Yoghurt Loaf - Strawberry

After my insane attempt to bake a loaf at 3.30am last week cos' I couldn't fall asleep, I've been trying out loaf recipes on the bread machine that the hubby got that I under-utilise.. Here's a simple recipe for a yoghurt loaf that I baked yesterday! 

I used function 1 of my Kenwood BM250. I used the recipe from Catherine of Catherine's Cooking. You'd probably need 4 hours or so to bake this loaf and since the machine does most of the work, I'd rate it a difficulty level 1 out of 5. Change the flavour of the yoghurt to get the flavour you'd like.. the options are endless! If you are using other bread machines, the recipe should work well on your basic bread function too. 

Cynthia's Yoghurt Chiffon Cake - Mango or yuzu for you?

Mango Yoghurt Chiffon Cake in a heart shaped tin

It's the beginning of a new school year! Trying to make the best out of my last day of holidays, I decided to bake 2 chiffon cakes yesterday.. both of which were yoghurt chiffon cakes. Since the flavour is determined by the drink used, I decided to combine them into 1 blog post. 

The cake is absolutely fluffy. 

Love the bounce of this fluffy Mango yoghurt chiffon cake! And I ♡ my ♡-shaped tin!

Posted by Cynthia Lim on Sunday, 3 January 2016

Yuzu Yoghurt Chiffon Cake in a regular chiffon tin

I got 2 new tins from Japan recently so I decided to bake 2 chiffons (: The heart shaped chiffon is 20cm and the round one was baked in a 17cm tin. I'll be sharing the recipe for both proportions in this entry. For variations of the recipe, just use your favourite yoghurt drink. I chose the Mango Yoghurt Smoothie drink and Yuzu Yoghurt Smoothie drink from Magnolia. (yuzu one not in photo though)

Image taken from http://www.fraserandneave.com/images/default-source/default-album/f-n-magnolia-yoghurt-smoothie.png?sfvrsn=0

The cake takes about 30 mins to prep.. 1 - 1.5 hours to bake and another 30 mins to cool (: I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5.. 

Baked Donuts

Earlier this week, I had the hubby buy me 2 mini donut trays for my belated Christmas present.. I remember seeing really adorable donuts online.. and wanted to bake them for the party we had. Boy were they difficult to frost!

1) My compound chocolate refused to melt well
2) My couverture chocolate (obviously) wouldn't set well
3) I should have bought candy melts (but they didn't have white.. only pink and blue and I didn't wanna get 2 bags of them)

Image from https://www.pinterest.com/yennymok/cute-donuts/
I wanted them to be like really really cute. 

I was pretty hopeful when I was baking them.. And I decided to try the recipe from Blessed Homemaker and did some adaptations. Maybe they were just really small so they were challenging to frost.. But I was just really annoyed with the chocolate not melting well and stuff ): 

Nevertheless, they're tasty and they do taste more cake-like than donut (fried) like.. 

I'd rate the basic donut (with simple frosting) a difficulty level 3 out of 5! It'll take you about an hour to bake and frost them (without decor).