The Magic of Baking

What you need : 

• 2 Cups Plain Flour
• 1 Cup Milk
• 1/2 Cup Oil
• 100 gr Butter, melted and cooled slightly
• 1 Egg
• 3/4 Cup Brown Sugar 
• 1/2 Tsp Baking Soda
• 3 Tsp Baking powder
• 2 Tbsp Cinnamon Powder
• 2 Tbsp Pure vanilla extract
• A pinch of Salt
• 1 Cup White chocolate chips/chunks
• 2 Cups mixed berries (Frozen or fresh)

Methods : 

1. Preheat oven to 180C (356F)
2. Pour all the wet ingredients (oil, milk, egg, vanilla, egg, butter) , whisk them to combine.
3. Place the dry ingredients in another bowl (Flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, white chocolate), stir to combine,
4. Pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture and mix it until combines, do not over mix because it might result in tough muffins!
5. Add the berries 
6. Pour the mixture into the paper
7. Bake it for 25 minutes until skewer inserted comes out clean 

What you need : 

• 185g Marie or Nice biscuits, processed to fine crumbs
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 90g Butter, melted
• 1/2 Cup Caster sugar
• 1/2 Cup Lemon juice
• Finely grated lemon rind
• 1/2 Cup Cream
• Icing sugar, for dusting

Methods : 

1. Preheat oven to 180C or 160C fan
2. Lightly grease a 2cm-deep, 24cm (base) loose-based round flan pan. Combine biscuit crumbs, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter in a bowl. Press into base and sides of prepaed pan. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
3. Mix together eggs, sugar, juice, rind and cream. Pour into prepared tart shell. Bake for 15 minutes until just set or you will burn the biscuits base. Cool in pan.
4. Dust tart with icing sugar, refrigerate.

Macaroni Schotel is a baked pasta that i don’t know where it is originally coming from but my mother said that it is from Dutch. Back in Indonesia, this is a very popular dish because Indonesia is influence by Dutch. My mother often made it and i really like it!Here is the recipe :

What you need :

200 gr Macaroni pasta, boiled and drained

1 Onion, chopped

2 Garlic cloves, chopped

Hams and Bacons, sliced

3 Cups fresh or skim milk (You can substitute this to 2 Cups of Thickening cream)

3 Eggs, beaten

2 Carrots, diced 

A pinch of Salt (To your liking)

A pinch of Pepper (To your liking)

1 Tsp of Ground nutmeg 

1 Tbsp of Mixed herbs

2 Tbsp of Plain flour

Shredded Mozarella cheese 

For the hams and bacons you can always change it to ground chicken, it depends to your own liking. You can also add other veggies such as peas or mushroom and corns.

Methods : 

1. Preheat the oven to 175 C (375 F).
2. In a big pan, heat 2 Tbsp of olive oil or vegetable oil, sauté the garlics and onions.
3. Add all of the remaining ingredients, stir well.
4. Heat off, add cheese and eggs, stir well.
5. Transferred the macaroni into the buttered baking dish (Pyrex is a good choice).
6. Put some mozzarella cheese on top.
7. Bake it for 45 minutes.