BBQ Gathering: Vegetables, Fruits, and Others Compilation (with different varieties of flavors)

Since we've shifted into our own home where we can book BBQ pit. It's time for us to compile our list of exploration and share them with our readers.

Camembert Cheese on Cracker - Appitizer Dish
Preparation Size: Slice into portions sufficient for your cracker size.
Season: Honey

Banana - Dessert
Preparation Size: With the skin on, cut the banana in half.
Season: Brown Sugar

Peach - Side Dish
Preparation Size: Half and remove seed. Smaller size might cause grilling difficulties.
Season: Glaze skin with Butter. Glaze meat with BBQ Hickory Sauce.

Asparagus - Side Dish
Preparation Size: Bend close to the end (move upwards if needed) until it snaps and throw the woody end.
Season: Olive Oil, Salt, Black Pepper, White Pepper.

Corn - Side Dish
Preparation Size: Cut into bite size height for easy consumption.
Season Type 1: Butter, Salt.
Season Type 2: Butter, Salt, Honey.
Capsicum
Preparation Size: Cut into bite size for easy consumption.
Season Type 1: Butter, Salt.
Season Type 2: Butter, Salt, Honey.
Yellow Zucchini
Preparation Size: Slice 0.5cm thick and 2 inches long for easy consumption.
Season Type 1: Butter, Salt.
Season Type 2: Butter, Salt, Honey.

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Lovely Moist Banana Cake Recipe

After trying a few types of Banana Bread/Cake recipe and from all the recipes we've blogged, this is so far the best one currently.

It's slight, fluffy, moist, bounce back when you gently press it. This is extremely close to childhood banana cake I've been searching for. However, do feel that the banana selected might have cause the slight difference.


Ingredients:
250g Mashed Ripe Banana
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
130g Cake Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
90g Sugar
3 Eggs
40ml Vegetable Oil

Step By Step

1. Sift Cake Flour, Baking Powder and Salt. Set aside.
2. In a bowl, add in Mashed Banana and Baking Powder. Stir well and set aside for 45 minutes.

3. Preheat Oven at 180°C.
4. Beat Eggs and Sugar until light and fluffy, close to ribbon stage.

5. Fold in 1/6 of Flour mixture. Repeat.
6. Fold in Banana mixture.
7. Lastly, slowly add in Vegetable Oil while folding.
8. Pour into the lined baking loaf pan.

9. Bake for 35mins or until when insert the cake tester it comes out clean.
10. Let it fully cool on a wire rack before slicing it up & storing into air tight container gor storage.

Some Extra Tips Below:
- What Banana to choose? Thin Skin Type. Leave it to ripe fully or until slightly black.
- It's crucial to leave the Mashed Banana & Baking Soda to work it's magic. This is a tip from a few bakers.
- Steps can be changed to mix all these together (sifted Cake Flour, sifted Baking Powder, Salt, Eggs, Sugar, Vegetable Oil) at least for 10mins or until fluffy before folding in the Banana Mix.


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Dreamy Chocolate Banana Caramel Cake Recipe

This is an awesome birthday cake to bake. Everyone who had one slice came back for another! It's all so lovely. It makes all the work worth while.



Froast it with Chocolate Ganache Frosting. For recipe Click here! Use only half a recipe.

Caramel Sauce Recipe. For recipe Click here!

Chocolate Fudge Cake. For recipe Click here! Use only half a recipe.

Moist Banana Cake. For recipe Click here!

Whipped Chocolate Fresh Cream Frosting. For recipe Click here! Use only half a recipe.




We love this recipe. It's a keeper.

HAVE FUN & ENJOY!!!!!!

Overall Feedback: Moist, Fudgy, Rich, Chocolate Delight, Not Sweet. Lovely cake to have for a special occassion.

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One Mixing Bowl only Moist Banana Cake Recipe

In search for a banana cake that just using one mixing bowl, here is our first recipe trial. I've split the recipe into 3 pans (5" x 1.5" round pan) to use as a piece for an epic complex cake that we gave it a special name Dreamy Chocolate Banana Caramel Cake. After this post, we'll be posting the recipe.


Recipe for
(x2) 6" x 2" round pans
(x1) 8" x 3" square pans
12 muffins pan

Ingredients
2 Eggs
75g Sugar
120g mashed Banana
100g Top Flour
0.5 teaspoon Baking Soda
0.5 teaspoon Baking Powder
1.5 tablespoons of Milk
60g Vegetable Oil
100g Walnut

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Grease line the bottom of the pan with parchment papers.
3. Whisk eggs, sugar n mashed bananas at max speed till stiff/ribbon stage, approx 10mins.
4. Fold in sifted flour n milk alternately. Start n end with flour!
5. Add in oil n mix well till batter is shiny n flowing.
6. Sprinkle chopped walnuts and additional banana bits on top of batter n mix/fold with spatula before baking.
7. Place in the oven for 30mins or until golden brown on the top. Test with a cake tester, if it comes out clean, leave the cake in the oven door slightly open for 10mins.
8. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.

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Banana Chocolate Muffins / Cupcakes Recipe

This is definately right recipe to fit the mildly sweet category of taste buds. Very moist too!



Dry Ingredients
160g Fine Sugar
130g Cake Flour
35g unsweeten Cocoa Powder
0.75 teaspoon Baking Powder
0.75 teaspoon Baking Soda
0.25 teaspoon Fine Salt

Wet Ingredients
1 Egg
150g Banana (without skin)
120ml Warm Water
60ml Milk
60ml Olive Oil
0.75 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Step 1 Preheat oven to 180°C.
Step 2 Line 12 regular-sized muffin cups with paper liners or use muffin cups.
Step 3 In a large bowl whisk together the Dry Ingredients and set aside.
Step 4 In another large bowl, whisk together the Wet Ingredients.
Step 5 Add the Wet Ingredients to the Dry Ingredients and stir until combined. This recipe batter is quite thin.
Step 6 Fill the muffin cup with the batter about 3/4 full
Step 7 Bake for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
Step 8 Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.


Suggested is to Frost with Chocolate Ganache Frosting to turn it into a cupcake.

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Soft and Moist Banana Cake (using The Famous Mrs Ng SK’s Style) Recipe

Banana Cake is one of the staple cake that my family have brought me up with. When we're up in Petaling Jaya to visit our grandparents and relatives, my parents will bring us to one particular shop and buy like 5 long loafs of banana loaf back to Johor Bahru and store it in the fridge.


Ingredients A
250g Plain Flour
0.5 teaspoon Baking Powder
0.5 teaspoon Baking Soda
0.5 teaspoon fine Sea Salt

1. Sift Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda.
2. Place all in a plastic bag and add Sea Salt and give it a shake to evenly mix up. Set aside.


Ingredients B
120g ripe Banana
0.5 tablespoon Lemon or Lime Juice
0.5 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
2 tablespoons Fresh Milk

1. Mash bananas with Lemon or Lime Juice to prevent browning.
2. Add in Vanilla Essence and Fresh Milk and mix well. Set aside.


Ingredients C
90g soften Salted Butter
50g Castor Sugar
20g Brown Sugar
2 Egg Yolks

1. Cream Butter with Castor Sugar until pale and fluffy and then add vanilla extract and mix well.
2. Add in one Egg Yolk at a time and wait until it is incorporated.
3. Add in Mixture B and mix to combine well.
4. Add half of the flour and mix on low speed until incorporated.
5. Mix in remaining flour. Set aside.


Ingredients for Meringue Mixture
2 Egg Whites
20g Castor Sugar
1/2 teaspoons of Cream of Tartar

1. Mix Castor Sugar with Cream of Tartar.
2. Place the Egg White into a clean and dry mixing bowl.
3. Beat Egg Whites until foamy and gradually pour in Sugar + Cream of Tartar mixture.
4. Beat until it reaches stiff peaks.
5. Set aside.


Combining Banana Butter Mixture and Meringue Mixture and remaining steps
1. Preheat oven at 160°C.
2. Prepare two around 5" pans generously grease the sides.
3. Place half of the Meringue Mixture into the Banana Butter Mixture and fold in until incorporated.
4. Fold in the remaining Meringue Mixture into the Banana Butter Mixture.
5. Pour the combine batter into the pre-greased baking pan until reaches the 3/4 level.
6. Place in the oven for 30mins or until golden brown on the top.
7. Test with a cake tester, if it comes out clean, leave the cake in the oven door slightly open for 10mins.
8. Remove cake from oven and let it rest in the baking pan for 15mins.
9. Turn the cake upside down on a cooling rack & remove the pan.
10. Let it completely cool before storing.


We love this recipe. It's a keeper.


HAVE FUN & ENJOY!!!!!!

Overall Feedback: Soft, Nice, Moist, lovely light banana cake.

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