Homemade Pizza (Two Ingredients Pizza Dough)

When I say homemade pizza, I mean to make everything from scratch including the dough. This two ingredients pizza dough was the most perfect recipe ever.

Ingredients:

For the dough

1 cup Greek Yogurt
1 - 2 cups Self-Raising Flour

For the topping

Sweetened Can Pineapples
Hams
Cheese
Mushroom
Tomato Sauce (for Spaghetti)
Carrots

It all depends on your own topping's preference. We love Hawaiian flavour.

~ Step 1 ~

First start by pouring one cup of self-raising flour into a bowl. Then pour in Greek yogurt. As the yogurt may be too watery, slowly incorporate in some flour until you get the sticky dough feel.

~ Step 2 ~ 

Knead the dough into a round ball before rolling it flat with a rolling pin.

~ Step 3 ~ 

Prepare other ingredients for the pizza's topping. 

~ Step 4 ~ 

Spread Spaghetti's tomato sauce onto pizza dough as a base. Arrange all ingredients on top.

~ Step 5 ~ 

Bake the pizza in the oven at 220 degrees celcius for about 15 minutes. Tata to our homemade pizza with overflowing toppings.

 

Walnut and Carrot Cupcake

The walnut and carrot cupcake is just like a mini version of the actual carrot cake. So simple and easy to make.

Ingredients:

1 cup Plain Flour (sifted)
1 cup Carrots (grated)
1 cup Walnuts (chopped)
1/2 cup Olive Oil
3/4 cup Sugar
2 teaspoons Vanilla Essence
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
2 Eggs

For topping:

Low Fat Cream Cheese
Crushed Walnuts

~ Step 1 ~

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

~ Step 2 ~

Grate the carrots in a measuring cup. I used two medium carrots.

~ Step 3 ~

Put walnuts into a bag before crushing them to little pieces. This is faster than chopping them one by one.

~ Step 4 ~

Next, sift the flour in a mixing bowl.

~ Step  5 ~

Mix sugar, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla essence, carrots, and walnuts together with the sifted flour. I find that 3/4 cup of sugar is not sweet enough, will probably use 1 cup the next time.

~ Step 6 ~  

Stir evenly while adding olive oil, and eggs.

~ Step 7 ~  

Arrange cupcake cases in cupcake tray. Pour in cake batter into the cases filling up to 2/3 full. Makes about eight cupcakes.

~ Step 8 ~

Bake in oven for 15 minutes or until your skewer (you can use a chopstick) comes out clean when you insert into the centre of each cupcake.

Spread a layer of cream cheese on top of your cupcake, and sprinkle with crushed walnuts.

Banana Cake

I finally found the banana cake recipe which I have always wanted! The cake turned out soft, sweet, and moist. 

Ingredients:

2 cups Plain Flour
1 1/2 cups Mashed Bananas (equivalent to 3 bananas)
1 1/2 cups Castor Sugar
250gram Salted Butter
4 Eggs
4 tablespoons Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda aka Bicarbonate of Soda

~ Step 1 ~

Mix butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. For butter to melt quickly, microwave for 30 seconds first.

~ Step 2 ~

Add in eggs (beaten), vanilla essence, and milk.

~ Step 3 ~ 

Next, put bananas in a plastic bag. You may get your child to help you mash them. The mashed bananas made up to 1 cup, but it doesn't matter as I used 3 bananas as per recipe.

~ Step 4 ~

Sift flour, baking soda, and baking powder before pouring into the mashed bananas. Ensure that batter is well whisked.

~ Step 5 ~

The cake batter fitted perfectly into my baking tray of 26cm by 20cm by 6cm. Bake in a preheated oven at 160 degrees for an hour. You may also check by inserting a skewer into the middle of the cake. If it comes out clean, then your cake is done. Once the top layer turns brown, cover with a piece of aluminium foil. 

 
~ Step 6 ~

Enjoy your moist banana cake! I can almost finish all of them.

Nutella Mug Cake

I guess anything with Nutella is awesome, so I'm going to make cake in a mug using microwave.

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons Self-raising Flour
4 tablespoons Sugar 
3 tablespoons Cocoa Powder
3 tablespoons Nutella
3 tablespoons Milk
3 tablespoons Vegetable Oil
1 Egg

~ Step 1 ~

Mix all ingredients into a huge mug, and whisk well. You may get one from Ikea, but must be microwave safe. The vegetable oil was substituted with olive oil.

~ Step 2 ~

Microwave for 1.5 to 3 minutes depending on your microwave. Mine took about 1.5 minutes.

~ Step 3 ~

Tata! Your cake in a mug is done. Top up with whipped cream if desired.

Sweet Bread

The first bread I made when I bought my bread maker. The recipe was from my Aunt, so no trial and error for me. This sweet bread tasted awesome.

Ingredients:

300 grams High Protein / Wholemeal Flour (I use Bread Flour)
200ml Water
60grams Dried Sliced Cranberries
30grams Sugar
30grams Butter
1 tablespoon Milk Powder
1/2 tablespoon Yeast
1/2 teaspoon Salt

~ Step 1 ~ 

Pour water into bread pan, followed by flour. 

~ Step 2 ~

Add in butter, sugar, and milk powder. I skipped the salt as I'm using salted butter. 

~ Step 3 ~

Next would be dried cranberries. For bread's ingredients, you can replace with nuts, raisins or sesame seeds. I once used chocolate chips, and ended up with a chocolate bread.

~ Step 4 ~ 

Lastly, add in yeast, and we are good to go.

 
~ Step 5 ~

I selected basic recipe with loaf size of 500grams bread, and medium crust colour (I usually go for light crust). The whole process from kneading to baking took three and a half hours.

My boy was quite fascinated with the bread maker. Lol..

I put too little cranberries when I made last week, so I increased my cranberries from 30grams to 60grams.

 
My perfect sweet bread with lots of cranberries, and light crust this time. Yeah!