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Mini Brownie Butter Cake - Rasa Malaysia. Brownie Butter Cake Recipe. Brownie butter cake – thick brownie and rich butter cake combined into one decadent and to-die-for cake!

Brownie Butter Cake Recipe

Bake the brownie first and then the butter cake. I am so happy that my contributor CP Choong is back with more sinfully delicious baking recipes. In this post, she is sharing an utterly gorgeous, rich, buttery, and decadent Brownie Butter Cake recipe, adapted from Kevin Chai’s “I love Butter Cake Too 2″ cookbook. CP Choong and I went to high school together, but we didn’t know each other when we were in high school. Our high school is the most famous Chinese girls school in Penang, attended by hundreds of students in each grade. Walnut Butter Cake - Rasa Malaysia.

Chocolate Chips Streusel Pound Cake. My oven is back in action again.

Chocolate Chips Streusel Pound Cake

Butter Cake. Condensed Milk Pound Cake. I saw this particular cake making its round among the food bloggers.

Condensed Milk Pound Cake

This cake reminds me of a cake I used to bake many years ago which used condensed milk too. We always have condensed milk in the fridge as my mother used it to make our hot drink like Milo (hot chocolate) and coffee. Old Fashioned Butter Cake. Can you remember the good old butter cake sold at the old Hainanese coffee shops in the small towns of Malaysia?

Old Fashioned Butter Cake

This kind of butter cake is very popular during Chinese New Year. I remember my mom used buy lots of it and we will have it a cup of kopi O (dark coffee) for breakfast or throughout the day and serve it to guest that come for a visit too. No one can resist a slice of good butter cake with nice soft texture that is light and not too dense. If I remember correctly there is a coffee shop in Kajang that runs by a few sisters still selling this type of butter cake and also Yut Kee, at Jalan Dang Wangi, Kuala Lumpur. Rum and Raisin Cake.

I always like some dried fruits in my cakes.

Rum and Raisin Cake

Normally I will add some raisins or dried cranberries to it. I like the taste of this cake as the raisins soaked up all the rum and gives this cake a very nice flavor. You can always adjust the amount of rum that soak the raisins to suite your taste. Soaking the raisins in rums keeps them moist and soft. The rum is not too overwhelming but you will know it is there when you bite into it and it goes perfectly well with a cup of coffee. Pound Cake with Blueberries and Lavender Syrup Recipe at Epicurious. Photo by Victoria Pearson yield Makes 6 to 8 servings We used dried lavender in this syrup because it gives the syrup a lovely pale hue.

Pound Cake with Blueberries and Lavender Syrup Recipe at Epicurious

Fresh lavender won't lend the same color, but it does give the syrup a more powerful floral flavor. Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 2 3/4 hr For cake: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 large eggs, at room temperature for 30 minutes 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh lemon zest 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup whole milk, at room temperature For blueberries in syrup: 3/4 cup water 1/2 cup sugar 4 teaspoons dried edible lavender flowers or 2 tablespoons fresh edible lavender flowers 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 10 oz blueberries (1 pt) Preparation Make cake: Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.

Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Spoon berries and syrup over slices of cake just before serving. Raisin Butter Cake. Perfect Pound Cake. Pound Cake Recipe. Sweetened Condensed Milk Pound Cake. Sweetened Condensed Full Cream Milk.This is something Malaysians haven't tasted for many many many years.... more than 10 years.

Sweetened Condensed Milk Pound Cake

FYI, what is sold in Malaysia is Sweetened Creamer, or Sweetened Condensed Filled Milk (It's not real milk, it's mixed with palm oil. Even this has dissappeared from the market shelves these few years)Many Malaysians do not realise this, as when I chatted with them on this matter they went "Huh?? Is it? They've changed? " I even emailed Nestle on this matter many years back, and they did respond to me saying that it is no longer sold in Malaysia for many years, but it is available in Singapore. My dear Malaysians, Read the labels!!! When I was small, I loved Nescafe with condensed milk.. the flavour really comes out good...... but as I grew up, I wonder where did the fragrance go???

Lighter, airy pound cake. Old-school pound cakes come with their own easily-remembered formula (a pound of butter to a pound of sugar, eggs and flour) with leavening only coming from the air one whips into the batter.

lighter, airy pound cake

But just because it’s the classic way to do it, doesn’t mean mean I don’t think most pound cakes need a little extra creativity to keep them from becoming foamy, forgettable bricks. You can swap out some of the butter for cream cheese, as I do in my favorite non-traditional pound cake recipe, you can add loads of lemon, baking powder, baking soda and buttermilk, rendering something that is impossibly delicious but really, a pound cake in name only, or you can do as James Beard does, and apply smart cake-baking techniques to improve the predictable.

As should go without saying, that Beard guy really knows how to cook. This is a great riff on the standard pound cake, and for me, it could not be more timely. One year ago: Napa Cabbage Salad with Buttermilk Dressing. Two year ago: Summer Berry Pudding. Perfect Pound Cake. This is a beautiful, moist, flavorful, delicious, yummy, happy pound cake…and it contains pop.

Perfect Pound Cake

(Important question: do you say “pop” to describe soft drinks? I do. I tried to resist it, I did…but soft drinks are “pop” around here, and it’s cemented in my lexicon forever.( (I used to say “coke”. But then the Wranglers came into my life. Butter Cake Recipe. Butter Cake Recipe.