Getting all "nutty"? Apam Balik!

Getting all nutty because of exams?  Why not making some nutty food?!  Apam balik!  (Malaysian Traditional Peanut Pancake)

It was my second attempt to make apam balik.  I searched for the recipe few months ago and made some for my parents because apam balik is one of their favourite Malaysian food.  My brother loves it as well, because it is nutty.  

 Ingredients:
330g Flour
3 eggs
3 tsp cornflour
50g sugar
1/2 tsp salt
Vanilla essence
1 tsp baking soda
420ml water
50ml full cream milk

The original recipe contains baking powder.  I can't find any in the kitchen so I used self-rising flour instead of plain flour.  Please do not use icing sugar, well, I used it yesterday because I can't find sugar in the kitchen too!  -.-  I thought it will make no difference because both icing sugar and white sugar taste sweet, obviously.  But then, after I had the first bite on my apam balik I found that I was wrong.  It tastes really different!  Failure.

Sieve it first.  Me seriously hate to sieve powder-like substances.  My brother loves doing it.  I hope my brother was there yesterday helping me.  But then he always get scolded by me because he makes a mess.

Beat the eggs with  420ml water.  I added 50 ml full cream milk.  Beat them until bubbles appear.  Then mix the powder-like substances which you should have sieved before.  Mix well and strain it if you want.  I was too lazy to strain the mixture.  After that, cover it with cling wrap and put it into the fridge.  Leave it for at least 30 minutes.  (by the way, the batter did not expand like what I've expected.  Maybe I should really add in some baking powder, or leave it for 2 hours.  That's what the original recipe tells.)

In fact, I do not really follow any recipes I got.  Mom was like... "always agak-agak, wasting food if it's a failure" Well, I never failed, except for this time using icing sugar instead of white sugar.

AND I COULDN'T FIND A BLENDER TO GRIND THE PEANUTS.  I spent 30 minutes smacking on them by using a roller.  Pheww, so much effort.  Use a blender if you have one.  If you want to burn your calories/you are too free and feel bored, go ahead, use a roller like what I did.

See, they were not the size I want. D:

Whatever... Continue.  Do not add butter or oil, just pour all the peanuts into a pan and fry them until you smell it.  Peanuts taste good and smell good!

Besides peanuts, I used almond nuts(I smacked on them as well and they are extremely hard like what their Chinese name means. 坚果.)  Another option is coconut filling.

Sorry guys this was another failure.  Too much butter!

When the bubbles appear like this, sprinkle sugar and peanuts on it.  Before you fold it into half, add butter.

Tadaaaaaaa.  Doesn't look like Traditional Malaysian apam balik.  

This is it!  It looks really crispy.  Photo taken when i was back in Miri.  Regret that I didn't have more that time considering the body weight that I had put on.

I left some at home for my homestay parents and they love it!  Malaysian Traditional Peanut Pancake.  This is the name I told them..  Sounds a bit weird but apam balik will be even more weird for them  Lol  I brought some for youth fellowship.  Hope you guys love it!  Aha and thanks to Wei Yew for home-delivery for Angie.  

-Exams coming in less than two weeks time and I'm still boh-lang-boh-zuak.-

Should really start working hard!  Chiong ah, for the last two weeks of my high school life.  No graduation day.  T.T

Ciao.