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Toffee Coffee Cupcakes Ingredients: 240 grams flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 240 grams margarine/butter 200 grams palm sugar 2 tbsp instant coffee powder 3 eggs 230 grams plain yogurt Frosting: 300-400 grams non dairy cream confectioners' sugar optional: mocha paste Methods: Preheat oven to 180 Celsius. In a medium bowl sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl cream margarine/butter, palm sugar, and coffee powder until light and fluffy. Add eggs one by one, mix well after each addition. Gradually stir in yogurt and flour mixture alternately until just combined. Spoon or pipe the batter into cupcake tins lined with cupcake papers, about 2/3 full. Bake in the preheated oven until well risen and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Baking time can vary according to your cupcake size and oven. Let cool completely before frosting. For the frosting, we used non dairy whipping cream so it cou...

I'm so glad I found this recipe! It's a bread that is made of ice cream. Yes! And it's so easy to make. It's a great option to use up left over ice cream that has been piled up in our freezer at  RockyBars  kitchen. And think about the variations! The taste would depend on the ice cream you use. I used chocolate-chip ice cream. As I'm writing this I'm thinking about strawberry-cheesecake-cookie-dough ice cream. Yummm. Ice Cream Bread Source:  http://dailydishrecipes.com/ice-cream-bread-two-ingredient-recipes/ Modified by Cokelatia Ingredients: 2 cups (about 350 grams) ice cream 1 cup cake flour 1/2 cup bread flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 cup oil Methods: Soften the ice cream by stirring it well using a spoon. Mix all the ingredients together until just combined. Do not over mix. Transfer the batter into a greased 10x20 cm loaf pan. Smooth the top. You could top it with anything you like (chocolate-chips? ...

Marshmallow Bahan: 1,25 cup gula pasir 2 sdm gelatin bubuk 1 cup air 0.5 sdt cream of tartar margarin untuk olesan maizena untuk taburan Peralatan: cup dan sendok pengukur, panci, sendok, kompor, mikser, wadah/loyang lebar Persiapan: Siapkan wadah atau loyang lebar. Olesi alas dan pinggir bagian dalamnya dengan margarin. Taburkan maizena ke seluruh permukaan bagian dalam wadah/loyang hingga rata. Cara Membuat: Aduk gula pasir, gelatin, dan air dalam panci. Masak di atas kompor sambil diaduk hingga mendidih. Kecilkan api, teruskan masak sampai larutan agak mengental, sekitar 5 menit. Angkat. Kocok dengan mikser hingga berbusa.  Tambahkan cream of tartar, lanjutkan mengocok hingga putih, mengembang, dan sangat kental. Tuang ke dalam wadah, ratakan, taburi dengan maizena. Biarkan semalaman di suhu ruang hingga mengeras, lalu potong-potong/cetak sesuka hati.

Yes, I've posted about this very pie here . This is the same recipe, with just a little adjustment here and there so it suits my palate better. And I just recently found that this pie taste better when served with plain yogurt. Vanilla ice cream is good, too, but while vanilla ice cream adds sweetness to the already sweet pie, plain yogurt gives balance with its mild flavor and sourness. Just give it a try! Apple Crumble Pie Adapted from  epicurious This recipe makes a 15 cm round pie. Crust : 100 grams pastry flour  1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon sugar 50 grams very cold butter, grate or cut into small chunks 2-3 tablespoon ice water Preheat oven to 160 Celsius. Mix flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Add grated butter, rub in with fingertips until the butter has distributed evenly. Add water little by little, continue rubbing until the dough can come together. Press into a 15 cm pie pan. The dough should cover the bottom and side of the pan. Make holes with a...

This recipe is definitely a keeper! Intensely chocolate, fudgy and chewy, with crunchy exterior that stay like that until the next day. That crunchy-cracky surface is the tricky part. I couldn't bring it off at the first try. The first batch. Not... interesting. At all. After doing some research (and by 'research' I mean googling) I found out that the crispy top crust that usually appears also on brownies is actually some kind of meringue that get there when the batter that contains eggs is over beaten (more on that here ). That fact comes through me as quite a shock. So that's why I never get that crust when making brownies! I always cling on the 'never over beat your batter or the cake would come out hard' principle. So, okay, I thought, I would bend my principle this one time and see what's gonna happen. It turned out alright! Even more than alright, they were perfect. Yeah, that's better. Flourless Fudge Cookies Source: K...

Easy Lime Pound Cake Modified from food.com Ingredients: 120 ml oil (or 1/2 cup butter, melted. Cooking oil is all I got) 100-125 grams sugar 2 eggs zest and juice from 1-2 limes (I used 1, turned out not enough to our taste) 180 grams cake flour 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda 120 ml milk Methods: Preheat oven to 175 Celsius. Mix oil/butter and sugar. Add eggs, mix until well combined. Add lime zest and juice. Add salt, baking soda, and flour gradually, stirring until just combined. Add milk, stir until smooth. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake turns out clean, about 30-40 minutes. Serve warm.

This is gonna be an unusually long post. There are two sessions of #BakingWithKids on our Open Kitchen this week, and both of them are cheesecakes. The first session is using this New York Style Cheesecake recipe and the second is Lori's Cheesecake . Both are great.  The first recipe results in softer, lighter, creamy cheesecake. The second recipe yields denser, sweeter, milky cheesecake. Your call. New York Style Cheesecake Modified by Cokelatia Note: The original recipe calls for sour cream. Because it is rather tricky to find, I tried using homemade buttermilk made of evaporated milk and vinegar. It worked well. Ingredients: 50 grams biscuits 20 grams butter, melted 250 grams cream cheese, room temperature 100 grams sugar 1/2 tbsp corn starch 2 eggs 1-2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice a pinch of salt 250 ml homemade buttermilk Methods: Prepare homemade buttermilk: heat 250 ml evaporated milk just until before it boils. Add 1/2 tsp vinegar, stir ...

This is the best brownies recipe I've tried so far! Speaking about brownies, I have two favorite recipes up till today. Good Ol' Homemade Brownies and Jamie Oliver's Bloomin' Brilliant Brownies . Now I have a new favorite! I couldn't even describe it, it's just perfect. You've gotta try this one. The method is amazingly simple! Deep Dark Fudgy Brownies Adapted from King Arthur Flour Recipe Ingredients: 85 grams cocoa 150-200 grams white sugar 60 grams confectioners sugar 3/4 tsp salt 120 grams flour 1 tbsp espresso powder 100 grams nuts (I used cashew) 170 grams chocolate chips (use real cocoa butter chocolate for best result) 3 eggs 120 ml oil 2 tbsp brewed coffee Methods: In a large bowl mix together cocoa, both sugar, salt, flour, espresso powder, nuts, and chocolate chips. Add eggs, oil, and brewed coffee, mixing just until smooth. Pour into a greased 20 cm x 20 cm or 22 cm x 22 cm square pan. Bake in...

A date with my boy Chocolate Sugar Cookie Pops Source: Ruri Hujiansyah Ingredients: 75 grams butter 75 grams margarine 50 grams confectioners' sugar, sifted 2 egg yolks 200 grams flour 50 grams cocoa 1/2 tbsp corn starch Methods: Sift together flour, cocoa, and corn starch. Mix butter, margarine, and confectioners' sugar using a spatula/wooden spoon. Add egg yolks, stir until well combined. Gradually add flour mixture, stir until just combine. Roll out the dough about 1 cm thick. Cut into shapes using cookie cutter. Carefully turn a cookie upside down, press an ice cream stick, patch with small chunks of cookie dough so the stick is securely attached. Flip it again carefully, place in a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 150 Celsius until set and crisp, about 30 minutes. Let cool.  Decorate cookies with royal icing, bake again at 120 Celsius until the icing is set.  Royal Icing Source: Fatmah Bahalwan, NCC Indonesia 100...

These are masterpieces of 'Superkids Rocky Bakers: Cookie Bars Party' participants. Super Easy Cookie Bars Adapted from Martha Stewart Ingredients: 85 grams butter+margarine 40 grams white sugar 40 grams palm sugar 1 egg 120 grams flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 70 grams chocolate chips Toppings of your choice Methods: Preheat oven to 180 Celsius. In a medium bowl, stir together butter, margarine, white sugar, and palm sugar with a spoon (yes, using only a spoon would do) until smooth. Add egg, mix until combined. Add salt, baking soda, and flour gradually, stir slowly until just combine. Add chocolate chips, stir until distributed evenly. Spread the cookie dough in an approximately 11 cm x 16 cm square pan or 15 cm round pan. Sprinkle with toppings. Bake in the preheated oven until the surface is golden and a bit crusty but the center is still gooey, about 30-35 minutes (or depending on your oven).

Adapted from epicurious This recipe makes a 15 cm round pie. Crust : 3/4 cup pastry flour (or more if the dough is too soft to work with) 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1/4 cup very cold butter, grate or cut into small chunks 1 tablespoon ice water Mix flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Add grated butter, rub in with fingertips until the butter has distributed evenly. Add water little by little, continue rubbing until the dough can come together. Press into a 15 cm pie pan. The dough should cover the bottom and side of the pan. Refrigerate while preparing filling and topping. Note: you could also half-bake this crust before adding filling. Topping : 1/2 cup flour 2-4 tablespoons palm sugar (I personally prefer it to be less sweet) 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons butter Combine all the topping ingredients until crumbly and sandy. I use a fork, it's easier that way. Set aside. Filling : 4 apples (about 700 grams) freshly...

(Disclaimer to all naturalist out there: ‘All Natural’ here means ‘using only beet and no food coloring’) Hello! I’m back again with another episode of #BakingWithKids. Remember this (not) red velvet cake ? Today @perempuangimbal and I tried the recipe that I’ve mentioned before on that post, the one that using all beet puree and no food coloring, with a little science behind. So, in order to get the bright red (purplish) hue, we should maintain the proper acidic pH of the batter by using natural (not dutch processed) cocoa powder, baking powder, orange juice, and vinegar, which has high acidity percentage. Enough with the science. You can read a little more about that on here and here .  All Natural Red Velvet Cake adapted from  Little House Living Ingredients: 2 and 1/2 cups cake flour 3 tablespoons cocoa powder (not Dutch processed) 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup unsalted butter 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 1 cup milk 1...

Last Tuesday our kitchen is visited by @maknyes and @perempuangimbal along with their kids. We were going to make cupcakes together, yay! Could you imagine what it was like to do baking with three kids around? A three month-old and a less-than-1-year-and-a-half babies (and their moms have to carry them along on the whole baking process) plus a preschooler who wouldn't stop shouting something like, "I wanna do that! Can I do that? Can I try that? I can do that by myself!"  So here we are, the chaotic bakers who somehow manage to accomplish the impossible mission of baking green tea cupcakes with kids tagging along.   The first try. This is what happen when I let my preschooler do the frosting. Messy! Those first 12 mini cupcakes (for each person) are gone in considerably short period of time. So a couple days after that @perempuangimbal came back and we baked the second batch, without the kids this time.  The second batch. Because one is never e...

Another baking session with the kid, with a little more effort this time. And another popular thingy that I've been wanting to try to make: salted caramel. I think this one is more understandable. I mean, it's CARAMEL. Plus, salted. It can't go wrong.  I was drooling when I saw this beautiful cake picture here . Look at that caramel drizzling! But please, please don't compare it with my result. I followed the recipe as closely as possible, yet the result is messy, no beauty. But the taste, OhMyGod. I was right, people were right, salted caramel can't go wrong. 

Baking with your kid can be very fun. Try this homemade pocky stick for instance. He/she would love to roll the dough into sticks, or dip them in melted strawberry-flavored-chocolate. Most of the sticks will surely end up in his/her stomach but there are still a couple left for you to take photos for documentation. Strawberry Pocky Recipe Or what about chocolate-glazed donuts? Use fun shape cookie cutter to make the holes. We use star shape cutter so we will have mini star shape donuts later. Oh, these donuts are eggless, by the way. And they are baked, not deep fried. Pretty healthy, no? (Okay, maybe not really, since you still need white flour and all) Eggless Baked Donuts Recipe If you concern about the kneading and the wating-for-the-dough-to-rise process you could use a simple and quick donut recipe. There are tons of them, just google it. Or visit this link below. Quick And Easy Donuts Recipe "D'oh! Must you take pictures of everything ...