Sunday, July 20, 2008

Chocolate Cake

I woke up at 6am and bake chocolate cake. Besides, nothing much i do. One whole day watch TVB drama. Um... tomorrow gotta work again. 3 more weeks i need to start my travel journey again.. Going to South Island soon...

Chocolate Cake Resipe
175g butter softened
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 eggs
1/2 cup cocoa2 cups standard plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk
*chocolate icing or icing sugar (optional)

1. Cream butter, vanilla essence and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
3. Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder together. Add to creamed mixture alterbately with
milk.
4. Pour mixture into a greased and lined 22cm round cake tin.
5. Bake at 180 celsius degrees for 30 minutes or until springs back when lightly touched.
6. Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out unto a wire rack.
7. When cold, ice with chocolate icing or dust with icing sugar if wished.

*this recipe is from Edmond CookBook*

Mt Maunganui

This place i went for many times and long time ago. There is a small hill which can walk up to the top and see the whole scenery of Mt Maunganui. It's beatiful expecially when it's sunny. There is a shop which sell ice-cream is very popular. The cone is freshly bake.










An experience that I encountered @ New Zealand

Cakes...

for the past few weeks. I done couple of things. I had bought plenty of clothes...do some baking...hahha....i've done banana cake and chocolate cake. So you guys can have the recipe from the below...but due to copyright..i think i gotta mentioned the chef name... :)... I think his name is be Edmond...He's recipe book is quite popular in NZ. Most of the household will own one book. So you guys better go and grab one if you wanna cook simple yet great food..




An experience that I encountered @ New Zealand