The other day, I baked Orange Upside Down Cake. The top of the cake was nicely browned but the most important bottom was not browned. I was very disappointed, but I instantly thought about cooking it in the rice cooker. All my Upside-down Cakes can be superbly cooked in the rice cooker, because the bottom …
Auntie Lorna’s Boiled Chocolate Cake is delicious, but it cracks badly every time I bake it. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. Then I started to modify the recipe. I first reduced Flour. Then replaced Butter with Oil. The cake turned very soft and moist, but too fragile. So I reduced Oil. The …
This is a very simple Custard Powder Cake. This cake is much softer than my ‘Custard Powder Butter Cake’. You don’t use Butter. You only need 1/4 cup Oil. I recommend Sunflower Oil. If you use plant-based Milk, it can be dairy-free. The batter of this cake is very thin. You need to be careful …
Black Sesame Seeds are not a popular cooking ingredient in Australia. People don’t use it for cooking. In Japan where I grew up, Black Sesame Seeds are used for many desserts. I believe the flavours of Black Sesame and Coconut are a good match. This cake doesn’t look very pretty but it smells amazing and …
Apple Cake, Apple Pie, Apple Clafoutis, Apple Pancakes, Apple Crumble, … I have made so many Apple desserts and snacks, but I have never tried to add Apple to Doughnuts. So, I tried. First I grated Apple and ended up adding a lot more Flour than I wished to add because of the juice from …
When I was given my husband’s family’s old recipes, I came across quite a few recipes that require Custard Powder. Theo’s Sponge (Custard Powder Sponge) is one of them. I never knew about Custard Powder until I first saw my husband’s mother making Custard with it. It seemed Custard Powder used to be an essential …
Frozen Butter Puff Pastry if very handy to stock in the freezer. I often make pies and snacks using Puff Pastry. Today I wrapped Cherry filling and baked in the oven. As Cherries are not in season now and I couldn’t find Frozen Cherries either, I used 1 can of Pitted Cherries. It was super …
I have a great recipe for ‘Oats & Banana Cookies’. They can be made with No Egg, No Flour, No Dairy. The binding ingredient is Ripe Banana, so they taste Banana. The other day, I wanted to make Cocoa flavoured Oats Cookies, but I didn’t have Banana. So I made a new recipe. You need …
To make Soufflé Sponge Cake, you need to prepare the cake tin properly and steam bake it in the oven using a water bath. The other day I tried to cook it in my rice cooker to find out what would happen. The cake was cooked well, though it didn’t look very pretty. Probably it …
I have been trying to use up a jar of Molasses, that I bought to make Gingerbread many months ago. Today I made a Pound Cake using the ingredients that I use to make Gingerbread. To make ‘Basic Pound Cake’, I use 125g of each Butter, Sugar, Eggs and Flour. I altered the amount of …
If you have some leftover Condensed Milk and you need to use it up, you can add it to cake batter. Today I added it to Pound Cake batter. As I also added Lemon Juice, I needed to add more Flour. The cake turned out a lot larger than normal. You may wish to add …
At Christmas time every year, my husband’s Auntie Joan kindly gives us her homemade Marmalade. We don’t eat it much, but her Marmalade is perfect for this cake. This cake is only for grown-ups because it is alcoholic as I added Whisky to the batter and brushed with extra Whisky on top. I believe Whisky …