Food Mania: Red Velvlet Cupcakes!

Assalamualaikum, guys!

Frankly speaking, I never bought red velvet cake whenever I went to a bakery. I would order something else like Crème Brulee Cheese or Chocolate Indulgence. I like the taste of the red velvet cake but still it is not my favorite dessert.

But still. I do find red velvet cake sounds luxurious. LOL. I don’t know why. Maybe because of the red colour. Or the velvety texture of the cake. I started to search for the right recipe (right for me means familiar ingredients and I can easily get them). I was still studying medicine at that time. Final year if I was not mistaken.

Instead of baking the whole cake, I put them into small cute cupcakes. I like cute things. LOL. It was a success! Yeay! And I love the taste of the cream cheese melted together with the cupcake. Yummy! I baked about 25 of them and I brought some for my housemates. They love it! And since that day I continued baking red velvet cupcakes for them every time I went home for holidays.

So, this is the recipe that I got from Youtube. I can’t remember whose channel I was watching. Sorry.

Red Velvet Cupcakes!

Ingredients for cupcakes:

250 gram self-rising flour (250 gram all-purpose flour + 1 teaspoon baking powder)

1 teaspoon salt

15 gram cocoa powder (2 tablespoon) – make sure to level the cocoa powder

113 gram unsalted butter (½ of 250 gram butter)

2 eggs (grade A or B)

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 cup of plain yogurt

2 tablespoon of red liquid food coloring

1 teaspoon of white vinegar

1 teaspoon of soda bicarbonate

Ingredients for cream cheese frosting:

250 gram Cream cheese

125 gram unsalted butter

2 tablespoon lemon juice ( or soursop juice)

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

2 tablespoon fresh milk ( or full cream milk)

60 gram of sifted icing sugar

Step for cupcakes:

Pre heat oven at 175 degree Celsius. (IMPORTANT!)

 Mix butter and castor sugar until butter become fluffy. It is done when the butter become pale in colour. 

Put in the eggs one by one. Continue mixing the batter.

Meanwhile or after that, mix the red food coloring and yogurt together in another bowl. Mix them until the yogurt is no longer lumpy.

In another bowl, sift the self-raising flour and cocoa powder. Put aside.

Alternately put the flour and yogurt mixture into the batter. Mix them well.

 

In a small bowl, mix the white vinegar and soda bicarbonate until they become foamy. Then immediately mix them into the batter.

Continue mixing the batter using spatula. Do not use electric mixer at this point.

Prepare the cupcake papers.

Fill in the cupcake papers with batter until 2/3 full. 

Bake the cupcakes for 20 minutes in 175 degree Celsius oven.

Check whether the cupcakes are cooked or not by using cake tester or toothpick. It they are cooked, the toothpick will be clean. 

   

   Cream cheese frosting steps:

Take cream cheese. Beat the cream cheese together with butter butter using mixer until soft. 

Put in vanilla extract together with lemon juice or sour sop juice. Continue mixing. 

Then, add in fresh/ full cream milk. 

Finally, mix the icing sugar together. 

Pipe the cream cheese on the top of cupcakes. Decorate with some cupcake's crumble on top. 

Food Mania: Brownies

Assalamualaikum, hai!

Sebelum ni tak pernah berani nak makan brownies sebab tengok texture brownies tu macam padat sangat kalau nak dibandingkan dengan kek biasa yang selalu kita (saya) buat.

So I was thinking berapa banyak la kalori dalam brownies tu, Sure lagi banyak dari kek biasa. Kah! Because I was trying to lose weight masa tu. Tiap kali nak makan kena google dulu nak tengok how much kalori. Hahahaha! Exercise malas, so kena control makan la jawabnya. Heheh.

Kawan-kawan memang suka gila brownies tapi tak pernah pulak nak try buat. Selalu buat red velvet cupcakes untuk diorang. Hehehe. Ada satu masa tu keluar pergi makan Dip N Dip dekat IOI Putrajaya. Yang besar gila tu. Hahaha. Kira masa tu tengah cheat day la teringin nak makan chocolate. Kawan kita order satu dish tu tak ingat apa. Tapi ada brownies la dalam dia. Oh sedapnya la haiii.

Start buat brownies masa dah habis degree. Masa tu tak tahu macam mana boleh teringin nak buat. Hahaha. Ohh.. Dah ingat! Ayah ada beli chocolate compound tapi tak pernah guna. Sebab kita pun tak tahu ada chocolate compund dekat rumah. Ayah suruh guna. Since that day lah start bake brownies.

Resepi brownies ni kita tengok dekat blog Azlita Masam Manis. Tapi kita ada ubah sikit-sikit contohnya dekat part gula. Kita kurangkan sikit gula tu. Huhu. Alhamdulillah menjadi.

So ni resepi kita (diolah dari resepi Kak Ita);

Bahan-bahan:

400 gram dark chocolate compound. (Kita pakai brand Le Bourne)
150 gram unsalted butter
4 eggs (Gred B)
80 gram castor sugar
80 gram brown sugar
100 gram self raising flour
30 gram cocoa powder (Kita pakai brand VanHouten)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Loyang size 10" x 10"
Baking paper

Steps:

1. Mula-mula kena pre heat kan oven dulu at 160 degree Celcius. Biasanya kita pre heat dalam 20 minit macam tu.

Oven kita dia ada options nak panas atas bawah ke etc. Kita pilih atas bawah.

2. Then kita proceed dengan dark chocolate. Cairkan dark chocolate dengan butter guna kaedah double boiling. Boleh je nak guna microwave tapi kita tak reti nak letak masa berapa lama. Huhu.

Kalau double boiling, perlukan periuk dan mangkuk yang boleh tutup periuk tu and make sure mangkuk tu tahan panas. Ada jugak yang pakai mangkuk tembaga tu. Kita pakai mangkuk porcelain ni. Dia ada tulis kat belakang boleh tahan haba.

Isi air separuh periuk. Kita guna api besar nak bagi air mendidih. Bila dah mendidih baru letak mangkuk atas periuk. Letak chocolate dengan butter dalam mangkuk. And diorang akan cair. Boleh kacau sesekali.

The idea of double boiling ni taknak bagi steam dari air yang mendidih tu keluar. That's why kena pakai mangkuk yang boleh cover periuk kita.

**Kenapa double boiling? Sebab chocolate ni tak boleh kena direct heat. Nanti cepat hangus.

 Haaa..macam ni. Ada simbol tahan panas. Sebeb sebelum ni kita guna mangkuk lain. Pecah pulak jadinya. Huhu.

Double boiling. Periuk kat bawah. Mangkuk kat atas. 

3. Sementara nak tunggu chocolate cair, boleh proceed dengan bahan-bahan lain. Tapiskan self raising flour dengan cocoa powder. Then letak tapi sekejap.

Tepung dan cocoa powder yang sudah ditapis.

4. Dalam mangkuk lain, satukan telur, castor sugar, brown sugar dan vanilla essence. Kacau bahan sampai gula larut. Kalau tak larat nak guna tangan, boleh je kacau guna electric mixer tu. Hehehe. 

Kacau telur, gula, vanilla. 

5. Bila chocolate dan butter dah cair, alihkan mangkuk ke atas meja. Masukkan campuran telur tadi ke dalam chocolate. Kacau sampai sebati. Boleh nampak batter tu jadi semakin pekat. 

Masukkan telur dalam chocolate. Kacau cepat-cepat sebab taknak bagi telur tu masak jadi scramble eggs pulak.

Batter jadi makin pekat.

6. Then dah sebati boleh masukkan tepung dan cocoa powder. Kacau lagi sampai sebati. Jangan terlebih kacau pula sebab takuk udara dari self raising flour tu keluar banyak sangat. Nanti tak jadi pulak brownies nya. 

Masukkan tepung sedikit demi sedikit.

Kacau bagi sebati.

7. Dah siap kacau semua boleh alaskann baking paper dalam loyang. Kita guna marjerin sikit nak bagi baking paper tu melekat kat loyang. Kira macam gam la marjerin ni. Hehe. Dah alaskan baking paper tu tak payah dah sapu butter atas baking paper tu tau. 

8. Boleh lah tuang batter ke dalam loyang. 

9. Bakar brownies at 160 degree Celcius for 50-53 minutes. 

Nak tahu brownies dah masak ke belum boleh check guna lidi. Pakai lidi satay yang dah dibasuh (of course). Cucuk lidi ke dalam brownies. Then tengok dekat hujung lidi tu. Kalau dah masak it's either ada sikit cake's crumble kat hujung lidi tu atau pun memang langsung takda apa-apa. Bersih. 

Bila dah confirm masak, kita biasa biarkan sekejap dalam oven. Oh, Jangan lupa switch off oven tu tau. The idea is kita tak nak bagi brownies tu terkejut dengan perubahan suhu yang drastik (dari oven ke room temperature). 

Bila nak potong bownies, kalau boleh guna plastic knife yang biasa kita dapat dari mana-mana bakery tu bila beli birthday cake. Bila potong guna plastic knife brownies tak senang pecah. 

Dah siap potong boleh terus makan atau boleh letak topping. Kita biasa makan macam tu je sebab nak kurangkan pengambilan kalori. Huhu.

Selamat mencuba! 

A little bit about Si Mata Guli

Assalam.

This is the third blog I guess. Because this time I have to remain as an anonymous. No one must know who I am. Hah!

I'm Malaysian. Who is sometimes wished to be half Korean or half French. Ceh. Well. My grandfather from my paternal side is Indian. And my grandmother from my maternal side is Chinese. So what am I? Chindian? Entah.

I got this mata guli as my nickname when I was in high school? Does people call sekolah menengah as high school? Entah. I was in my form one back then. Because of my big eyes and big pupil. Since sekolah rendah lagi actually ramai yang tegur why my eyes much bigger than them. How am I supposed to answer that? I did not even aware of the size of my eyes as I did not fancy checking out myself in the mirror.

I have this kind of syndrome. What do they call it in Psychiatry? Oh my. Baru few months tinggalkan medical school habis lupa semua ilmu. Cis.
Body dysmorphic disorder! (I had to ask my friend though. Malas nak buka buku.) Well, ni self diagnosed sebenarnya. Medical students tend to do that though. Bila ada some symptoms came up mula la fikir macam-macam disease yang kitorang tahu.

Well. People don't call me that anymore. Sebab dah pindah sekolah semua. Dah masuk universiti ni (dah grad dah pun) people tend to be mature kot.

So. That's a little bit about me. Si Mata Guli.