Nobaked Strawberry Mini Cheesecake

Found this mousse cups from Phoon Huat and just have to get it. Cost $0.80 each, I bought a set of 20s and simply love it. 


Use the moose cup to make some mini strawberry cheesecakes and brought it to a gathering and it was a hit! The kids love it and kept asking me to post the recipe up in my blog so they can make it.  Its actually a really easy cheesecake to make, even small kid like my Baby FAN could make it. She actually help me crush the cookies and spoon in the cream cheese mixture.  Here's the recipe:

Mini Strawberries No baked Cheesecake



Ingredients
Crust

• 150g Orea Cookies/digestive biscuits
• 60g butter, melted

Filling

• 2 packet of Philadelphia Cream Cheese (8oz)
• 3/4 cup of whipped cream
• 1/2 cup or 125g powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice

Topping

• I cheated and used a canned Strawberry Pie Filling instead

Directins

1. Put orea cookies (remove the cream inside) in a ziplock bag and get the kids to smash it until it resemble fine bread crumbs. Mix the crumbs into melted margarine until well incorporated. Press into individual moose cups. Put in refrigerator.
2. Beat together the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and lemon juice in a bowl until smooth and spreadable.  Wisked the whipping cream until peak. Then fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture until smooth. Pour cream cheese mixture into moose cups lined with the crumbs. Smooth the top with a spatula, and refrigerate until firm, about 2 to 3 hours. Pour strawberry pie filling over and chilled.
3. I made about 20 mini cakes.

Pizza using Wraps

Found this Gardenia Wraps while shopping at NTUC Fairprice and thought I tried using this wraps as pizza base.



The outcome....fantastic.  Loves how the wraps crisp up and it was so thin and light.  I added pork floss and "Bak Kwa" on the pizza and the kids love....it.  Definitely going to do more pizzas from now on.  It's super easy and tasty.  The wraps also comes in wholemeal ones so the pizza can also be healthy too (if I put the healthy toppings lah...like onions, tomato, vegetables etc..) 

Oh ya, I almost forgot to mention this.  Instead of the store bought pizza sauce, I actually made my own by adding sugar to a can of tomato paste.  Mix it to taste...the sauce tasted soooo much better then those pizza sauce that I bought.  Here's how the pizza looks like.  Enjoy!


By the way, for those of you who wants to make an exact replica of this pizza, here's what I did.

Easy Pizza

Ingredients

• Pork floss
• Bak Kwa, cut into pieces
• Shredded Mozzerella Cheese
• Tomato Paste
• Sugar
• Mayonese
• Ham, cut into pieces
• Onion, cut into small pieces
• Gardenia Wraps

Directions

1. Put 1 piece of Gardenia Wrap in a flat plate.
2. Mix Tomato Paste and sugar until the desired taste.  Then spread a thin layer on the wrap.
3. Spread some mayonese (optional)
4. Sprinkle the onion, the ham, the bak kwa and the pork floss on top.
5. Cover pizza with a generous toppings of mozzerella cheese.
6. Baked in the oven for about 10 minutes or less. Check constantly, the pizza is ready when the cheese melt and the crust is crisp. 
7. Served hot!  Enjoy!

Scones

Big FAN loves scones.  So tried baking some for him  This recipe that I use baked almost like 10 small scones.  As the kids don't really like it and Big FAN can only gobble up 2.  I have to just chuck the remainder in the fridge.  And guess what I ate scones for tea break for like 3 consecutive days....still love it though....hi hi...  Here's the recipe, can't really remember where I got it from.  But enjoy!


Easy Scones

Ingredients

• 375 g all-purpose flour
• 100 g white sugar
• 25 g baking powder
• 3 g salt
• 170 g butter
• 1 egg, beaten
• 235 ml milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Cut in butter. Mix the egg and milk in a small bowl, and stir into flour mixture until moistened.
3. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead briefly. Roll dough out into a 1/2 inch thick round. Cut into 8 wedges, and place on the prepared baking sheet.
4. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

Fluffy Pancakes for Kids Lunchbox

Ok, this post is way late.  But here's what I have been cooking.  My SMALL FAN loves pancakes, so have been making this for his snack box to bring to school.   Enjoy!


Here's the recipe:

Fluffy Pancakes
Ingredients:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/4 cup melted butter or canola oil

Directions

1. In a small bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Combine the egg, milk and shortening; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
2. Pour batter by 1/4 cupful onto a greased hot griddle. Cook under low heat. Turn when bubbles form on top of pancakes; cook until the second side is golden brown.

Happycall - Salmon Patties

Purchased this latest Korean Craze double fry pan from Gmarket and just have to give it a try.  Had been frying fish with it but I thought, this time I'm going to use it for something else.  So I invented my own recipe of Salmon meat, mashed potatoes, spring onion, salt, pepper, sesame oil, lemon juice. I called it the Salmon patties. It's actually tasted quite yummy....

Milo Cupcakes

My SMALL FAN has recently started swimming class. So we make it a family outing every saturday to go swimming together Hubby, Mommy & Baby FAN (while SMALL FAN is in his swimming class).  After swimming however, the kids get really hungry and is always asking for food.  So decided to baked some cupcakes so that I could bring it to the pool and they can eat it after the swim.  Modified my chocolate oatmeal cupcakes recipe and replace the cocoa with Milo, and wah lah....MILO Cupcakes...Yum.

Milo Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup butter (115g)
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 of raw sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup all-purpose flour (I use self-raising flour)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda (opmitted this since I'm using self raising flour)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons Milo
• Mixed Nuts (for decorations)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 8x8 inch pan.

2. In a large bowl, mix together the rolled oats and butter. Mix in boiling water. Set aside to cool.

3. Beat together the brown sugar, eggs and vanilla; add to cooled oat mixture and mix well.

4. Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and milo. Add to wet ingredients and mix well. Pour into cupcakes cup and put a whole nuts in each cupcakes.

5. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven, allow to cool, and remove pan

Ipoh Hor Fun

My Baby FAN has recently been crazy over Hor Fun (white noodles).  She can eat Hor Fun for breakfast, for lunch and for dinner.  So, instead of eating Fishball Hor Fun soup very day, I tried to look for other ways which I can cook the Hor Fun.  Saw this Ipoh Hor Fun recipe from Simply Her magazine, it looks pretty easy, so I give it a try.  It was really easy, I manage to cook it in 30 mins and the verdict...hands up from everyone in the family!  Am definitely going to cook this again.

Here's the recipe (copied from Simply Her)..

Ipoh Hor Fun (serves 4)
Ingredients

• 1/2 medium-sized chicken, rinsed (I only use 1 chicken thigh as my kids are not into chicken)
• 750ml chicken stock
• 200ml water
• 1kg Ipoh Hor Fun
• 2 stalks cai xin
• 100g beansprouts
• 300g char siew, sliced
• 1/2 stalk spring onion, finely chopped
• 2 pieces of fish cake, sliced

For the Hor Fun sauce

• 4 Chinese mushrooms, soked in warm water for 30 mins, drined, with stems removed, and sliced
• 1 tbsp light soya sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp corn flour
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt

Directions

1. Place the chicken, chicken stock and water into a pot. Bring to boil and simmer over low heat for 25 min.
2. Transfer the chicken to a plate. Skin, debone and shred the meat. Set aside.
3. Add all the ingredients for the hor fun sauce into the cooked chicken stock.  Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 5min until it thickens.
4. Warm up the fish cakes.
5. In a pot of boiling water, cook the hor fun, cai xin and beansprouts together for 1 min.
6. Transfer them equally into 4 bowls. Top with char siew, fish cakes, the shredded chicken and spring onions.
7. Pour the hor fun sauce over. Serve immediately.

Donut in a Box

Bought this box from the supermarket as the box cover looks just too good to miss.  So, tried making this donut from the box mix.  I just need to add egg and mix with the box mixture.  The only time consuming part is frying it.  The donuts turn out quite nice and yummy. It comes with a packet of cinnamon sugar for coating the donut. Very tasty.   Give it a try, it's a great thing to bring for a pot luck party :)



The donut looks super cute in the fryer


Cinnamon coated donuts with my own chocolate sauce decorated donuts (I basically just melt a few pieces of chocolate, put it in a piping bag and piped it.


Here's the inside of the donut, it looks really soft and nice, right!

Rustic Plum Tart

Ok, I must admit I'm getting kinda lazy with updating my blog. This recipe has been sitting on my to-do list for quite a while.

Bought a packed of plum from NTUC fairprice supermarket and the whole batch was super duper sour. My Baby FAN, who loves plum just won't eat it. So instead of dumping it all into the rubbish cute, I thought I tried making some tarts out of it. So, I look through the recipe from my favourite website www.allrecipes.com and found this. Bought it to my sis-in-law's place for an after dinner snack and my sis-in-law said it's nice and so did my hubby. But the kids are not too kin to try out, I think it looks a little too "RUSTIC". Maybe, next time I will try out Apple tart and make it into a bag shape so the kids might give it a try.

Here's the recipe, enjoy!

Rustic Plum Tart

Ingredients for the crust:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 tablespoons cold water

Ingredients for the filing:

• 2 cups sliced plums
• 9 1/4 teaspoons sugar, divided
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 egg, lightly beaten

 Directions

1.  In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt; cut in the shortening until crumbly. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until a ball forms. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1-1/2 hours. On a lightly floured surface, roll pastry into a 9-in. circle. Transfer to a foil-lined 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan.
2. In a bowl, combine the plums, 3 tablespoons sugar and flour. Place on the center of pastry. Bring edges of pastry over filling, leaving 3-1/2 in. of filling uncovered. Brush crust with egg white, then sprinkle with remaining sugar. Bake at 375 degrees F for 40-45 minutes or until bubbly and crust is golden brown.