Another dessert from Indonesia! It's Bolu kukus or Indonesian steamed sponge cake, you can find this cake anywhere in the traditional market in Indonesia. Bolu kukus have soft and fluffy texture like chiffon cake but firmer. normally it steamed in a cup, today i made it in cone-shaped like ice cream using brown paper ( kertas nasi bungkus ) 👐

If you want the simpler method, you also can just use the regular muffin pan so you will end up getting the cupcakes looks like steamed Indonesia sponge cake.
Ingredients:
200gr sugar
2pc eggs
10gr emulsifier/TBM (i use butterfly brand)
1tsp vanilla essence
200gr cake flour
25gr milk powder
1tsp baking powder
160ml Sprite
Food Coloring













Instruction:
1.  Preheat steamer, steamer lid must be covered with fabric so the steam water not dripping into the cake.
2. Mixer sugar and egg until white, add TBM mixer until thick and white.
3. Sift cake flour, milk powder, and baking powder.
4. Add 1/3 sprite, mix, add 1/3 flour mixture, mix until incorporated. Repeat this step until all sprite and flour mixture has been used.
5. Divided the dough into 6 small bowls, add food coloring the mix using spoon until the color is incorporated.
6. Fill the batter in cone cup, I'm using brown paper ( kertas nasi uduk ) and shape it into the cone shape. make sure you fill up the cone all the way to the top
7. Turn the stove to high, steam until cooked for 12 minutes. Do not open the lid at all when steaming.
8. Let them cool completely, Enjoy :)

 This 👆my boyfriend favorite food, Its Soto Betawi with oxtongue meat, his mother often cook this to him, and she taught me now how to do it in eaassssyyyy way, the secret ingredients is bamboe instant seasoning 😂 its really easy and there is no msg in this instant seasoning, all good quality and fresh ingredients in it.

So here's my 2nd #Indoctober recipe, its Soto Betawi. You can find this comfort food from Indonesia from Sumatra until Papua and have lots of variation, you can use chicken, innards, lamb as the main meat, I'm using shank meats and ox tongue and milk for the broth.

Ingredients:
1pc large Oxtongue
500gr beef shank meats
3 1/2 L water
3pc fresh tomatoes (diced)
200ml fresh milk (i'm using greenfields fresh milk)
3 bamboe instant seasoning
Lime
Salt to taste

Garnish:
Melinjo crackers
Fried onions
Sweet soy sauce to taste

Instruction:
1. Add oxtongue to boiling water, cook until soft, cover and simmer ±40minutes in presto pan. throw all the oxtongue broth, we're gonna use shank meats as our broth because oxtongue has a strong odor.
2. Add beef shank meats and bamboe instant seasoning to boiling water, cover and simmer for ±30minutes in presto pan
3. Pour milk and salt to taste. (usually, people use coconut milk for Soto Betawi, we used milk instead for healthier reasons and it last longer from spoiling because coconut milk are very sensitive and easy to spoil) 😅
3. Cut limes and  tomatoes
4. Transfer soup into a bowl and serves with rice and garnish it with fried onions, sweet soy sauce, melinjo crackers you can add spring onions too 😊
Enjoy

  
Ingredients:
6 salmon
5tbsp olive oil
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Mango Pineapple Salsa:
2pc small pineapple (chopped)
1pc mango (chopped)
1pc red bell pepper (chopped)
1pc green bell pepper (chopped)
1/3 cup fresh cilantro
3Tbsp lemon juice
3Tbsp lime juice
3Tbsp olive oil
1Tbsp coconut water
Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Instruction:
1. Rub salmon with salt and ground black pepper,
2. Preheat a grill over medium heat add oil.
3. Grill salmon with skin skin side down until crispy then flip and cook briefly on second side.
For pineapple salsa:
1. In a medium bowl toss together pineapple, mango, red green bell pepper, cilantro, lemon juice, lime juice, olive oil and coconut water. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
2. Serve salmon warm with rice top with pineapple mango salsa.

Enjoy :)

It’s October already! the weather outside still very hot, I think it should be in the rainy season already isn't it? 😕

This October i want to challenge myself to learn lots of Indonesian food, I rarely cook Indonesian food because my mom always cooks it, well not always actually, often, she loves to cook Chinese food more and if we go out for dinner my dad always asks to have dinner at cafe Betawi.😂

I’m gonna call it the #Indoctober challenge. Let's do it in a  fun way to discover Indonesian food and dessert since traditional food is slowly being forgotten.



So here's my first try its Putu Mayang, Putu Mayang is one of Batavian traditional dessert from Indonesia. This dessert made from rice flour and tapioca flour combined then served with palm sugar syrup. I made it into donut shapes just for fun originally it doesn't have any holes.



So heres the recipe

Ingredients :
200gr Rice flour
50gr Tapioca flour
300ml Coconut milk
1tbsp Sugar
1/2tsp salt
Food coloring ( i'm using dusty rose, mustard, and dark green colour)

For palm syrup:
180gr palm sugar
3tbsp sugar
500ml coconut milk
1/2tsp salt
1tbsp Cornstarch
5 pandan leaves

Instruction:
1. Put rice flour, tapioca flour, coconut milk, sugar, and salt into bowl mix well
2. Cook it on medium heat using wooden spoon until combined and sticky, let it cool.
3. Knead using hand until smooth then divided it into 4 different bowls.
4. Add food coloring into each bowl, knead until fully combined.
5. Put the mixture into putu mayang mold, then shaped it to your taste, I made donuts shapes :D
6. Steamed it for 8 minutes.

Palm syrups:
1. Mix all ingredients and cook it until boiling.
Enjoy :)

5pc egg yolks
1pc whole egg
40gr vegetable oil
85gr cooking cream
95gr flour
1/2tsp vanilla essence

3pc egg whites
1/4tsp salt
85gr castor sugar
1/4tsp cream of tartar or you can substitute with lime juice
pink and blue food colouring

Instruction:

1. Preheat oven at 180C
2. Mix all yolk ingredients
3. Beat egg whites until foamy then add cream of tartar add in castor sugar and salt gradually until hard peak.
4. Add egg white mixture into yolk mixture, fold gently until fully combined.
5. Divide into 3 mixture, add the other 2 mixture with red and blue food colouring.
6. Pour the batter randomly into greased and floured 25x25 square pans.
7. Use toothpick swirl the batter, bake for 40minutes.
8. Use cookie ring to stamp out 9 circles from the cake.
9. Use round tip in plastic pipping squeeze white bloops of buttercream around the edge of the cake,repeat 2 times.
10. For the top layer pipe 3 colours little bloops randomly.
11. Enjoy!

• 55g butter, at room temperature
• 60gr vegetable shortening
• 250gr granulated sugar (I reduce it to 170gr)  
• 50gr light brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 110gr buttermilk
• 65gr grapeseed oil
• 8gr clear vanilla extract
• 245gr cake flour
• 6gr baking powder
• 3gr kosher salt
• 50gr rainbow sprinkle
• 25gr rainbow sprinkle 

• 55gr milk
• 4gr clear vanilla extract 

• 115gr butter, at room temperature
• 50gr vegetable shortening
• 55gr cream cheese
• 25gr glucose
• 18gr corn syrup
• 12gr clear vanilla extract
• 200gr confectioners sugar
• 2gr kosher salt
• 0.25gr baking powder
• 0.25gr citric acid

• 100gr granulated sugar
• 25gr light brown sugar
• 90gr cake flour
• 2gr baking powder
• 2gr kosher salt
• 20gr rainbow sprinkle
• 40gr grapseed oil
• 12gr clear vanilla extract

1. Heat the oven to 350F
2. Combine the butter, shortening, and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and cream together on medium-high for 2-3 minutes. Add the eggs one by one 2 to 3 minutes.
3. On low speed, stream in the buttermilk, oil, and vanilla. Increase the mixer speed mix for 4 to 6 minutes, until the mixture twice the size and completely homogeneous.
4. On very low speed, add cake flour, baking powder, salt, and the 50gr rainbow sprinkle, mix just until your butter comes together, don't over mix it.
5. Line the pan with parchment paper or silipat. Spread the cake batter and sprinkle the remaining 25gr rainbow sprinkle.
6. Bake for 30-35 minutes.

1. Whisk together the milk and vanilla in a small bowl

1. Combine the butter, shortening, and cream cheese cream together for 2-3 minutes, until the mixture is smooth and fluffy.
2. Add glucose, corn syrup, and vanilla. Mix on high speed for 2-3 minutes, until the mixture smooth and a glossy white.
3. Add the confectioners sugar, salt, baking powder, and citric acid on low speed until smooth.

1. Heat the oven to 300F
2. Combine the sugars, flour, baking powder, salt, and sprinkles on low speed until well combined.
3. Add the oil and vanilla mix until form small clusters.
4. Spread the batter on silipat and bake for 20 minutes.
5. Let the crumbs completely .

Assemble:

1. Cut the cake into 2, use cookie ring to stamp out 18 circles from the cake.
2. Clean the cookie ring and line the inside of the cookies ring with a stripe of acetate.
3. Put in the 1st cake layer in the ring and tamp it together into a flat layer.
4. Brush the cake soak using pastry brush.
5. Use plastic pipping squeeze in the frosting in an even layer over the cake.
6. Sprinkle birthday crumbs evenly over the top of the frosting
7. Repeat 2 times.
8. For the top give some bloop of frosting and birthday crumbs.
9. Put into the refrigerator for at least 2 hour before serving.

Salty popcorn, fizzy bubbly drink, warm blanket, Movie are a great way to spend time with your boyfriend, as for me, we watch movie almost every weekend, i always collect all my movie tickets, after 1 year here's the result page 2&3 of my scrapbook.

What you'll need:
1. Double sided foam tape
2. Double sided tape
3. Movie tickets
4. Scissor
5. Apron and Creme Movie Night Templates

you can make this cute movie night scrapbook page too KLIK HERE TO DOWNLOAD  the templates.