East meets West. Crème brûlée recipe.

Crème brûlée rasa tape. Made this crème brûlée with fermented cassava. Too good..😋

Ing : 4 eggs
200 ml cream
300 ml coconut milk
sugar to your taste
tapai (fermented cassava) 150 gr, take the string out.

Method : bring to boil cream and coconut milk, set aside.
Beat sugar and eggs till pale and foamy then add cassava, mix it, then add the coconut mixture, mix well. Bake in the preheat oven (350 F) using a water bath method for 40 min.
Remove from oven and cool to room temperature.

Preheat oven to broil. Sprinkle sugar over the custard evenly then place under broiler till sugar melts about 2 mins. Watch carefully so as not to burn. Remove from heat. You may using a torch to caramelized the sugar.

Served chilled.

Kue putri salju

Snowball cookies to enjoy with a cup of tea

Kaastengels recipe

Kaastengels :

Ing : 250 gr butter
175 gr margarine
3 egg yolks
300 gr old cheese (grated)
250 gr self raising flour
25 milk powder

Method :
Mix butter, margarine and salt evenly
Add eggs into the mix
Add flour and milk powder then continue mix till well with slow speed.
Add grated cheese, continue mix it until it form a dough
Shape the dough into small pieces, brush with egg yolk and top it up with grated cheese
Bake for 15 - 20 mins in the preheat oven 350 F.

The picture below :

Indonesian cookie delicacies : enjoy today's afternoon tea with kaastengels (cheese shorbread cookies), nastar (pineapple tarts), putri salju (snowball cookies).

Luwak coffee

Kopi Luwak from Bali for my neighbors. 

Afternoon delight

Afternoon delight : pisang goreng, gethuk keju, lapis singkong and chily es dawet / es cendol for my kids. 

Hosted a ladies luncheon.

getting ready with the table

Soto Banjar, vegetable stir fry, fried tempeh, bistik jawa (Javanese beef steak's style), potato cake, krupuk and sambal are served for lunch.

My signature bolu tape (fermented cassava cake), es dawet (Javanese cold beverage), and pisang goreng (banana fritters) for dessert

Indonesian tea is served

My signature bolu tape ( fermented cassava cake )

My signature bolu tape ( fermented cassava cake ) recipe

Ing : 

500 gr tapai ( fermented cassava ), take the string out then mashed.

5 tbsp sweetened condensed milk 

8 eggs

270 gr sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla 

225 gr butter, melted

150 gr cheddar cheese ( grated )

260 gr all purpose flour 

2 tsp baking powder

Method :

Preheat the oven to 350F, butter a cake pan. Beat eggs and sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium high speed about 3 minutes, reduce the mixer speed to medium, beat in flour and baking powder little by little for 2 min. Add tapai and other rest of the ingredients, mix well with the scrapper. Pour the batter into a prepared pan and bake for 45 min.