Chocolate cake recipe

This cake is simply a cake batter flavoured with chocolate sauce.

Chocolate sauce:
1/2 cup cocoa powder
125g butter
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar

Cake batter:
4 eggs
3/4 cup cake flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp oil
1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Make chocolate sauce: Melt butter, milk and sugar in a sauce pan, add cocoa powder and stir continously. Stir until all the ingredients have dissolved and the mixture is liquid without any lumps. Leave to cool.
Make cake batter: Separate egg whites and yolks. Beat egg whites until soft peaks, then add sugar and combine beating until stiff peaks. Beat yolks until pale yellow, and then add the oil and continue beating until well-mixed. Sift together flour and baking powder. Fold in the egg yolks and flour into the egg white mixture. Fold until the batter is paste-like and runny, but be careful not to lose the air in the egg whites. Finally, add the chocolate sauce to the cake batter and continue folding until well-mixed. Pour the mixture into a baking pan (You can use a spoon to swirl the chocolate sauce to make it look nice). Bake the cake in an oven preheated at 350F for about 45 minutes.

Durian puff recipe

Puff:
1 cup water
3/4 stick butter, cut into pieces
1 tbsp sugar
pinch of salt
1 cup flour
4 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla powder

Filling:
200ml whipping cream
1 cup durian pulp
1 tbsp sugar


Make the puff: pour water into a saucepan. Add in butter, sugar and salt and bring it to a boil. Reduce to low heat. Take the pan off the stove and add in flour, stirring constantly. Heat the pan and stir until a thin white layer can be seen on the bottom of the pan. Transfer the mixture into a bowl and allow to cool. Mix in eggs one at a time until they are incorporated. Add baking powder and vanilla at the last egg. Preheat oven to 350 F. Roll 1 teaspoon of choux paste into a ball and place onto baking paper, each 1 inch apart. Bake for about 35 min.
For the filling: whip cream until soft peaks. Add durian pulp and sugar and mix well. Put filling into the fridge for a while to set slightly, before filling the puff (You can also use a pastry bag to fill the puff). Leave it in the fridge to chill before serving.

Chili Dog recipe

Ingredients for the chili dog sauce:

1/2 pound of minced beef
1 onion, finely choped
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 BBQ sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon chili paste or powder (depends on taste)
1 tablespoon water

Cook minced beef and onions. Add all the other ingedients and mix together. Simmer on low heat and stir continously, until desired consistency. Grill hotdogs and heat up buns. Assemble and serve.

BBQ cheese prawns

Here's a dish for all who like prawns and cheese.

Prawns, shells removed
Chopped parsley
Chopped garlic
Lemon juice (of 1 lemon)
Olive oil
Cheese slices

To make the marinade, mix together the parsley, garlic, lemon juice and drizzle olive oil. Pour the marinade over the prawns and leave to stand for a while. Place the prawns on aluminium foil and cover the prawns with cheese slices. Wrap the aluminium foil and place on the grill.