Classic Cassva Cake Recipe | How to make Cassava Cake ala Goldilocks

Cassava Cake Goldilocks Recipe. I had Cassava Cake Recipe using Cassava Flour but seriously, Cassava Cake using Cassava Flour recipe can’t beat the Cassava Cake (using grated yucca), right? My Cassava Cake Recipe is from Goldilocks Bakebook. Goldilocks released a book for it’s 50 Golden Years of being country’s(Philippines) number 1 bakeshop, they’re generous, they shared their history and their recipe that is best-loved by Filipino people. My Cassava Cake Recipe has a little change in ingredient, Goldilocks recipe called for macapuno but I used Bakers Sweetened Coconut (moist and soft). The Goldilocks cassava cake recipe called for margarine, but I used butter. Even if there's changes, it came out perfect Cassava Cake, the foundation of good Cassava Cake is; cassava is cooked then baked. No need to beat egg and reach stiff peaks. Goldilocks share this cassava cake recipe, and now I'm sharing it with you. #goldilockscassavacake.

INGREDIENTS

Grated Cassava 1 1/2 cups

Water 1 1/2 cups

Coconut Milk 1/2 cup

Condensed Milk 1 can

Sugar 1/2 cup

Macapuno Strings

or Bakers Sweetened Coconut 1/4 cup

Egg 1 large egg

Vanilla flavor 2 tsp

Grated Cheese 1/2 cup

Margarine or butter 2 Tbsp

TOPPINGS

Evaporated Milk 2 tbsp

Egg beaten 2 tbsp

Macapuno strings

or bakers sweetened coconut 1/4 cup

PROCEDURE

Pre-heat oven to 350°F

Prepare aluminum pan and set aside.

Place grated cassava on a cheesecloth then squeeze out some of the juice. Discard the juice.

In a blender, combine gated cassava, half of the water, coconut milk, condensed milk, and sugar, then grind. Set aside.

Prepare a non-stick skillet, combine grated cassava mixture, macapuno strings (I used sweetened coconut), egg, vanilla flavor, the remaining water and half of the grated cheese. Place over medium fire and start mixing until you reach translucent texture.

Once cassava is translucent, reduce to low fire. Add margarine (I used butter) and the remaining cheese. Continue cooking until thick.

Turn off the fire and equally distribute the cooked cassava into the prepared aluminum pan.

For toppings- Combine the evaporated milk, beaten egg and macapuno strings mixture.

Pour toppings to the cassava.

Bake the cassava for approximately 35-40 minutes or until top is golden brown.

Fluffy & Soft Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe | Homemade great vanilla cupcakes

Fluffy Cupcakes and Sweets presents fluffy and soft vanilla cupcakes recipe. A homemade vanilla cupcake. I got this recipe at Martha Stewart website, the website presents Billy's Vanilla Cupcakes. I tried it and it's really tasty and I'm excited to share it with you. The recipe called for unbleached flour but I used regular flour because that's what I have in hand. My vanilla cupcake came out perfectly, can't go wrong, this vanilla cupcakes always delicious homemade vanilla cupcakes.

Fluffy & Soft Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups cake flour, not self-rising

1 1/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1 tbsp baking powder

3/4 tsp salt

2 sticks of butter

4 large eggs

1 cup whole milk

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Procedure

Preheat your oven at 325°F.

Line cupcake pans w/ cupcake liners.

In a bowl whisk together the eggs, milk and vanilla (wet ingredients).

Sift flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt and whisk (dry ingredients).

With your stand mixer add the soften butter, mix until just coated the flour.

Add the wet ingredients 3rd part to the flour coated with butter.

Now, it's time to fill the cupcake liner 2/3 full and bake it at 17 - 20 mins.

  

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Baked Fried Catfish Recipe

How do you cook your catfish, is it baked catfish or fried catfish? I think you can cook it
a little bit of both. My baked fried catfish is a delicious catfish recipe, I just want to share
it with you. I get my catfish at Walmart. It's frozen catfish fillet but it’s decent catfish, no
muddy texture, no muddy smell catfish. Try to buy catfish and cook it like what I did.
I’m sure you will love it. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

3 catfish fillets

1 tbsp. Uncle Chris Fish Seasoning

1 cup cornstarch or cornmeal ( I used cornstarch with my catfish)

¼ extra virgin olive oil

Salt & pepper (use to marinate catfish)

2 cloves garlic (use to marinate catfish)

1 cup milk (use to marinate catfish)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 425°F. 

Marinate your catfish w/ milk, salt & pepper, garlic- marinade for 30 minutes

Mix 1 cup cornstarch and Uncle Chris Fish Seasoning

Pour olive oil to the sheet pan.

Dredge catfish fillet to the cornstarch mixture.

Put the catfish to the sheet pan and dredge with olive oil on the pan.

Bake for 15- 18 mins. ( if you want a little bit of soft meat - 15 mins.)
(I baked mine for 18 mins. Crusty at the bottom and cooked all the way on top
of the fish, it’s not soggy.)

Happy eating catfish. It’s delicious.

Easy Chicken Gizzard Steak Recipe

Chicken Gizzard Steak Recipe

I just made Chicken Gizzard Steak Recipe that is easy to make. I just bought chicken gizzard at Walmart, it's cheap and I can make a decent gizzard recipe that I can serve for dinner. Nowadays, tighten belts are in, because of COVID-19, quarantine. We need to save a little bit and eat good food as well. With this Chicken Gizzard Steak Recipe, it's a good partner for rice. Here is the recipe and video that I want to share with you all.

Chicken Gizzard Steak Recipe

Ingredients:

1 lb. chicken gizzard

3 cloves garlic

1 whole onion

1 mushroom gravy mix

flour

Procedure:

1.  First, boil chicken gizzard to make gizzard tender.

2.  Minced garlic and sliced  the onion in round.

3.  Dissolve the mushroom gravy mix with water, and set aside.

4.  Prepare the flour

5.  Preheat oil, when oil is ready you can fry the gizzard.

6.  Dredge the gizzard to flour and fry it.

7.  After frying all the gizzard then set aside.

8.  Saute onion and get some onion that has been sauted and set aside for toppings,

add garlic to saute then add the mushroom gravy. Add a little bit of salt, taste if it

needs salt to taste.

9.  Then add the fried chicken gizzard to the sauce, mix till coated the gizzard with sauce.

Add the onions for toppings.

10.  Enjoy my Chicken Gizzard Steak.

My homemade baked goods | Fluffy cupcakes and sweets

It's the presentation of my work. Some of baked goods that I sell at Farmers Market.
It features cupcakes, cookies, bread, peanut brittle, pecan candies and many more. Hope
you enjoy.

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How to make Coconut Raisin Cookies

COCONUT RAISIN TREASURE COOKIES

A Coconut Raisin Treasure Cookies an eggless cookies that you will love. This cookie recipe

is one of the recipes of eaglebrand.com. One day I just searched eagle brand websites and

looked at their recipe’s that I can make when it comes to cookies or cake. I’m successful in

searching for these treasure cookies. It’s easy to make cookies. I’m sharing this recipe with

you and hope you will try to make this cookies.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup crushed graham cracker crumbs

1/2 cup all purpose flour

2 tsps. baking powder

1 (14oz) can sweetened condensed milk

1/2 cup butter, softened

2 cup raisins

1 1/3 cup flaked coconut

1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

-  Pre heat over to 375°F. Spray baking sheets with non-stick spray.

-  Combine graham cracker crumbs, flour and baking powder in a bowl.

-  Beat sweetened condensed milk and butter in large bowl until smooth.

-  Add crumb mixture, mix well. Stir in raisins, walnuts and coconut.

-  Drop by 1 /2 tbsp onto prepard cookie sheets (it depends how big you want your cookies). I made  more than 2 dozens.

-  Bake 9 to 10 mins or until lightly browned.

-  Cool the cookies for 2  to 3 mins. And remove from cookie sheets. I'm sure you're ready for         eggless  cookies. Yummy!!!

-  Always refrigerate this cookies.

Cassava Cake Recipe using Cassava Flour

Cassava Cake is one of the delicious sweet treat in the Philippines. The important ingredient for Cassava Cake is the Yucca. Yucca needs to be grated and squeezed to make the Yucca dry enough to mix with milk, coconut milk and eggs. It takes time to make Cassava Cake.

Now, I craved for Cassava Cake but I'm baking Cassava Cake using Cassava Flour. The texture of my Cassava Cake will be cake texture but it will satisfy the craving for Filipino Cassava Cake. 

Here is the Recipe.

Cassava Cake Recipe using Cassava Flour

Ingredients:

2     cups Cassava Flour

1     cup sugar

1/2  cup evaporated milk

1/2  cup coconut milk

1     cup sweetened coconut (Baker's moist)- I prefer to use macapuno

2     pcs eggs (yolk, whites separate)

2     tsps. baking powder

1/2  butter

1/2  tsp. vanilla

Toppings:

3     egg yolks

1/3  cup sweetened condensed milk

2/3  cup coconut milk

Instructions:

1.  Pre heat oven to 325°F.

2.  Mix cassava flour and baking powder and set aside.

3.  In mixing bowl, cream butter until smooth then slowly add sugar mix well.

4.  Add egg yolks, all dry ingredients and milks. Mix thoroughly until well blended.

5. In separate bowl, beat the egg white until stiff peak forms.

6.  Fold the flour batter to the beaten egg whites.

7.  Pour the mixture to ungreased baking pan and bake it for 20 to 30 mins. (depend on your oven, mine about 20 mins. my cassava cake was done).

8.  After 20 mins. baking, pour the toppings and bake for another 20 mins.

9.  Allow to cool. Every serving you can add cheese on it. Yum!

How to make Waffle Dog

I made this Waffle dog (waffle w/ hotdog inside). For me, it's savory waffle. Waffle dog is my favorite food to go when I'm on my way home. When I'm working before my travel time was long that makes me feel hungry and I just want something to eat while walking or riding a jeep. What I did before, I just stopped at the mall and always look for waffle vendor named Waffle Time, then I will buy 2 pcs. waffle dog it made my tummy calm. Now I'm going to make my own waffle dog and it's very easy to make.

How to Make Waffle Dog

Need:

Waffle corn dog maker (available at Amazon or Walmart)

Pancake mix (any brand) just follow instruction on how to make waffle batter

Cooked breakfast sausage

1.  Preheat waffle corn dog maker. Red light while it's pre-heated.

2.  Make your waffle batter.

3.  When green light of waffle maker lit, now it's time to put the waffle batter on the waffle dog mold. Next, put the cooked hotdog and fill with more batter on top of the hot dog and put back the cover.

4.  For about 10 minutes let it cook and then it will be ready to serve.

RAISIN BREAD PUDDING

Are you looking for good partner of your coffee? Well bread pudding is one of the favorite bread partner for your coffee. Bread pudding will be savory or sweet which many of us been familiar with. Many people have different version on how to make their bread pudding.

Wikipedia's meaning of bread pudding - Bread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisines, made with stale bread and milk or cream, generally containing eggs, a form of fat such as oil, butter or suet, and depending on whether the pudding is sweet or savory, a variety of other ingredients

Yes, bread pudding is giving stale bread a chance to be reborn, just kidding. And now I have bread pudding too. A raisin bread pudding, actually it's Nestle's Raisin Bread Pudding Recipe. I just want to share with you.

INGREDIENTS:

16   slices bread, cubed

1     cup raisins

2     evaporated milk

4     large eggs, slightly beaten

3/4  cup packed brown sugar

1/4  cup melted butter

2     tsps. vanilla extract

1     tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2  tsp. ground nutmeg

Caramel sauce (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS:

Preheat oven 350°F. Grease 12 x 8 inch baking dish.

Combine bread and raisins in large bowl.

Combined evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla extract, cinnamon and nutmeg in medium bowl.

Pour egg mixture over bread mixture combine well. 

Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Let stand for 10 minutes.

Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Mine I baked it for 35 minutes just right. 

Drizzle with caramel sauce before serving. Mine just forgot to put caramel but caramel make a big difference.

HOMEMADE PEANUT BRITTLE

Airy and crunchy peanut brittle

Peanut brittle a favorite candy during Christmas time. For me, you can make it all the time, I usually make peanut brittle when I have market. I received good compliments for my peanut brittle and I really appreciate that.

I would like to share with a peanut brittle that airy and crunchy you will not stop to nibble. The secret of delicious peanut brittle, you start with clean utensils because you’ll be cooking your sugar for a long time and if you have something in your sugar syrup it will be burn and it will ruin your peanut brittle. Your baking soda should be new so that it bubbles easily when you mix with sugar. When you pour the mixture of sugar syrup, peanut, baking soda to the cookie sheet don’t stir leave it alone, let the brittle mixture crawl itself. That is the secret of airy and crunchy peanut brittle.

PEANUT BRITTLE RECIPE

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1 cup light Karo corn syrup

2 cups granulated sugar

1 ½ roasted peanut

¼ teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons butter

2 teaspoons baking soda

Directions:

Spread 1 tbsp. of butter to the cookie sheet.

Put water, Karo syrup and sugar to your sauce pan.

Place a candy thermometer to the side of the sauce pan.

Heat on high and boil until you reach soft ball stage 238°F.

When you reach 238°F you can add the butter and salt.

When you reach 310°F you can add the peanut and stir, then add baking soda and stir it will bubble and then put the mixture to the greased cookie sheet and no stir after you pour mixture to the cookie sheet.

Peanut brittle for Christmas, Enjoy!!!

PEACH COBBLER RECIPE

Peach Cobbler is one the popular dessert here in Texas. My husband and I like peach cobbler. I made peach cobbler to sell at farmers market and it’s always sold out. A balance of right amount peaches and right amount of dough is the secret of my peach cobbler. Some peach cobbler that we ordered from the restaurant or some take out restaurant majority of their peach cobbler is really doughy not much peaches mix in it. My recipe is homemade peach cobbler recipe. I want to share with you so that you can make your own peach cobbler for your family. I promise; you will love my recipe. My next recipe will be Peanut brittle a recipe give away for you.

Ingredients:

1 stick butter

1 ½ cups self-rising flour

½ cup water

2 cups divided sugar

4 cups peeled and sliced peaches

1 ½ cups milk

Pinch of ground cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Combine the peaches, 1 cup sugar, water in a saucepan, mix well. Let is simmer for 10 minutes, then remove from heat.

Put the butter in a 9x13” aluminum pan and place in oven to melt.

Mix the remaining 1 cup sugar, flour, milk slowly to prevent clumping. Pour mixture over melted butter. Do not stir.

Spoon fruit on top, gently pouring in syrup. Sprinkle top with ground cinnamon, the batter will rise to top during baking.

Bake for 30 to 45 minutes.

Serve with vanilla ice cream. Happy Eating!!!

Strawberry Cheesecake w/ Strawberry toppings

When I'm young I really like cheesecake but I don't have money to buy for it but now I can bake my own homemade cheesecake. My strawberry cheesecake recipe can make one round pan same as top picture and 6 cupcakes for cheesecake. I really love cheesecake and this recipe is very delicious and here's my recipe.

Ingredients:

Graham mold ready for cheesecake filling

2 8oz cream cheese, softened

1 tbsp. all purpose flour

1 can condensed milk

1/4 cup sour cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 egg yolks

2 tbsp. sugar

strawberry toppings in can

Instructions:

Heat oven to 325°F.

Beat cream cheese, flour, 2 tbsp. sugar in medium speed using stand mixer, mix it until fluffy.

Add in 2 egg yolks mix until incorporated.

Beat in condensed milk, sour cream and vanilla until smooth.

Then transfer the mixture to graham pan that is ready. Get a roast pan put hot water in it then put the cheesecake pan mixture like baking with water bath for 1 hour.

Then when it's ready, let it cool at room temperature and then put strawberry toppings and keep in the refrigerator.

Banana Bread Recipe Latest Version

Banana Bread w/ Vanilla Frosting

I would like to share my banana bread recipe. This a moist banana bread I’ve ever made. I always make this banana bread recipe when I have farmers market, when I have banana that looks like over ripen it’s automatic, I will make banana bread for that ripen banana.

Ingredients:

1 stick of butter

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1 ½ unbleached flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1 cup mashed bananas

½ cup sour cream

1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

½ cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 350°F. The recipe can make 4 mini loaf pans. Butter the mini loaf pans and set aside. With your electric mixer with paddle attachment cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy then add eggs until incorporated.

2.  In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt then add to the butter mixture mix until just combined. Add sour cream, bananas and vanilla then mix. Then stir in walnuts and pour into prepared pans.

3.  Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Sometimes baking for 30 minutes it’s done already but it depends on your oven. The 30 to 35 minutes is the threshold to check the banana bread and use your toothpick to test if it’s done.

Note:

Banana bread will last for 2 days on the counter put in the container and cover to maintain freshness of the banana bread. But when you put frosting to your banana bread like what I did with my picture you need to put it inside the refrigerator.

Egg Pie

One of my favorite dessert is an egg pie. I ate a lot these when I'm young as usual I really ate too much. It's delicious, very light texture. It's my first time to make egg pie and I'm excited to make my own egg pie and taste and of course share recipe to all of you.

Ingredients:

Crust:

*  2  cups all purpose flour
*  3  Tbsp sugar
*  1/2  tsp salt
*  3/4  cup unsalted butter soften
*  1/4  cold water

Filling:

*  1  cup evaporated milk
*  5  eggs - (4 eggs + 1 egg separated of egg white and egg yolk)
*  1 tsp vanilla extract
*  1 tsp lemon juice
*  1 can condensed milk

Instructions:

Crust:

1.  Combine the crust ingredients into food processor, make a pulse until you see the side of the processor clean that's the time you know you have perfect crust.

2.  Shape into a ball put in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for 30 minutes.

3.  Sprinkle flour into flat surface and put the refrigerated dough then roll the rolling pin to the dough to make 1/2 cm. thick and  9" wide cover the pie pan. Make a crimp for the dough siding.

4.  Keep the dough at the refrigerator.

Filling:

1.  Heat evaporated milk for 1 minute.

2.  In a mixing bowl, whisk 4 eggs and 1 egg yolk, then add condensed milk, vanilla extract and lemon juice until combined.

3.  Add evaporated milk to the mixture.

4.  In another bowl, whisk egg white until in it's soft peak.

5.  Fold the beaten egg white into the mixture.


Baking:

1.  Preheat oven to 350°F.

2.  Pour the filling into pie crust.

3.  Bake for 15 minutes at 350°F, and lower the heat at 325°F then let it bake for another 40-45 minutes. Toothpick testing if it's done.

Homemade Peanut Butter

Ingredients

- 1 kilo peeled unroasted peanuts
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/4 vegetable oil
- pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Heat a thick pan at low heat then put peanuts.
2. Stir the peanuts once in a while it takes about 15 to 20 minutes. Then let it cool.
3. Then put cooled peanut, vegetable oil, sugar, salt into food processor.
4. Process the mixture until it's very smooth.

Chicken Egg Rolls and Asian Noodles

 

I just tried a Chicken egg rolls partner for my noodles and I'm really happy with the combination. Usually Noodles is partnered with meat egg rolls but now I have different partner menu and I'm happy with it. 

Potato Onion Bread

Potato Onion Bread creates crusty in the outside

Potato Onion Bread soft and airy in the inside

I baked Potato Onion Bread. I think potato and onion is a great combination of flavor for my bread. It’s my first time to bake this bread but it came out soft, airy and crusty in the outside and smells good. Usually when baked bread or cupcakes I taste it first. Sometimes one of my friends ordered 24 pieces cupcakes and I delivered 23 pcs and told her I ate 1 pc and you pay dollar less. I want to make sure my baked goods are delicious and taste good. If it don’t taste good I will re-do that baked goods. You noticed, I have potato onion breads and the other bread was half eaten by me for taste test. Funny, my taste test required a lot of tasting and consumed too much that’s why I gained weight.

Ready for second rise and it's ready for baking

The first rise of dough

Chocolate Espresso Cupcakes

Delicious Espresso Cupcakes

Everybody loves coffee, the smell of coffee it makes you awake and the feeling of alertness for your morning routine. A hint of coffee in everything I ate it really excites me. I liked coffee candy. I like mocha flavor coz it's a mixture of coffee and coco. But now I would like to make partner for my coffee, as if far from my introduction of coffee I'm making Chocolate Espresso Cupcakes. The recipe is so easy, the cupcakes is moist and delicious. You will ask for more.

My Farmers Market Experience.

 I just joined Jim Wells Farmers Market year 2015, as I remembered. Joining Jim Wells Farmers Market was my first time to sell my baked goods the manager at Jim Wells Farmers Market, Ms. Elaine was really nice to me even I only have small table full of baked goods she always took picture of my baked goods for sale, maybe Ms. Elain really know I worked hard for my baked goods.

On my part joining farmers market selling my baked goods was a gamble sometimes, a HIT or  a MISS when it’s hit, it’s worth the effort to be busy Friday all day just to prepare all my baking stuff, go to bed at 12 midnight then set an alarm at 3:00am to bake and package all the stuff. It’s my routine when I’m preparing for farmers market.

I don’t advertise much coz I only have enough baked goods just to fill up my 5 ft. table. When I sell at Jim Wells Farmers Market, I just depend on Ms. Elaine’s advertisement, taking picture of my baked goods. 

I still participate Farmers Market, I know next time I will participate market I will have more SALES, be optimistic. yey!!!

Banana bread

Delicious banana breads

I would like to share my experience in baking of my delicious baked goods. I will start from all ingredients needed for one recipe, it’s easy. Next, will be the mixing all the ingredients and create a perfect batter for your perfect baked goods and then you bake.

The most important part of baking that you really need to be patient is the waiting time of cooling your baked goods. These banana breads it took awhile before it’s totally cool so that the bread will not be stale.

It took a lot of practice to baked a perfect banana cake and that’s what I’m doing always. Practice, practice and more practice so that I can create good food, quality baked goods.

Blueberry Muffins (fat free)

A perfect blueberry muffins for breakfast. The blueberry muffins has good taste not too much tangy. I recommend these Krusteaz bluerry muffin mix, a box can make a dozen blueberry muffins.

Candied Pecans

My candied pecans coated with sugar, hint of cinnamon and salt. I tried a pecan brittle before then I decided to try candied pecans and candied pecans taste good, it highlights the pecans itself just right sweetness and crunch pecan.

Coconut Pralines

Coconut Pralines

Coconut Pralines is a sweet treat from Louisiana. This is a combination of heavy cream, sugar, butter, and the star of the recipe is the coconut flakes. Coconut Pralines is a bit sweet and it's good eats.

Pork egg rolls

Pork lumpia, filipino egg rolls

These is our filipino version of pork egg rolls called pork lumpia a ground pork mixed with onion, garlic, carrots, celery and egg for binder of meat and wrapped with rice wrapper that makes lumpia crunchy.

Confetti cupcakes

Confetti cupcakes, vanilla cupcakes out of the box a new creation I made. A birthday cupcake best served for your birthday, a variation of different colors of sprinkles with M&M chocolate which makes you happy. These cupcakes are vanilla cupcakes out of the box I guarantee it is delicious, fluffy and you will ask for more. I’m excited to sell my vanilla cupcakes at the market. #deliciousvanillacupcakes.