Steam fish with blended ingredients by Albert Ler

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Recipe:
Blended Hakka ginger sauce; 
Old ginger- 50gm (slices)
Young ginger - 100gm (slices)
Blue ginger (Galangal)- 20gm
Sping onion (chop )- 20gm
Garlic - 5pc
Coriander leaf - about 50gm
Blend all ingredients together & add one tea spoon of sugar & one tea spoon of Olive oil

Steam your fish and then pour this mixture on top of the fish during the last 2-3 minutes, cover again and continue steaming.

Banana Cupcake by Susan Quek

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Ingredients:
3 eggs
130g sugar
200g banana (very ripe, cut into small pieces)
150g cake flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
100g corn oil (or any vegetable oil)
1 tsp vanilla extract 

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 160 degree C.
2. Whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla extract and mashed bananas at max. speed till stiff/ribbon stage. 
3. Sieve flour, baking powder and baking soda together. 
4. Fold in sifted flour and mix well. 
5. Add in oil and mix well till batter is shiny and flowing.
6. Pour into muffins/cupcakes baking tin and bake for 20-25minutes.

心太软 by Fion Ong

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Super easy recipe
Buy nice red dates, soak them in water for an hour.
Slit and remove the seed fm the date without cutting it into half. 
Add less than 1/2 cup of hot water slowly to 1/2 cup of glutinous rice flour. Mix well and let it rest for 10 mins. 
Pipe and place the flour mixture into the dates, and steam it for 20 mins. 
Enjoy the soft and sweet little dessert. 
Have a happy Tuesday, beautiful members of P&P 

Red Bean Soup with purple sweet potato by Susan Kwek

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Recipe:

1 cup dried azuki beans
3 pandan leaves (washed and knotted)
Salt and sugar to taste

Wash the red beans and strain. Put them in a large pot with 10 cups of water together with the pandan leaves.

Boil over medium high heat for 30 minutes. Turn down the heat to low and cook for another 1½ hours until the beans are very tender and mashable. If the beans are still hard, add more water and cook longer. Let cool for 20-30 minutes

Scoop out about 1 bowl of cooked beans and set aside. (This is optional if you want all the beans to be mashed up). Put a coarse strainer over a large bowl. Pour the cooked beans and the water into the strainer. Mashed the beans with a spoon so that the beans go through the strainer and the skins stay in the strainer.

Squeeze the bean skins with your hands and discard. Put the bean mixture into the pot. Add more water if you think it's not enough.

Stir the bean mixture and bring it to a boil over medium high heat. Add in salt amd sugar to taste.

If you like, you can add in store bought glutinous rice balls or make some yourself.

After that you can mix ½ cup glutinous rice flour and 1 cup of water together in a bowl and pour it into the boiling bean porridge, stirring it with a spoon. The bean porridge will thicken a bit.

Butter Cream Cheese Ogura Cake by Madeline Yeo

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Recipe: 

60g Fresh Milk
60g Unsalted Butter
80g - 100g Cream Cheese
5 Egg Yolk
1 Whole Egg
1/4 tsp Salt
70g Cake Flour

5 Egg Whites
1/4 tsp Cream of Tartar
80g Sugar

- Put the Fresh milk, Butter & Cream Cheese in a bowl & Double-Boil, set aside
- Add in Egg Yolk, Whole Egg & mix well
- Add in Salt & Sift in the Cake flour.. combine well...
- Beat Egg Whites till foamy, add in Cream of tartar & then the Sugar in 3 batches..beat till Stiff Peak
- Fold in the meringue into the egg yolk batter
- Pour into 7" cake tin lined with baking paper & bang on the tabletop a few times to release air bubbles
- Use Steam bath method - i use 150C @ 1hr 15mins or till done...

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Recipe credit to Baker Jaclyn San

Soya Sauce Chicken Wings by Angel Teo

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Vanilla Raspberry Velvet Cake by Clara Fu

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Recipe 

Vanilla Raspberry Velvet Cake
1. Raspberry Gelee
2. Cake base
3. Vanilla Mousse
4. Cocoa Butter Velvet Spray

Raspberry Layer (I made double portion of this to have thicker layer. Below is for 1 portion)
100g Raspberry Puree
10g Sugar
4g Gelatine Sheets

1. Soak gelatin sheets in ice water to soften.

2. Prepare a 6 inch ring mould on a tray. Use glad wrap to wrap bottom till sides up.

3. Double boil puree with sugar till melted. Remove from fire.

4. Add in softened gelatin sheets and stir well till melted. Cool before freezing. (i think chilling it might be enough instead)

Cake Base
2 eggs
60g sugar
cake flour 60g

1. Pre-heat oven @ 150c

2. Line side and bottom of 6″ pan with parchment paper.

3. Place eggs and sugar in a bowl and whisk over a water bath to melt the sugar. After that remove and whisk at high speed till pale and fluffy

4. Once egg mixture is done, fold in the sifted flour gently.

5. Once it’s done, pour into the pan and bake at 20-30mins.

6. Cool the cake and cut out 1 cm as the base of the cake. Set aside. ( I managed to cut 3 layers. Used 1 layer and froze the other 2 layers for future use).

Vanilla Mousse
100g Cream Cheese (room temperature)
200ml Full Cream Milk (I used Hokkaido Milk)
200ml Whipping Cream
90g Sugar
3 pcs Gelatine (soften in ice water)
Vanilla Extract

1. Put cream cheese, sugar and milk in pot.Double boil it on low heat. Stir to mix cream cheese well. Do not over heat.

2. Off fire. Add softened gelatin sheet to the warm cream cheese mixture. Keep stirring till dissolve.

3. Sieve this mixture into a bowl. Cool the mixture further for mixing with whipped cream later.

4. Whip up cream till mousse stage.

5. Mix 1/3 of whipped cream into the cooled cream cheese mixture. Mix thoroughly.

6. The pour in the remaining 2/3 whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture and mix thoroughly but gently. This is the Vanilla Cream Cheese Mousse.

Assemble
1. Put some vanilla mousse onto mould, followed by gelee (scratch gelee’s surface both sides), then more mousse till about 1 cm from top. Tap on surface to remove air bubbles. Finally place cake on top. Flatten/neaten the surface. Put more mousse around the mould to fill any empty gaps.

2. Freeze (i use silicone mould for easy remoney val of my frozen cake)

Cocoa Butter & Chocolate Velvet Decoration
Use ready made canister of Cocoa Butter Velvet Spray (I don't have this) or follow recipe below (recipe will need spray gun/airbrush tool)

50g White Chocolate
50g Cocoa Butter
Food Colouring (Oil Based)
Chocolate Spray/Gun

1. Double boil white chocolate and cocoa butter to melt and mix together.

2. Add colouring as wished. Wait till temperature is warm but not too hot to the touch before transferring it to the spray gun (ard 35 degrees. I just use my fingers to test the temperature).

3. Protect your work surface area.

4. Remove frozen cake and place cake on a rack/turntable for spraying.

5. Spray from a distance of about 20cm away (for my spray gun). Slice and serve, or if cake still very frozen, defrost in chiller before cutting. Always spray when chocolate still warm. Once cooled chocolate will harden and block the spray gun spray point.

6. I heard some people use salad oil (veg oil) instead of cocoa butter to mix with chocolate. I personally have not tried nor know the pros and cons of it. You can try if you want and let me know the effect!

Notes :
1. Cocoa Butter and Chocolate ratio 1 : 1. However the video below has different ratio.

2. I have attached some links below to show you the spray gun, canister spray (the one shown has different texture) and a video using airbrush for yr reference. Hope it helps!