Chocolate Chiffon Cake

Jo always asks me to bake him a nice light chocolate cake for him and I finally get my hand on this recipe from allrecipes.com. Thank you so much for this nice and easy recipe. I halved the recipe from 16 servings to 8 servings and it's enough for one 20 CM cake tin.
*Please note, I only made a plain chiffon cake with no icing coating
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Ingredients:

Baking powder: 22.5g
Boiling water: 90ml
Cake flour: 125g
Sugar: 175g
Baking soda: 3.5g
Salt: 3g
Vegetable oil: 60ml
Eggs, seperated: 4
Vanilla extract: 5ml
Cream of tartar: 0.4g (I used a few drops of lemon juice instead)

Icing:
Butter: 37.5g
Sugar: 120g
Chocolate, melted: 28g
vanilla extract: 4ml
Hot water: 27.5ml
Chopped nuts

Method:

1. In bowl, combine cocoa powder and water until smooth, cool for 20 minutes. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Add oil, egg yolks, vanilla and cocoa mixture, beat until smooth. In another mixing bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar (or lemon juice) until stiff peaks form, gradually fold into egg yolk mixture. Pour into an ungreased 20cm cake tin. Bake on lowest rack at 160 degree celsius for 60-65 minutes or until cake springs back when touched. Invert cake tin to cool, remove cake from pan.

2. For icing melt butter in medium saucepan. Remove from heat, stir in sugar, chocolate and vanilla. Stir in enough water until desired consistency, drizzle over cake. Sprinkle with nuts.

Come back to me by Se7ven

So hard not to think about it

It's every step I take

And heaven knows I'm trying

But it gets awfully hard

When your heart is this broken


Visions of your lovely face

As I awake, I have this feeling

That you're here and beside me

How silly of me, I know


all the pain will go away

so I say it, here I am again

I gotta face another day

I'm so tired, I need u once again oh baby


How am I suppose to carry on,

I find myself singing the same old song

If you hear me, have it in ur heart

but please come back to me (oh baby)


I'll be right here if you need someone

If you hold another I'll be moving on

As easy as said

Just hope that I can see the road


Oh how it's been so long

It seems a lifetime passed

These memories that linger,

soon as I think they have gone

they only gotten stronger


And so I'm getting through a day

but every move was made was always you and I together

It's hard to believe im lonely


Is there gonna be a day

I can see the word to make me better

I know there has to be a way

So if you listen and hear me out girl, baby


How am I suppose to carry on,

I find myself singing the same old song

If you hear me, have it in your heart

but please come back to me (oh baby)


I'll be right here if you need someone

if u hold another one i'll be moving on

as easy as said

just hope that i can see the road

How am I suppose to carry on,

I find myself singing the same old song

If you hear me, have it in you heart


I'll be right here if you need someone

if you hold another I'll be moving on

just hope that I can see the road

come back to me baby

Snow white Banoffee (White Choco Mousse Banoffee)

Saturday morning after my 2nd anniversary with Joel, I decided to get up early and created a nice dessert to celebrate for our 2 years anniversary. Banoffee pie alone could be somewhat boring and since I have nearly a full 1 litre bottle of fresh cream I might as well make a good use of it so by combining white chocolate mousse in the same serve with banoffee is not such a bad idea, unless your audience is not a sweet tooth person. Here is the recipe of my creation and I think I shall call it Snow white Banoffee...what do u reckon? ........................

Serving: 6-8 (depending on the size of your cup)

Ingredients:

For Base:
Milk coffee biscuits = 250g
Unsalted butter, melted = 125g
Sugar = 15g

For Bombe mix (base for chocolate mousse)
Egg yolks = 4 yolks
Caster sugar = 90g
Water = 27.5ml
(*this recipe should give you approximately 150g of bombe mix)

White Chocolate mousse
White Chocolate, melted = 200g
Bombe mix = 100g
Semi whipped cream = 225ml

Caramel filling for banoffee
Sweetened Condensed milk = 315g
Brown sugar = 70g
Unsalted butter = 50g

Fruits in the middle:
Kiwi Gold, diced = 2
Strawberry, diced = 3-4

Finishing touch
Banana = 2-3
Cream Chantilly = whipped fresh cream, icing sugar and vanilla extract

Method:

1. Crushed all the biscuits either by hand (using rolling pin) or place in the bowl of a food processor. Add melted butter and mix until all combined. Divide the biscuit mixture into either tart tins or cups, press it firmly and rest them in the fridge for about 30 minutes or until required

2. To make bombe mix, in food mixer use whip beater to whip egg yolks to sabayon or ribbon stage. In separate medium sauce pan, put water and sugar and bring it to 118-121 degree celsius then slowly pour it in food mixer with egg yolks, whipped with low speed then increasing to medium speed until double its original volume. Remove from the mixer and leave it to the room temperature.

3. Melt white chocolate over the bain marie and slowly add it with bombe mix, make sure that it's smooth at this stage if not, warm it up over bain marie. Semi whipped fresh cream, fold half of fresh cream with white chocolate bombe mixture then slowly add the whole thing.

4. Pour one full ladle of white chocolate mousse evenly among biscuit base, put in the fridge for 15-20 minutes or until it set.

5. Sprinkle diced fruits on top of set chocolate mousse and rest them back to the fridge.

6. To make caramel filling, plce condense milk, brown sugar and butter in a sauce pan over low heat. Stirring constantly for 10-15 minutes or until caramel thickens but do not boil it.

7. Pour hot caramel over chocolate mousse and cover with plastic wrap and rest in the fridge for at least an hour to chill.

8. Serve it with thinly sliced banana, arrange over the top with whipped Chantilly cream, serve immediately. Enjoy ^^

Smile: Uncle Kracker

Thanks Uncle Kracker for this wonderful song and yes I smile whenever I listen to this song.
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Smile : Uncle Kracker

You're better then the best
I'm lucky just to linger in your light
Cooler then the flip side of my pillow, that's right
Completely unaware
Nothing can compare to where you send me,
Lets me know that it's ok, yeah it's ok
And the moments where my good times start to fade

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh, you make me smile

Even when you're gone
Somehow you come along
Just like a flower poking the sidewalk crack and just like that
You steal away the rain and just like that

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh, you make me smile

Don't know how I lived without you
Cuz everytime that I get around you
I see the best of me inside your eyes
You make me smile
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh, you make me smile