Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Cheese Brownies

Was at a hubby's colleague's house for BBQ and his wife served cheese brownies, just fall in love with it and decided to google and try it out. After the first attempt, I made the second with raspberry which is harder (the first was more gooey).






Ingredients:

  • 85g unsalted butter
  • 115g dark cooking chocolate, break to small pieces
  • 120g sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 70g flour
  • 1tbsp milo
  • a small pinch salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 80g chocolate chips
  • 200g cream cheese
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 60g sugar
  • a splash of vanilla extract
  • a small handful of frozen raspberry
Methods:
  1. Line a 9" square pan with foil, mist with non stick spray or grease lightly. I uses my lovely air fryer, so, I lined the basket instead and used only 2/3 of the ingredients. If you prefer the gooey version, used all the ingredients and smaller pan.
  2. If using normal oven, preheat it at 180C. Airfryer, just add 2mins to the baking time later.
  3. In a medium saucepan, melt butter and chocolate over low heat and stirring till it is smooth. Remove from heat and add in the 120g sugar and heat and stir.
  4. Next stir in lightly beaten 2 eggs. Mix in flour, milo and salt, then vanilla and chocolate chips. Stir till even and pour over the baking pan, spread evenly.
  5. In a separate bowl, cream the cheese, yolk, balance of sugar and vanilla until smooth.
  6. Use a spoon to scoop the mixture and drop by dollops on top of the brownies mixture the lightly swirl it. If you adding the raspberry, pop on top of the mixture not too close to each other.
  7. Bake for 30-40mins till the side set (the middle will still be soft and wobbly like). If using airfryer, I set it at 180C for 17mins.
  8. After baking, take it out to cool before popping in the fridge to set, cut and serve.





Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Home Made Almond Milk


Ingredients:

  • 150g (approximately, didnt weight) almond (I used those with skin, so got to waste time removing, try to get those without), soaked overnight to remove the skin, then soaked for at least another night
  • 5 cups water
Method:
  1. Soak the almond for at least a night to ease the skin removal. Remove the brown skin. Then soak for another night. The reason I remove the skin is cause I wanted to use the almond meal later for baking. If you are just throwing it away (try not to waste), dont bother then. 
  2. I uses the magi mix, but I guess should be the same with the other food processor or blender. Just sieve off all the water and blend it for about 20seconds and slowly add in water. Blend till you see the entire mixture is smooth and fine.
  3. Use those fine sieve or cheesecloth to sieve the milk. Press the almond meal till dry so you get all the milk. Leave aside the almond meal for other recipes. Can use it for baking or make some vegetarian food dishes.
  4. I then double boil the milk for bout 20mins and ready to be served.