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Monday, December 08, 2008

weekend in the kitchen

finally i managed to steal some time to do some baking after my very busy week at work :P (yesh there is a lot of exaggeration in that sentence) i've always wanted to try making sticky date pudding after i tried them at Greco at Crown and now i finally got a chance. thanks pamela for the recipe!!!

mix 60g butter, 120g sugar until creamy

then add in a dash of essence vanilla and 2 eggs, beat until the batter is well mixed

then add in 192g of shifted self raising flour and beat until they are smooth

chopped 1/25 cup of sticky date and soaked them in 1 cup of boiling water and 1 tsp of baking soda for 30 minutes. this is what you'll get

fold the sticky date into the batter and viola~ they are ready to bake

180 degree celcius for 30 minutes
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then it's time for some topping

120g butter, 200g brown sugar, 4 tbsp golden syrup/ honey

heat them on medium fire until they are well dissolved

then add in one cup of cream
(i used cereal cream in my topping because it sounds healthier)

but remember to remove the syrup from fire and let it chill for a while before you add in the cream to prevent any cream 'coagulation' (if you know what i mean) :p

and then viola~~~

this is what you are getting

STICKY DATE PUDDING

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apart from that, i made some sort of potato bake too because my little brother simply likes it. it's so easy to make! but do make sure you get the right kind of potatoes. those that i bought from my local supermarket s.u.c.k. =.= anyway

it was a tuna base potato bake