Baked some black bottom cupcakes over the weekend for Mother’s Day. The recipe I used was meant for 12 cupcakes but I only managed to get 9 cupcakes with extra cream cheese left, enough for 4 more cupcakes. Thus, will need to adjust the portions in another attempt and   Read More ...

Dd was bugging me to bake some red velvet cupcakes for her as I had not baked any for some time already. To be honest, I was also craving for some myself so I decided to bake half a dozen yesterday.  I ended up with the best batch of moist   Read More ...

I ordered this red velvet layer cheese cake via Groupon since they had a special price for 1kg birthday cake @ $42 instead of the normal $75. The bakery was Gingerbread House. I’m a big fan of steam cake so I was bowled over by the texture of this cake.   Read More ...

I have been on a cheesecake baking frenzy lately, baking each Saturday, the only day I have a little free time. It’s not just the regular cheesecake but I’ve been experimenting with mini cheesecakes. Mini cheesecake with oreo crust Mini cheesecake with marie biscuit crust I have been trying to   Read More ...

My mission this trip was to try as much food as I could get my hands on. Here’s a look at some: We were on our way back from the Science Museum and passed by this stall selling eggettes but I can’t recall the exact location. This Hong Kong street   Read More ...

This is the first time I tried my hands at steam cake. Being the lazy person that I am, pouring layer and layer of batter while waiting for the cake to steam is something that I am not too keen with. What finally made me attempt this recipe was due   Read More ...

This is a little late as mid-autumn festival was celebrated last week. Since I’m such a lover of mooncakes, I can’t help posting what we bought this year. We try to minimize the amount of mooncakes we consume due to health reasons *grins*. Anyway, this is a box consisting of   Read More ...

With Chinese New Year (CNY) less than a month away, I decided to start my baking earlier. Thus, the reason I’ve been pretty quiet around here lately. The plan was to bake about 7 different type of cookies and with each cookie, I had to bake for two households as I   Read More ...

  My kids will be having a small Xmas party at their tuition centre today and my son had requested that I baked 5 cupcakes for their teachers. So, I had prebaked some red velvet cupcakes over the weekend and frosted them this morning. The frosting didn’t turn out as   Read More ...

This is another first attempt, at macarons (read MA-CA-RONS) this time round. Since these cookies are so pricey, selling at $2.90 each and my kids have never tried them before, I decided to see whether I can make them instead. I found a great recipe from the net but now   Read More ...