Strawberry Pavlova

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Strawberry Pavlova

by Lin Weixian

This dreamy-looking Strawberry Pavlova is bound to make you crave for more!

Cuisine : Dessert  Course : Baking  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 20 mins Cook : 60 mins Ready in : 1 hr 20 mins  Serves : 1-2 Servings


INGREDIENTS                                          

  • 100gm Egg Whites
  • 100gm Icing Sugar
  • 100gm Sugar
  • Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt as needed
  • Fresh Berries

DIRECTIONS

  1. Prepare the workstation.
  2. Scale the ingredients.
  3. Beat egg whites; add sugar to form stiff peaks.
  4. Finish off by delicately folding in sifted icing sugar.
  5. Pipe into shape of an inverted, hollow cone.
  6. Bake at 125C for 60 minutes.
  7. Cool down before piping Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt into the pavlova.
  8. Decorate attractively with fresh fruits.
  9. Serve immediately.
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Cheesecake Brownies

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Cheesecake Brownies

by Lin Weixian

A combination of cheesecake and brownies makes a rich, fudgy and dreamy Cheesecake Brownie!

Cuisine : Dessert  Course : Baking  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 40 mins Cook : 40-45 mins Ready in : 1 hr 20 – 1 hr 25 mins  Serves : 1-2 Servings


INGREDIENTS                                          

  • Brownies Batter
    • 60gm Valrhona Equatorial
    • 62gm Valrhona Cocoa Mass
    • 105gm Unsalted Butter
    • 80gm Eggs, beaten
    • 140gm Sugar
    • 12gm Inverted Sugar
    • Pinch of Salt
    • 50gm Cream
    • 55gm Cake Flour, sifted
    • 50gm Walnut, chopped
  • Cheesecake Batter
    • 365gm Cream cheese, room temp
    • 100gm Sugar
    • Pinch of Salt
    • 100gm Eggs
    • 55gm Sour Cream
    • 32gm Cream

DIRECTIONS FOR BROWNIES BATTER                                        

  1. Prepare the workstation.
  2. Scale the ingredients.
  3. Melt the chocolate, cocoa mass and butter together.
  4. Whisk up the eggs with sugar, inverted sugar and salt.
  5. Fold the chocolate mixture (40C) into the egg mixture.
  6. Fold in cream.
  7. Fold in flour and walnuts.
  8. Set aside mixture.

DIRECTIONS FOR CHEESECAKE BATTER

  1. Prepare the workstation.
  2. Scale the ingredients.
  3. Soften cream cheese with sugar and salt at low speed.
  4. Add eggs gradually until just mixed.
  5. Add sour cream and cream until just mixed.
  6. Set aside mixture.

ASSEMBLING

  1. Pour two-third of the brownies batter into prepared mould. Spread evenly.
  2. Pour cheesecake batter onto brownie batter. Spread evenly.
  3. Drop the reserved brownie batter in large dollops over the topping. Draw the handle of a spoon through the two batters to create a swirled effect.
  4. Bake at 175C until the top is just set, 40 to 45 mins. Let cool completely in the pan on a wire rack before cutting into desired size.

 

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Japanese Strawberry Shortcake

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Japanese Strawberry Shortcake

by Julie Yee

Japanese Strawberry Shortcake is made from a light and airy shortcake layered with Chantilly cream and sliced strawberries that are popular in Japan!

Cuisine : Baking  Course : Dessert  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 45 mins Cook : 15 mins Ready in : 60 mins  Serves : 1×7” Cake


INGREDIENTS                                          

  • Japanese Strawberry Chantilly Shortcake
    • 3 Egg
    • 1 Egg Yolk
    • 80gm Castor Sugar
    • 110gm Cake Flour
    • 20ml UHT Milk
    • 30gm Corn Oil
    • ½ tsp Vanilla
  • Chantilly Cream
    • 200gm Fresh Whipping Cream 35%
    • 150gm Pastry Cream (recipe below)
  • Pastry Cream
    • 250gm Milk
    • 2 Egg Yolk
    • 50gm Sugar
    • 2 tbsp Corn Starch
    • 1 tsp Vanilla Paste
  • Liquor Syrup
    • 50gm Castor Sugar
    • 50gm Hot Water
    • 1 tbsp Liquor
    • 150gm Strawberry Slices
    • Extra Strawberry for Cake Decoration

DIRECTIONS FOR JAPANESE STRAWBERRY CHANTILLY SHORTCAKE

  1. Whisk egg & sugar till ribbon stage over a pot of water.
  2. Fold in sifted flour & vanilla.
  3. Fold in melted butter.
  4. Bake 200C for 12 mins in 3×7” trays.

DIRECTIONS FOR CHANTILLY CREAM

  1. Fold the 2 ingredients together.

DIRECTIONS FOR PASTRY CREAM

  1. Boil the milk.
  2. Mix the yolk, sugar & corn starch together.
  3. Temper the milk with yolk mixture & bring back to boil till thick.
  4. Cool down the mixture.

ASSEMBLY

  1. Level the shortcake and brush it with liquor syrup for the cake to stay moist.
  2. Layer the cake with chantillly cream and sliced strawberries.
  3. Decorate with full strawberries.
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Salted Egg Yolk Cookies

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Salted Egg Yolk Cookies

by Charlynn Gwee

Indulge in this melt-in-your-mouth, buttery and crumbly Salted Egg Cookies during your teatime!

Cuisine : Asian  Course : Dessert Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 15 mins Cook : 13-18 mins Ready in : 28-33 mins  Serves : 1-2 Servings


INGREDIENTS                                          

  • 125gm Plain Flour
  • 10gm Corn Flour
  • ½ gm Baking Powder
  • ½ gm Baking Soda
  • 10gm Milk Powder
  • 4 Salted Egg Yolk
  • 85gm Unsalted Butter
  • 2gm Salt
  • 40gm Caster Sugar
  • 1 Egg Yolk
  • Dash of Oil
  • Pinch of Salt
  • Black & White Sesame Seeds (Optional)

 

 

DIRECTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 170C.
  2. Steam salted egg yolk, roughly chop and set it aside to cool.
  3. Cream butter, sugar and salt together till fluffy.
  4. Add in all sifted dry ingredients gradually.
  5. Gradually incorporate chopped egg yolk.
  6. Roll to 5mm thickness and cut out desired shape.
  7. Brush with egg wash and top with black and white sesame.
  8. Bake for 13-18 minutes.
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Easter Carrot Patch Mousse Cups

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Easter Carrot Patch Mousse Cups

by ToTT

With Easter around the corner, serve up a carrot patch of chocolate mousse cups on a platter! These cute individual mousse cups are decorated like carrots growing in the ground – fun to eat and even easier to put together with the kids! And best of all, they require no baking at all! #QuickBites

Cuisine : Baking  Course : Dessert  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 10 mins Cook : 20 mins Ready in : 30 mins  Serves : 1-2 Servings


INGREDIENTS             

  • Chocolate Mousse
    • 100g bar Good Quality Plain Chocolate
    • 50ml Milk
    • 200ml Double Cream
  • Chocolate Coated Strawberries
    • 1 packet Strawberries
    • 1 bar of White Chocolate
    • Orange Food Coloring
  • 1 packet of Oreo

DIRECTIONS FOR CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

  1. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pot of simmering water (Double boiling)
  2. Heat the milk until it starts boiling then whisk in melted chocolate. Leave it to cool/
  3. Whip the cream until soft peak, then fold into cooled chocolate.
  4. Pour the chocolate mousse into La Parfait jars and allow it to cool.

DIRECTIONS FOR CHOCOLATE COATED STRAWBERRIES

  1. Melt a bar of white chocolate and add in a drop of orange food coloring.
  2. Dip the strawberries into the melted chocolate.

DIRECTIONS OF ‘DIRT’

  1. Remove the cream filling and blend the oreo biscuit until crumbly.

ASSEMBLY 

  1. Pour the chocolate mousse into Le Parfait jars.
  2. Top oreo as ‘dirt’.
  3. Top chocolate strawberries as ‘carrots’
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Classic French Opera Cake

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Classic French Opera Cake

by Lin Weixian

If you’ve never tried this Classic French Opera Cake, you’re in for a treat! This decadent layered coffee cake is made with Biscuit Jaconde, soaked with coffee syrup followed by a layer of coffee buttercream!

Cuisine : Baking  Course : Dessert  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 55 mins Cook : 15 mins Ready in : 1 hr 10 mins  Serves : 1-2 Servings


INGREDIENTS             

  • Biscuit Jaconde
    • 340gm Almond Flour
    • 340gm Sifted Icing Sugar
    • 460gm Eggs
    • 105gm Sifted Cake Flour
    • 240gm Egg Whites
    • 70gm Sugar
  • Coffee Ganache
    • 40gm Sugar
    • 40gm Glucose
    • 5gm Nescafe
    • 130gm Cream
    • 130gm Dark Chocolate
    • 40gm Unsalted Butter
  • Coffee Buttercream
    • 140gm Egg Yolks
    • 220gm Sugar
    • 70gm Water
    • 350gm Unsalted Butter, softened
    • Coffee Essence as needed
  • Coffee Syrup
    • 300gm Sugar Syrup
    • 300gm Water
    • 25gm Nescafe
  • Dark Chocolate Coating
    • 70gm Dark Chocolate
    • 225gm Dark Chocolate Compound
    • 60gm Water
    • 60gm Sugar
    • 115gm Cream
    • 20gm Glucose

DIRECTIONS FOR BISCUIT JACONDE

  1. Whisk up almond flour, sifted icing sugar, eggs to ribbon stage.
  2. Fold sifted cake flour into the egg mixture and set aside.
  3. Prepare common meringue and whip till soft peak.
  4. Add one third of the common meringue to the first mixture and mix well.
  5. Fold this mixture into the rest of the common meringue.
  6. Spread on a tray lined with parchment paper.
  7. Bake at 190°C for 6-8mins.
  8. Cool down on rack once out of the oven.

DIRECTIONS FOR COFFEE GANACHE

  1. Bring to boil the sugar, glucose, Nescafe and cream.
  2. Add bit-by-bit into the dark chocolate.
  3. Create a proper emulsification and finish it off with butter.
  4. Set aside for later use.

DIRECTIONS FOR COFFEE BUTTERCREAM

  1. Whisk up yolks to ribbon stage.
  2. Cook sugar and water to 118 °C.
  3. Add into whipped yolk and whisk till cool.
  4. Switch to paddle and gradually add butter till fully combined.
  5. Add coffee essence as needed.
  6. Set aside for later use.

DIRECTIONS FOR COFFEE SYRUP

  1. Warm the water to melt the Nescafe.
  2. Add sugar syrup and set is aside for later use.

DIRECTIONS FOR DARK CHOCOLATE COATING

  1. Combine dark chocolate and dark chocolate compound in a bowl.
  2. Bring to boil water, sugar, cream and glucose.
  3. Pour into bowl containing chocolate and blend till fully combined.
  4. Set aside for later use.

ASSEMBLING

  1. Coat a thin layer of chocolate on one sheet of jaconde.
  2. Place the coated side of the jaconde on a tray lined with parchment paper.
  3. Soak with 200gm of coffee syrup and spread 500gm of coffee buttercream on top.
  4. Cover with second sheet of jaconde. Soak with 200gm of coffee syrup and spread all the coffee ganache on top.
  5. Cover with the last sheet of jaconde. Soak with the remaining coffee syrup and spread a thin layer of coffee buttercream before setting it in the chiller until ready to be coated.
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Ogura Zebra Chiffon Cake

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Ogura Zebra Chiffon Cake

by Julie Yee

This light and fluffy Ogura Zebra Chiffon Cake is as delicious as it looks! A basic chiffon cake recipe now tastes better with swirled decadent chocolate paste.

Cuisine : Baking Course : Dessert  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 15 mins Cook : 55 mins Ready in : 1 hr 10 mins  Serves : 1 Chiffon Cake


INGREDIENTS             

  • Group 1
    • 100g Egg Yolk
    • 1 Egg
    • 50g Oil
    • 60g Fresh Milk
    • A pinch of Salt
    • 70g Cake Flour
  • Group 2
    • 250g Egg White
    • 80g Fine Sugar
    • 1 tsp Lemon Juice
  • Chocolate Paste Mixture
    • 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
    • 1 tbsp Chocolate Milk/ Milk
    • ½ tsp Chocolate Paste/ Emulco

DIRECTIONS       

  1. Whisk eggs, oil, milk for 3mins.
  2. Add in sifted flour and mixed till well-combined. Put aside.
  3. Whisk egg white with fine sugar till medium peak.
  4. Fold a big scoop of the meringue to the egg yolk batter and mix well.
  5. Pour the batter back to the meringue bowl and fold gradually till just combined.
  6. Divide the mixture into 2 portions. Stir in the Cocoa paste mixture into 1 portion.
  7. Pour mixture into the centre of the tin alternately (see demo).
  8. Bake at 170C for 15mins then lower to 150c bake for 4omins or till cooked.
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Chocolate Eclair

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Chocolate Eclair

by Charlynn Gwee

Enjoy French Classic, Chocolate Éclair, a perfectly light choux pastry filled with creamy crème patisserie and coated with luscious dark chocolate ganache!

Cuisine : Baking Course : Dessert  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 30 mins Cook : 15 mins Ready in : 45 mins  Serves : 10 Servings


INGREDIENTS             

  • Choux Pastry
    • 132g Water
    • 132g Milk
    • 132g Butter
    • 12g Sugar
    • 2g Salt
    • 172g Plain Flour
    • 268g Eggs
  • Crème Pastisserie
    • 140g Milk
    • Vanilla Extract
    • 32g Egg Yolks
    • 40g Sugar
    • 14g Cake Flour
  • Chocolate Ganache
    • 100g Heavy Cream
    • 100g Dark Chocolate

DIRECTIONS FOR CHOUX PASTRY

  1. Bring water, milk, butter, sugar and salt to a boil.
  2. Whisk in plain flour and dry the dough till it pulls away from the sides of the pot.
  3. Transfer mixture to a stand mixer and gradually incorporated eggs
  4. Transfer mixture to a piping bag.
  5. Pipe mixture and steam bake at 200C for 15 mins.

DIRECTIONS FOR CRÈME PASTISSERIE

  1. Bring milk and vanilla to a boil.
  2. Whisk egg yolks and sugar till light and add in cake flour.
  3. Gradually pour in the boiled mixture with the mixer still running.
  4. Once incorporated, transfer mixture back to the pot and continue stirring till thicken.

DIRECTIONS FOR CHOCOLATE GANACHE

  1. Heat up cream and melt chocolate together.
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Strawberry Shortcake Cups

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Strawberry Shortcake Cups

by Claire Marie Chang

Sink your teeth into beautiful layers of lady finger biscuits, vanilla Chantilly cream and fresh strawberries! These Strawberry Shortcake Cups are to die for.

Cuisine : Baking Course : Dessert  Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 45 mins Cook : 0 mins Ready in : 45 mins  Serves : 5-8 dessert shot cups


INGREDIENTS             

  • Vanilla Chantilly Cream
    • 150g Dairy Whipping Cream 35% fat
    • 10g Icing Sugar or Caster Sugar (Optional)
    • 1/8 1 ¼ tsp Vanilla Extract or Vanilla Bean Paste
  • Trifle Base
    • 8 pcs Lady Finger Biscuits
    • 100ml Milk or Full Cream
    • OR
    • Vanilla Sponge Cake
    • Strawberries, chopped into small cubes
    • Jelly/ Piping Glaze

DIRECTIONS FOR VANILLA CHANTILLY CREAM

  1. In a cold greaseproof mixing bowl, combine whipping cream, sugar and vanilla.
  2. Using the whisk attachment, whip on medium speed (Kitchenaid speed 6) till soft firm peaks form.
  3. Using a spatula, transfer the whipped cream into piping bag with piping tip. Keep in the fridge immediately if not using immediately.

DIRECTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING THE TRIFLE

  1. Gently soak your sponge fingers in the milk briefly to moisten the sponge.
  2. Cut each up into 4-5 pcs each depending on your dessert shot cup shape/size.
  3. Place 2-3 pcs of soaked lady finger biscuits into each dessert cup.
  4. Pipe 1 layer of Vanilla Chantilly Cream. Top with chopped strawberries.
  5. Place remaining ladyfinger biscuits on top. Pipe 1 layer of Vanilla Chantilly Cream.
  6. Top with diced strawberries mixed with some jelly glaze.

** Keep refrigerated if not consumed within 30 minutes. Eat within 3 days.

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Salted Earl Grey Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Salted Earl Grey Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Claire Marie Chang

Indulge in these irresistible Salted Earl Grey Chocolate Chip Cookies that tastes amazing on its own and even better when paired with Earl Grey infused butter!

Cuisine : Baking Course : Dessert Skill Level : Novice
Prep : 40 mins Cook : 10 mins Ready in : 50 mins Serves : 25 medium cookies or 17 large cookies


INGREDIENTS

  • 110g Infused Earl Grey Butter, Melted*Recipe Below
  • 160g Brown Sugar (Light/Dark)
  • 50g White Sugar
  • ½ tsp Vanilla Bean Extract/Paste
  • 1 Egg (60-65g)
  • 210g Plain Flour
  • ½ tsp Baking Soda
  • ½ + 1/8 tsp Baking Powder
  • ¾ tsp Sea Salt
  • 1 Earl Grey Tea Bag (Fine type)
  • 170g Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips or Chopped Chocolate of your choice
  • Tea Infused Butter
    • 250g Unsalted Butter
    • 8 tea bags Earl Grey Tea of your choice

 

 

DIRECTIONS FOR COOKIES

Preheat oven to 180°C

  1. Combine cooled melted butter, sugar, vanilla paste, and earl grey tea. Mix till well combined.
  2. Add egg and mix till well combined.
  3. Mix in sifted dry ingredients till 80% combined.
  4. Mix in Chocolate till combined.
  5. If the cookie dough is very soft, refrigerate for 10-15minutes till slightly firm.
  6. Portion in 30g balls (Medium) or 45g balls (Large).
  7. Sprinkle with sea salt before baking.
  8. Bake for 9 minutes for Medium/ 11 minutes for Large.

* Eat within 3 days. Cookie dough can be frozen up to 1 month.

DIRECTIONS FOR TEA INFUSED BUTTER

  1. Over low heat, melt butter till fully melted.
  2. Remove from heat. Add tea bags to infuse for 15 minutes.
  3. Sieve to remove the tea leaves. Cool.

* Excess infused butter can be frozen to keep its fragrance.

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