Third Takes the Cake: 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pancakes

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...

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 ...

Fluffy Pancakes

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pink Cupcakes

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

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...

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...

Baked Fries

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Easter Cookies

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

"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...

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...

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

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...

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...

PizzaS

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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