No-Frills Recipes ... cooking, baking & excerpts on travel

Whenever I want to make a butter cake, Mrs. Ng's butter cake recipe will come to my mind.  Her recipe is foolproof and you can use it as a basic recipe and play around with variations of flavours to your liking.  Today, I'm sharing with you a Pandan Ombre Butter Cake.  I've used pandan paste instead of pandan juice as I need to have a distinct green colour to bring out the 'Ömbre' effect, which is from a darker to a lighter shade of green.  I'm pleased with the result and the texture of this cake is soft and moist and it still stays in this manner even after the third day, kept in an airtight container. Pandan Ombre Butter Cake ~  班蘭牛油蛋糕 Ingredients (A)                                                  230 gm unsalted butter 140 gm caster sugar 200 gm self-raising flour  4 'L' egg yolks 60 ml milk 1/4 tsp van...

Ondeh Ondeh are green coloured and pandan flavoured glutinous rice balls with gula melaka or palm sugar filling, coated with freshly grated coconut.  We call it 'Kuih'.  Ondeh Ondeh cake is entirely different from this 'Kuih'. I don't know how the name 'Ondeh Ondeh cake' came about but I guess it's because of the colour and the ingredients which are somewhat similar to that of the 'kuih'. This pandan flavoured Ondeh Ondeh cupcake is moist, soft and slightly spongy and the gula melaka filling blends awfully well with the pandan and 'santan'/coconut milk.  A wonderful tea-time snack or a delectable dessert, any time! Ondeh Ondeh Pandan Cupcakes ~  香兰小蛋糕 Ingredients 140 gm plain flour 3/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp sodium bicarbonate 2 Large eggs 120 gm caster sugar 80 ml canola oil 80 ml coconut milk 30 ml pandan juice 1/4 tsp pandan paste 100 gm gula melaka/palm sugar 1.1/2 Tbsp water a pinch of salt Method...