Orange Sponge Cake

Wanted to make a quick & easy cake for my kids and so this Orange Sponge Cake came to me.

Ingredients:

· 250g spongemix

· 4 eggs

· 100ml orange juice (i used freshly squeezed orange juice)

· 1tsp orange essence

· 50g cooking oil

Method:

· Preheat oven at 180ºC

· Combine all ingredients (except cooking oil) and blend at fast speed for 10 to 15 mins in the mixer.

· When flour paste becomes thick, add in cooking oil and blend at slow speed until well-mixed.

· Pour the batter into baking tray and bake in preheated oven for 25mins (test for 'done-ness' w a wooden pick)

PS: Cakes made from Spongemix tastes sweeter so if you don't like it too sweet, can choose to make ur own sponge from scratch.

Chocolate Chips Bun and Pandan Sponge Cake

Had some leftover bread dough and cake batter from the Pandan Cake Bread and so I made these.


Added in chocolate chips to the bread dough and I get Choco Chips Bun, which my son loved to eat... OK, it's a little bit hard cos I left it in the oven for too long, but he still liked it... as long as there's chocolate in it...


Pandan Sponge Cake





It's very soft and fluffy and yummy too!

Pandan Cake Bread

I browsed through the book over and over again and finally settled on this recipe for my very 1st shot at Bread. Though the bread didn't turned out very soft and fluffy, it was already quite good for a 1st attempt... :D

Ingredients:

· 300g basic bread dough
· 250g sponge mix

· 4 eggs

· 50g pandan leaves

· 1tsp pandan essence

· 50g cooking oil

· 50g raisins (optional - i did not add this)

Method:

For Bread:

· Following the basic bread dough recipe, prepare bread dough of 300g

· Soak raisins in water for 5mins, remove to drain and mix into bread dough (you may skip this step if you do not wish to add in raisins)

· Divide dough into 150g each, roll them, proof for 10mins, mould into round shapes, place them onto a 2 x 8 cm inch greased baking mould, allow to leaven for 30mins

For Cake:

· Blend sponge mix, eggs, pandan leaves and pandan essence in the mixer at fast speed for 10 to 15 mins in the mixer. When flour paste becomes thick, add in cooking oil and blend at slow speed.

· Pour the thick paste on surface of leavened bread.

· Place into pre-heated oven, bake at 200ºC for 30 to 35 mins. Serve.

Bread Code

I bought this recipe book "Bread Code" by Wendy Kor few months ago cos hubby mentioned he'd prefer bread to cakes... I hardly attempt bread because it's not easy to bake...

This is the recipe for Basic Bread Dough from the book.

Basic Bread Dough

Ingredients A:
· 500g high protein flour (or bread flour)
· 1 tsp instant yeast

Ingredients B:
· 60g sugar
· 1 tsp salt
· 1 tsp milk powder

Ingredients C:
· 1 egg
· 250g water

Ingredients D:
· 50g butter


Method:

· Put ingredients A in the mixer, blend at slow speed for 1 min. Then add in Ingredients B and blend for another min.

· Add in Ingredients C and blend at slow speed for another 1 min. Then, blend at medium speed for 5 min till dough-like.

· Add in Ingredients D and continue to blend for 10 to 15 min till the dough is shiny and springy.

· Use cling wrap to cover the dough, allow to leaven for 40 to 50 mins till dough size is doubled.

· Set aside