Sunday, December 7, 2008

Fluffy Banana Cake

I have been slacking :P I didn't make anything last weekend. Oh well, I did make a Orange Butter cake last week but I didn't make a post about it ...hehe because I was a lazy bump:P BUT I am back to business this weekend :D I made Banana cake, I bought these huge bananas last Sunday and purposely not finishing them so that I can make Banana Cake this Sunday. Initially, I wanted to make Coconut Banana bread but I ran out of coconut flakes:P So I settled with Banana cake which turned out to be excellent :D here is the recipe :D

Banana Cake
Ingredient A
  • 200g All Purpose Flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda

Ingredient B

  • 2 large banana (about 300g)
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence

Ingredient C

  • 180g butter
  • 150g castor sugar

Ingredient D

  • 1 egg, lightly beaten

Instruction:

  1. Preheat oven to 175 C, grease the cake pan.
  2. Mash and mix Ingredient B.
  3. Cream Ingredient C.
  4. Add banana mixture into creamed butter and sugar, mix well.
  5. Sift Ingredient A into mixture and add beaten egg. Mix well.
  6. Pour cake mixture into cake pan.
  7. Bake for 40 mins or till tooth pick come out clean.

PS: You could also add choc chips or any favorate nuts to spice it up a lil:D





My lunch is Braised chicken with potatoes :) Easy dish that my mom make all the time :-D

Ingredients
  • Half a chicken ( about 400 g), skinned and cut into small pieces
  • 3 medium size potatoes, skinned, cut into wedges
  • 3 shallots, slice thinly
  • adequate oil
  • salt
  • 2-3 tsp light soy sauce (or more.. to your own taste buds)
  • 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 cup of water
  • 1tsp corn flour with 1/4 cup of water

Instructions:

  1. Put some oil into frying pan, heat it up
  2. Pan-fry potatoes till gold in color
  3. Put potatoes into a pot.
  4. Put some oil into frying pan again, heat up the oil.
  5. Add shallots into hot oil, stir fry till gold in color.
  6. Add chicken into pan, stir-fry chicken with shallot for 3 mins
  7. Add 1 cup of water into pan, simmer for 3 mins.
  8. Add dark soy and light soy sauce into chicken, simmer for another 3 mins.
  9. Pour chicken and sauce into pot with potatoes.
  10. Cook in low fire for 30 mins.
  11. Add cornflour mixture, boil for 1 min. Serve with rice :D