Note: I never thot I will make my own 鸡香饼 at all and like the others say why call 鸡香饼 when there is no chicken element in the biscuit at all. Silly me still thot there should have something to do with the chicken. Neh... NO CHICKEN... the more important ingredient here is the "Nan Ru" - fermented beancurd and it is better to use those marinated in the "Ang Chao". One must get ready that when starting to make this biscuit, the smell of the NAN RU is very strong. It was so strong that at a point I thought I could have use the NAN RU wrongly, I mean wrong brand of NAN RU but there was no turning back at that point cos I have half ready product there waiting for me to bake them in the oven. So I prayed hard that it will turn out nice. Luckily it wasnt too bad, at least my colleague's wife comment that it was nice and the biscuit has alot of "Liao" and she enjoyed it very much. hahaha.. thanks Mrs OW. As for myself, I didnt really take alot cos I seem to lose my taste bud after making it.
Ingredient
Pastry
225g of plain flour a pinch of salt
2 tbsp of icing sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
140g cold unsalted butter, chopped
2 tbsp iced water
Ganache filling
500g dark chocolate (70% cent cocoa solids)
200g unsalted butter, chopped
Cherry-port jelly:
375ml Cherry port
2 tbsp caster sugar
5 gelatine leaves (gold strength)
Raspberry puree:
125g raspberries (squished or frozen)
1 tbsp icing sugar
1 tsp corn syrup or glucose
Method
1. Pre-heat oven to 200 deg C.
2. For Pastry: Place flour, salt, sugar and cocoa powder in a food processor and process for 15 sec until combined. Add butter and process until butter is finely chopped. Add iced water slowly until it forms a dough what comes together when pressed. Wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for 20 mins.
3. For ganache: Chop chocolate in a food preocessor until finely chopped. Place butter in a large bowl over a saucepan with 3cm of just-simmering water, then tip chocolate onto butter. Turn off heat and stir occasionally until chocolate and butter have melted. Keep bowl n saucepan until ready to use.
4. For jelly: POur port and sugar into a saucepan over medium heat, and stir until sugar has dissolved. Boil for 5 mins, then remove from heat. Soften gelatine in cold water, wiring and add into warm port mixture. Stir until dissolved, strian and keep warm until ready to use.
5. Roll pastry out between two sheets of baking paper till pastry is 3mm thick. remove one sheet and lay pastry ove a 23cm round fluted tart tin with a removable base. Press into tin, especially into sides. Remove other sheet and trim pastry. Refrigerate for 20 mins. Blind bake for 13-15 min until sides are crisp. Bake for another 10 min until base is dry. Cool in fridge for 10 min.
6. Pour warm ganache into cooled tart tin, shake gently to leve. Allow 0.5cm for jelly layer. Refrigerate for 10 min to set the ganache. Pour a layer of warm jelly on top of the tart. Allow to set in fridge for 10 min or until ready to serve.
7. For raspberry puree: Pplace respberries, sugar and glucose into a small saucepan and heat until it becomes liquid. Sieve out seeds. 8. Decorate tart with raspberries and drizzle with raspberry puree.
Ingredient
110g pancake mix
2 eggs
50g sugar
40g olive oil / peanut oil
90g banana
1/2 tsp lemon juice
Chocolate chip
Method
1) Mash the banana with lemon juice to prevent it to turn dark.
2) Beat the eggs n sugar together till sugar dissolve.
3) add in the oil and mix well.
4) Add in the mashed banana n mix well.
5) Add in the flour and ensure so lump, pour into the loaf tin n sprinkle chocolate chip on top of the batter.
6) Bake in 170 deg oven for 30 - 35 min.
Note: I was very much inspired by my friend when she show me her cake using pancake flour. Here i have a pack of pancake flour store up in my kitchen cabinet. It is a good recipe to clear the pancake flour if u get sick of eating pancake. It is a great change n u dun waste it. My friend told me you can buy cheap pancake flour from Daiso. So you dun need to follow me to usr Morinaga pancake mix for this recipe. Cake using 2 eggs is not a big cake so if u see the recipe book that showing the cake raising so well but not us please dun panic. To achieve such result, you probably need to double the quantity to see that result. The cake is very soft and not butter so good for people who want to keep healthy.
My daughter said she love banana cake so a big banana will weight around 90g but I am using the medium size banana n I put in two which is more than 90g but I think it is ok.
Sprinkle some chocolate chip on top as chocolate goes well with banana.