Brownie Gunshots

Brownies with chocolate-covered almonds (Nestle Almonets) and chocolate covered malt balls (Maltesers).
Well I called them gunshots because the Maltesers burned at the surface and looked like gunshots haha. It didn't taste burnt, but neither did they taste like malt lol.

Apple-Raisin Crumble

Oh wow.. This one is definitely one of the biggest hits I've made. Simply sensational, but maybe just a bit too sweet. Peeled and chopped apples, cooked until soft with sugar and cinnamon. Mixed with raisins, then topped with the crumble, which is simply flour, butter and sugar.

So easy to make and yet soooo good!
Will definitely do this again sometime, maybe using dried and fresh cranberries next time, if they're available.

Chocolate Cake with big choco bits inside

Simple chocolate loaf/cake, embedded with Belgian chocolate bits. The bits were quite large and I had thought they would melt and be molten chocolate in the center, but turns out it didn't. It softened, at least lol.

After a few taste tests, I realized I hadn't put enough sugar... So in vain effort to sweeten this a bit, I grated the remaining Belgian chocolates onto the top. The chocolate melted easily on top of the still warm cake, it looked so delicious it was deceiving! haha
I think, over all, it's not so bad. =)

Sausage Roll

What I was aiming to do was a Sausage Wellington. Unfortunately, where I am right now, puff pastries are hard to find. So I improvised. I used layers of lumpia wrappers brushed with butter. Then used it to wrap pork sausages with liver filling (liver spread, potatoes and carrots - disaster haha, the potatoes were still a bit raw, the liver spread tasted like.. liver spread.. maybe buy better quality ones next time, or use chicken liver, as is in the recipes). I cooked the filling (not enough, apparently) and sausages first, then cooled them up, wrapped them in my improvised puff pastry, the off to the oven. Oh, I'd put egg wash on top too. Hmm, I wouldn't really advice this to be done again haha, look for real puff pastry next time!

Chocolate Marble Cake

Chocolate marble cake... hmm, but by the looks of it, it didn't resemble much of a marble cake in this pic. I am not sure if I had mixed it a little bit too much, which is why the chocolate got all "diluted" like this, or if it was because I used some sort of chocolate cream (Choco Stix??) instead of melted solid chocolate bars... or both. Well I'll try it again sometime, hopefully it will improve the next time. :)

Tea Cake with Custard

 

Now I'm particularly proud of this one, no matter what other people said haha. Well, they like it too, but they claim they didn't taste the tea part so much. But I know they just didn't realize it. They were probably looking for a strong taste of the tea. But I am sure that the nice, subtle taste of the tea made all the difference why they liked it. The custard sauce on top was also a superb partner for the cake.. I used cream for this instead of milk. I just love how it turned out to be so moist and creamy inside.

I used two packs of Twinings English Breakfast Tea, brewed in just a small amount of water.

The "Carrot Cake I love" has found a contender!

Coconut-Corn Cake

 

So this is my coconut cake.. with corn. Is that a weird combination or what. But it's not bad, if you're familiar with binatog (Filipino), I got the idea from there to add corn in this coconut cake.

I simply replaced regular milk with coconut milk to make this cake. We squeezed out the milk from fresh shredded coconut. You could also just buy canned coconut milk if you prefer not to burn the extra calories hehe.

 

Piri-piri Chicken

 

Oh this was so good... I just wished I had put more cayenne pepper to make it really spicy. These are grilled chicken breasts marinated in piri-piri sauce: cayenne pepper, garlic powder, black pepper, salt, parsley bits, bay leaf, some lime juice:

  

I left it overnight.. then grilled!