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

Apple Bread Pudding苹果面包布丁

Hahahaha... sometimes when I think back, I might be outdated... Reason being.. I am always late.. Regardless being the Aspiring Bakers Theme I hosted for October, I didn't even posted any entry for myself, being late for Bake Along, THB, and many others.... hahaha, till sometimes I also can't remembered which recipe I had used...

Today I had an Apple Bread Pudding, topped with raisins & chocolate chips....

I have gotten this recipe from one of the cookbook I had bought from Taipei... Regretted not doing my "homework" in SG to see what books I could have gotten from there... I shall do my "homework" and buy more books when I am in Taipei next March... Hehehehe...

This apple bread pudding was surprisingly easy to prepare and bake.

I hadn't baked bread pudding before, so I wasn't too sure of how I should go about it. Plus the cookbook are in chinese, so taking my time to read and making sure I had followed and gotten the steps and ingredients correct:-p

Well, pudding turned out well and delicious. I was glad that I had added some chocolate chips in the pudding, and I should hve added more as it would really turned out very tempting with a combination of the apple & chocolate chips... I will omit the raisins next time or lessen them as they are not my favourite...:))

It was delicious indeed, and I couldn't help myself finishing one pudding after my photo-takings...

Here, have one too and enjoy....:)

Ingredients:

2 pcs of diced bread

1 apple, cored, peeled & diced

5g butter

1 tbsp sugar

30g raisins soaked in 1 tbsp of Rum

2 eggs

200ml milk (i use lo-fat milk)

40ml whipping cream

20g sugar

Method:

1. Cook the diced apple with the butter under low heat. Add in the sugar and cook for awhile.

2. Put the apples, bread, raisins into the ramekins. Set aside.

3. Prepare the egg mixture. Beat the eggs, milk & whipping cream until well combined. Add in the sugar and mix until the sugar had dissolved.

4. Pour the egg mixture into the ramekins and baked at 190C for about 35-40mins.

Apple Crumble Cupcakes / Cake

I had came across Kit's blog and her Apple Crumble Cake simply caught my attention. And I knew this is one of the cake I needed to bookmark and try to bake it...

And I wasn't wrong about it. These Apple Crumbles were indeed delicious...

I had made these Apple Crumble in cupcakes and a loaf of cake.

The texture of these apple crumbles were simply excellent!!! A soft and fluffy texture was all I knew the moment when I tried them.... Yummy indeed. Mimi had shared half of a cupcake with me, while Nic whom initially refused to try, said it was delicious too. I think these apple crumble will made one of the kids favourite as well. Even my colleagues whom had tried it, said it was very soft and delicious too.

 So what are you waiting for???

 This recipe yeilds 6 normal cupcakes and a 6"x3" rectangular loaf.

 Thanks to Kit for sharing this wonderful recipe:)

Recipe as adapted from I-Lost in Austen

Ingredients:

2 apples –cored & diced

60g ground hazelnut (ground almond)

80g raisins

3 eggs

140g  salted butter (room temperature)

130g powdered sugar (I use 100g)

200g flour + 1 tbsp

1 tsp baking powder

Rectangle baking pan

For crumble:

50g flour

30g cold salted butter

40g hazelnuts (chopped blanced almonds)

30g sugar



Method:
1. Greased  baking pan or muffin tin.
2. Combine flour & baking powder. In a large bowl beat butter & sugar till creamy. Gradually add in eggs , one at a time & hazelnut with flour mixture till well combined.
3. In a bowl toss to coat  diced apples & raisins with 1 tbsp of flour . Add in batter & stir till well combined. Pour batter in baking pan.
4. Preheat oven to 160°C. For crumble: In a bowl combine butter, sugar , ground hazelnut & flour. Cut the butter in with your fingers till mixture forms crumbs. Topped crumble mixture on batter evenly & bake for 1 hour.