Chocolate Tart

Chocolate lover ! Here's another recipe for you ! Minimum ingredients, maximum indulgence. :D My friends and I love it so much, and we wanna make it again !

Preparation time : 1 hour to 1 and a half hour

Serves : 12

Ingredients :

(Crust)

8 tbs melted butter

3 tbs sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

1/4 tsp salt

1 1/4 cups flour

(Filling)

1 cup cook chocolate

4 tbs butter

1 cup heavy cream 

3 tbs sugar

1/4 tsp salt

Crust :

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius for 10 minutes.

2. Combine butter, sugar, vanilla and salt together in a bowl.

3. Add flour into the mixture. Mix it until a soft dough is formed.

4. Add dough to the buttered mold and wrap it with plastic wrap. Rest the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.

5. Prick the dough with fork to create some tiny holes to let the air out and bake for 20-25 minutes !

6. Remove the crust and cool for the next step. :)

Filling :

1. Add chocolate and butter in a bowl, set aside.

2. Combine cream, sugar and salt in a pan under low heat and stir until sugar dissolves. Then let it simmer for another 4 minutes.

3. Pour cream mixture to the bowl (the one with chocolate and butter). Let it sit for around 4-5 minutes. To give time for the butter and chocolate to melt by itself. Stir until smooth.

4. Pour the ganache into the tart shell.

5. Refrigerate and you are done !

Good luck and enjoy ! :)

Lily

p/s : I'm so sorry for the lack of photos. Some of the photos I don't know why, is not saved in the camera. :(

Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe! :D

Hello everyone! Apparently, I have been craving for chocolate cakes and found one simple chocolate lava cake recipe. And it looks awesomely interesting. Since I have all the ingredients at home, I decided to give it a try. It turns out all good and tasty. *Almost similar to those lava cake in dessert shop. Heh* My friends love them. :) So, today I will be sharing the recipe of heavenly chocolate lava cake. Have fun!

Preparation time: 25 minutes 

Cooking time    : 10 - 15 minutes

Serves 2

Ingredients: 

4 tbsp butter (60g)
1/3 cup chocolate chips (80g) *if you are using baking chocolate bars, cut into small equal pieces
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
2 tbsp white sugar / organic sugar (30g)
1 tbsp all purpose flour (15g)
1 tsp cocoa powder (5g)
pinch of salt

Methods:

1. Preheat oven at 230° C / 450° F.

2. Butter the ramekins.

3. Melt chocolate chips and butter using double broiler. Stir constantly.

* If you are not sure of how to use double broiler, can search it on Youtube. :)

4. Mix egg, egg yolk and white sugar into a separate bowl until the sugar dissolves. Leave aside.

5. Back to the chocolate and butter. Remove the mixture from double broiler once it is melted.

6. Stir the melted chocolate and butter into the egg mixture until it is combined. 

7. Sift in the flour, cocoa powder and pinch of salt. Fold using spatula until it is combined.

8. Spoon the mixture into buttered ramekins. Place them into oven at 230° C / 450° F for about 10 - 15 minutes. Keep an eye on it, at the same time, start getting excited for it!! :DDD

9. Remove the ramekins from oven. I know it's hard to wait but let it cool down for few minutes.

10. Jeng Jenggggg! Look at the Awesomely Heavenly Sinful Lava Cake!! You will definitely love it! Best to serve warm. Enjoy. 

Kay

                                                                                                                       

Simple Sushi Recipe

Attention, Sushi Lovers!! :)

Feels like eating sushi? Today we will be sharing a simple way of making sushi. 

Preparation and cooking time: 30 to 40 minutes
Serves 6

Ingredients:

1 packet of sushi rice (750g)
3 tbsp of sushi vinegar 
2 tbsp of sugar (depends on the sweetness)
1 packet of nori sheets (10 sheets)
3 carrots 
3 cucumbers
3 large eggs
1 can of tuna
1 packet of crab sticks (16 pcs) 

Methods:

1. To make the omelette for sushi, season the egg with little bit of soy sauce, sesame oil and pinch of salt and pepper.

2. Cut the omelette into thin strips. Julienne the carrots, cucumbers and crab sticks.

3. Cook the sushi rice. When it is done, add 3 tbsp of sushi vinegar and 2 tbsp of sugar (more or less, as you wish). :)

Since we don't have the sushi bamboo mat, we are using plastic wrap instead. 

4. Place a sheet of nori seaweed on the plastic wrap and spread a handful of sushi rice.  

*Useful tips: Dip your hand into vinegar to prevent the rice sticking. :)

5. Place the ingredients on the spread rice (ingredients as you wish).  

6. Roll the sushi and gently press it. 

7. Cut the sushi into pieces.

Tadaaa!! This is how the end product looks like! :D

Enjoy your sushi meal! Bon appetit!

Kay

Apple Crumble

Hey peeps ! Today, I'll be sharing the recipe of Apple Crumble. Super easy, basically you just mix everything together with your hand and baked. :D So, here goes !

Preparation time : 10 to 15 minutes
Serves 6

Ingredients :

150g or 1 cup of flour
100g or 1/2 cup of brown sugar
100g of chopped chilled butter
50g or 1/2 cup of rolled oats
60g or 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts
1 tsp of cinnamon powder
3 to 4 Granny Smith (Green apples)

Method :

1. Preheat oven for 10 minutes at 180 degree Celsius.

2. Mix flour, sugar, butter and oats together with your hand. Remember to wash your hand ! :) Then add in the chopped walnuts.

Like this. 

3. Lined sliced apples at the bottom of your tray.

4. Add in the mixture over the apples.

5. Add the left over apples on top, and sprinkle the cinnamon powder. 

6. Baked the apple crumble for 20 to 25 minutes at 180 degree Celsius, and you are done !

Serve while its hot. Just in case you can't finish or want to keep it for later, store at cool dry place, not refrigerator 'kay. 'cause if you store in a fridge, it will turns hard because of the butter and not crumble anymore. :)

Enjoy baking ! Till then !

Lily

By Blackbird

Hello! Quadapetite will start by a food review. 

So this afternoon, Cher our course mate called us and Angela, also our course mate out for lunch before she go back to Malaysia for her winter break. She suggested Blackbird at Goodwood and since all of us haven't try that before, we all agreed to give Blackbird a try! Also, the day before Kay and I was scrolling through urbanspoon and we saw this Blackbird Cafe that serve pastries. 

 They don't have too fancy decoration yet they have a very homey cozy feel. Is a great place to hang out with your friends or your loved ones.

You can even choose which tea cup you like to use for your tea! 

From the left: Pear tart, Raspberry pastry, Peach pastry, Dark Plum danish and Lemon tart.

Lemon Tart. I like this the most! 

Savoury - Mushroom pie.

Lily ordered Raspberry Dark Chocolate. The name itself sounds interesting already. Taste? It was okay, just like any other ordinary dark chocolate. The raspberry flavour was too light to blend well with the dark chocolate.

Kay's Mocha. 

The hand towel that caught my eyes. 

And this is what I ordered - Hibiscus & Raspberry tea with the very girly cup I chose. It smell really good and the taste was really light and soothing. I quite like it! The cup makes the tea taste better too!

So this is how comfortable the place is. Just like your home. :)

The girls. 

What's the best thing in Blackbird and what's the must-try? The service and the place! The big smile on the face when they are serving. :)  The must-try would be the tea I suggest. They serve quite a number of tea with all the unique and pretty names and the cups you can choose from. Everything cost us about $50, for the good place, good food and good girlfriends around, WORTH IT! I will definitely go back there as I really like the place and it is not really far away from our place. 

the secret for Blackbird.

Address: 

Shop 4, 100 King William Road

Goodwood South Australia  5034

Telephone:

08 8357 1009

Facebook:

www.facebook.com/byblackbird

By Esther.