Martabak Manis Challenge 2

I’d like to share this recipe with my readers because it has resulted in good martabak so far (or, until I discovered the most recent recipe). The main difference to the previous recipe is this recipe uses yeast as well as baking soda. The yeast did help with creating nest-like texture somewhat (see top left picture below); in fact, I had been making martabak with this recipe few times (because we were pretty happy with the results). I still use non-stick teflon pan to make my martabak and therefore I cannot make them thick, nevertheless they still turned out fairly good (at least better than my previous attempts)

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Cotton Soft Japanese Cheese Cake

Some time ago this cake was a hit on many baking blog sites and everyone seemed to agree this is a great recipe, it is lighter than the usual cheesecake, it is soft like sponge cake but smooth and creamy at the same time. This is also a perfect dessert for those who always say desserts are too sweet for them, I can assure you this is not too sweet. But beware you are not going to stop at just one slice.

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Banana Cake with Nutella Topping

What you do when you have some over-ripe bananas at hand? Make a banana bread or banana cake! 😀 my husband uses banana in his morning smoothies and sometimes, especially during the summer (I think), some of the bananas just went over-ripe too quickly. We try to reduce our food wastage at home, so usually we cut the bananas into chunks and place in a zip lock bag to be frozen before they gone too ripe.

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