Saturday, 11 June 2011

Vanilla Cupcakes with honey-cinnamon frosting

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم


I am still in search for the best vanilla cake recipe, and I can give this one 4 stars. I still didn't find the five star one, which I will keep searching for. 


Ingredients:


3 cups self-raising flour
1 1/4 caster sugar
200 g butter, room temperature
1 cup milk, room temperature
5 eggs, room temperature
1 1/4 tsp baking powder


Method (makes around 24-26 cupcakes):
  • sift together flour and baking powder, set aside
  • beat butter and sugar for 7 minutes, till light and fluffy
  • add eggs, one by one while beating the mixture
  • add milk and continue beating
  • add self-raising flour, and fold with spoon
  • bake for 25-30 minutes in a preheated oven (175 degrees)

Honey-cinnamon frosting (from Martha Stewart book-cupcakes):
2 1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted
200 g butter, room temperature
2 tbs honey
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
with an electric mixture, beat all ingredients.
use mixture or refrigerate for up to 5 days
(the frosting has lovely flavour of honey and cinnamon, however, it was too sweet)


Sunday, 20 March 2011

Oven baked fish

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم



I know the title is not that fancy, but you got my point :D..

Ingredients:
Fish of your choice, cleaned, cut into big pieces (around 1 kg)
8 garlic gloves, mashed
1 tbs mashed ginger
1 tsp turmeric powder
salt/ pepper/ red/spicy chilly (to your taste)
One onion, cut into thin pieces
  • Mix the marinade, marinate the fish an hour before baking.
  • Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius (the upper heat Only). 
  • Bake your fish, turn it after 15 minutes
  • Bake for half an hour.
  • serve.