Le Chateau Doux

~ A Little Confectioner? Tukanami ~

h~History of making sweets~

Making/baking sweets became one of my hobby since I was in woman's highschool.Before that I was a tomboy! I used to love making sweets on Valentine's dayfor boy I like. In Japan,girls give chocolate to boys,which is opposite to western.But I don't have any good memories about it.Because somehow I always failed to make sweets on the day before then end up giving bad taste cakes/chocolate to the boy.Oneday I failed to melt chocolate and made the choc awful taste.But it was the day before the Valentine's day so I had no choice but giving to the boy. I don't think it's only a reason why but we didn't go out after all lol however on White day,the boy gave me a cute small backet with some candies in return.It was grade 5!

~Now and Then~

Now I bake cookies with western recipes coz my hubby likes western type of it than japanese ones.Japanese cookies are like non-fatty simple short bread.Western cookies are rich and soft on the otherhand. But honestly,I still prefer Japanese cookies.For pie pastries,I used to knead by myself but not anymore.My kitchen is not big enough to knead the pastry and I'll make mess if I do.My mom used to say I might as well learn cooking and sawing somewhere but I wasn't interested in it at that time.Now I think it was a good idea.I should have done that! Aww

~Hubby's Mom's recipes~

My hubby's mom makes very tasty sweets.I wanted to know how to make them and got some recipes from her.But it's all kinda hard to me...Like,sweets for X'mas.That are traditional western sweets and not familiar to me at all.I would like to master that one day!

~My Favourite Recipes~

Banana bread

2Bananas,200g all purpose flour,100g butter,150gsugar,2tsp baking powder,pinch of salt

1.Put butter and sugar into the bawl.Mix well

2.With another bowl,mash banana with folk.Sprinkle with lemon juice.

3.Mix1 and 2 then sift together flour,baking powder,and salt.

4.Pour into 10inch tube pan.Place tube pan into the oven.Set it to 200degrees C.Cook for 40min or until cake is golden brown.

Madeleine

100g flour,2eggs,100g butter,80-100g sugar,1/2lemon peel,15g honey,vanilla extract

Oven 180 degrees C 10-15min

Pie Pastry

200g flour,20g butter,80cc water,pinch of salt

200g butter (for cover)

Custard cream

3egg yolks,60g sugar,40g flour,300ml milk,15-20g butter,vanilla extract

1.Combine eggyolks,sugar,flour,milk into middle skillet and mix well.

2.Heat 1 in a skillet over high heat untill thicken.( do not stop mixing it! )

3.Quickly remove from heat

Easy chocochip cookies

1cup butter,1/2cup white sugar,1cup brown sugar,2eggs,1tsp vanilla extract,21/2cups flour,1tsp baking soda,1tsp salt,2cups semi sweet chocolate.

1Set oven to 375F(190C)

2.butter+sugar+vanilla extract+eggs combine from baking soda+salt+flour+semi sweet chocochips.

3.Bake 8-10min

For oatmeal chocochip cookie,soak 3cups of oatmeal in 1cup milk for at least 10min.Follow the same direction above but bake 12-15min.

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Easy strawberry cheese crust

1. put cream cheese on pie crust 2.put chilled custard on cream cheese(you can put sliced strawberries here)3.Then put Cool Whip on top

4.put strawberries in order 5.chill in fridge and ready!

Banana Jell-O Pie is easy and pretty tasty! Banana/coolwhip for topping.

I really love to bake cookies and pies! My dream now is going to France and learn French,drawing and cooking(pastry) at same time! My hubby promptly said why I have to learn in France...oh well...:p)