Caramel Apple Banana puffs

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This is actually an upside-down cake recipe that I modified from Cuisine Paradise. It is meant for baking using my Happy Call Pan, but I modified the ingredients and use steaming instead. I was so happy to be able to get back home earlier yesterday and do some snacks for my little lady. She is a picky eater who is still a vegetarian thus far... I really have problem to make her take meat! There's so many recipes that I thought I can try out but she would reject right away once she tastes meat texture. Somehow she's a fan of pastries, so most of the recipes I try are pastries.

Puff ingredients:
180g Self Raising Flour
3 Teaspoons Baking Powder
4 Large Egg
60g Organic Molasses Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Grated Rind of 1 Lemon
60ml Unsalted Butter, Melt
60ml Grape Seeds Oil

Caramel Apple Banana ingredients:
50g Unsalted Butter
60g Organic Molasses Sugar
50ml Water
2 Green Apple, skin remove and cored
1 Small Banana, skin remove
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
60g - 80g Golden Raisins


Method:
1. To prepare the Caramel apple banana; sliced the apple and banana into about 0.5cm thick, lightly marinate it with lemon juice. Set aside.

2. Simmer unsalted butter and organic molasses sugar over low heat until sugar dissolve and mixture begins to bubble.

3. Stir in marinated apple slices, water and continue to simmer over low heat for another 3 - 5 minutes till apple and banana slightly soften. When done, turn off the heat. Set aside and prepare the cake batter.

4. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, organic molasses sugar and vanilla extract with a hand mixer till well-mixed (about 1 minute).

5. Next whisk in the melt butter, grape seeds oil and follow by the sifted flour mixtures (self raising flour + baking powder) and continue to stir until the flour is in-cooperate into the batter.

5. The batter will be slightly like thick cream texture before stirring in the remaining golden raisin.

6. Pour the mixture over the silicone mould prepared. Smooth the top and add in the caramel apple banana.

7. Steam it for 15 minutes until a skewer inserted and come out clean.

My cute little Hello Kitty Caramel Apple Banana puffs! Nicely done for my little Hello Kitty fans.

Needless to say she's excited over it and had one as supper~ Remaining were kept as breakfast and snacks for the next day.

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Garlic butter flat bread

Action in kitchen tonight! 

Making bread without bread maker or oven. I only use the pan.

Garlic butter flat bread. Taste like naan.

Original recipe from my favorite celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. But I exclude the baking powder (forgot to re-stock). 

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/bread-recipes/easy-flatbreads

Recipe serves 12.

• For the flatbreads:

• 350 g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting

• sea salt

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• 350 g natural yoghurt

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  For the garlic and herb butter (optional):

• 2 cloves of garlic

• a bunch of fresh soft herbs, such as flat-leaf parsley, tarragon, basil, dill

• 40 g unsalted butter

• Equipment list

• weighing scales

• measuring spoons

• 2 mixing bowls

• spoon

• plate

• chopping board

• knife

• garlic crusher

• small saucepan (15cm)

• rolling pin

• griddle pan

• tongs

• pastry brush

Method:

1. Add all the flatbread ingredients to a mixing bowl and mix together with a spoon, then use clean hands to pat and bring everything together. 

2. Dust a clean work surface with flour, then tip out the dough.

3. Knead for a minute or so to bring it all together (this isn't a traditional bread recipe, so you don't need to knead it for long – just enough time to bring everything together). 

4. Put the dough into a floured-dusted bowl and cover with a plate, then leave aside.

5. If making the garlic butter: peel the garlic cloves and crush them with a garlic crusher. 

6. Pick the herb leaves onto a chopping board and finely chop them, discarding the stalks. 

7. Melt the butter in a small pan over a medium heat, then stir through the garlic and chopped herbs, then set aside.

8. Dust a clean work surface and rolling pin with flour, then divide the dough in half, then divide each half into 6 equal-sized pieces (roughly the size of a golf ball). 

9. With your hands, pat and flatten the dough, then use a rolling pin to roll each piece into 12cm rounds, roughly 2mm to 3mm thick. 

10. Use a knife to cut 6 lines into the centre of each round, leaving about 3cm at each end.

11. Place the griddle pan on a high heat, then once hot, cook each one for 1 to 2 minutes on each side, or until bar-marked and puffed up, turning with tongs. 

12. Brush the flatbreads all over with herby garlic butter as they come off the griddle, then pile onto a serving board so everyone can dig in and help themselves.

She surely enjoys eating the bread. So does everyone.

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