matcha zebra cake

I saw zebra cake at somewhere. it was chocolate & vanilla swill .
it looked beautiful!
I wanted try to make it. but I had no cocoa or anything chocolate stuff to use for baking.
so, I decided to use matcha powder instead of cocoa.
every time when I use matcha powder for baking,ended up too much matcha flavor.
( I guess I just using too much of it ).
any way. recipe uses 2tbs of dark cocoa powder.
so I used just 1 tbs of matcha powder.

result ?
cake was very moist & delicious.
sweet enough,you could drop some cream maybe.

but it needed bit more matcha flavor.it was bit too mild.

but this look of cake is so pretty. no chemical green color,it's natural.
I liked a lot. but next time I would add 2tbs of matcha.
and I would like to try to make chocolate version.

KARE-PAN

Have you ever tried kare-pan before ?
it is Japanese bread filed with pasty curry and deep fried.
I never even thought of make this at my kitchen.
suddenly hit me kare-pan yesterday for some reason.
I was in the middle of making bread.
usually just bread, or sometimes wrapped with mustard,cheese & ham.
or chocolate.
but I wanted something different, so this is perfect time to try kare-pan.

I made curry-like filling. nothing like real curry.
sweetened with mirin, soy sauce for japanese-y flavor.
wrap curry with dough, then fried.
my vegetable oil had ran out, so I fried them in olive oil.

I was't sure that how much olive oil add flavor to it.
it didn't affected at all.

bread came out perfect.tasted just like the one you can buy bakery.
I don't think anybody make kare-pan if you were living in japan.
because they are available every bakery.
but it was nice experience for me to make something very familiar food in my kitchen.

especially for me, kare-pan was one of my favorite food when I was kid.
so It was very satisfied experience .

citrus yogurt cake

I bought big tub of yogurt but wasn't thinking what's for.
I decided to make yogurt cake.
I made it before. but last time I made one was really dense & bit too heavy for me.

I used this recipe ( http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/231588)
reduced oil to 1/3 cup, added orange & lemon zest.
for glaze, I used grapefruit jam which I made few weeks ago.

cake was soft , moist. but not so much citrus-y as I expected.
jam is pretty tangy it self. but with cake quite mild for some reason.

over all, very easy & light & refreshing so I liked.
may be good with whipped cream or some kind of sweetened rich creme .

bunny !

bunny cupcakes for my kid's school.
I saw similar cake on web, & I re created my way.
ears, eyes are fondan. nose is m&m, whiskers are bean thread noodle.
it look kind a stupid. but I thought so pretty !

they are mini cup cakes size. you can tell how small they are.
this lemon is quite small. mini size made them bit more prettier. I think.

gingerbread house 2

this is 2nd gingerbread house.
used different recipe & different decoration.
this time tasted great !
perfect with coffee or tea.

usually I don't like iced cookie.
but this cookies for some reason,iced one taste better !

I think we had enough gingerbread house this winter.
but If we want it, maybe we'll make one more house ...

gingerbread house 1

my very first gingerbread house.
decorated by my kid.
It's messy look.
but It was fun to make.
the recipe I used for gingerbread cookie was bit strange taste...
so we will try another one soon.

Christmas cookies

cookies for school's holiday party.
I wanted make them on Popsicles sticks.
but I didn't have enough of them so just cookies.
I hope kids kike them.

rugelach

my first time making rugelach.
It was surprisingly easy & taste great.
I made chocolate , berry jam & pecan meal mixture.

chocolate was defiantly winner !

pizza again

because we ate too much of pretzel.
pizza didn't taste good as usual...

still it was good.
half kale & fontina, half tomato,mashroom, basil,mozzarella.

pretzel

It was very simple recipe.
ingredients : flour,water,yeast,sugar,salt that's it !
came out fantastic !

just like the one from good pretzel store.
It was so good. I'll make it again very soon.

cookie tray

cookies for thanksgiving party.
there are 3 kind.

a: pumpkin chocolate chip
b: chocolate crinkle
c: ginger cookies

color doesn't look pretty, but they all pretty festive !

pumpkin pie

part of thanks giving menu.
all butter crust & pumpkin filling.
we had it with whipped cream.
it was gooooood.

samosas

I used phillo. they were baked in the oven.
not deep fly yet rich enough.

homemade pita

super soft & tasty.easy to make, too.
you don't want go back to dry hard one.

pumpkin frosting

look at deference between lighter color & dark one.
both are pumpkin frosting.

I am trying to make very pumpkin-ish frosting.
darker one is definitely closer to the one I want to make.

rich pumpkin flavor, but bit too loose. and need little more creaminess.

I'll keep trying to find out perfect consistency.

pizza is ready

ready to eat !

half blue cheese & caramelised onion,
other half is tomato sauce, mozzarella ,sardine , dill.

pizza dough

tonight dinner is pizza !
I like making pizza dough.
If I get left over, I use them as doughnuts.
or wrap sausage & make sausage roll.

mainly ended up doughnuts.
actuary, doughnuts hole.
we like hole more than doughnuts...

but tonight, I am going to use dough for only pizza.

sour cream berry scone

I never used sour cream for scone.
because I didn't have cream or butter milk or etc...
but it came out good.

I added dried very mix, tangerine zest, topped with tangerine icing.
tangerine is way milder than I thought.
I had only tangerine, so I used tangerine.
maybe orange is better for scone.

chocolate pumkin cupcakes

I wanted make pumpkin-y icing using canned pumpkin.
but I didn't drain pumpkin, so icing ended up very runny...

there is pumpkin in the cake, too.
taste good, but doesn't taste so much pumpkin.
provably chocolate is too strong to mix with pumpkin.
I can taste hint of pumpkin, texture is...slightly pumpkin-ish.

but I don't see chocolate batter with pumpkin+pumpkin icing combination of cupcakes so much.
so I would like to figure out how to make perfect pumpkin icing.

Does anyone know good pumpkin icing recipe ?

spider cookies

I have never seen spider cookie cutter before.
maybe I just haven't paid tension...

anyway, I just wanted use this shape.
ended up more than 50 spiders.

that's lot of spider.