Thursday, September 23, 2010

Mini Pizza


- Zaty.
Before baking

Ingredients
Essentials:
  • 'Small' breads (preferably pizza bases, but any breads - even pita/normal sliced bread will do)
  • Tomato paste
  • Oregano
  • Salt
  • Sugar
  • Cheese (slices/shreds = awesome). Best to use mozarella, but could use edam or colby.
  • Oil (olive, preferable)
Topping suggestions:
  • Garlic, chopped
  • Mushrooms, small pieces
  • Onion, diced
  • Meat, diced finely (I used sausage bits for this one) - make sure this is pre-cooked!
  • Pineapple, diced
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven. If you'll be making mini pizza using...
    1. Pizza bases, 230 deg C will do. F
    2. For other breads, I'm unsure... maybe 200 degs?
  2. If you'll be using meat, cook it while you're preparing the other stuff.
  3. Add in salt, sugar, oregano and chopped garlic into the tomato paste. Not too much!
  4. Slather the tomato paste mixture onto the breads.
  5. Sprinkle mushrooms, onions and pineapples evenly on the bread. Then add meat. (Make sure to not overcrowd the toppings or they'll fall off!)
  6. Cover #5 with cheese.
  7. Sprinkle breads with some oregano and sugar.
  8. Spread some oil on a baking tray/paper/foil, and place breads carefully onto it.
  9. Put it in the oven for 8-10 mins.
  10. After taking it out, let it stand for a couple of mins, and you're ready to dig in. Should turn out something like this:

After baking

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Coco Choco Slice

- Zaty.


Got the recipe from the back of a tin of Pam's evaporated milk. Seriously.

I think I lost the recipe sheet. Darnit. I'll update this when I find it/buy another tin of evaporated milk. :P

Prep time: 20 mins
For: 1 medium-sized pan

Ingredients

Base


  • 1 1/2 C flour
  • 3 T cocoa
  • 2 t baking powder
  • 3/4 C castor/icing sugar
  • 1/2 C dessicated coconut
  • 175g butter, melted
Topping
  • 1 C icing sugar
  • 2 T cocoa
  • 3 T butter, melted
  • 1 C dessicated coconut
  • 4 T sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 t vanilla essence

Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C, then grease/line a 20cmx30cm slice tin.
  2. Prepare base:
    1. Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder into a bowl.
    2. Stir in sugar and coconut.
    3. Add in butter and mix well, to moist crumbs.
    4. Press the crumb base mixture into the prepared tin using a spatula/wooden spoon.
    5. Bake in a preheated oven for 20mins, then allow to cool.
  3. Prepare topping:
    1. Sift icing sugar and cocoa in a bowl.
    2. Stir in melted butter, coconut, condesned milk and vanilla essence. Mix well.
  4. Spread topping over the base and place in fridge for 2 hours (until firm), then cut the pieces.


It was fun to make! :)