If you have craving for fudge brownies, store some Betty Crocker’s  Fudge Brownie at your kitchen. You’ll get to munch in 30 minutes time.

The clock is ticking and tummy is growling so let’s get started!

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Instead of baking normal butter cookies like last time, my baking pal suggested we should do it together. So instead of the regular butter cookies, we tried some different variation like Cornflakes Butter Cookies.

Yummy!

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If you’ve seen my blog on My Best Homemade Apple Pie Recipe, you may have noticed that the recipe is for 9″ pie. It is quite big for a small family. So, if you would like a smaller apple pie recipe, here’s a a 6″ apple pie recipe – great start for beginners and much easier to handle.

Ingredients for the dough:

1. 100g of all purpose flour

2. 66g of butter at room temperature

3. 1/3 tablespoon of sugar

4. A pinch of salt

5. 4 tablespoon of ice water

Ingredients for the apple filing:

1. 2 apples (peeled, cored and sliced)

2. 26g of granulated sugar

3. 26g of brown sugar

4. 1/6 teaspoon of cinnamon

5. 1/3 tablespoon of rice vinegar

6. 3/4 tablespoon of flour.

Follow the directions as per My Best Homemade Apple Pie Recipe blog from step 1-step 12 to make the dough, apple pie filing and baking of the pie.

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Yes, I have to admit that I was overwhelmed with my new Cornell Convection Oven. It was great deal because I bought it with $100 discount at the expo!

So I thought I should start baking something healthy, Apple Pie must be my best choice . I did not have any food processor or electric mixer so it is possible to make without them. Read more »

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Is your dinner table constantly having meal wars and power struggle when your little picky eater is around? Relax. Almost every child grow up that way – including yourself if you check with grandma.

Why Are There Picky Eaters?

1. As a parent, we care too much and have expectation as to the quantity and quality of food our child takes. If intake falls short, we get upset.

2. Babies take cereal, adult take chicken chop. How about kids? They do not have wide variety of ‘transitional food’ except for fries that we constantly disallow and hot dog and burger that you can not possibly  serve every single meal.

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Given the situation, here are the solutions to what we label our kids as picky eaters:

I know you would not want any disturbance when you are busy cooking in the kitchen, but why not get your child involve in shopping for your ingredients. Or show the sweet corn you bought and let him spread butter on it. Chances are, he will eat it!

3. Educate your child about nutrition.

If your child is mature enough to understand, show him or her the food and its nutrition. Explain about the different groups of food and their functions. For e.g. You need lots of vegetables and fruits because they contain fiber that can prevent constipation.

4. Be patient when it comes to new food.

It is unusual that a child will try new food when he or she sees it for the first time. A child may need to be exposed with a new food for at least 10 times before he or she develops trust and wants to try it. So, be patient.

If your child does not take what is served, you need not get leave the table and get busy in the kitchen and start cooking all over again. Although offering the ketchup sauce can increase some appetite!

6. Serve when hungry

7. Don’t waste time decorating

If you haven’t been exploring with new sushi recipe, you may want to try  sushi with the ingredients that your kid really like.

So, let’s try out sushi with ham! Your kid may like sausages, salami or cheese so you may be adventurous if you want as we’re not serving Japanese today!

There are many types of sushi, and here they are:

• Maki sushi is the seaweed roll with rice and some ingredients in it
• Nigiri sushi is those in rectangular in shape with seafood on top
• Gunkan sushi is also in rectangular usually wearing a seaweed belt and non-seafood
• California roll is the cone shaped sushi

Let’s make maki sushi with ham and here are the ingredients:

• Sushi vinegar
• Sushi rice (short grain rice)
• Seaweed (nori)
• Sushi mat which is only required for maki sushi (rolled sushi)
• Ham (or any ingredients of your kids choice)

Here are the steps in sushi making:

First, cook rice and wait until it cool down and mix in vinegar. This step is crucial as you need to fan while mixing. So both your hands will be busy.

Then, lay your sushi mat and seaweed with the rough side facing top.

Next spread the rice on the seaweed. Remember only cover 3/4 of the seaweed with rice. Leave 1/4 blank for wrapping up. This is the sticky part, so you may want to use disposable gloves or a spoon to do the job.

Next, place your favorite (or my favorite) ham and pork floss on top.
Excitement time, let’s roll 3/4 and stop. LIFT UP about 3cm the sushi mat and fold it back, so that you can complete the rolling.

re-roll and press it firmly and ensure the square shape is formed.

Lastly, brush your shape knife with some vinegar before cutting the roll. This would ensure that there wouldn’t be rice sticking on your knife.

Besides wasabi, this goes well with the Japanese mayonnaise. Go explore.

My mum passed down to me a great recipe. It is luncheon meat sandwich toast and it is really a healthy and filling snack. And kids simply love it! Here are the ingredients: white bread, margarine, egg, luncheon meat and oyster sauce.

Here’s how to make it: Firstly, brush the sandwich toaster with margarine. You may use olive oil or butter, it’s really your choice.

Next, place the pre-spreaded bread on the sandwich toaster, following this sequence

1. Bread spread with oyster sauce facing up, blank side face toaster
2. Place luncheon meat and sliced hard boiled egg on top
3. Cover with bread, spread with margarine facing top
4. Covered it and waited for minutes.

It is ready when it is golden roasted. Goes perfectly well with chili, mayonnaise ans tomato sauce. Enjoy!

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For children, butter cookies can be addictive but it is fine if taken in moderation. Ensure other sugar intake are low within the day.

The making of butter cookies can be lengthy so be sure you have at least 1.5hours to spare. You may get your child involve cause it be lots of fun making as well as eating them.

These are the ingredients we need:

• 300g of plain flour,
• 250g of butter,
• 140g of sugar, (in room temperature)
• An egg yolk,
• Pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Firstly, mix butter, sugar, vanilla extract and egg yolk together.

Next sift in four. Then, with very clean hands, mix dough thoroughly. This task requires some strength so an adult should do a better job.

Next, roll the dough, recommended to use baking paper  on top of dough so that the dough doesn’t stick to the rolling pin. Either that or dust the rolling pin with some flour.

Now comes the fun part – pressing in the cookie cutters. Use a butter knife, very gently,  lift up the pressed dough and transfer to baking tray. bake for about 15 to 20 minutes

The suface of butter cookies should be light roasted. Enjoy!                                                                                                          Daffy Duck Silicon Baking Mold

Ice cream is a great dessert to quench thirst. You can make various fruit flavors using this recipe like pineapple, mango or coconut. Today, let’s make the peach ice cream and be sure involve your kid to have lots of fun!

You surely need a ice cream lolly mold like this. If you don’t, you may try a freezable container but it may take slightly longer to freeze.

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• A tin of peach about 400g
• 100ml of coconut milk
• A large lime
• 85g of sugar

Let’s follow through the steps of ingredients to place into blender:

Firstly, put in the peach.

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Next, squeeze a lime. Kids Approved Meal

Then, the coconut milk. Then, blend well till you don;t see any pieces of peaches.

Next, pour into mold and place lids. Freeze at least for 6 hours but for best results – overnight.

Your peach ice cream is ready. Enjoy!

Butternut is a type of pumpkin and it’s natural taste is VERY SWEET.

Here’s the making of butternut squash soup. Ingredients for this recipe are as follows:

• 400g of butternut
• A can of vegetable stock
• A medium onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 30g of rice
• Pinch of salt and pepper

Firstly, cut the butternut into cubes and rub some cooking oil before you toast them. Remember to include their best friend – the garlic cloves. Leave them in the toaster for about 15-20minutes at 180C and they’ll take care of themselves.

Next, get busy with the soup base.

Using a pan, stirfry the chopped onion with some oil for few minutes or until you smell the AROMATIC smell that your neighbor will envy.

Then, pour in the vegetable stock and bring to boil. Then, pour in the rice. Then, simmer over medium low fire for 15-20minutes – which is when you had finish toasting AND blending the butternut. Timing will be just nice!

Now, back to the toasting butternut. When toasting is done, blend them till they look like baby food and add to the soup base and bring to bring.

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Here you are! Presenting the Butternut Squash Soup..If we have spaghetti today will be perfect match!

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If you would like homemade banana muffins, here are the ingredients:

• 180g of plain flour
• 2 large ripe bananas
• 2 eggs
• 80g of brown sugar
• 90g of margerine or butter or sunflower oil
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (different from vanilla essense)
• 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• Some raisins

Here are the steps of making banana muffins:

Firstly, I cracked 2 eggs and add in brown sugar.

Next, add in 1 tsp of vanilla extract. For your infor, vanilla extract is 100% pure, while vanilla essence isn’t. So vanilla extract is watery while essence is thick. Though it costs more but i use lesser of it….

Next, sift in flour.

Next, add in Bicarbonate soda and baking powder (double action) of 1 teaspoon each.

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Add in sunflower oil. You may use butter or margarine instead.

After mixing everything, poured in 2 small packets of raisins. Remember, if you’re making, pls do not scoop full if you DON’T wanna see disaster in your kitchen! What i meant was, be sure to scoop only the most 2/3 full because the muffins will RAISE later

Here are the muffins ready to be baked. Recommended to bake for 15-20minutes at 180C. You may also want to check if the muffins are thoroughly cooked by piercing a a fork through. If the fork comes out wet, it means the muffins are not well baked, hence increase baking time.