Showing posts with label cocoa powder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cocoa powder. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Vegan Apple Pie





Ingredients:

Filling:
3 Mclntosh Apples
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract


Crust:
350 gram All Purpose Flour
160 gram Apple Sauce
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Cocoa Powder
Green Food Colorant


Instruction:



Friday, September 20, 2013

Gift Box Cookies



Ingredients:


100 gram Unsalted Butter, cold
100 gram Sugar
1 cup All Purpose Flour
1 tablespoon Cherry Jam
1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder



Instruction:




1. Whisk butter and sugar together.






2. Add jam.





3. Sift in flour.  Mix the mixture into dough.






4. Dived the dough in halves.  Add cocoa poeder in one of the doughs.  Knead it until the colour well blended.

5. Place them into two separate zip bags.  Roll the purple dough into a 5mm sheet, and roll the cocoa dough into a 3mm sheet.  Refrigerate them until firm.





6. Cut the purple dough into 4 long strips.






7. Place one of the strips on top of the brown dough, messure, and cut out 2 brown strips with the same width and length.






8. Place a brown strip between two red strips.  Make 3 sets of these striped blocks.






9. Cut each block into halves .  You should have 6 striped blocks.








10.  Cut 3 brown strips in equal sizes.  Place each into two pieces of striped blocks.  Make 3 set of them.  Refridge them until firm.









11. Cut the strip blocks into equal size of cubes.  Place them on a baking sheet.








12. Cut the remining brown dough into a few thin strips, and then cut them into small traingles for the bows.  Place a tiny dough ball on each bow.

13. Bake for about 15 minutes at 335F/160C.



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Panda Butter Cookies




Ingredients: about 50 cookies


100 gram Unsalted Butter, room temperature
80 gram Sugar
1 Egg, whisked
120 gram Cake flour
1 teaspoon Cocoa Powder



Instruction:




1. Whisk the butter and the sugar together, until the mixture is soft and in pale yellow colour.  






2. Add in the egg, a little at a time.






3. Sift in the flour.  Mix it and form it into a dough with a spatula.






4. Take out 1/3 porton of the it and mix it with cocoa powder.  Wrap the doughs separately and then freeze them for at lease an hour before futher process.






Pre heat the oven to 355F/ 180C.

5. Take a teaspoon of the yellow dough.  Roll it into a ball shape.  Then, take a small porton of the cocoa dough, roll it into two small balls for the eyes and two oval shapes for the eyes.






6.  If the batch of panda cookie doughs are too soft by the time you finish the decoration, chill it for about five minutes.  Then, place it in the oven right away and bake for about 10 to 15 minutes.  Let the cookies cool compeletly before transfer them into an air-tight container. 

Thursday, September 19, 2013

No Bake recipe - Chocolate Hazelnut Cake




Ingredients: (for about 8-10 people)


Cake:
300 gram Arrow Root Biscuits
3/4 cup Chocoate Chips
5 tablespoons Hazelnut Spread
1 1/2 cup Salted Butter, room temperature
3/4 cup Condense Milk
2 tablespoons Icing Sugar
4 tablespoons Cocoa Powder

* For the biscuits, baby biscuits or digestive biscuits will also do here*


Topping:
1/2 cup Chocolate Chips
1/2 cups White Chocolate Chips
4 tablespoons Cream/ Whole Milk


Strawberry men:
6 Strawberries
1 Apple
5 gram Chocolate Chip




Instruction:




1. In a plastic bag, crush the 3/4 of the baby biscuits into fine powder, and crush the rest into bigger pieces.  Set it aside.






2. In a large bowl, mix the rest of the cake ingredients together with a spatular.  Microwave the mixture for 1 minute.  Take it out and stir it again until the mixture is well blended.






3. Add in the crushed biscuits.  Mix it again.






4. Pour the chocolate biscuit mixture into a round container.  With the spatular, spread and smooth out the top of the mixture.  Wrap it and chill it for at least two hours.






5. To make strawberry men, use a small metal measure spoon, scoop out six balls of apple.  Soak them in a bowl of salted water to prevent from turning brown.






6. With the same metal measure spoon, gently scoop out a ball from each strawberry.






7. Place an apple ball in the hole of a strawberry.  Finish six of them.  Pat dry the excessive juicy on the strawberry men with a paper towel.






8. Microwave the 5 gram of choclate chips for 40 seconds.  With a toothpick, draw a face on each strawberry.






9. Take out the cake from the fridge.  Loosen the cake by cutting the round edge of the cake with a kinfe.  Turn the container over to flop the cake over onto a serving container.


10. Microwave the ingredients of the topping for 1 minute.  Whisk it until well mixed.  Spread the mixture on the cake evenly.






11. Place the strawberry men on the cake as your perference.  Chill the cake until serving.

No Bake Lemon Cheesecake Dog




Ingredients:

Chocolate Cake:
2 tablespoons Chocolate Chips
20 gram Salted Butter
30 gram Cake Flour
1 Egg
1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder


Cream Cheese:
250 gram Cream Cheese
400 ml Condense Milk
1/3 cup Freshly squeeze Lemon Juice
15 gram Gelatine
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract


Milky Jelly Glaze:
400ml Whole Milk
15 gram Gelatine


Instruction:







Thursday, September 12, 2013

Lion Quesadillas







Ingredients:

Carrot dough:
2 cups Whole Wheat Flour
3/4 cups Carrot Puree
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking Powder


Wheat dough:
1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
30 ml Vegetable Oil
70 ml Water
1/8 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt

Decoration:
1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder


Filling:
2 tablespoons Corn
2 tablespoons Black Olives
2 tablespoons Black Beans



Instruction:



Monday, September 9, 2013

Microwave Chocolate Cake



Ingredients:
1 Egg
20 gram Unsalted Butter, soften
2 tablespoons Cake Flour
60ml Whole Milk
2 tablespoons Chocolate Chips
2 tablespoons Granulated Sugar
1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Powder



Instruction:


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Chickpea mice




Ingredients:


Dough:
350 gram Plain Wheat Flour 
40 gram Sugar
80 ml Water
1 Egg
2 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

Filling:
1 cup Canned Chickpea, drained
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/8 teaspoon Sea Salt

Decoration:
2 gram Cocoa Powder
Almond Flakes
2 tablespoons Cold Milk



instruction:




1. Mix together the chickpea with the brown sugar.  Let it sit for an hour.






2. Reheat the chickpea in an microwave.  When the chickpea is steaming hot, mash it with a potato mash with all the syrup, until it become paste.






3. To dry up the excessive syrup in the mashed chickpea and form a right consitency, heat the mashed chickpea in the microwave for 2 minute at a time, for about 6 to 7 minutes.  Stir it well between each heat.  The chickpea should be like wet sand.





  
4. Form a spoonful of chickpea into an olive shape.  it should be firm and not crumbly.  Finish forming all the chickpea as the filling.  Cover them with a damp towel and let them set aside.






5. In a medium bowl, mix together all the ingredients for the dough and form a slightly sticky dough.  Take a small piece of dough to mix with the cocoa.










6. Wet your hands again.  Take a piece of the white dough and stretch it until it is big enough to wrap a piece of the filling.  Seal it carefully.  Place the dough on a baking tray with the seal downward.





7. Reshape the head part of the mouse into a slight trangle.  Inset two pieces of almond flakes as the ears and stick three bean-size of cocoa doughs on the face as the eyes and the nose.  Randomly rib a thin layer of cocoa-water mixture on the body part to create the contrast of the hair.





8.  Bake the buns in the pre-heated oven at 180C/ 360F for 5 minutes.  After the outer layer of the buns dried up, brush a thin layer of cold milk on each and then bring them back to the oven to bake for another 10 minutes.  Serve in warm.