Javanese Hijabi

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Hi, everyone!
Finally, I can throw away my laziness (is it a word?) to make a new blog post.
In this opportunity I will share to you about something sweet and chewy. Yes, it is candy. Who is excited?
After twice failed trial made this candy, finally I succeed at third trial made this candy.
Okay. Go on to the recipe and direction

Recipe :
1 sachet "agar-agar swallow" plain
200 gram granulated sugar
200 ml water
a few drop of food coloring
Refined sugar

Direction :

1. Prepare a plastic container that can be used at high temperature. Drop a few of water to the container so that it become wet.
2. Mix all ingredients except refined sugar into a saucepan /pan whatever you have for cook the ingredients
3. Heat the ingredients with medium heat.
4. Stir it up to boiled.
5. After the mixture boiled, turn down the heat up to lower heat
6. Stir it up to the mixture become thick, sticky and like a mixture of "gulali di abang2 jajanan SD"
7. Turn off the heat
8. Pour the mixture to the container. wait until it set and not too sticky.
9. After the layer is set well and sprinkle refined sugar. Roll up slowly
10. wait until jelly rolled harden than before.
11. Slice it

Aaaand. voila





Is it cute?
actually I have taken a couple of shot of jelly candy but the files are not with me now.
a little story why I can not upload a few shots of jelly candy with different angle, zoom, and size because I have moved to far far far away from my house and I have not copied the files to my notebook yet. I become an employee and my office is so far away from my house. so I live in boarding house again. Alone. and sadly I am still lonely until now (it has been 2 weeks).

Ok. It's enough about my (sad) story.

Review about the Jelly
I think the jelly is too sweet even I can not eat a piece of candy in one bite because of the sweetness. I suggest you to skip the refined sugar and substitute it with another layer of candy in different color so the taste is not too sweet.

Ok, try it in your kitchen.
Trust me, making jelly candy rolled is worth to try than buy it in a market because of the prizes.
 Hope this can inspire you to serve your guests (especially kids) in Eid Mubarak day.

I did nothing for a month, can you imagine how bored I am?
I'm just doing like a full housewife. Being unemployment is such a fool I think. So, Lately I didblogwalking for one of my daily activities and this activity made me stop by to some blogs which contain a lot of recipes easy to practice (hehehe. act like a cook). I interested to cute cupcake and really wanted to practice. Then, I decided to start trying recipe from Joy of Baking. Her recipe is easy to practice and the ingredients were available in my town (actually my mom's kitchen.hehe).

Here they are
Aren't they cute?
wohoo those are my first experiment making vanilla cupcake with buttercream frosting and little technique of piping buttercream using any tip shape. But I won't tell the recipe now. Because I think the taste was awful. hehehe. I didn't know what happened with my cute cupcakes. Failed at first try is forgiven right? (defensive attitude detected).

In this post, I will share my second experience making cupcake with recipe from Dapur Mama Aisyah. Her post made me want to bite my laptop. So I want make my own yet unfortunately I didn't have buttercream ingredients so I just changed em with my recipe I've done before and few modification.





 Ingredients:

1. 160 g all purpose flour
2. 2 tbsp corn starch
3. 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
4. 1/2 tsp baking soda
5. 1/2 tsp salt
6. 2 eggs
7. 150 g granulated sugar
8. 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
9. 120 ml vegetable oil
10. 120 ml milk
11. 1 tbsp lime juice

Directions:

1. Making cake flour substitution :  from 160 g all-purpose flour, take out 2 tablespoons of flour. Then add 2 tablespoons of corn starch in all-purpose flour. Sift the flour and corn starch together 2-3 times. I knew this technique from Eugenie Kitchen
2. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Whisk em together and sift the flour mixture.
3. Homemade buttermilk : The original recipe from "Dapur mama" suggest to use buttermilk yet I didn't have it, but don't worry she shares how to make home made buttermilk. It's so simply step. Just add in lime juice to milk and let them sit about 15 minutes to thicken.
4. Preheat oven. I don't  have electric oven, I just used conventional oven heated by stove. Turn it up to medium heat.
5. Beat eggs with electric mixer on medium speed about 20 minutes.
6. Add in sugar still on medium speed about 30 seconds.
7. Add oil and vanilla extract.
8. After a minute, turn speed down to low. Then add flour mixture in 2 parts, alternate with buttermilk. After each addition, beat until combined. Be careful not to over beat.
9. Spoon the batter to cupcake pan lined with cupcake paper. Fill them only 2/3 full.
10. Bake the batter for about 30-45 minutes in the oven until risen and the batter color changes to golden brown. Let cupcakes cool before you decorate them.

Oreo Buttercream
ingredients:

1. 100 g White margarine
2. 50 g salted margarine
3. 150 g powdered sugar, or optional amount
4. 10  pieces oreo
5. 3-4 tbsp milk

Directions:

1. Crush your oreo with food processor until you get sandy oreo.
2. Beat white margarine and salted margarine together in electric mixer on high speed about 20 minutes. Actually the original vanilla frosting recipe from "joy of baking" used unsalted butter but I don't have it in my town so I just change it with white margarine (I don't know what you called it, the margarine color is white and plain. Some people call it "shortening") but I don't like the taste, then I add salted margarine in order to get better taste result.
3. After 20 minutes turn speed down to low. Then add powdered sugar and oreo crushed slowly, beat until homogenous.
4. Correct the sweetness of buttercream as you liked with adding powdered sugar.
5. After you get your favorite buttercream taste, Adjust the thickness with adding 3-4 tablespoons milk.

To decorate cupcake with buttercream, it should be easy spreadable. I've tried to decorate my cupcake with buttercream piping tip, unfortunately it hard to frost with piping tip. Then I only used plastic bag and frost it on cupcake.

Voila, would you like to bite them?
Better you make your own cupcakes and decorate them with your creativity. Let me see yours.
p.s : pardon, these mess frosting

I've just finished doing make over my blog. It's fun but a lil bit confusing. There are several changes in my blog appearance such as blog header, icon tab browser, template and layout. Actually, 'blogspot' provide a lot of options of them. But i did improvisation on 'em, not only just clicked the option tab but also edited the html (maybe you don't know what i mean, sorry. hehehe).

I often do 'blogwalking' to many bloggers with various topics. I really enjoy read their blogs because their blog contents are useful, neat and very detailed information. Beside the contents are interested me to read, their blog appearances are also beautiful, easy to read, eye catching and not make you get headache (you know, some blogs or websites often full of advertisements or accessories that not useful, i thought)
I hope with this new face, i can share anything that i want to share more often than before and definitely useful for you all.

see you next posts.

Assalamualaikum
how are you " calon bidadari surga" (amin)? such a long time no new post in my blog. pssttt let me sweeping my dusty blog. fuuuh fuuuh. go away and don't come back again.hahaha

okey in this opportunity i will say Minal aidin wal faidzin mohon maaf lahir batin for everyone who knows me. please forgive my mistakes, bad mouth (sometimes i can say bad words if i feel BT with someone but not in loudly volume.hehe).