Chilled Mango Cheese Cake

Some of my friends commented some of my recipes are tough, it is not "simple".  I do agree, sometimes I just want to challenge myself for something new and also doing some looks great and taste great for my loved ones.  So this Mango Cheese Cake here it is really not simple and the ingredient is also expensive, if you do not have some good knowledge of doing this cake before, you should try some simple cake similar to this one before trying this.  This cake is specially made for my son's 15 years old birthday on 14th Feb, 2012.  Usually I will plan ahead, do my prayer before starting making the cake.

Ingredients:

Cake's side panel
270g egg whites (approx. 6 medim eggs)
50g caster sugar, 130 superfine flour
10g custard powder, 35g corn flour
red colour (4 pieces of dragon fruit, blend till become juice)

Sponge Cake (for base)
150g plain sponge mix, 3 eggs, 30ml milk, 35ml corn oil

Filling
2 1/2 tbsp gelatine (dissolve in 100ml orange juice, double boil)
50g caster sugar, 350g mango puree (use 3 large ripe mango, blend till puree)
350ml UHT whipping cream, 1 ripe mango (cubed)

Pudding topping
120g mango pudding mix (ready packet form)
500ml water

Utensil needed
2 piping bags, 9" round cake tin
9" loose-base cake tin
1 large cookies baking tray 18"

Method:
1.  Prepare baking trays, line the 18" with parchment paper for baking the cake's side panel and the the 9" round cake tin with parchment paper for sponge cake for base.

2. Cake's side Panel

Preheat oven at 180 degree.  whisk egg whites and sugar at high speed until stiff. Use a hand whisk fold in dry ingredients. Divide into 2 portions, colour one portion with the dragon fruit juice. 

 

Place batter into two separate piping bags.

Pipe out the two batter vertically in alernate colour.
When piping the batter, make sure it is at least 2cm wide and as thick as possible, the 2 colours must touch each other. (tip: if you are doing for the first time, try out a few stripes, bake it to see the result, re-do until you are satisfy before during the actual one)

Bake for 5-10 minutes, make sure it is not too dry or over baked.






Take out the cake fromoven, wait for it to cool down, remove the parchment paper and the stripes cut into 2 1/4 inches.  Use the loose-base 9" cake, line the cut strip into the tin, put aside.













3. Sponge Cake
Whisk sponge mix, egg & milk on high speed for 8 minutes.  Fold in oil, pour into the 9" lined cake tin for 25-30 minutes.

Take out the cake from, wait for it to cool down, then place the cake into the loose-base tin. Make sure the base is put on before placing the cake.






4. Filling
In a mixing bowl, beat cheese and sugar until light & creamy. Add in mango puree and cream. Add in gelatine mixture.  Lastly stir in the mango cubes.
Now pour in the filling into the assembled tin and quick set in a freezer for 15 minutes.

5. Pudding topping
Bring the mango pudding mix and water to boil, leave it to cool slightly.  Spoon pudding onto set cake carefully. Chill till set before serving.

Oven baked BBQ Chicken Wing

Ingredients:

12 pcs of chicken wings
100gm ginger juice (about 3 inches, pound to get juice)
100gm garlic juice (about 1 whole garlic, pound to get juice)
1 tbsp pepper powder
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp BBQ sauce (refer picture)
2 tbsp soya sauce

Ingredient for brown sauce:
4 tsp BBQ sauce
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp honey
1 tsp dark sauce
1 tsp corn startch (mix with a little water)

Method:
1.  Marinate chicken wings with the ingredients above for at 4 hours or overnight.

2. Pre-heat oven at 180 degree and bake the chicken wing for 30-40 minutes depending on the thickness of the chicken wings.  Grill for browing about 1-2 minute.

3. Prepare brown Sauce, heat up the pan at medium, pour in all the ingredients and stir for 1-2 minutes until thicken, pour the chicken sauce from the oven and stir well.

4. Top the chicken wings with brown sauce and ready to serve.

Steam Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients:
300gm pumpkin (peeled, shredded)
minced pork 100gm
3 chinese mushrooms (soaked, diced)
1 tbsp shallots (chopped)
1 tbsp garlic (chopped)

Batter:
200gm rice flour, 1 tbsp corn flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 egg
400 ml water

Seasoning:
1 tsp pepper, 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tbsp osyter sauce
1 tsp seasame oil

Method:
1.  Combine batter ingredients, stir lightly strain well until smooth, keep aside.
2.  Heat up 2 tbsp oil to saute chopped shallot & garlic at medium heat until fragrant.  Add in shredded pumpkin, minced pork, mushroom and seasoning, stir fry briskly until aromatic.
3.  Gradually add in batter, stirring until thicken, remove, pour into a 9" inches square steaming tin, level the surface.
4.  Steam in the preheated steamer at high heat for 35-40 minutes until cooked though.  Remove from heat, Remove from heat, leave to cool.  Cut into pieces and ready serve.

Button mushroom and minced meat Quiche

INGREDIENT A

-          100gm Plain flour
-          50ml milk
-          2 large eggs
-          ½ teaspoon of salt

INGREDIENT B

Part I (marinate for 10 minutes
-          200gm minced meat (pork,chicken or beef)
-          freshly ground pepper
-          1 tablespoon corn flour
-          1/4 teaspoon of salt
-          Soya sauce, oyster sauce, BBQ sauce to taste

Part ii
-          100gm button mushrooms, thinly sliced
-          1 medium Onion finely chopped
-          2 tablespoons cooking oil
-          1 tablespoon mixed herbs
-          2 tablespoon of shredded parmesan cheese
-          Remain some cheese for topping

METHOD

1.        To mix ingredient A, in a mixing bowl break the 2 eggs inside, beat lightly add in milk, salt then 
         the flour, mix well and set aside.
2.       Marinate ingredient B part i for 10 minutes.
3.       Fry ingredient B part ii, in a frying pan,  put in the oil, pour in the onion fry for 1 minute then
        fold in the mix herbs fry for another 1 minute then fold in the mushrooms stir fry for 20 sec. 
        Lastly pour in the marinated meat and continue to stir fry for at least 5 minutes to ensure the
        mixture is cooked, dry & fragrance.
4.       Prepare the baking tray, pre-heat the oven 160 degree F,
5.       Pour the mixture into the baking tray, top with shredded cheese.
6.        bake for 10-15 minutes depending on the depth of your baking tray. 
         The thinner tray will take shorter time to bake.

Sherperd's Pie

This Pie was made yesterday, 9th Feb 2012.  My children loves this pie.  The ground meat I used was mince pork, the original recipe uses beef or mutton. 

Shepherd's Pie is an English dish, traditionally made with lamb or mutton. Americans typically make Shepherd's Pie with beef. The English (and Australians and New Zealanders) call the beef dish a "cottage pie". Naming conventions aside, Shepherd's Pie is essentially a casserole, lined with cooked meat and vegetables, topped with mashed potatoes, and baked.  It's your choice to choose the vegetables and meat of your choice.

Shepherd's Pie Recipe

Prep time: 10 minutes

• Cook time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 300gm of minced meat (pork, beef or mutton), marinate it with salt, paper, soya sauce and corn startch
• 1 onion chopped
• 300gm vegetables - chopped carrots, corn, peas, celery, button mushroom
• 300gm potatoes (3 big ones)
• 200gm parmesan cheese
• 50gm butter
• 100ml cooking oil
• 3 teaspoon of BBQ sauce
• Salt, sugar, pepper, mixed herbs and other seasonings of choice

Method

1  Wash the potatoes, quatered it with skin and steam until soft (about 30 min). leave it to cool, and peel off the skin to mash it.

2 While the potatoes are cooking, start the preparation of  other ingredients.
3 In a large fying pan or wok, sauté onions in cooking oil until fragant, add in the minced meat, mushroom over medium heat (10 mins).   When the meat is cooked lightly, add in other vegetable ingredients over medium heat (10 mins).
4  Add in the BBQ sauce, 50gm of the parmesan cheese and seasoning ingredients stir fry over a very low heat and adjust the taste.
5 Mash potatoes in bowl with butter 50gm, season to taste.
6 Place fried ingredient in the baking dish. Distribute mashed potatoes on top. Rough up with a fork so that there are peaks that will brown nicely.  Spread the remaining of the parmesan cheese on top.
7 Cook in an oven over 180 degreee until bubbling and brown (about 15 minutes).   Use upper heat to do the cheese browing for 1-2 minutes.