Churros (Spanish Doughnuts)

I love churros. Everytime I go home in the Philippines I always try to eat them sa SM. Meron kasing food cart sa SM ng Churros.

One Saturday afternoon, while checking some recipes sa internet nakita ko itong Churros recipe sa ALL RECIPES.

Since I have all the ingredients. I gave it a try.. Well not bad for the first time coz it brings back memories of Manila. Churros with hot chocolate fudge during rainy days.

Ingredients:

1 cup water
2 1/2 tablespoons white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 quarts oil for frying
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (I used 2 teaspoon)

Directions
In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine water, 2 1/2 tablespoons sugar, salt and 2 tablespoons vegetable oil. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Stir in flour until mixture forms a ball.

Heat oil for frying in deep-fryer or deep skillet to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Pipe strips of dough into hot oil using a pastry bag. Fry until golden; drain on paper towels.

Combine 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon. Roll drained churros in cinnamon and sugar mixture.

Chocolate Cupcake with Whipped Cream

This is an accidental Hero. Paano naman kasi I was busy sa aking first ever from the scratch cake and I wasn't paying attention sa recipe. Sa sobrang toxic ko 2 batch ng chocolate cake mix ang aking nagawa. I thought kasi na 1 cake mix is not enough sa 3 layered cake.

Instead, I made 1 round 9" size cake and another miniature cake 6" and the rest.....Cupcakes :)

I adapted the chocolate cake mix at hershey's recipes

For the whipped cream

1/2 cup heavy cream
4 tablespoon icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Direction:

1. Mix all the ingredients in the stand alone mixer using the whisk.
2. Beat all together in a high speed until the mixture reaches into firm peak.
3. Transfer the whipped cream mixture in a pastry bag using a star tip.

Pansit Bihon Guisado

The ultime favorite during birthday parties apart from Filipino Style Spaghetti.
I am alone when I cooked this Pansit there is no birthday party. I gave away some to my fellow nurses Katrina and Doreen and kept some for my husband when he comes home later.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo Pansit Bihon Noodles ( I used Golden Q)
1 medium size garlic
1 large onion
500 grams pork belly (separate the fat and lean meat)
1/2 cabbage, sliced
2 medium size carrots, julianne
1 pack squid balls around 12 pcs cut into half
1/2 cup soy sauce
spring onions to garnish
5 cups stock
2 tablespoon cooking oil
1/4 cup soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste

You can also add black fungus (tenga ng daga) and pork liver. I just don't have this in our kithchen.

Procedure:

1. Saute Garlic until golden bron, add the onion and pork fat. fry until oil has come out from the pok fat.


2. Add the lean meat and keep it for 10 minutes until the meat is cooked.


3. Add the stock and soy sauce. Cover it for 15 minutes until the the pork is cooked completely.


4. Soak the bihon noodles to softened for 10 minutes.


5. Add the squid balls and let it simmer for 5 minutes.


6. Add the carrots and cabbage into the wok and immediately add the noodles so that the vegetables will still be half cooked.


7. Mix well. Add salt and pepper to taste.


8. Serve with lemon or calamansi. Add spring onions to garnish.

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes

These cupcake is for my friend Joseph. For the cupcakes I used the Perfectly chocolate cake recipe from Hershey's. and just added 2 teaspoon of peppermint extract.
I was able to make 30 chocolate cupcakes.

Mint Buttercream

1 stick butter
1/2 cup shortening
4-5 cups sifted icing sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract

Breast Cancer Inspired Cupcakes

Vanilla Cupcake with Buttercream Frosting

It was a boring Saturday evening and nothing to do. My husband is keep on asking me what's my next cupcake adventure. I was browsing the Internet to get some ideas. I saw one Breast Cancer Inspired Cupcake and wanted to try some as well.

I used Billy Reece Vanilla Cupcake recipe and just added pink food coloring.

My piping skill is not that good yet but I'm getting there :)

Iya's Very Vanilla Cupcake with Buttercream Frosting

These cupcakes is for Clark. My 4 year old godson here in Dubai. His themed party was Barney..his all time favorite. His grandma Mommy Luz told me to make Purple, Green and Yellow Cupcake. I made a mix of Chocolate Cupcake and Vanilla Cupcake. The Purple ones are the Vanilla Cupcake

Before I was using the Billy Reece Recipe but I just made some magic of the ingredients to make it soft and fluffy. I used WILTON BUTTERCREAM as my icing.




Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups Cake Flour
1 1/4 cups All Purpose Flour
2 cups White Sugar
1 tablespoon Baking Powder
pinch of salt
1 Cup unsalted butter
4 large whole eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Direction:

1. Preheat oven into 180 C
2. Cream the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time.
3. Mix the dry ingredients such as flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a separate bowl.
4. Combine the dry ingredients with the batter mixture. Add the vanilla and mix well.
5. Pour the batter into the cupcake liner until 3/4 full.
6. Bake for 20 minutes.

The young ones enjoyed it..

And even the not so young ones...

Amazing Race in Singapore

These are some photos me and my sisiter had during our day visit to Singapore in December 2008 on our way to Philippines. We reached Singapore at 7: 30 am and we straight away head to Grand Hyatt Singapore to refresh and leave our bags. We used the hop on hop off bus of Singapore Airlines to explore the city I've been here in 2007 already and still remembered the place so we did not had hard time exploring the city. We finished at 4:10 pm picked our bags at the hotel and change our clothes. We managed to reached the airport at exactly 4:50 pm and ran in the airport to reached the terminal 1 since the driver dropped us at terminal 2. After the looonnggg run, Shuttle Train and another long run we made it to the boarding area wherein we are the only one missing. They cannot leave without us since we already pre checked in our stuff. That's a long day for both of us :) The Best memory we had as sisters.