to ask me. I bought this lousy lump of crap from Gooey at Parkson. For the time being, i’ll classify this as Dog Food.

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Add comment | August 12, 2009 - 12:53 am | admin

Black Canyon Coffee Strawberry Cake

We had this super delicious Strawberry Cake at Black Canyon Coffee yesterday. It’s such a hot day that we didnt really feel like staying at home. We didnt stay long at Jusco either as there was an event going on at the concourse area and both kids wanted to play there. Dont want them jumping about right after a meal.

Hubby bought a big cheesecake from the bakery at the supermarket section. It’s all gone now, lol. Anyway, i’m not going anywhere tonight as there’s a new drama series starting. We’re all staying home to watch A Great Way To Care online. Let’s hope this new drama series is as good as the strawberry cake i had. Enjoy.

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5 comments | June 8, 2009 - 7:28 pm | admin

Nancy Chong Butter Cake – Ipoh

You’re looking at one of the most delicious butter cakes money can buy in Ipoh. It’s none other than the famous Nancy Chong’s Butter Cake. She makes great fruit cakes too.My kids dont fancy Nancy Chong’s fruit cake. My mom loves it though. My sis bought her one for Mother’s Day. I only had one bite, lol.

Nancy Chong Butter Cake Ipoh

I bought this yesterday. It’s inside the fridge now. I dont think it’ll last very long. I’m always tempted to go cut myself a piece every now and then. Gordon’s 1st birthday cake (2004) was by Nancy Chong, in the shape of a Mickey Mouse. The cake was bigger than him, lol. Isnt Gordon’s Mickey Mouse Cake gorgeous? (i think the mader’s more gorgeous :p)

Gordon's 1st Birthday Party

Nancy Chong’s butter cake was all the rage when i was a little girl. Moms will commission Nancy Chong to bake their kids a butter cake for their birthdays. She gets lots of orders for wedding cakes too. Well, if you want to try Nancy Chong’s Butter Cake, you can call this number. +605 – 2544384. Believe you me, one is never enough.

5 comments | May 29, 2009 - 3:14 pm | admin