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SuperBook – A Giant Adventure

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I grew up watching SuperBook and The Flying House with my siblings and we enjoyed it a lot.

Last night after watching our movie, V requested that we watch his movie so we decided to watch SuperBook – A Giant Adventure (C copied it from his officemate). It was a familiar story to V since its one of his favorite story from “Bedtime Book of Bible Stories.” Whenever we read a story to him we try to use different voices for the characters. I think the story became his favorite because of the giants voice his daddy use.

Thank you to CBN for bringing back the series.

Visit the official website of Superbook for more details and play some games with your little one too. 

Moist Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting

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Moist Chocolate Cake

This easy chocolate cake recipe is a staple in our house. A keeper as it is also the same recipe I use when a client requests it for a fondant covered cake.

Don’t skip the frosting as it is heaven sent!

Moist Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Fudge Frosting

Ingredients

  • 2 cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 2 tsp Baking Soda
  • ¾ cup Cocoa Powder
  • 2 cups Brown Sugar
  • 1 cup Oil
  • 1 cup Brewed Coffee
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 tsp Vanilla

Procedure:

  1. Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease and line desired pan, I use a 8″ cake pan.
  2. Sift together dry ingredients in your mixing bowl.
  3. Combine oil, coffee and milk – give it a quick stir.
  4. Turn your mixture to low and and slowly pour wet mixture on your dry ingredients.
  5. Add eggs one at a time till fully incorporated. Add vanilla. Mixture will be runny.
  6. Pour batter into pans and bake for 20-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
  7. Let cake cool in pan for 5-10 minutes before removing to cool completely.

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

  • 1 cup Cocoa Powder
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 3 cups Full Cream Milk
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup Unsalted butter, softened

Procedure:

  1. Sift cocoa powder, sugar, and flour.
  2. Add milk and butter.
  3. Cook on a double broiler.
  4. Stir occasionally to remove lumps and when mixture starts to thicken, stir more often.
  5. Cook until thick enough to spread on cake. Allow icing to cool down a bit before frosting cake.

It’s my birthday today! Dino Cupcake

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There’s a cake on the table and V declares “It’s my birthday today!”

My demanding little customer with Debbie Brown’s “50 Easy Party Cakes” sat on the carpet flipping pages deciding on the cake design he want.

V: I know! I want a dinosaur cake. Can we make it now? I will help.
M: I will try my best to make you one.
V: You can do it Mama.

Meet V’s dino cupcake 🙂
I’m using a new fondant recipe suggested by my friend Sandy. I just have a little problem with the fondant it easily breaks when shaped or rolled and it’s way too oily compared to the usual MMF. I’m asking help online hopefully I get advise on how to fix the problem.

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and btw we are not celebrating any birthday we just happen to have a cake coz it’s the time of the month that my hormones go crazy!

Chicken Schnitzel with Butter Fried Potatoes and Beans

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Chicken Schnitzel with butter fried potato and beans by gailcaidoy

Chicken Schnitzel with butter fried potato and beans, a photo by gailcaidoy on Flickr.

Did I ever mention that we are enjoying Junior Masterchef Australia? Those kids inspired me to be a better cook and be serious on preparing yummy beautiful meals. These Chicken Schnitzel was featured on the show’s masterclass below is my version.

Chicken Schnitzel

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups bread crumbs
  • Pinch salt and pepper
  • 1 chicken breast fillet
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp Milk
  • 1/2 cup Flour
  • 80 ml Olive Oil
  • 40g butter, cubed

Method:

  1. Cut the Chicken breast horizontally into thin steaks. Place in between 2 sheets of cling film and lightly pound with the flat side of meat mallet to flaten.
  2. Whisk eggs and milk together in a bowl.
  3. Prepare one bowl each for Flour, BreadCrumbs, Egg Milk mixture, and Chicken breasts.
  4. Coat one piece chicken in flour and shke to remove excess. Then dip the chicken into the egg mixture. Then coat chicken in the breadcrumbs pressing firmly to coat. Repeat with remaining pieces of chicken.
  5. Heat olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat, cook chicken in batches for 4-5 minutes each side or until tender and golden. Remove and place on to the paper towel.
  6. For the veggies, slice boiled potatoes and remove ends of string beans. Melt butter on a different pan. Fry potatoes till brown on the sides, set aside. Cook string beans for about two minutes.

 

Fondant Fun at CakeJournal

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I’ve been reading a whole lot of cake decorating ever since I was pregnant with Vierte. I was excited about his 1st birthday cake and it was my dream to make a handsome cake for him. Sadly I havent done one fondant cake for his birthday. Now that he will start preSchool and I really would want to have some income baking cakes and designing them as well I am once again slowly learning how to work with fondant.

One favorite cake site that makes designing fondant real fun is Louise of CakeJournal. All basic things you need to start enjoying cake/cookie making and designing is explained well with photos. Don’t we all just love kid friendly tutorials? Yes we do!

Louise for some time now have made her tutorials printer friendly by having pdf files of each tutorial featured on her site. The more exciting news is you can get all the tutorials for FREE! Yup you read it right free. Kid friendly pdf tutorials for free!

What are you waiting for go ahead and spend a day or two over at CakeCentral learning  new tricks on cake decorating.

Blogging in Dubai

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I’m craving for soup and my son requested for some crispy chicken. I’m lazy when it comes to making just soup that’s why we buy those packed soup mix that you just add on boiling water.

Both my boys love soup. I searched the net for some recipes (Asian Soup) found lots but then most of the ingredients are not readily available and I don’t drive. Googled again but this time within Dubai pages only.

And viola! I found the following Dubai base bloggers

Miso Soup by Sandier Pastures
Kimchi Udon Chicken Soup by OutandAbout
Fried Chicken of Chef and Steward

I still have 1 packet left of ready mix soup and would finish that today for dinner with some fried chicken and left over mashed potato.