Vanilla And Lemon Cupcakes

Cupcakes :

175grams unsalted butter

175grams granulated white sugar

3 large eggs

2 ts lemon juice

Zest of 1 large lemon (outer yellow skin)

175grams raising flour

Buttercream Frosting:

400grams icing sugar

200grams unsalted butter

2tsp vanilla extract 

colouring for icing

Vanilla Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 170-180 degrees C and line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.

In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the lemon juice and lemon zest then add flour slowly.

Evenly fill the muffin cups 3/4 in each and bake for about 17 - 20 minutes or just until set and a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean. (Do not over bake or the cupcakes will be dry.) Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool.

Buttercream Frosting: In an electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, cream the butter and icing sugar until smooth and well blended. Add the vanilla extract.Tint the frosting with desired food color (I use food colouring as its cheaper LOL).

Last, Decorate the cupcakes with buttercream frosting :) 

Hope you guys enjoy the recipe and good luck.XX

N

Roast Pork Crackling

Hi dolz,

I hope you all had a great weekend. Its been ages since my last blog, i was feeling lazy for the past week and hard to focus on something . Well... anyway, last week i tried this Roast Pork recipe, and once again i copy from Gordon Ramsay, but i slightly changed a little bit and combine with my heritage sauce for the gravy  ( secreet ) :) so here you go.. hope you guys enjoy it:)

Ingredients

about 1.5kg belly of pork
1 heads of garlic, halved horizontally
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
handful of thyme sprigs
olive oil, to drizzle
generous splash of white wine
450ml brown chicken stock

Recipe:
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 3.
Untie the belly of pork if it is rolled and lay it flat on a chopping board. Score the skin evenly in a criss-cross pattern with a sharp knife. Turn the belly skin side down and cut a slit through the thick end of the pork to open it out like a butterfly so that the meat is evenly thick throughout. Rub all over with salt and pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.

Place the garlic, halved side up, on a lightly oiled roasting tray and scatter over the thyme sprigs. Lay the pork belly on top, fat side up and place thyme on the top. Trickle with a little more olive oil and sprinkle with a little more sea salt. Add a splash of white wine around the pork, cover the meat with a piece of foil and bake for 1 hour. Remove the foil, baste the pork with the juices and return to the oven, uncovered, for another 1 hour until the meat is tender. Continue to baste the pork occasionally with the pan juices.

Pour off any excess oil from the roasting tray and place over high heat. Deglaze the tray with a generous splash of white wine, scraping the bottom and crushing the heads of garlic with a wooden spoon to release the sediment. Boil the liquid until reduced by half, then add the chicken stock and bring back to the boil until reduced and thickened. Strain the stock through a fine sieve, pressing down on the garlic pulp with the back of a ladle. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.

Rest the pork for 5-10 minutes, then serve with the light gravy and accompaniments.

Mie Pangsit

  Here is "Mie Pangsit" i cooked the other weekend:)

 Mie Pangsit known as Noodles soup with mince pork or chicken/ beef, its also similiar to Bakmi . Beside Bakso,  Mie Pangsit is also one of the famous nibble in where i come from "Medan".

 Some restaurant served Mie Pangsit with boiled egg and fried/steam dumpling.

I'll update more for the recipe:)

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