Kitty K8’s bloggie

I’ve always thought that making cake is an arduous task. It is anyway. I’ve helped my mother out when I was a young girl and believe me, there are so many things that you have to do to produce a cake. The kinds that my mother made were the baked ones; the ones you pop into the oven at 300 degrees or so and leave it there for a certain period of time. Then, my friend Diana was an expert with cheese cake. Hers was the frozen one. It seemed simple to make but as usual, I didn’t pen it down so naturally, I forgot how to make it. I remembered I knew how to make mint candy too. Well, I’m not good in the pastry department. I’ve always wanted to learn how to bake. Unfortunately, I haven’t an oven.

Recently, my friend Peter told me he knew how to make pastry. I told him I wanted to learn. And so the first recipe he introduced to me was Kuih Batik Sarawak. It is ironic that I learnt it from a Sabahan and yet I, a Sarawakian, don’t know how to make it. Hahaha… Contrary to what I mentioned earlier on making cakes, it’s very simple. Not many items in the ingredient list. Well, I’m going to write down the ingredients and instructions. I hope you’ll try it out whenever you have spare time. It’s pretty simple to make. All it takes is half and hour. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 whole pack of Marie Biscuits

3-4 eggs (depending on the sizes. If it’s F grade, then it’s 5-6)

250gm of butter or margarine, whichever you prefer

¾ cup of condensed milk

¾ cup of icing sugar

5 spoons of Milo powder & 2 spoons of cocoa powder

Instructions:

1^st part – pre-cooking preparation

1. Firstly, break all the Marie Biscuits into 4 quarters. Put it aside.
2. Next, beat the eggs till it is even.

2^nd part – cooking ingredients in a sauté pan

1. Firstly, melt the butter, and I mean the whole dollop of butter, into the sauté pan on medium heat.
2. Once the butter has melted bring down the fire to as minimum as possible. Add in the eggs and keep stirring it till it has blended with the butter.
3. Next, add in the sugar and keep stirring the mixture on low heat.
4. Then, add in the Milo and cocoa powder and continue to stir on low heat. Make sure that the mixture doesn’t clump up. Keep stirring till the mixture is shiny.
5. Once bubbles start to pop, an indication that the chocolate is boiling, switch off the fire.
6. Add in the Marie biscuits and mix it with the chocolate paste evenly.
7. Then, put in the mixture into a container and press it down and even it out with a spoon.
8. Let it cool for a few minutes. After that, put it into the fridge to chill and harden.
9. Once it chills and hardens, take it out, cut it out and it is ready to be served.

And so there you have it. A very simple cake to make, huh? I hope you’ll try this out. Would love to get feedbacks from you. If there’s anything that needs to improve e.g. add more chocolate or less on the sugar, do tell me. Some improvising can do wonders. I actually added more chocolate than Peter does. Hehehe… Anyways, I hope you’ll like it. Take care and happy cooking (sounds weird when we’re talking about cake although we don’t bake this cake. hahahaha!)