A little christmas spirit for dinner

Healthy Dessert - Honey Lemon Jelly

As you guys might have know from my previous posts that I strongly believe in the benefit of drinking honey.  So, have been trying to get my baby girl to drink honey water the past one week as she was having a running nose and cough.  But, unlike SMALL FAN, Baby FAN doesn't seems to like to drink honey water as it is.  So I thought of making a light dessert that uses honey as the ingredient for her.  Stumble upon someone making honey and lemon gelatin, so I thought I give it a try and modify it according to my taste.  It was a hit with Baby FAN, now she will ask to eat more of the jelly thingy....Another successful, healthy snack to share with all. She now got the benefit of honey and the additional vitamin C from the lemon.  Here's the recipe:

Honey Lemon Jelly

 

Ingredients & Directions

•  Juice of 1 freshly squeezed lemon
• 3 tbs of honey (you can add more if you like it sweeter or less if you like it more sour)
• 4 level tsp of gelatin powder 
• 1/4 cup of hot boiling water
• 13/4 of cool boiled water

1. Dissolve gelatin in the hot boiling water.  Then add in the cool boiled water and mix well, make sure all the gelatin has dissolved.
2. Pour in the lemon juice and honey.  Stir and mix well.
3. Pour mixture into individual jelly cups.  Makes about 5 to 6 small cups.  
4. Put into the refrigerator and let the gelatin set.  Takes at least 3 or 4 hours.
5. Served and enjoy!
   

Mini Cup Cakes

A friend of my asked me for a recipe for cupcakes so that she can make with her daugther.  Here's one that I tried some time ago but forgot to post.  The recipe is super simple.

Mini Cup Cakes

• 50g soft margarine
• 50g sugar
• 50g self-raising flour
• 1 egg

1. Preheat oven to 180 deg celsius.  Place 26 paper mini muffin cases on a large baking sheet or for my case, I made a slightly bigger one and use 12 cases instead.
2. Put all the ingredients for the cake into a mixing bowl and beat together well until smooth.
3. Divide the mixture among the cases and cook for 8 to 10 minutes until well risen and golden.  Depending on your oven, you might need to cook longer for bigger muffin, poke a toothpick into the cake and if it comes out clean, it's done.
4. Transfer cakes to a wire rack and leave to cool completely. Then decorate as you please.

You can used my birthday cupcake icing recipe to make the icing or you use this simple recipe that I used in the cupcakes in my pictures above.  I simply mix Icing Sugar with Milk until I achieve the right consistency I want. Alternatively, you can buy the icing from Phoon Huat, they sell lots of different type of icing and decorations at the shop.  Enjoy!