Honey Cake

Lately whenever I opened my refrigerator, I will see a few bees staring at me - bottles of honey.

Honey is actually very good in many ways.

Especially when my throat starts to get cranky, I will take some plain honey water or pop a couple of teaspoons of it into my coffee or chocolate drinks (they taste good!).

When we needed honey, there isn't any avail. anywhere in the house.

It was when my sister needed some, she bought a bottle.

Before we get to finish that bottle, I received a bottle from my boyfriend's mom as they claimed a few bottles via some points redemption. Then, my dad went Thailand and bought back a huge bottle of honey.

(=_=) man.. when will we get to finish all these honey?

So my baking bugs started digging into my ears and suggest me the idea of making honey dessert!

So, I went to flip through some recipe books that my friends & colleagues bought me as birthday present for last year.

Spotted this easy recipe that uses honey and i.e. Honey Cake (^,^)

It's really easy but because it was my 1st time baking Honey Cake, and also my 1st time trying out recipe from this particular book, I did not want to venture my risk too far. I cut the portions by half but ended up, I had a slightly flat cake. But no worries, I believe if you follow the exact quantity, it will make a perfect height of the cake! :)

Ingredients: (Original Recipe)

- 85g Flour (sifted)

- 175g Egg

- 60g  Caster Sugar

- 60g Honey

- 25g Milk

- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder (Optional - I believe adding some of it will bring up the taste more (: )

* Pan size: 4.5 inch x 4.5 inch (11.25cm) .

* Preheat oven to 160°C.

1) Whisk egg, sugar, honey and cinnamon (optional) until soft peak.
    Whisk in milk till creamy texture.

2) Fold in flour thoroughly till creamy batter-like texture.

3) Pour batter through a sieve into a bowl to remove lumps.

4) Pour sifted batter into cake pan. Bake 160°C for 30mins.

5) Remove from oven, allow to cool in tin for 10mins before turning it out on wire rack to cool further.

** Wrap cake in plastic wrapper and chill 1 day to enhance the flavor.

ENJOY~~~~~~ :D

Chocolate Coated Popcorn

Chocolate Coated Popcorn

(A variation to DIY popcorn)

It was the mood of movie night again.

I just need a little ease for my craving for munchies.

After looking around, I found my left over packet of raw corns that I bought sometime back to try out caramelized popcorn.

And, accompanied it in the cupboard is a box that I stored a block of coating chocolate I bought recently.

So suddenly recalled seeing videos of people making chocolate coating popcorn~

So here it is, it is very simple, and all you need are just raw corns, some oil and coating chocolate!

Ingredients: (For one person serving)

• 4 tbsp raw corns
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• Coating/Dipping chocolate
  (Either in block/buttons/morsels, amount depends on how much you want your popcorn to be coating, some like whole coating, some just a drizzle of the chocolate)

Steps:

1. Place a pot on a low flame, pour oil in.
2. Add 1 raw corn in first, let it heat up, cover with lid.
3. Once it popped, pour the rest of the corns in and cover with lid.
4. Shake the pot back and forth to prevent burnt corns.
5. Once there is no more popping sound, pour popcorn into a big bowl.
6. On double-boiler, melt the coating chocolate. (Learn about double-boiler here)
7. When almost all pieces of chocolate melts, remove from heat.
8. Stir further to let the remaining chocolates to melt completely.
9. Using a spoon, drizzle melted chocolate over the popcorn.
10. Mix the chocolate and the popcorn well and set it to harden.

Enjoy the Chocolate Coated Popcorn!