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Almond Biscuits --So Delicious & easy to make！

Almond Biscuits is one of the famous cakes in Guangdong Province. It is a good gift to friends and relatives, because everybody loves it. Actually, the almond biscuits are not made of almonds. At first, people call it almond biscuits just because of the shape. (It looks like almond) In fact, form the raw material; we should call it 'green been biscuits'. However, the almond biscuits is easy to broke because of the shape, so it become around in these days, and also be added some almond today. The main nutrition of almond biscuits are the vitamins, carbohydrates, and proteins.

Now, let's learn how to make it from the video. easy!

Mouth-gasmic MARSBAR MOUSSE!

Here is a mouth-gasmic marsbar mousse recipe that is simple to conjure up!

1) Melt marsbars (in a saucepan in low heat or microwave)

2) Mix in about 500ml of the thickened cream.

3) Allow the mixture to cool slightly

4) Add egg yolk into the mixture

5) Separate the egg white into a bowl and whisk

6) Add the rest of the thickened cream

7) Fold in the egg white

8) Place cling wrap tightly into 2 cups and spray some cooking oil inside and around

9) Gently ladle the mixture into each cup.

10) Place each cup in the freezer for about 6 hours

11) Place on a nice plate and drizzle chocolate over it and some pieces of marsbar on top.

Ingredients:

Vegetable oil spray
6 x 60g Mars bars
600ml thickened cream
3 eggs, separated
50g 70% dark chocolate, melted, to drizzle

references:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPCGPvSXEw4&NR

A creative style of having desserts in Korea!

Sometimes, I feel a bit bored of trying new desserts as many of them are presenting in monotonous methods and give me a heavy full feeling after having them. Until I saw some dessert scenes in Korean dramas, I realised that they have an indeed creative style of decorating and enjoy their desserts!

Above is a scene from a Korean drama in 2010

After watching this scene, I searched on Google and found this shop - Baskin Robbins! Actually, Baskin Robbins has operated more than 6700 stores in approximately 50 countries all over the world, it is a global company! =) Australia also has their stores!!! This global store is mainly famous with its chocolate and strawberry cheesecakes, and also with its favoutite flavours - Green Tea and Rum Raisin~!! However... I found most of the Western countries include Australia, their cakes and ice-creams selling are quite monotonous, without unique and eye-catchy decoration presenting especially when comparing with the Korean ones.

Although this store has a various choices of offers that I have never seen include ice-creams, soft serves, sundaes, beverages, grab-n-go mini ice-cream cakes and snacks, and cakes that let the buyers to create their own shape and styles......in fact their ice-cream cakes are all elegantly presented!!!!!!

I will show you some of the best ice-creams & cakes that I think as I cannot show you all of them!!

However... one of these design styles is missing from these Western countries stores......... only the Korean ones~!!

This Ice Cream Sandwich Pancake is my FAVOURITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like the simple way they presented it with a smiley face and ice cream in the middle~~~

Besides this Baskin Robbins' desserts, there is another new famous method of eating dessert also be seen in a Korean drama >v<

This product is called Reddi Wip as seen in the photo, which is shown in a new recent famous drama!!!!!!
Its Korean name is "스프레이 생크림", it can be used as cream butter for breads, cakes, coffee and so on......it is one of the most popular used product in Korea nowadays!!!!!! =D



References:
http://www.baskinrobbins.com/About/International.aspx

Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe!

Here is a nice chocolate banana recipe to serve around 12 to 14 people! :D 

1) Place a rack in the centre of the preheated over to 180 degrees celcius.

2) Spray with a non-stick vegetable spray or butter the pan (23 x 33cm) and set aside.

3) Large bowl 1: Whisk together cocoa powder, baking powder, sugar, baking soda flour and salt in a large bowl and set aside.

4) Large bowl 2: Whisk together mashed bananas, milk, oil, eggs, vanilla extract and water. (Method: add wet ingredients to dry)

5) Once large bowl 2 is combined, pour this batter into the prepared pan in step 2.

6) Bake this pan for 35 to 40 minutes (test by poking a toothpick through the center and the comes out clean)

7) Remove from oven and allow to cool.

8) Once completely cooled, frost with Ganache of choice.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7cyEP0aIXE

Ingredients and specifications required:
2 cups (400 grams) granulated white sugar
1 3/4 cups (245 grams) all-purpose flour
3/4 cup (75 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder (regular or Dutch-processed)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 medium sized bananas)
1 cup (240 ml) warm water
1/2 cup (120 ml) milk
1/2 cup (120 ml) corn, safflower or canola oil (or other flavorless oil)
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

references:
http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateBananaCake.html