Corn Dog! With Real Corn!

Special from floating market, Pattaya

Helllllloooo! Long, long time no see. :D How's everybody? Hope you all enjoy your summer holiday because I had an awesome summer this year. I went to Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, Paris, Swiss until Italy) and Thailand. That 2 places are totally different. Europe is expensive for everything and Thailand is cheap for everything. In Thailand, I bought fried insects sprayed with soy sauce! Real maggots, grass-hopper, and cockroach! It cost me about 50 Bath, or about idr 15 or $1.5 . Some of it just taste like insects (GROSS!) and some other are pretty good, salty and crispy :P

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By the way, in floating market, I also found Corn Dog in ball shape. It was very unique! I bought it and it just taste like other corn dog, without CORN!


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About 2 years ago, I found this good recipe by HILAH Cooking. I made it with some changes. Now you can make your own corn dog, WITH Corn :D

Corn Dog, with Corn

Ivan Wongso
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Polenta OR Cornmeal
3/4 cup All-purpose flour
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
1/2 cup Canned Corn Soup (cream style)
1/2 small Onion, puree using cheese grater or food processor
1/2 cup Fresh milk or Buttermilk (add a tablespoon of vinegar to 1/2 cup of fresh milk)
1 Package of Mini cocktail sausages (About 20 sausage) or regular Hot dogs
Oil to fry
Tooth pick or Wooden skewers

Steps:

1. In a bowl, mix together canned corn soup, onion puree and milk or buttermilk. Set aside.
2. In other bigger bowl, whisk polenta, flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda until well blended. Then add the liquid and whisk until thick and well blended. Set aside.
3. Set your sausages, suck it with wooden skewers. Preheat you oil in med (about 5 cm)
4. Dip your sausages to the batter and fried it immediately until golden brown.
5. Drain the excess oil and serve!

In Indonesia, it is hard to find Polenta or commonly said as cornmeal. Polenta is ground dried corn. Usually used for dusting in pizza. I bought mine in Europe (Netherlands) that cost me only about $1-$2. Very cheap. In Indonesia, it is not common and expensive. If you want to make this recipe without polenta, I believe you can changed the amount of polenta with all purpose flour.

Hope you try it and share this recipe with your friends and family!

Very busy,
Ivan :)

Indonesian Orchid Cupcake (Kue Kukus)

Hello! Yesterday, I had an awesome time playing with my sony waterproof camera. We (me, sister and parents) swam in our swimming pool at Villa and took a lot of photos. :P

Next week, we are going to spend 10 days in Europe :D. Are you in Europe? Tell me what should I buy in there.. email me! click HERE

Today, I'm going to share with you my steamed "cupcake" recipe..


Indonesian Orchid Cupcakes - "Kue Kukus"
Ivan Wongso
Ingredients
250 gr All Purpose Flour
250 gr Sugar
10 gr Milk Powder
1/2 tbsp Cake Emulsifier (SP, Ovalet or Starkies)
2 Large eggs
180 ml Sprite (for white cupcakes), Fanta (for colors)
Food coloring or flavoring (optional)

Steps

1. Preheat your steamer until the water boiling. Line "Kue Kukus" mold (shaped like individual cupcake pan with holes all around it) with cupcake liner.
2. In a mixing bowl, mix and beat all the ingredient using whisk attachment (Kitchen aid) or regular hand mixer until light, fluffy and thicken (about 5 minute using kitchen aid on high speed).
3. If you want to create "ombre" cupcakes, divide the batter to 3 bowl and add food coloring until desire gradation color. Then transfer the batter into piping bag.
4. Fill the cupcakes mold full with the batter. (IMPORTANT: fill it full or you will not get "orchid" shape cupcakes)
5. Steam for 20 minutes. Let it cool in the mold, and Done!

Hope you enjoy and try this recipe, and have a great summer holidays!

TTYL

Ivan :D

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Cheers!

Ivan :)

Rainbow Slice Cake! Ramadan is Coming..

Hi everybody! Next month, Muslims start to fasting on the occasion of Ramadan. And usually people start to give cake or cookie to each other. Today I'm going to share my Rainbow Slice Cake recipe to you, so you can make your own for your love one!

Rainbow Cake Slice (Steamed)

Ivan Wongso

Ingredients

Wet

7 Large Eggs (60 gram each)

270 grams Sugar

1 1/2 tbsp Cake Emulsifier (like SP, Ovalette but I prefer Starkies)

Dry (mix & sieve)

180 grams All Purpose Flour

60 grams Cornflour 

60 grams Full cream Milk Powder

Melt together

225 grams White Milk Chocolate 

150 grams Butter

Coloring

6 Rainbow food color (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple) or Rainbow Paste flavoring (like Golden Brown-Indonesia)

Steps:

1. Preheat the steamer with enough water. Make sure the water boiling. Line the base of 22x22 x7 cm pan with baking paper and oil.
2. In the mixer bowl, using whisk attachment, beat the wet ingredients until ribbon stage (Double in volume and thick).
3. Beat in the dry ingredient until well combined.  
4. Last, beat melted butter and white chocolate in high speed for about 30 seconds until well combined.
5. Divide the batter to 6 bowl (about 220 grams each) and mix with the coloring.
6. Steam each color for 10 minute start from purple to red.
7. After all, steam 10 more minute. Steam never make the cake burnt.
8. Let cool completely for 1-2 hour. Cut the sides, transfer to cooking rack, remove the paper then transfer to cutting board.
9. Slice the cake to 3 column, then slice each column to 20 slices.
10. Wrap in plastic packaging and done!

Secret of beautiful rainbow: Use small amount of food coloring, increasing if necessary. Never use too much food coloring or people will frightened :O. Boring of rainbow? Make Ombre! Choose your favorite color and color the batter with different shades. 

Pack your cake in a good tin or box and give it to your love one!

Hope you like it and ask me if you need any help!

Sleepy,

Ivan :')