Tea Break - Banana Cake

 Banana cake has become the all-time-favourite after the chocolate marble cake for us.

A cup of hot coffee is the best companion for this dessert.

Tea Break Menu :

 2 pieces of Banana Cake

1 mug of hot coffee without sugar

Photograph of the Day : Butterfly

Tea Break - Black Sesame Seeds Cake

It is my neighbour Mrs. Leong who baked this Black Sesame Seeds Cake, topped with Crushed Walnut.

This is the "sample cake testing "  as her first time baking of this cake.

How about the recipe ? 

I am sorry , it' s her "secret recipe " that she might read it somewhere on a baking cookbook. But I could taste some salt in this cake. She might use cooking oil instead of butter.

Anyway, I will make a suggestion to her that the cake will even taste better if she could mix more walnut into the cake !

Tea Break Menu :

1. Black Sesame Seeds Cake

2. Half a mug of black coffee ( with a teaspoon of brown sugar )

Tea Break : Cookies and Vietnamese Coffee

There are still some cookies left over although Chinese New Year was over.

They will become my afternoon snack these days.

Tea Break  Menu : 

1. 5 pieces of  Chinese New Year Cookies ( flavour  ?  Not sure. ) 

2. A mug of Vietnamese Coffee.

Tea Break - Oatmeal Cookies

I have to finish up all these oatmeal cookies that I made  by myself.

Why ? It was because too much oatmeal and too little sugar was add to this oatmeal cookies dough ( It was actually from a batch of failed cookies dough ). And they are too flaky, dry in the mouth and not sweet at all. So, kids don't them too !

Tea Break Menu :

1. 4 pcs of Oatmeal Cookies

2. A cup of Coffee

Tea Break ：Chinese New Year Cookies and Coffee

I had an excuse to take tea break after a simple noodle for lunch. 

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1. Lunch  :  Home cooked Hor Fun Soup with braised pork , Chinese Mushroom and Chinese Cabbage 

2. Tea Break  : Chinese New Year Cookies - given by  neighbours -  Kuih Kapit ( Love Letters), Sesame Cookies, and Walnut cookies ( 核桃酥）

3. Half a mug of coffee - A mug of coffee will be too much for me at 5pm !

Both trays of cookies were given by neighbours.

This tray of cookies was from Fang- J.

This was from Yu-J.

Tea Break : Low Sugar and High Fiber Banana and Oat Biscuits

It's tea break again !
I had nothing to chew with.
Thinking of eating something "healthy" when looking at those bananas and oat. 
I would like to make some biscuits which is low sugar and high fiber.

Tea Break Menu:

1. Banana and Oat Biscuits - low sugar and high fiber.

2. 1/2 cup of black coffee ( Kopi-O ) without sugar.

Banana and Oat Biscuits :
Ingredients：
2 bananas + 2 tbsp oat + 2 tbsp flour +1/2 tbsp sugar +1tsp butter + 30 ml water. 

Method:

1. Mixed all ingredients.

2. Oven temperature : 220 degree C.

3. Time : 30 mins.

Ipoh White Coffee

A friend from Johor visited me recently.

Besides visiting those famous limestone caves, eating seems the most important activity to do in Ipoh. 

Drinking famous Ipoh old town white coffee is one of the itinerary for my friend.

The Menu :

1. Iced Ipoh White Coffee.

2. Light cupcakes with blueberry jam and orange flavour cream .

3. Flaky salted egg pastry （ 咸蛋酥）.

3. Half boiled eggs.

One of the famous Ipoh white coffee restaurant in Ipoh old town ( 新源隆).

There are people just come for white coffee.

The old signboard of the restaurant.

We had durian at home after having white coffee and snack !

Tea Break - A Raisin Muffin and Coffee

Simple tea break only come with a raisin muffin and a cup of coffee which is from the 3-in-1 instant coffee .


Tried some different photography shooting style in the relaxing afternoon. 

Tea Break - Moist Banana Muffins

Banana is the easiest fruit to get in the tropical country in Malaysia.

The sweetness of a ripe banana and the aroma will make the best banana muffins.
These moist banana muffins bring a relaxing tea break with a cup of black coffee.

Moist Banana Muffins for a 6-muffin pan :


Dry ingredients A : （ Mix evenly )
230g flour + 1 tsp baking powder +1/8 tsp bicarbonate of soda
200 g mashed banana ( 4 bananas without skin)
20 g castor sugar


Wet ingredients B:  ( Mix well ）
1 beaten eggs (70 g each )
100 ml milk or water
30 ml corn oil
A drop of banana essence ( optional)
A pinch of salt (optional)


Method :
1. Preheat the oven . Coat the non stick muffin pan with butter or margarine. 
2. Pour ingredient B into ingredient A.
3. Stir less than 15 strokes until mixture become lumpy.
3. Oven temperature : 190 - 200 C 
4. Time : 40 - 45 mins