Delicious Apple Nut Cake

I have tried baking apple nut cake few times, as my husband like it very much. Sometimes, it came out nice, sometimes... not so good. Nevertheless, still my husband like to eat it. So last Monday (MLK's Day), I tried this recipe which I found in one of my recipe book. It was delicious... but one thing, you can minimise the sugar content. I don't like it so sweet.

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
2 tsps. vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 delicious apples (finely chopped and not peeled)
1 cup chopped walut

Methods
1. Preheat oven at 350ºF (175ºC).
2. Beat sugar, oil and eggs together. Beat well & Add vanilla extract. Put aside.
3. Sift flour, salt, baking soda & nutmeg together. Add the chopped apple to sugar mixture and beat well. Stir in flour mixture and beat well. Lastly, stir in the walnuts.
4. Pour batter into greased and floured 2 pound baking pan. Bake at 350ºF for 45 minutes.

2 cups of sugar, 1 cup vegetable oil, 2 eggs & 2 big apples (unpeeled & chopped)

Beat sugar, oil & eggs together.

Add vanilla extract to the mixture.


Sift flour

Add salt.

Add nutmeg.

Add baking soda.

Then addthe apple to the sugar mixture. Then add the dry ingredients to it and beat well then lastly, stir in the walnuts. (No pictures included).

Pour the batter in a greased and floured baking pan.
Then bake at 350ºF for 45 minutes.

After 45 minutes. This is how the cake look like. Cool it and then you can slice it and eat.. may be whipped cream. hehehe yummy. (but I don't like to eat it with whipped cream).

I just eat it plainly like this... but still yummy to me.

Crazy Chocolate Cake

This recipe was given to me by a friend named Linda, (actually, she is my mother inlaw's adopted daughter) recipe is very simple and there's no egg required in it. For those of you like reduce your cholesterol intake. I have tried it few times and it tasted very delicious.

Ingredients :

1½ cup of all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp salt
3 tbsp. coco powder (Hershey)
5 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup water
1 tbsp. white vinegar

1. Preheat oven at 350ºF (175ºC).

2. Mix all the dry ingredients together and set aside. Beat sugar and vegetable oil till fluffy and then add vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients into the sugar mixture, then add water. Mix well, then add the white vinegar. (As you add the white vinegar, you will notice that it bubbles - don't worry). Then beat the batter for another 2 minutes.

3. Pour into 8 x 8 inches pan (greased & floured) and bake for 35 minutes.

(You can put whip cream on it).



Emmm.. yummy.

Chicken & Dumpling Roll

This recipe, I learnt from my mother in-law when my son and I went to spend two weeks holiday with her in Clayton, Ohio during summer 2007. It's very simple but quite messy when you do it.

Here are all the ingredients you need :

INGREDIENTS :

1 chicken (or depends on how much you want to cook for your family). Normally, I only cook half chicken.

Clean the chicken well and take off the chicken and cut it into few big pieces. Then cook it in about 5 - 6 measuring cups of water. Boil till tender. Then take the chicken out and bone it and put aside. Do not throw the broth from the pot but let it simmer in a low heat. This broth will be used to cook the dumplings and chicken later.

INGREDIENTS FOR ROLL & DUMPLING:

3 Cups of all purpose flour.
½ Cup of vegetable shortening (pls do not use butter).
1 teaspoon of salt.
1 egg
1 cup of milk. ( or chicken broth).

(Please prepare the dumplings while you boil chicken).

Instruction.

1. Mix the flour and shortening (mix well).

2. Add the salt, the milk or broth and egg.

3. Mix it well and roll it into a dough (on a clean table or clothe) and cut the dough into two. Roll both
doughs into ball shape and then flatten it with a roller... till it is thin. (Roll as thin as possible). Well some
people like it thin some like it thick. (My mother inlaw like it thin but my husband like it thick) .

4. Then, cut the dumplings into an inch square size. After you have done that, drop the dumplings one by
one into the simmer boiling chicken broth in the pot. Drop all the dumplings till finish. After a few
minutes, you will notice that the dumplings will float to the surface. Boil it covered for 10 minutes. After
that take the lid out and continue boil it in a medium heat.

5. Lastly, put the chicken meat that you have bone and stir it from the bottom and continue to cook it on
medium heat for 1 to 2 hours. You can add the salt to it or you either can put a 1 can of cream of chicken.

3 cups of all purpose flour, 1 egg and 1 cup of milk.

1/2 cup of vegetable shortening. (As shown above and below)

This is how the shortening look like, incase some of you doesn't know.. hehehe

This is how it look likes (see picture above) when you mix the flour and shortening. Mix well.. Then you add salt, milk and egg

After mixing everything, divide it into two and then roll it into a ball... like this (see above picture) and then flatten it with a roller.

After you flatten it cut it into 2 inches sizez and thereafter drop it into the broth in the pot one by one..

This is the kind of Cream of Chicken that you might want to put with your dumplings. Sometimes, I put it or I just put some milk & chicken cubes. It depends on your taste..
Some people also put carrots in it.

This recipe is especially dedicated to my friends, that's why I put my effort to show the steps and also the things you need.