Friday, December 30, 2011

Banana Cake and Lavender Chiffon

Banana Cake and Lavender Chiffon
Banana Cake - Review Grace: loved the banana cake - ate two slices! (one slice is quite big as I baked in a loaf pan!) Me: the honey taste c...

Monday, November 7, 2011

Swirled Bread

Swirled Bread
Made swirled bread - green tea, chocolate, white bread - using my fav no knead recipe where I reduced the sugar to just 20g. Divided my norm...

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Preparing for Min's Birthday - A family project!

Preparing for Min's Birthday - A family project!
Grace Jie, Mom and I started on our project to decorate Min's birthday cake.  Well, I read that sugarpaste decors can keep for up to a m...

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Attempting to make a smurf house cake for Min

Attempting to make a smurf house cake for Min
Min wanted this particular smurf house cake for her birthday. I promised her I would try to make it, and this is the result. Although I foll...

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Green Tea Choc Chip Bread, Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake, Cinnamon Bread, Moist Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes

Green Tea Choc Chip Bread, Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake, Cinnamon Bread, Moist Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes
Reviews: Earl Grey Chiffon Cyn: Nice, good to eat with tea Zc: Good to eat with coffee. Earl Grey taste can be less obvious - just by a bit...

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Weekend Bakes

Weekend Bakes
Brown Sugar Pancakes - Dad finds them too moist. Prefers the white sugar version. Brownies - adapted from a gluten free version with no pr...

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Breads, Puff Pastry (frozen)

Breads, Puff Pastry (frozen)
Breads all made with my favourite no knead recipe.  Love the green tea bread - the chocolate was melty and oh so good. The puff pastry was c...

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Vanilla Cupcakes, Earl Grey Tea Chiffon, Vegan Brownies

Vanilla Cupcakes, Earl Grey Tea Chiffon, Vegan Brownies
Saturday's Bakes  1. Earl Grey Tea Chiffon Cake - adapted from Okashi's Green Tea Chiffon Cake. Thing is, I didn't have enough ...

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Fluffy Pancakes

Fluffy Pancakes
From NotTheKitchenSink.   Made these this morning.  They are really fluffy!  Now I know why these are called pancakes.  They're like cak...

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Panda Bread and Lemon Chocolate Chip Meringues

Panda Bread and Lemon Chocolate Chip Meringues
I tried my hands at the Panda Bread again cos it popped up while I was surfing. The first time I tried it, the dough wasn't really co...

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Strawberry Quick Bread, Dark Chocolate, Green Tea Chiffon Cake

Strawberry Quick Bread, Dark Chocolate, Green Tea Chiffon Cake
Strawberry Quick Bread from Sweetebakes . It tasted kind of like banana bread for some reason. Very moist - think need to let the strawberry...

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Maraschino Cherries Chiffon Cake

Maraschino Cherries Chiffon Cake
Decided to adapt the Vanilla Chiffon Cake from Okashi to make Maraschino Cherries Chiffon Cake as I bought a big bottle some time back and n...

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Dark Chocolate Chiffon Cake

Dark Chocolate Chiffon Cake
Made the Dark Chocolate Chiffon Cake from Sweetapolita . I used the chiffon pan instead of the bundt as she suggested. And the cake rose SU...

Monday, July 4, 2011

Chocolate Mousse Cake for Dad's Birthday

Chocolate Mousse Cake for Dad's Birthday
Tried the "best" chocolate (mud) cake from here and "pure" chocolate mousse from here . Thing is, I made this cake on S...

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Finally managed to try the complete Lemon Poppy Seed Cake in Jamie's book!! Woohoo! Bought Poppy Seeds in Brisbane's Woolsworth just...

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Pink Cupcakes

Pink Cupcakes
Used the perfect sponge cake recipe + red food colouring. Quick buttercream recipe from jasonandshawnda.com but my buttercream separated. (...

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Vanilla Chiffon

Vanilla Chiffon
Dad and Da Jie loved this. Reviews Dad: Nice and spongy and light. Complained that the chiffon cakes you buy outside are too fluffy and air...

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Perfect Sponge Cake aka 鸡蛋糕

Perfect Sponge Cake aka 鸡蛋糕
I googled for perfect sponge cake, and found this . Quick, easy, and delicious. Super light. It's now my perfect sponge cake. :) Tastes...

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Baked Fries

Baked Fries
Not bad, but the potatos weren't crispy on the outside yet. Guess I underbaked it! Recipe from here .

Chocolate Tahini Cake

Chocolate Tahini Cake
Oops! It's not molten! As I had leftover Tahini which has to be used up a month from opening, I decided to try this recipe! I halved it...

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Vegan Chocolate Lava Cake

Vegan Chocolate Lava Cake
Needed to use up my applesauce as it's been in the fridge for a long time. And I found this amazing Chocolate Lava Cake recipe ! Person...

Monday, May 16, 2011

Showing Love to my Family (Cookies, Royal Icing, Banana Cake)

Showing Love to my Family (Cookies, Royal Icing, Banana Cake)
I should have been studying today, but I spent the entire afternoon baking and icing cookies. Jia finished the iced cookies over the weeken...

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Chocolate Soufflé & Apple-pie Cake

Chocolate Soufflé & Apple-pie Cake
Bought ramekins at the Robinson's sale on Friday. My very first set of ramekins!!! So because of that, I decided to make Chocolate Sou...

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Hazelnut Soy Ice Cream

Hazelnut Soy Ice Cream
So not working out. :( Something seems to be lacking with this recipe that only uses toasted hazelnuts, soy milk, sugar, arrowroot powder. I...

White Vegan Cake gone Orange

White Vegan Cake gone Orange
Wanted to try making a vegan cake that isn't made with chocolate. The chocolate, and chocolate-orange ones were nice with the mousse. ...

Monday, May 2, 2011

Strawberry Cake with Chocolate-Strawberry Vegan Frosting

Strawberry Cake with Chocolate-Strawberry Vegan Frosting
I had a sudden urge to make a strawberry cake last weekend after I landed myself with a box of strawberry puree. A result of an online searc...

Gluten-Fre​e Strawberry Cupcakes

Gluten-Fre​e Strawberry Cupcakes
I decided to be a tad more adventurous and try this recipe from Joy the Baker because it uses coconut flour!! Bob's Red Mill coconut fl...

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter Cookies

Easter Cookies
Made some decorated cookies for Easter... Seems like good timing because it's a long weekend!!

Saturday, April 16, 2011

"Delicious" vegan cake and Cinnamon Bread

"Delicious" vegan cake and Cinnamon Bread
Vegan Cake 15 Apr Ran out of Hershey's cocoa, so used the Japanese Morinaga cocoa powder. Water was around 260+g which I think is too mu...

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Cinnamon Pullapart Bread and Green Tea Red Bean Bread Again!

Cinnamon Pullapart Bread and Green Tea Red Bean Bread Again!
I like making these 2 breads at the same time so I get two different flavours at one go. Cinnamon bread was too thick again though I made th...

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Green Tea Sable Cookies

Green Tea Sable Cookies
From Okashi book again! And not nice!!! :( *Edit* On second thoughts, it's not bad. Kind of like an acquired taste for me. :P

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Cinnamon Pull-apart Bread and Green Tea Red Bean Bread

Cinnamon Pull-apart Bread and Green Tea Red Bean Bread
Bread 1: Cinnamon Pull-apart Bread I got an inspiration for a way to make cinnamon bread from joythebaker . Except I didn't use her reci...

Pandan Chiffon Cake

Pandan Chiffon Cake
Tried to make my Okashi edit of Pandan Chiffon Cake. It looked perfect in the oven - it went up all the way till the top of the tin. But af...

Sunday, March 27, 2011

PizzaS

PizzaS
PizzaS. Plural cos I made at least 5 yesterday. Cyn bought additional ingredients this time – Salami, Smoked Salmon, Streaky Bacon. They wer...

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Two Cakes

Two Cakes
I made two cakes today! 1. Jamie's Nan's Lemon Drizzle Cake, and 2. Earl Grey Tea Cake from the Okashi book. The Lemon Cake, came ou...

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Pizza again!

Pizza again!
Tips: Crazily flour the table top and coat the dough BEFORE attempting to flatten it out. Crazily oil the aluminium foil with olive oil so ...

Green Tea Souffle Cake with Red Bean Paste Filling

Green Tea Souffle Cake with Red Bean Paste Filling
Tried making my own red bean paste filling, based on Okashi book. Problem is that the weight and everything was kind of screwed up cos I th...

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Cinnamon Bread

Cinnamon Bread
I changed the filling of my cinnamon bread/bun a little, after seeing a recipe at Smashed Peas and Carrots . Essentially, added a little wat...

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Pandan Chiffon Cake without coconut milk

Pandan Chiffon Cake without coconut milk
I tried adapting the Green Tea Chiffon Cake recipe into Pandan Chiffon Cake as Mom loves Pandan Chiffon Cake. I had intended to replace the ...

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Blueberry Crumble Muffin

Blueberry Crumble Muffin
Another recipe from the Okashi book! I liked this muffins! Although Grace jie ate it and said it was nice, she ate less than one muffin. T...