The return of What Have You Made

[edith]

Jan: Your chicken tighs looks yummilicious!!!!, and that cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great job done.

Kirsten: any side profile of that jello cake. sounds interesting.

[jadepearl]

Thanks kirsten! Your purple jello cake looks yummy!!! I love anything jello. I am sure it was a hit. Happy Birthday to your sweet son!!!

[linlin]

kirsten said:

Linlin, nice looking 'buns'! (lol) Was looking at your blog for recipe, then read that u followed hugbear's recipe. So which filling did your hubby like?

This is what I made (a while ago) for my son's bday party....purple jello cake. The only 'tough' part was doing the crust - was more troublesome than I envisage!!

Hey Kirsten! Thank u thank u ;D Hubby likes curry buns the most, he has always been a fan of curry for some reasons..hehe

Your purple jelly cake looks very interesting, combination of jelly & crust, something unique...good job!

[joanneloo]

Interesting cake you have, kirsten. Combining jello and cake. Great idea!

[kirsten]

Thanks for all the encouragement everyone. Actually the jello cake is not my 'original' idea. A colleague told me that she ate a rather 'unique cake' at a party and so I decided to try it out.

Edith, I've updated the pix to include a side profile of the purple jello cake.

This is my son's 3rd bday cake which some of you heard me talking about awhile ago. I was rather tired making it (which took me 3 days to complete as I did it in stages) so the pix are limited and not that great. My son was happy with his 'power ranger'...unfortunately he wasn't too keen eating the cake!!! He's not a very cake-y person!

[jojong]

Kirsten,

Wow! very impressive cake.

How do you do "the power ranger picture" onto the cake?

[kirsten]

nwz said:

How do you do "the power ranger picture" onto the cake?

jojong, the 'power ranger' is made of chocolate. I just slowly lowered it onto the frosted chocolate cake. unfortunatley didn't take into consideration the warm M'sian weather and hence the power ranger melted and stretched a little bit the next day (sigh)!

[linlin]

Kirsten, your power ranger cake looks very pro! Nice

Lynda, that Assam Pedas of yours is making me drool although I've already had my dinner

[Janny]

Lynda
Is that tomato or terong asam in your asam pedas?

Here is what I made for last night dessert - Apple Yeast Sugar Tart. Very easy to make and a good way to use up 'no-so-fresh' apples.

[lynda]

Janny,
I used pineapples and the top left is halve of the ginger flower ( bunga kentan)

[Janny]

Making kaloji (mua chee) today, as suggested by Jo
But my peanut is too finely ground. Errrh.. should have stopped the grinder a few seconds before.



I tried both Amy Beh's recipe and another one from M4M. The M4M steaming method is much better, taking out the guessing game from steaming.

[joanneloo]

Thank you for sharing, Jan. My hub is a die hard fan of mua chee. Please post the recipe. Lazy to look for it at M4M lah

[Janny]

Jo. the recipe is at moms.myoccasion.com/viewtopic.php?t=29032&start=0

[Janny]

Lynda
Daun salam is indonesian bayleaf. Some western cookbooks suggest replacing it with bayleaf, but the smell is totally different. Maybe you can find daun salam in malay market ? I got mine here from Indonesian store, both in dried form and frozen form. Sometime instead of daun salam I use daun jeruk purut (kaffir lime leaves) - nice smell also

[jojong]

Janny,

Your mua chee make me salivating.

Just had mua chee a couple days ago at food fair. Was thinking of making it.

I last tried using microwave method but didn't take out nice. Will steam it.