Apple Walnut Mosaic Coffee Cake

Making it in time for the THB bake before we had a month's holiday... hehehe, Sounded like we are having school holidays:-p

This month, Mich, Piece of Cake had selected this bake and I must say it is another wonderful recipe as well. Mich had done up a very nicely walnut stresuel cupcake style, and they looked very appealing.. Do hope over to her blog for the recipe:)

I had baked mine in a 8" bundt pan, halving the ingredients, and modifying some of the ingredients like replacing the wholemeal flour to wheat flour, cranberries to raisns, brown sugar to golden caster sugar, reducing quite abit of the sugar level.

The batter was abit stiff as mentioned in the book, but to my surprise, this cake was so soft & moist. I like this cake very much, indeed. As I had reduced quite a fair bit of the sugar, the apples & raisins compliment the sweetness in the overall cake. Definitely another recipe for keeper

Do click here to see what the other THB members had baked for their version of this Apple Walnut Mosaic Coffee Cake

Sesame Wheat Steamed Donuts 芝麻全麥蒸面包

These little steamed donut bread had caught my attention as they looked pretty adorable.

Using wholemeal flour & sesame seeds for part of the ingredients, these donut bread were actually quite healthy as well. But I do not have wholemeal flour at home, I replaced it with wheat flour instead. The wholemeal flour will give the donut bread a little brownish in color whereas mine is not due to the wheat flour.

This full recipe is about to yeild about 12-15, 5-cm donut size.

Coat the donut tray with canola oil and sprinkle some sesame seeds on it. Pipe the batter in about 3/4 full as the bread will rise.
Miss B, this is how I steamed my cakes... hehehehe. Using my wok and a metal rack:-p

All ready to be tested... I wasn't too sure if this steamed bread will be yummy by the look of them...

And they were yum yum indeed!! A soft texture. Nothing fanciful but just a small little donut, and it's healthy steamed bread makes it all. Plus the sesame seeds on the top and bottom of the bread, it was fantastic.

Recipe as adapted from 杯子蒸面包 by Akemi Komatsuzaki

Ingredients:

1 egg

40g sugar

60ml milk

100g wholemeal flour (I used wheat flour)

1 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp canola oil + a little for greasing the pan

2 tbsp sesame seeds(can use black sesame seeds)

Method:

1. Grease the donut pan with oil and sprinkle half of the sesame seeds into the pan. Set aside.

2. Whisk the egg, sugar & milk untill well-combined.

3. Fold in the flour+baking powder, mix well.

4. Add in the oil and mix until well blended.

5. Transfer the batter into a piping bag and fill the pan about 3/4 full. Sprinkle the balance sesame seeds onto of the batter.

6. Steam over medium fire for about 12-15 mins.

I am submitting this to Aspiring Bakers #25 – Steaming Hot Cakes (November 2012) hosted by Miss B of Everybody Eats Well in Flanders

Enjoy these little mini donut bread:)