Buttercake with Poppyseed-Blue

After 10mths of baking, only i realized i never bake any butter cake before. Hmm... how come ya? As a newbie in baking, knowing that buttercake and chocolate cake have always been the very first few cakes to try: as its easy. But not me ^_^ haha

After knowing PJ A&W will be closing down by end December 2014, me and a bunch of old schoolmate been thinking: its time for us to gather there, to bring back some good old times together. Yaaaa, after 2 months of ding dong ding dong, finally we fixed it: 20/12/14. 

So, thinking to bring some cakes or cookies as none of them have tried my baking before (they only can see it from my facebook haha), but still, what to bake for them?

Due to the very last minute decision to bake, and looking at my fridge/kitchen, i can bake some cookies, so i start looking at cookies recipe happily, but wait, i have no small container to bring out, not even any ziplock bag. So, best is to bake a cake, as i stil have one unused box, and i suddenly recall that i have actually never bake a butter cake before,  and looking at the poppyseed that i have bought couple months ago, i finally get a chance to use it ^_____^

Ingredients:

✿ 250g butter 

✿ 1tbsp golden syrup

✿ 1tsp vanilla essence

❀ 230g all purpose flour

❀ 1tsp baking powder

 ✾ 5 eggs

✾ 170g caster sugar

♥ 20g poppyseed-blue

Method:

1) mix all ✿ together until well combined

2) sift in both ❀

3) beat both ✾ together, until its pale in color

4) combine both egg mixture & butter mixture

5) Add in poppyseed, combine well

6) bake in preheated oven at 160°c for 55minutes - 1hour

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Butterfly butter cookies蝴蝶牛油曲奇

Made these butterfly cookies for bb megan, as to see her happy smile, loud laughters when saying: "butterfly❣", just make me feel that im the happiest and lucky mom in the world... priceless ♥

I was actually thinking of doing a simple but nice melt in mouth cookie, while i flip through my recipe notes, i saw this recipe which was saved long time ago but almost its existence, so i decided to make this using a butterfly cookie cutter, and just mix 1drop of red coloring to part of the dough, to design the cookies.

I have cut the ingredients to half, as i do not want to make so many (too many recipes yet to try out, haha).

This recipe is not melt in mouth type, but crunchy. While baking, hubby said:"the butter aroma just make me feel hungry", and he comment the cookies i made not enough for him.

Ingredients:
♧100g butter
♧ 75g all purpose flour
♧ 25g icing sugar
♧ 25g corn flour

Method:
1) mix butter and icing sugar (i have double boiled the butter to melt it faster)
2) sift in both all purpose and corn flour
3) knead until dough in formed
4) put in fridge for around 15 minutes
5) take out and cut the cookies with any mould you like. I have also used hand to shape few cookies like a braid :)
6) baked in preheated oven at 180° for 15minutes (i find it abit too hot, and caused some of my cookies brown very fast, will reduce to 160-170 next time and set for extra 5 minutes baking time)

Note: i used Tatura Butter, and this was the first time i try this butter, hmm, i think SCS still the best ^_^

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