Oh! to satisfy one's family..

Hi All!

please enjoy this delicious tropical muffins which I tried last weekend. My family really enjoyed it. Hope yours will too!

Coconut Banana Muffins (makes 6-8 muffins)

3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 very ripe bananas, mashed (1/2 cup)
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/ cup creamed coconut

1/4 cup raisins

1/4 cup Hawaiian grated coconut.

Mash the banana with the sugar until smooth. Add the egg, the creamed coconut and the vanilla and mix well. Sift together the remaining dry ingredients. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until just mixed.

Pour into lined or greased cupcake molds, two-thirds of the way, and bake in a medium oven (350f/180c) until brown and firm (about 25 minutes). Serve warm with a nice cup of tea!

Rest and relax with your Green Tea, English Tea or Ceylon Tea and enjoy!

I know my mum did!

Cheers!

Sherry

Ask & You Shall Receive!

Hello everyone!

It's Sunday and I feel really good today, how about you? I am excited to share this special Black Forest Cherry Cheese Cake recipe with Ice John and the rest of you as well! Everyone in my family really enjoyed this Easter treat.

Just wanted to tell you that it's amazing how much $ you will be saving making this fabulously delicious cake on your own rather than buying it! Most importantly it so easy to make......& that's what I like, SS (sweet & simple). Anyway, I'm absolutely sure you won't regret trying it!

Black Forest Cherry Cheese Cake

Ingredients:

A. Digestive biscuits 250 gm
unsalted butter 125 gm

B. Cream (whipped) 200 ml
cream cheese 250 gm
castor sugar 165 gm
lemon juice 1 tbsp

C. gelatine
water
(double boil gelatine & water and cool 5-10mins)

D. 1 can pitted black cherries juice

Topping

cherry juice 150 ml (separate juice and fruits by straining)

corn flour 1 tbsp

Method:

1) Blend ingredients A or put biscuits in a plastic bag and beat the biscuits with a rolling pin lightly or till they crumble finely. Then mix the butter and crumbled biscuits until combined.

Next press into loose bottom baking tin and level with a spatula. Chill for 30 mins or until firm.

2) Cream sugar, cream cheese and lemon juice in a cake mixing machine, add gelatine mixture (which has been prepared before hand). Lastly add in the whipped cream and 'pulsate' or mix it on a lower speed till combined.

3) Pour 1/2 of the cream cheese mixture onto the biscuit crust, arrange the drained cherries around the cream cheese layer. Then top off the remaining cream cheese mixture over it.

4) Finally mix and boil topping ingredients and spread over the chilled cheese cake.

Chill for 3hrs or overnight.

p.s. drop me line at: sherryharding245@gmail.com or simply comment!

one slice will NOT be enough!

A Brand New Week!

Healthy Orange Raisin Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffin

Yup! It's a new week indeed!

Life - Is not just being around because of mere existence but should be looked at as a gift of life from the Almighty. Therefore one should always be appreciative and look forward to give their very best in whatever they are responsible for. It is immaterial if one is a father, a mother, a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a student, a teacher, an employer, an employee, a doctor, a nurse, ect, etc. It's our duty to revolve around doing good to get by each day.

Duty - If your thought is what it should be, you will have little trouble with your action. Remember that to be useful to others, thought must result in action. There must be no laziness, only constant activity in good work.

Today, since the orange fruit brings such a fresh tangy flavour to muffins, it seems to be the family's favourite, I have decided to make this special one which has a slight twist to it. Enjoy!

Healthy Orange Raisin Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffins

You'll need:

1 1/3 plus two tbsp self-rising flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
3 large eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup milk
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup raisins
1 tsp poppy seeds
1/2 an orange juice
orange rind
peanut butter

Method:

Heat oven to 190 C. Grease muffin tins - makes 12 pcs

1. In a large bowl sift flours, salt.
2. In another bowl, stir together eggs, milk, sugar, orange juice and sugar together until smooth.
3. Form a well in the dry ingredients and pour the liquid mixture. Stir just to combine. Fold the raisins and poppy seeds.
4. Spoon the batter half way through each muffin tin and then add a teaspoon each of the peanut butter.
5. Lastly top the tins off with about another tablespoon of the batter and the bake them for about 15-20 mins or until golden brown and done when you run a cake tester through.

Hope you'll like this recipe and have it with a nice cup of tea or coffee or a snack any time of the day or night!

Look forward to your comments.

After it's cracked opened to expose the delicious filling

*Food for thought:

When an athlete decides to win in his mind, it is then that he wins. He decides first, then he wins......have a good week ahead!


Cheers!

Sherry