Rice Cooker Chocolate Cake

This time I will share the simplest chocolate cake recipe. Instead of using oven, we will use rice cooker.  With this simple recipe, you won´t need any mixer. It couldn't be any easier.

I will use mini rice cooker (0,7 L). So if you have bigger rice cooker, you can double the amount of ingredients (even triple it, if you have the giant one;))

Mini Rice Cooker Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:

• Dry ingredients:

100 gr (10 tbsp) all-purpose flour 

100 gr (8 tbsp) granulated sugar

15 gr (2 tbsp) cocoa powder 

1/2 tsp baking powder 

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/8 tsp salt

*You can use 1 tsp SP(cake emulsifier) as substitute for baking powder and baking soda

• Wet ingredients:

150 ml milk
40 gr unsalted butter (melted and cooled) or vegetable oil
1 medium egg, beaten

 

Optional : * 2 tbsp chocolate chips or 40 gr medium sweet chocolate

                * Icing sugar for serving

             
Methods:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients then set aside.
2. Mix all the wet ingredients (If you use SP, combine it with wet ingredients).
3. Add the mixture of wet ingredient into the dry ingredients. Mix well.
4. Grease your  rice cooker pan with butter before pouring our batter into the pan.
5. Add chocolate chips into the batter (optional).
6. Press cook button. Cooking time will vary.  The button could shift to "keep warm" mode, just wait for another 5-10 minutes. But don´t force it. Your cake still can be cooked even in "keep warm" mode. 
7. My cooking time is 45 minutes. After 35 min, insert  a skewer in the center of the cake to check if they are done. If the skewer comes out clean, your cake is done.
8. Remove from the rice cooker and dust the cake before you serve it. 

I like to hear from you guys, how much time your rice cooker need to "bake" this cake ;) 

 

Tortilla Wrap & Tortilla Chips

Following guacamole post last week, it is time for homemade tortilla chips.
In order to make tortilla chips, first we have to prepare tortilla wrap. 

So let's begin:) 

Tortilla Warp
Serve: 8

Ingredients:
250 g all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
150 ml water (about ⅔ cup)
3 tbsp vegetable oil or butter

Methods:
 1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl (flour, baking powder and salt).

 2. Add vegetable oil and mix well.

 3. Add hot water and mix with fork, until it is warm enough to handle with bare hand. 

 4. Dust kneading board and rolling pin with flour to make it easier to knead and to roll 
     out the dough.

 5. Knead the dough for about 3 minutes until it becomes soft and loses its stickiness.

 6. Cover the dough with plastic wrap or tea towel and let the dough rest for about 30 
     minutes.

 7. After 30 minutes take out the plastic wrap and cut the dough into 8 pieces.

 8. Roll each piece of dough into a ball.

 9. With a rolling pin,  flatten a dough ball then roll out it to form about 20 cm disks.
      * To keep the dough disks from drying out, cover them with tea towel.

10. Heat a non stick pan to a high heat. Drop the dough disk onto the pan.
     * Don´t grease the pan with oil 

11. If the dough disk starts to bubble up, at this point you should turn it over then cook it 
     for another 30-40 seconds. Lift the edges to check the bottom. If it starts to develop 
     the brown spots then turn it over again until the bottom side has the brown spots as 
     well.
      * The cooking time takes about 1 to 2 minutes for each side of tortilla.

12. Wrap the tortilla in a kitchen towel to keep it warm, while you cook the remaining 
      tortillas.
      * You can store your leftover tortillas or tortillas dough in the fridge. Put them in a 
        zip-lock plastic bag or airtight storage.  They will last for 3 days in the fridge.

Now we can prepare tortilla chips :)

Fried Tortilla Chips
You will need:

• Tortilla wrap
• Vegetable oil   

  Methods:

1.  Cut each tortilla into triangles form or diamond form :)
2.  Fry chips until lightly browned.
3.  Remove chips from oil and let them rest on paper towel to absorb the excess oil. 
4.  Now we can enjoy our homemade tortilla chips with guacamole or with your favorite french fry seasoning.

Guacamole

Guacamole With Tortilla Chips

Anyone who loves avocado, will adore this Mexican dip.  Guacamole consists of fresh and healthy ingredients.  Not to mention, that you just need little amount of time and effort to prepare this lovely creamy dip.

Fresh Ingredients Makes Your Guacamole More Delicious

Like usual, I will  share the authentic a. k. a basic recipe. 

Guacamole

Ingredients:
2 haas avocados

1 tomato, seeded and diced

2 tbsp diced shallot (you can use red onion or spring onion)

1 jalapeño or serrano chiles, diced

Handful coriander leaves, roughly chopped
Juice from 1/2 lime
Salt 
Ground black pepper 
 

Fresh Ingredients

Method:

1. To have more intense guacamole flavor, we make first a paste;  grind 1/2-1 tbsp diced shallot, 1 tbsp cilantro (coriander), 1 tbsp jalapeño  and salt with mortar and pestle. 

*If you don't have mortar and pestle, just use regular mixing bowl and other utensils such as spoon or fork  to grind or mash the ingredient

2. Cut the avocados in half, remove the pits (do not throw it away, we will need it later on) then  scoop the avocados flesh into the mortar. 

3.  Mash the avocado flesh and combine it with the aromatic paste.  Mash it gently to keep it in the chunky texture.  Make sure that the avocado flesh is combined with the aromatic paste.

4. Add lime juice into avocado mixture then mix well.

5. Season again with salt and black pepper.

6. Add the rest of all diced ingredients into the bowl (tomatoes, cilantro, jalapeño and shallot) then stir until combine.

7. Serve immediately.  Don´t forget to put the avocado pit into our guacamole to prevent this dip from turning brown.

Chunky Guacamole

You can also use guacamole as topping for almost everything ;)
I like to put it, on top of my baked sweet potatoes and zucchini chips.

Baked Sweet Potato chips and Zucchini Chips With Guacamole

Banana Muffins

Do you always throw away overripe bananas?  I did, before I knew about banana muffins.  Although overripe bananas are unappealing to eat, but the ripper the bananas the sweeter your banana muffins will taste.   You will love the flavor and texture of these muffins.   Actually the recipe, that I want to share, is banana bread recipe.  But if you bake them in muffin tin, it becomes banana muffins :) 

From now on, every time you have overripened bananas, peel them then store them in the freezer.  So it can  be used at your convenience, just defrost them and off you go.

So let´s get started.

Banana Muffins
(Serve: 12-15 muffins) 

Ingredients:

• Dry ingredient:

230 gram all-purpose flour 

125-150 gram granulated sugar

1 tsp baking powder 

1/2 tsp baking soda 

1/4 tsp salt

*Optional : *3 tbsp nuts (almond, hazelnuts, pistachio, walnut, cashew, etc.) or raisins 
                   or chocolate chips

                 *1/4 -1/2 tsp cinnamon

• Wet ingredient:

2 medium egg
110 grams unsalted butter (melted and cooled) or vegetable oil (125-130 ml)
3 over ripe bananas (approximately 300-350 grams), mashed well 

Method:

1.  Preheat oven to 180°C and place the oven rack  in the lower 3rd or in the middle of   

     the oven.  Grease muffin pans or loaf pan with butter or use paper liners. 

2.  Prepare 2 large bowls.

•  First bowl for dry ingredients: Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda  and salt. Add sugar and the optional ingredient then stir until well combined.   Then set aside. 
• Second bowl for wet ingredients: whisk melted butter (or vegetable oil) and eggs until properly combined.  Add mashed banana to the bowl then stir all ingredients well.

3.  With spatula, fold (lightly stirring up) the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.   
     Don’t over stirring batter otherwise your muffin will be hard in texture. Stop stirring 
     when you no longer see dry flour or flour pockets.  The batter perfect batter is thick 
     and chunky. 

4.  Pour the batter into your muffin tin, fill each cup about 3/4th full.

5.  Bake the muffins for about 20 - 25 minutes. Baking time will vary. Insert  a skewer or 
     thoothpick  in the center of the muffins to check if they are done. If the skewer
     comes out clean, your muffins are done. 

6.  Allow the muffins to cool for about 10 minutes then remove muffins from pan. Serve          warm  or  at room temperature.

Have fun with this super easy recipe :)

Cetakan Kue Putri Ayu dan Cetakan Biskuit ( Putri Ayu Cake Mold and Biscuit Baking Pan)

Selamat datang.  Posting ini tidak akan berhubungan dengan resep masakan.

Bagi saya, menemukan cetakan kue yang sudah lama dicari-cari, seperti  menemukan harta karun.  Sudah lama saya mencari cetakan kue putri ayu, tetapi selalu kelupaan setiap saya pulang kampung.  Akhirnya ketemu juga cetakan mini bundt cake, yang bisa menggantikan cetakan putri ayu yang biasa kita temukan di pasar.  Satu set cetakan ini terdiri dari dua belas mini bundt cake yang terbuat dari silikon dan aman digunakan pada temperatur -30 C - 230 C. Cetakan ini saya beli dengan harga diskon 6 euro.  

Welcome to my first non-recipe post.  In this blog, the recipe-related post will be presented only in English.  

Finding the cake mold which I have searched for a long time is like finding a treasure. I tried to find the mold for "putri ayu" cake for quite some time but always forget to buy it everytime I visited Indonesia. At last, I could find "mini bundt" cake mold as alternative. One package consists of 12 mini bundt cake molds made of silicon that can be used at temperature -10°C - 240°C.  It was on sale for 6 euro.

Mini Bundt cake molds

Selain itu saya juga ketemu 2 cetakan biskuit yang lucu-lucu. Jadi dapat ide, untuk bikin coffee-break dirumah jadi lebih fancy.  Masing-masing cetakan berharga 6,99 Euro (diskon 50% dari 14 Euro).

But one thing leads into another, I found also another two cute biscuit baking tray.  As a coffee lover, I thought it is a good idea to serve my coffee with cute biscuit. It would make my coffee-break at home, feels like at cafe. So fancy :)   Each of these lovely baking pan costs 6,99 Euro (50% discount from 14 Euro).

Biscuit Baking Tray

Udah nggak sabar untuk nyobain resep-resep dengan cetakan-cetakan baru ini :) Can´t wait to use these lovely molds :)

 

Cucumber Salad (Salad Timun)

As the spring comes, we can start to plan our grill party.  I recommend cucumber salad as a side along your grilled meat. 

 In ''hectic a.k.a last minute" preparation of your grill party, you can always count on this "easy-to prepare" salad. 
 

My "easy to prepare" salad

The basic recipe can be seen as follow.

 

Cucumber Salad 
Serve: 2 - 4 portion

Ingredients:
400 gr cucumber, thinly sliced
1 shallot, chopped
1/2 lemon / lime (or 1 tbsp vinegar, any type of vinegar)
Salt
Sugar
Ground black pepper
fresh herbs, chopped (chives, dill, basil, parsley, coriander (cilantro), etc)

Methods:
1. Combine sliced cucumber and chopped shallot in a large bowl.
2. Sprinkle lemon juice (or you can use vinegar, if you like the acidity more intense). 
3. Add salt, sugar and ground black pepper then mix well.
4. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 30 minute.
5. Discard the  excess water (at this point, you can taste your salad, add more salt and  
    sugar if needed).
6. Garnish with your favorite herbs.

Cucumber salad

Cucumber salad goes well with your grilled meat or fried meat

In addition to the recipe above, you can also experiment using other ingredients like your favorite herbs or sour cream to make this salad even tastier.
For serving, I like to sprinkle my cucumber salad with chili flakes.

chives, feel free to substitute dill, basil, or any other herb you like. - See more at: http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/2012/07/recipe-tomato-cucumber-salad/#sthash.9xKonauN.dpuf

chives, feel free to substitute dill, basil, or any other herb you like. - See more at: http://winemedinemecincinnati.com/2012/07/recipe-tomato-cucumber-salad/#sthash.9xKonauN.dpuf