PRUNE CAKE

Do you want a healthy and easy recipe that only takes about 10 minutes to prepare? This cake uses prune as one of the ingredients and not overly sweet. One great thing about prunes however they are good for you. Prunes are dehydrated plum come from sweetest and flavorful plums.

Having long holiday due to Chinese New Year so bake this eggless cake to be enjoyed by my family. It is so moist and received compliments from my sons definitely would bake it again. Due to shortage of prunes have added some raisin to the batter.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup pitted prunes chopped
1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
extra prune to sprinkle on top

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven @ 180 C. Grease 7 inches round cake pan.

2. Sift flour and baking powder, add sugar and prune. Mix well.

3. Combine together butter, milk, orange juice and vanilla essence until well blended.

4. Pour butter mixture onto flour, mix until well incoporated.

5. Transfer this mixture into a greased pan, sprinkle the prune on top and bake for 25-30 minutes or a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

6. Cool on rack.

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SPAGHETTI IN TANGY SOUP

Trying to avoid rice so whipped up a dish made of spaghetti, it's soupy type added with seafood and mushroom. Other leafy vegetables could be added. Adjust the taste to your liking.

INGREDIENTS

400g spaghetti boiled until aldente
200g prawn peel and devein
200g squid cut into ring
15 button mushroom sliced
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 tomato chopped
6 shallots sliced
3 cloves garlic sliced
2 thick slices ginger
5 bird's eye chili (optional)
1 stalk lemon grass bruised
1 tablespoon tamarind mix with 1/2 cup wated to obtain juice
5 small limes squeezed to get the juice
4 stalk coriander leaves including the roots reserved some for garnish
3 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons sweet soya sauce
3 red chillies for garnish
4-5 cups water
salt to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat the oil, add onion and fry until light brown. Add garlic, ginger, lemon grass and tomato, cook until tomato turns soft. Add chili powder and some water, fry until fragrant.

2. Pour in the prawn and squid, cook until color changes.

3. Add 4-5 cups water, mushroom and tamarind juice, bring to boil.

4. Now add salt, sugar, soya sauce, coriander leaves including the roots and bird's eye chili, simmer for a few minutes.

5. Remove from heat and add lime juice. Check for salt.

6. Place spaghetti into a bowl, pour the soup and garnish with coriander leaves and red chillies.



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OAT AND BANANA CAKE

In order to clear my over riped banana, I have baked this oat and banana cake. It is very simple and hardly take a few minutes to prepare. The best part is no major clean up involved, just use a whisk to incorporate all the ingredient.

Oat & Banana Cake turned out moist and flavorful. Already planning to bake them again next week. It can easily turn into muffin by adjusting the baking time and  using muffin pan.. Here is the recipe, hope you will enjoy it as much as we do.

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DATES AND OAT COOKIES

Another great cookies I love to bake, simply aromatic and delicious. The dough is quite sticky to handle but managed to shape it using cookie cutter if not just drop a tablespoonful onto a baking tray or shape into small ball then flatten and bake them.

INGREDIENTS

125g butter
3/4 cup chopped dates
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
1 and 1/4 cups flour
1 and 1/2 cups rolled oat
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon baking powder

METHOD

1. Place dates, butter, water and sugar in a pot, cook until boiling, let it cool.

2. In a mixing bowl, mix together flour, oat and baking powder.

3. Pour butter mixture into dry ingredient together with vanilla essence, form into pliable dough.

4. Roll into small ball then flatten or use cookie cutter to shape.

5. Bake @ 160C for 20 minutes.

6. Cool completely before storing into airtight container.

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