Chocolate Cakes (Perwakilan The Hague)

Had been busy for the past few days. Last Saturday, we had Tahlil for my abah at my brother's house. On Thursday, I had baked some cupcakes to be packed individually as door gift. Baking the cupcakes was my job. Piping a bit of cream to 'glue' the sugar flower onto the cupcakes was Syahmi's job and finally, packing them individually into the casing was mak's job. So you can say that this was a family's joint venture programme! Hahahaha... Joint venture ke mendera? Muahahahaha....

Actually mak was so surprised when I asked her to help with the packing as I normally will not let her do any of my chores. Say all you want, I am fussy, I am choosey or whatever, but yes, I refused other people to do my chores, especially those that I love doing, like hanging the clothes, folding the clothes and ironing. To me, doing those chores are like a stress relief theraphy. So when someone did those things for me, it's like they are taking away the pleasure from me! Hahaha... am I weird or not. Mak was more than happy to do her part. As for Syahmi, I was surprised to find out that he actually are interested to deco the cupcakes even just to pipe a bit of icing on top of the cupcakes. Well, at least, for a start! And I can see that he has the creativeness in him. Guess what, after all the cupcakes were nicely packed, both my willing helpers dozed off to Dreamland! Hahaha......

When baking for the Tahlil, I baked extra for the last minute order from Nora. Thank you so much Nora for ordering from me and for giving me new stuff to explore. Nora had said that her two lovely daughters love cupcakes with fruits. I've never done something like that before though I really wanted to deco something like the fresh strawberries on top of the chocolate ganache cakes. So I took this order as a challenge and who's life had I made miserable with all my questions? Ana Elianas! Hahaha... sorry Ana, jangan serik aaa.... Here are the cupcakes that I made for her.....

Lets cut short my ramblings for today and move on to the recipe to share. The cupcakes that I had made for the occassion and for Nora were Orange Cupcakes and Chocolate Cupcakes. For the orange cupcakes recipe, you can find it here . Both the recipes came from Perwakilan The Hague Blog and thanks to Perwakilan The Hague and Madamme Muna for the link! Both recipes are lovely and surely a keeper... try it for yourself!

CHOCOLATE CAKE
Source : Perwakilan The Hague Blog

Ingredient A :

250 g butter
1 cup lukewarm water
1 ½ cup granulated sugar
½ - ¾ cup cocoa powder

Ingredient B :

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon soda bicarbonate

Ingredient C

2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
½ cup evaporated milk/ coffee milk

Method

1. Put ingredients A in a double boiler, heat till the butter melts and cool till lukewarm
2. Sieve ingredient B together
3. Slowly fold in B in A
4. Add in C to 3, mix well, try to avoid clumps. If there are clumps, sieve the mixture.
5. Bake in a preheated oven at 160 celsius for 45 mins – 1 hr. For cupcakes, I baked for 27 to 30 minutes.




KEK COKLAT
Sumber : Perwakilan The Hague

Bahan-bahan A :

250 g mentega
1 cawan air suam
1 ½ cawan gula
½ - ¾ cawan serbuk koko

Bahan-bahan B :

2 cawan tepung gandum
1 sudu kecil serbuk penaik
2 sudu kecil soda bikarbonat

Bahan-bahan C :

2 biji telur
1 sudu kecil esen vanila
½ cawan susu cair

Kaedah penyediaan :

1. 'Double boil' kan bahan-bahan A sehingga cair dan ketepikan.
2. Ayakkan bahan-bahan B.
3. Kaupbalikkan bahan B ke dalam A.
4. Tuangkan bahan C ke dalam 3 dan kacau sebati untuk mengelakkan ketulan. Sekiranya masih terdapat ketulan, tapiskan bancuhan.
5. Bakar di dalam ketuhar yang telah dipanaskan terlebih dahulu pada suhu 160 C selama 45 minit hingga 1 jam. Untuk kek cawan, mama bakar selama 27 hingga 30 minit.


I've made this Chocolate Cake twice actually. The first time, I baked them into two oval cakes. Photo of the cake can be viewed at my other blog, MamaFaMi's Journey of Life