Libby's pumpkin pie.

 A while ago, when i was strolling down the aisles of a supermarket, i found a can of Libby's Pumpkin Puree, and i thought i could make something out of it. It turns out that Libby's has a famous pumpkin pie recipe that i finally try to make last weekend. I' was too lazy to make my own pie crust, so i devoted my baking session to Keebler's Ready Crust, since it always taste so good, you wouldn't want to stop eating the whole pie.

Here are what you need to make this scrumptious pumpkin pie:

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground clove
• 2 large eggs
• 1 can (15 oz.) Libby's 100% Pure Pumpkin
• 1 can (12 fl. oz) evaporated milk
• 1 Keebler's Ready Crust pie shell
• Whipped cream (not optional, it's a must!)

Directions:

1. Mix sugar, cinnamon, salt, ginger and cloves in small bowl.
2. Beat eggs in large bowl. Stir in pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture. Gradually stir in evaporated milk.
3. Pour mixture into the pie shell.
4. Bake in preheated 425° F oven for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350° F; bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack for 2 hours.
5. Serve immediately or refrigerate. Top with whipped cream before serving (give a generous amount of it to please everyone).
   

french toast.

The easiest and quickest way to serve breakfast to your loved ones (not including my husband, because he hates bread to the bone). Got the recipe from here.

What you need:

• 4 eggs
• 2/3 cup milk
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 8 slices of bread
• Butter
• Maple syrup or Nutella or palm sugar

How to:

1. Beat together the eggs, milk, and cinnamon. Whisk until well blended.
2. Dip each slice of bread into the egg mixture, allowing the bread to soak up some of the mixture.
3. Melt some butter over a pan on medium heat. Fry bread until brown in both sides.
4. Serve them warm with anything. Maple syrup, vanilla ice cream, palm sugar, jam or nutella.

whoopie pies.

I've been meaning to make Whoopie Pies since i don't know when. Couple of days ago a friend of mine asked me to make this, and this is it! I got the recipe from the whoopie pie recipes collection at www.taste.com.au 

What you need:

• 125 g butter (1 stick), softened
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cup plain flour
• 1/3 cup baking cocoa
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup buttermilk (substitute it with plain yoghurt)

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees C
2. Line 4 trays with baking paper
3. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time.
4. Meanwhile, sift flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda, and baking powder into a bowl. 
5. Add half the flour mixture to butter mixture, stir to combine. Add hal of the buttermilk and stir to combine. Repeat with the remaining flour mixture and buttermilk until just combined.
6. Drop level tablespoons of misture pntro prepared trays, 5 cm apart. Bake 1 tray at a time for 8 to 10 minutes, or until puffed and cooked through.
7. I'm using green tea frosting and cheese cream frosting remainings from the cupcakes i made. After the doughs are cooked through, sandwich level tablespoons (or you can just pipe the frosting) between cakes to make at least 20 whoopie pies.
8. There you go, easy and very delicious!

cornflakes chocolate chip cookies.

 It's long weekend once again. For family gathering, i'm making coffee cupcakes and cornflakes chocolate chip cookies. It's very easy to make. I'm not sure where i got the recipe, i think it was from random channels on youtube. 

Ingredients:

• 125 g butter (at room temperature)
• 1 1/3 self-raising flour
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup chocolate chip
• 1/2 cup cornflakes (crushed)
• 2 eggs
• vanilla extract

rainbow butter cookies.

Since rainbow cakes are totally overrated and i've already got the chance making it, i would like to try something new, that is to make rainbow butter cookies. The recipe i'm using is the most simple butter cookie recipe. It's very easy, but you got to be patient to do this.

All you need:

• 1 cup butter (at room temperature)
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, mix together butter and sugar until light and fluffy
2. Beat in the egg, and stir in vanila
3. Combine the flour ans salt, and then stir into the butter sugar mixture
4. Divide in 6 or 7 sections, color them each in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.
5. Cover doughs with plastic wrap, and pop into the fridge for at least one hour
6. Roll the purple dough until round and long, followed by rolling the blue dough and make it into a sheet. And then wrap the purple dough into the blue dough.
7. Do the same with green, yellow, orange, and finally red dough. At this points, you want to have a quite big red dough with other colors inside
8. Pop in the refrigerator again to prevent the dough becoming soft
9. After that, cut the dough into thin pieces and then cut in half. You want to have a half circle shape that looks like rainbow.
10. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C, assemble the cookie dough pieces on to a cooking tray
11. This is optional, you can sprinkle sugar on top of the cookies before you pop them into the oven.
12. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden at the edges. Remove cookie from the tray and put them in the wire racks.

crepes.

This morning i made a super-easy crepes recipe that i got from AllRecipe.com. It's the quickest and the easiest way to prepare your breakfast. Go try!

All you need:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp butter, melted
  
• you can add 1 tbsp sugar if you like

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour and the eggs. Gradually add in the milk and water, stirring to combine. Add the salt, butter, and sugar; beat until smooth.
2. Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each crepe. Tilt the pan with a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly.
3. Cook the crepe for about 2 minutes, until the bottom is light brown. Loosen with a spatula, turn and cook the other side. Serve hot.
4. For the filling, you can use anything from nutella (or other brand of chocolate spread, hazelnut i'd prefer), peanut butter, strawberry jam, or whatever. Or you could simply sprinkle confectioner sugar over the folded crepes and you are ready to go. Have fun!
   
   
   
   

super-fluffy wholemeal pancakes.

Happy Sunday morning!

Since this is a long weekend, i'm having so much fun at home with my nephew and niece and get the chance to cook something again. This time i want to try a super-fluffy wholemeal pancakes recipe from Best Recipes.

All you need:

• 3/4 cup wholemeal flour
• 1 tbsp soft brown sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs

Method:

1. Mix together dry ingredients in a bowl
2. Make a well in the centre, add eggs and buttermilk
3. Whisk until smooth
4. Pour a quarter cup of mixture into a non-stick frying pan brushed with a little bit of oil
5. When bubbles appearand the edges start to dry, flip over and cook on the other side
6. Serve warm with you choice of toppings. This time i use powdered sugar, butter, honey, and bananas.

Enjoy your lovely breakfast!