Joyee Cooks: 2 Ingredient Mocha with COPYCAT HEYTEA Salted Cream Cheese Foam

I've never been a fan of sugar drinks, but there are a few beverages I would occasionally get. Other than the "Milo dinosaur", other drinks that earned my approval include the salted cream cheese foam from Heytea.

If you've never tried HeyTea's Salted cream cheese foam, this is your chance to try it before you get to visit a store in Asia. If you've tried their drink, crave it, but have no access to them, you can DIY. If you've tried it and live in Asia and don't want to line up for it or pay a hefty price for it, you can recreate it at a much lower cost now.

Here's how you can make one:

Ingredients:

Salted Cream Cheese Foam:

• Cream Cheese - 2 tbsp

• Milk - 1 tbsp

• Sea salt - 1/4 tsp

• Condensed Milk - 1 tbsp

• Heavy Cream - 100 ml

Mocha:

• Chocolate (melted) / chocolate syrup - 1 tsp (optional)

• Chocolate Milk - Recommend Avalon Chocolate Milk

• Coffee Concentrate - 2 tsp or more (adjust to your liking)

• Chocolate milk / Coffee Concentrate Ice Cubes (anything but water ice cubes)

Procedure:

1. In a double boiler, melt cream cheese with milk, sea salt, and condensed milk. Set aside to let it cool down slightly.

2. In a separate bowl or cup, add heavy cream and cream cheese mixture, and whisk it with an electric whisk or milk frother until it thickens slightly. Don't overwhip it or it will become whipping cream. Set aside.

3. In your latte cup, spread melted chocolate or chocolate syrup around it.

4. Add chocolate milk / Coffee concentrate ice cubes

5. Add (quality) cold chocolate milk

6. Add Javy Coffee Concentrate. Mix well.

7. Top with Salted cream cheese foam.

8. Dust with cocoa powder

9. Decorate with grated chocolate - optional.

10. Enjoy!!
    

Note:

* Since I'm not a regular coffee drinker, the Javy coffee concentrate is an excellent choice for me! It's readily available to make any of my recipes, it's easy to use, and the flavor's bold! I've enjoyed it with my Milo Dinosaur Iced Latte, Oat Milk Latte, and Mocha Iced Latte (which I will also be sharing my recipes with you guys soon). This would also be perfect to make my tiramisu cakes as well.

* After a minute of whisking, I switched from the milk frother to an electric whisk cause I got too impatient. It was too slow.

Joyee Cooks: Pesto Tomato Tarts

Ingredients:

• Puff Pastry Sheets (thawed as instructed on package)

• Pesto or tomato Sauce; or a mixture of both.

• Onion (shredded)

• Mushrooms (sliced)

• Goat cheese (broken into chunks)

• Salt and Pepper

• Walnuts / Pecans / Pinenuts (toasted)

• Egg Wash

• Honey

• Chicken Powder (optional)

Instruction:

1. Add a tablespoon of oil to a preheated pan and stir fry your shredded onions.

2. When the onion is half cooked, add the sliced mushrooms.

3. Season with salt, pepper and chicken powder (optional).

4. If you have some cooking wine, feel free to add to it at the end. Cook until evaporated.

5. Set the mushrooms and onion aside.

6. Open up your puff pastry sheets and lightly dust both sides with flour.

7. Divide puff pastry sheets into equal sized squares. I cut it up into six squares.

8. You can spread your sauce on the squares, but leaving roughly 1.5 cm border dry for the egg wash laster on. Build it with the caramelized mushrooms and onion, goat cheese and toasted nuts. But if you want to make it fancy, go to step 9. Otherwise, proceed to step 12.

9. The diamond method: Fold the square diagonally and using the pastry wheel or knife, cut two slits (about 1.5 cm) from the border, but make sure the cuts don't meet so you don't break it off completely.

10. Open the diamond back up carefully. Bring one of the tip and fold over to the opposite side of the inner corner.

11. Repeat step with the other side.

12. Add sauce in the centre and build it with your caramelized mushrooms and onion, goat cheese and toasted nuts.

13. Brush egg wash around the border.

14. Bake at 400 F for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

15. Drizzle with honey

16. Serve while hot

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808: Sweet E's Cafe

So my Uncle has deferred his dentist appointment just to food venture with me, and I'm glad I took the folks to Sweet E's cafe cause it did not disappoint. Based on a review I read on Instagram, a foodie claimed that they make the best banana french toast. Sure enough, their french toasts were pretty impressive!

When we arrived at 11:00 am, there was already a small line at the door. It was also difficult to find parking in their tiny parking lot. However, we have determined that all the trouble would soon be worthwhile when we saw the stickers at the door with bold statements such as "Hawaii's Best 2016, 2018" and "Neighborhood Favourite".

We were seated at the outdoor patio and we ordered the following:

BLT SANDWICH:

💵 Price: $10.95

🤤Taste: 4.8 /5

Description: Bacon, Mixed Greens, Tomato, Provolone cheese with a ranch aioli

Thoughts: The sandwiches were toasted with a lot of butter so it was ultra crunchy and buttery. I opted out of the provolone cheese but the sandwich still tasted like a champ. The fillings were generously filled with crispy bacon strips, green leaves, and ranch sauce. This was a hearty sandwich that really hit the spot.

STUFFED FRENCH TOASTS:

We ordered a single toast for all the flavors on the menu under 'the Extras' because we wanted to try everything. They were both scrumptious but between the two, we both preferred the Banana French Toast.

💵 Price: $4.25 for one || $10.95 / 3 Blueberry Cream Cheese || $9.95 / 3 Banana

🤤Taste: 4.8 /5

Thoughts:

Banana stuffed French Toast: loaded with cooked banana with a little bit of rum I believe. The banana was cooked until ripped but not mushy. We liked that it had the right amount of sweetness and we didn't even need to add syrup to it.

Cream Cheese Blueberry: This was loaded with cream cheese and a few cooked blueberries. Again, it wasn't too sweet and we also omitted the syrup.

EVERYDAY BREAKFAST:

💵 Price: $11

🤤Taste: 4.3 /5

Description: Two Eggs Any Style, Choice of one Meat, choice of one Starch or one Pancake.

Thoughts: The hashbrowns are shredded potatoes and it wasn't soggy. They were ultra crispy. My uncle chose the sourdough bread and the interior was soft and the exterior was toasted perfectly. I didn't try the omelet but my uncle said it was really good.

As I always say, a good brunch makes this world a better place and we are so glad to have discovered this place!

📍 Location: Here

Menu: Here

💵 Price: $20 USD pp

🤤Taste: 4.8 / 5

🕯Atmosphere: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🪑Seating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📈 Price Performance ratio: 4.4 / 5

Retention Rate: 100%

Summary:

ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕤

* Banana french toast - Copycat worthy!

* None of the French Toast was overly sweet

* Blueberry cream cheese French Toast was unique

* Nothing was a disappointment

* All Day Breakfast - the hashbrowns was super crispy

* Even the Sandwich alone is worthwhile for a second visit

* Reasonably priced

* Good portion

ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕤:

* Long line up!

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:

* Made it to one of our favorite brunch spots in Honolulu!