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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins

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I know it is already fall but I just cannot stop baking this zucchini chocolate muffins!
I think I can have them all year long.
I love zucchini in chocolate cakes but I had actually never tried zucchini in plain cake.
I was a bit worried how it turned out. Because you know it is zucchini, what if  it tastes like ZUCCHINI! haha But luckily that wasn’t the case. They were as good as the one I share earlier, this zucchini banana chocolate muffins.

I love to have muffins for breakfast recently and this is seriously one of the best ones!

They are moist, they are not too sweet, and slightly healthy since I don’t use white sugar.
If you bake in the morning, and eat when they are still warm…. Ah that is the best!!

 

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Zucchini Chocolate Chips Muffins

Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Total Time25 mins
Servings: 12

Ingredients

  • 200 g flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 60 g brown sugar
  • 100 ml white sesame oil (vegetable oil)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 60 g honey
  • 1 medium zucchini
  • 80 g banana
  • chocolate chips as much as you want

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180c. Prepare the muffin cups.
  • Shift all the dry ingredients together to a bowl.
  • Add the oil and eggs,vanilla and mix well.
  • Then add mashed banana and shredded zucchini in and combine.
  • Stir the chocolate chips as much as you want!
  • Pour it in the prepared muffin cups and sprinkle more chocolate chips if you wish. Bake for about 15 minutes.

The Best Scones

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When it comes to scones, I am so picky.
It has to be crumbly, but not too crumbly.
It has to be fluffy but not too fluffy.
It has to be dry but not too dry.

It is just so difficult to make perfect one.

I have baked so many times to make a perfect recipe.

When I lived in England, I went to tea rooms all over UK to try so many scones.
Some of them were like bread, some were too dry.
And my favorite one was actually the closest tea room from where I lived.
Burgers Hall, the name of the tea room in the Cotswolds.
The tea room was little bit dark, cozy, and there was a big table in a middle where all the cakes and scones were presented. I went there so many times to have breakfast or brunch or tea.
Everything was so tasty but scones were amazing.
Since when I have left England, I miss there scones so much.
I tried and tried and tried to make their scones in Japan.

Because scones are simple, ingredients are so important.
But of course, I cannot get British flour and butter easily.
Japanese flour is more delicate compare to British one, and Japanese butter is watery(I don’t know the right word but a bit wet) than British one. So if you live in somewhere else, this recipe does not work.
I know about British ingredients, so if you live in UK, this recipe is a bit dry so you can add more milk(about 2 tbsp)

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The Best Scone

This is the best country style sones recipe! Your home immediately becomes a cozy tea room.
Prep Time5 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Total Time20 mins
Servings: 6

Ingredients

  • 250 g flour
  • 15 g baking powder
  • 30 g brown sugar
  • 60 g butter (salted) cubed
  • 1 egg
  • 4 tbsp milk

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200c.
  • Put dry ingredients to a bowl and rub in butter to resemble breadcrumbs.
  • Stir the egg and milk, combine it with a spatula.
  • It should be still dry and not really a ball.
  • Tip the dough out to the work surface( should not need flour) , fold the dough 2-3 times and pat it into about 3.5cm deep.
  • Use 5cm cutter and make about 6 scones.
  • Place onto a baking sheet with baking paper and bake for about 12 minutes.
  • Serve with clotted cream and your favourite jam.

 

Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

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I would like to share this AMAZING brown butter cream cheese frosting!

I am not fan of cream cheese and last time when I baked carrot cake, I didn’t really like it.
I mean the cake was good but only the frosting.
And I wanted to make it different this time but I wasn’t sure what I was going to do till last moment.
Maybe cream cheese frosting with different recipe?
Or just lemon icing.
To be honest, I was ready to go for icing, being simple, just butter and icing sugar and lemon zest. I even bought lemons.
But then I wanted to try something new. (Even thought this cake was for my baby’s birthday party)

And I searched  some frosting recipe and found a brown butter cream cheese recipe here.
WOW that sounds amazing!! But is it good on my carrot cake??
But it was a great decision! Brown butter’s nutty flavor really matched with my spiced carrot cake.
I changed the original recipe a little bit.

This would go with chocolate or spiced cakes and caramel!

 

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Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

  • 110 g butter
  • 200 g cream cheese
  • 400 g icing sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Melt the butter and soon it will start foaming up.
  • Watch carefully and stir occationaly.
  • After about 5 minutes, it will start browning.
  • You will see brown bits on the bottom of the pan and smell nutty aroma.
  • Remove from the heat and pour into a heat proof bowl, leave it to cool.
  • Put it in the fridge until solid.
  • Beat the solid brown butter. Add the soften cream cheese.
  • Beat in icing sugar and vanilla until smooth.
  • If you wish to make it softer frosting, add a little bit of cream. Or if you wish to make it thicker, add icing sugar.

Notes

This recipe is adapted from Banana Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting by sally's baking addiction

The Best Fudgy Brownies

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When it comes to brownies, it has to be fudgy, rich and decadent.
I tried so many recipes but I think this is the best one. And also gluten free!
Only one thing I want you to get is good quality chocolate.
I love using more than 65% cacao chocolate.
Occasionally I add walnuts in it but if you really want to enjoy this fudginess, you should not add anything.

 

When you use chocolate, you really have to be careful not to over heat it. It separates quickly and you won’t be able to use it anymore if you did it. SO SAD. I did that many many times.
And another tip is to mix melted chocolate with butter and eggs well till it gets silky.

When I was making this recipe, I tried chocolate chip in it. It sounds fun right?
Chocolate chips in the fudgy brownies!
But because my chocolate chip is so tiny, that chocolate chips were burnt while its baking. And the brownies were like crumbled. I wasn’t sure why because I also left the baking trey during preheating, so I thought the trey was too hot.
And so I made it again with no trey left in the oven but sadly the brownies were oily and the texture was like crumbs AGAIN. I was so sad… But finally I figured that chocolate chips were burnt!
Chocolate is really sensitive. You really need to be careful.
But other than that, enjoy every bite!

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THE BEST FUDGY BROWNIES

You will be amazed how fudgy it is!
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time45 mins
Total Time1 hr

Ingredients

  • 170 g Butter
  • 220 g Chocolate
  • 2 Eggs
  • 170 g Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 40 g Almond powder
  • 2 tsp Baking powder

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180c.
  • Line the 18x18cm tin with baking paper.
  • Melt the butter and chocolate over simmering water till it melted. Mix well.
  • In a big ball, put the eggs, vanilla and sugar and mix with a whisk.
  • Pour the chocolate to the egg and combine.
  • Shift almond powder and baking powder together over the chocolate mixture then fold in.
  • Pour into the prepared pan and bake for about 40 minutes.

Chocolate Banana Muffins

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I don’t know about you but I just love the idea that muffins for Monday breakfast.
Just because Monday.
When I see beautiful breakfast scenes on instagram, I imagine what my dream breakfast scene would be. It is like this, I wake up, do yoga, drink lots of water and make good coffee or tea for myself and  grab this muffin, listening to Jazz. After that I would go a long walk with my dog on the beach.
Probably it will be possible after 20years lol

The reality is every morning is chaos. Especially Monday. I don’t know how many times I yell at older one, she loves to eat but just takes long long loooong time. Sometimes she takes for an hour… OMG. Plus her kinder requires lunch box only on Mondays(thank you very much). And the baby is now almost one, she throws all the food on the floor and tea all over it. Can you imaging? lol
I am literary running around with messy hair, yelling at my girl to hurry lol

Even though my Mondays are not fabulous looking, or maybe because of that, I love to bake muffins on Sunday for chaotic Monday.

 

 

Baking tips

This  muffins are fluffy and moist.
You can add chocolate chips or chunks.

And also I used white sesame oil but you can use sunflower oil etc.
Of course you can use melted butter too.
I was actually worried about not creaming up butter with sugar as I added lots of bananas and honey, could be really heavy and soggy.
But this one! Do not worry!!
This is so fluffy and perfect ;)

Now enjoy!

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Chocolate Banana Muffins

This muffin is really fluffy and moist. Healthy-ish!
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Total Time35 mins
Servings: 12

Ingredients

  • 150 g flour
  • 50 g almond powder
  • 30 g light brown sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 egg
  • 100 ml white sesame oil
  • 100 g honey
  • 240 g bananas ripe, 3 middle bananas
  • 65 g chocolate chunk or chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180c. Prepare the muffin tin with muffin cups.
  • Shift all the dry ingredients to a bowl.
  • Add the egg and oil and honey then mix well until smooth.
  • Beat in mushed bananas and chocolate.
  • Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups and bake for 20minutes.