SCONE~~New Trend of Bread in This Season

Have you heard of SCONE?


Scone is a small British quick bread of Scottish origin. Scones are slowly gaining popularity nowadays. It is usually made of wheat, barley or oatmeal, with baking powder as a leavening agent.


Scone is normally round and thick. It is easy to make at home. It can include raisins, chocolate chips, or dates.


This is the basic recipe of making Scone:

Ingredients

• 3 cups self-raising flour


• 80g butter, cubed
  
• 1 to 1 1/4 cups milk
  
• jam and whipped cream, to serve

Methods

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Lightly dust a flat baking tray with plain flour.
   
2. Sift self-raising flour into a large bowl.
   
3. Using your fingertips, rub butter into flour until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
   
4. Make a well in the centre.


5. Add 1 cup of milk.


6. Mix with a flat-bladed knife until mixture forms a soft dough, adding more milk if required.


7. Turn onto a lightly floured surface.


8. Knead gently until smooth (don't knead dough too much or scones will be tough).


9. Pat dough into a 2cm-thick round. Using a 5cm (diameter) round cutter, cut out 12 rounds.


10. Press dough together and cut out remaining 4 rounds.


11. Place scones onto prepared baking tray, 1cm apart.


12. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden and well risen.


13. Transfer to a wire rack. Serve warm with jam and cream.

See...Its easy as ABC right? Haha...Hope you enjoy the wonders of making your own scones!

< Chocolate Lover >

Are you a Chocolate Lover?

Are you addicted to Chocolate?

YES....

I Am...I Am...^^


Chocolate has many brands. Hershey is famous for their Hershey bar, Hershey's kisses and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Mars is most famous for its eponymous Mars Bar, as well as other confectionery such as Milky Way, M&M's, Twix, Skittles and Snickers. Cadbury is well known for its Dairy Milk range. Nestlé production include Smarties and Kit Kat.

Chocolate is divided into milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate. I prefer dark chocolate because it is less sweet and has a more bitter taste. Milk chocolate has more milky taste and slightly sweeter. White chocolate has a unique flavour.

Do You Know?

Chocolate popularity has been adapted in books and films. In 1964, Roald Dahl published a children's novel titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The novel centers around a poor boy named Charlie Bucket who takes a tour through the greatest chocolate factory in the world, owned by Willy Wonka.

Two film adaptations of the novel were produced. The first was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory at 1971.

At 2005, a second film adaptation was produced, titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The film was very well received.

I like the movie very much. It has delivered moral values to people.

If you haven't watch it before, I highly recommended this movie.

Attached a trailer of the movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).

Tim Burton was the director of this film, Johnny Depp was the main acter.

This movie is great, fantastic, and worth to watch it!

Melt In The Mouth~~ICE-CREAM

Recently, the weather is real HOT! And this is the most perfect timing to enjoy a cooling dessert~Ice-cream!

Yumm Yumm~

Ice-cream is a frozen product where you can find at anyplace. There are many Ice-cream brands include Nestle, Walls, Magnolia, Cremo, etc. These are more affordable type of ice-cream in the market.

For brands such as Baskin-Robbins, Haagen Dazz, New Zealand are more expensive type of ice-cream.

There have many flavours for ice-cream. Normal ones are chocolate, vanila, strawberry...

Nowadays manufacturers had produced more attractive flavours such as Oreo & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chips, Green Tea, Almond Nuts, and the lists continues...

So which flavour attracts you the most?

Ice-cream can serves in cup or cones. Which one you prefer?

Take a tour to the Ice-cream Wonderland today!!!

http://www.baskinrobbins.com/SoftServe/cupsandcones.aspx

~Recipe of Carrot Cake~

Carrot Cake never goes out of style. One bite will tell you why. This rich and moist spice cake, full of grated carrot and toasted nuts, has great flavor, especially when covered with a cream cheese frosting. The interesting part is that while those pretty orange flecks of grated carrot give the cake color and texture, along with sweetness and moisture, its flavor is almost indistinguishable.





Carrot Cake Making:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Butter or spray two - 9 x 2 inch (23 x 5 cm) cake pans and line the bottoms of the pans with a circle of parchment paper.

• Toast the pecans or walnuts for about 8 minutes or until lightly browned and fragrant. Let cool and then chop coarsely.

• Peel and finely grate the carrots. Set aside.

• In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon. Set aside.

• In bowl of electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the eggs until frothy (about 1 minute).

• Gradually add the sugar and beat until the batter is thick and light colored (about 3 - 4 minutes).

• Add the oil in a steady stream and then beat in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and beat just until incorporated. With a large rubber spatula fold in the grated carrots and chopped nuts.
  



• Evenly divide the batter between the two prepared pans and bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  



• Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. After about 5 -10 minutes invert the cakes onto the wire rack, remove the pans and parchment paper, and then cool completely before frosting.
  



• To assemble: place one cake layer, top side down, onto your serving plate. Spread with about one third of the frosting. Gently place the other cake, top of cake facing down, onto the frosting, and spread the rest of the frosting over the top and sides of the cake.
  

Cream Cheese Frosting:

• In bowl of electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and butter, on low speed, just until blended with no lumps.
  


• Gradually add the sifted powdered sugar and beat, on low speed, until fully incorporated and smooth. Beat in the vanilla extract, and lemon zest.