Pandan Bread Loaf with Nutella Filling

My latest homemade bread after a long break of bread baking 🙂

I used the tangzhong method again, as mention in my previous post. Only this time, I make them in a loaf pan and for each bread bit, I flattened them, spread generous amount of Nutella before roll them into balls again to put in the pan.

It is autumn in here and temperature has been dropping, so I found it took much longer in proofing process, this time it took me 2.5 hours for proofing alone. I initially put the dough inside the microwave but it is not warm enough (or it cools down too quickly), so later on I put it in my kitchen sink filled halfway through with warm water and this really help with the proofing process.

pandan nutella bread loaf

Easy Peasy Donut Balls

donut ballsIt is called easy peasy for a reason: you can whip up these little snacks only in one hour include preparation and cooking time, and there is no need to knead the dough to the elastic stage. Do notice that because of no kneading phase, the dough will be very soft and you will not be able to shape them like the normal donuts with hole in the middle, hence they are shaped in balls using two oiled spoons and drop directly to deep fryer. The ingredients for this recipe are simple as well, just your usual pantry staples.

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Nutella Braided Bread

I browsed through Youtube on the weekend and came by this easy recipe, yet it looks really pretty and may impress your families/friends/girlfriends 🙂

Looks like Nutella Pizza?
Looks like Nutella Pizza?

And, tadaaa here are the progress to final result after oven:

nutella braided breadTo be fair, I will let you in my little secret: this is not made with bread dough, but store-bought puff pastry; saved so much preparation time! A cheat version of Nutella braided bread hehe 😀

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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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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