Banana Cheese Puff Pastry

Could not remember when did I buy a pack of the puff pastry sheets.  Though I noticed it whenever I opened my fridge, I kept giving myself all sort of reasons to postpone my plan to bake some puffs which I planned to do so at the time I bought these pastry sheets.  Without further procrastination, I finally used them to make some banana cheese puff pastry, with my self created recipe.   

Unlike the self made from scratch pastry, the store bought puff pastry sheets always give the 100% result and less work.   

My fresh from oven Banana Cheese Puff Pastry 

The simple method in making the Banana Cheese Puff Pastry :

 Place half slice of cheese on the pastry cheese

 Place your favourite type of banana (I used Pisang Saba cut into half for each puff) and wrap it up.  Seal the edges, egg wash each of them and bake in the oven till the pastries turn brown like this.

 and serve when the pastries have cooled down to room temperature.  

 My afternoon tea : The Banana Cheese puff pastry & hot Sabah Tea

Goodies from Neighbour

It is indeed a blessing every time we receive goodies.

My neighbour just came back from her trip to Hong Kong a couple of days ago (& zoom she went off to KL with her children again the next day).  Before she went off to her next trip, she gave us some goodies she brought for us from Hong Kong.  We are so grateful for her thoughtfulness.

   

   I am not fond in almond stuff because I do not like the strong almond taste BUT these Almond cookies are exceptional.  Compact and very nutty, the almond blends well with the peanuts in these cookies.  Perfect for tea time snack. 

 

Individually packed, very hygienic. 

 

 

 

This is something new for our taste buds..have never seen this product before.  The Asolo Dolce Fogliette.  This must be an Italian products because there is an Italian Flag on the left corner on the packet.  

 

14 fingers of Fogliette, a light crispy puff pastry with sugar syrup on top 

 

the sweetness is just fine..this crispy pastry is a good snack too...now where is my hot coffee...???? 

Been busy baking

Guess what I have been busy baking since last week. The idea started with wanting to bake a birthday cake for Pearl, but did not get the result that I wanted. Due to lack of confidence and time, my SIL was so kind to help me out to bake a birthday cake for Pearl to bring to the school, that really saved my day.

I have yet to try her recipe because I am lacking of the flour needed, however, I tried other sponge cake recipe, one was the premix recipe which I bought meant for Pearl's birthday, it turned out to be dry and not as spongy. I also tried the Japanese Cotton sponge cake recipe which turned out to be really good, probably because there are milk and butter in the ingredients.

I was also dare enough to try the cream puff and eclair recipe on monday and that I have a little problem with the baking time. It took much longer time that indicated in the recipe because I made the piped the dough too big thus needed long baking time.

Just the night before I baked a chiffon cake by using the chiffon cake premix which made the preparation process so much easier. Unfortunately, I fixed the chiffon baking pan wrongly that have allowed the batter to lick out from the bottom of the pan, and I accidentally touched the oven door and got a burn on my arm as well, silly me. Good thing was that the chiffon cake turned out to be fine but can be better. Next time I will try to mix the egg white separately rather than mixing everything together.

Last night, I tried the Japanese Cotton Sponge cake again due to popular requests by my family.

And today no cake baking, but puffing time. Chicken sausage puffs and cream of mushroom and chicken puffs by using the ready made puff pastry. So we had puffs for tea time this afternoon. I have posted the pictures and the recipe here.