Today is National Chocolate Éclairs Day! So… Happy Chocolate Éclairs Day! I recently added the National Food Day (you can get it here!) calendar into my Google Calendar to motivate myself to bake/cook more new dishes and to revisit some of the old favourites that are in a dire need of a revamp (seeing some of the…
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No-Mixer Sablés Viennois (Buttery Vanilla Cookies)
I’m back from my holiday! It was my first time to the USA and while it’s nice to visit cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the national parks were the ones which left the deepest impressions. Will try my best to finish up my Eastern Europe trip (oops) so I can start on the…
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Jim Lahey’s Perfect No-Knead Pizza Dough [For Thin Crust Pizzas]
This no-knead pizza dough by Jim Lahey is the laziest and easiest dough that one can ever make. All you need are all-purpose flour (don’t even need bread flour!), salt, yeast, water and time (at least 18 hours), that’s it! It’s also an extremely forgiving dough – there are times when I made it the…
One-Bowl Mint Chocolate Cupcakes (With Chocolate-Mint Swiss Meringue Frosting)
Chocolate can never go wrong for desserts. But chocolate and mint? That’s a double winner right there. I’ve always loved mint chocolate (you know those After Eight and Andes chocolate mint thins? I used to devour lots at one go, regardless of the time of the day haha). Funny though, I seldom baked any chocolate and…
30-Minute Easy Cream Scones
As part of my not-very-working diet regime, I have been eating homemade granola and chia seeds with Greek yogurt for breakfast/brunch almost everyday. But once again, I got a little sick of this breakfast (it’s good to have changes once in a while, no?) and I was so craving for something warm – hence these cream…
No-Mixer One-Bowl Eggless Yogurt Chocolate Cake
Even though I had my fair share of sweet treats during our recent 3-week Eastern Europe holiday, when we reached back home, I immediately wanted to bake something the next day (what’s wrong with me seriously!) But there was no egg at home, instead I had a small tub of yogurt stashed in the freezer. After some searching, I…
Creamy and Chunky Mushroom Soup
As I came from sunny Singapore (we only have hot and hotter seasons), the four seasons became quite a special thing after I moved overseas. Seasonal vegetables and fruits meant nothing to me when I was still living in Singapore – we usually can get them all year round. But here, it’s so exciting to know that…
Classic Chocolate Tart
I love tarts – give me anything with a tart crust and I will devour it immediately and probably go for a second serving. But tart making can be quite a chore because of the tart base – I don’t own a food processor yet so all the rubbing/cutting of butter into the flour has to…
No-Mixer Double Chocolate Banana Cake / Bread
To me, banana is a holiday fruit. I only eat them when I go on holidays because it’s a quick source of energy and easy to bring along when we go on hikes. So when the grocer gave me some “free” bananas a few weeks back (before we went on a holiday), I started looking for…
Honey Financiers – No-Mixer, Easy & Delicious Mini Cakes
A financier, formerly known as visitandine, is a small French almond cake that is light but moist, with a crisp exterior. It is usually made in small rectangular loaves, which gives the cake its name financier, as it looks like a bar of gold. Though this mini cake cannot be sold for the same price as a bar of…
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Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き Japanese Savoury Pancake) [Okonomiyaki Sauce from Scratch Too!]
Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is a popular Japanese savoury pancake said to be originated from Osaka. There are many variations of this delicious pancake throughout Japan and the world, but in general it’s made with cabbage coated lightly with pancake-like batter. Different ingredients can be added into the okonomiyaki – so you can easily create one that is your favourite!
Matcha Lava Cake for One or Two in 30 Minutes
There are times when I have a lava cake craving but whenever I Google for a recipe, the recipes usually make 4 or 6 servings at one go, which can be quite frustrating because all I need is just one! And it’s hard to scale these recipes down because I don’t want to have 1/2…
Mini Sausage Bread Rolls (TangZhong Method)
Bread-making has always been a daunting task because my bread seldom comes out as fluffy and soft as I wanted them to be. I did consider buying a bread machine but X and I don’t eat much bread so I think it will be underused and a waste of counter space. Handheld mixers usually come…
Opera Cake
Hello! Today I’m sharing an Opera Cake recipe, which is a French cake made with layers of joconde (a type of almond sponge cake) soaked in coffee syrup, layered with ganache and coffee-flavoured buttercream and covered in a chocolate glaze. This kind of cake is also known as an entremet because of the many components, complexity and…
Baked Tonkatsu (Japanese Pork Cutlet)
Tonkatsu, aka Japanese deep-fried pork cutlet, is one my ultimate and favourite food. Juicy and moist pork chop coated with a simple panko and deep-fried to perfection – it’s extremely sinful but also extremely satisfying all at the same time. I found 2 pork chops at home when I was checking my freezer stock, but as…
No-Mixer Eggless Chocolate Cake
Ever faced a situation whereby you wanted to bake a cake but found out there’s no eggs at home? That’s what happened to me a couple of months back when I wanted to bake something for X’s breakfast the next day. But thanks to my virtual best friend, Google, I found an eggless chocolate cake recipe that is…
Cookie Dough Brownies
Ever thought of how brownies and cookies will taste together? Well, with these cookie dough brownies, you have the perfect marriage of buttery and crispy cookie with chocolatey and fudgy brownies. Served with cream or even better still – ice cream – and it’s hard not to fall in love with them!
Nigella’s Honey Chocolate Cake
I first blogged about this honey chocolate cake back in 2011 and I thought this would be a great chance to update this recipe with both clearer instructions and better photos as it fits the Little Thumbs Up theme this month – honey! I always have a jar of honey at home – besides mixing spoonfuls of it with…
Matcha Mousse Cake
If you are a fan of matcha, you will love this Matcha Mousse Cake – easy matcha sponge cake filled with creamy and light matcha mousse, adorned with caramel-y, crunchy and nutty sesame brittle – I wonder why I haven’t made this sooner?! The sponge cake recipe is very similar to the one I used in my…
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Chinese Peanut Butter Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]
Here’s another Chinese New Year goodie that I love very much since I was a kid – Peanut Cookies! The traditional and authentic chinese peanut cookies are not easy to make at all – first raw peanuts have to be shelled and roasted. The peanut skin is then peeled off and the peanuts are ground into a powder. The peanut…
Japanese Strawberry Shortcake
Taking a break from Chinese New Year baking and diving into Valentine’s Day baking – Japanese Strawberry Shortcake! Okay not really because I don’t even celebrate this day in the first place… oops! The reason why I’m baking this cake is because the theme of Bake-Along’s this time round is Strawberry Shortcake and since strawberry is…
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Cashew Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]
Here is a another new Chinese New Year goodie that I’ve baked this year – cashew cookies! In the past, due to work, I only have time to make guaranteed-success Chinese New Year goodies, such as my pineapple tarts or kueh lapis, as I don’t have time to experiment on recipes. But this year is different! I have tried…
Vanilla Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes with Blueberry Cream
As promised, here is another Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes recipe! I wanted to bake a full Blueberry Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes but because my stash of blueberries is extremely precious (couldn’t find any blueberries here), I don’t want to use them all in these cupcakes, so I made some Vanilla Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes instead and incorporated the blueberries…
Lemon Curd Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes
I don’t know why but I’m recently hooked on making Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcakes. The combination of the soft, fluffy and spongy chiffon cake with the sweetened whipped cream makes such a light, delectable and pretty treat – and one is always not enough for me, I have to eat at least 2 at one go!
Spiced Stained Glass Cookies
It’s only one more week to Christmas! How is everyone’s Christmas baking/cooking going? This year I’ve been steering away from the usual log cakes (healthier version one here and the more sinful one here) – baking cookies and assembling a different type of cake altogether. I saw a recipe on stained glass cookies while browsing my cookie cookbook…
Julia Child’s Basic Crêpes Recipe (For Both Savoury and Sweet)
Crêpe is a type of French pancake that can be used for both savoury and sweet dishes. For savoury dishes, crêpes can be rolled up with a filling made of fish, meat or vegetables inside, spread with sauce and browned in the oven, or piled up like a lasagna and heated up in the oven. Sweet crêpes…
Christmas Tree Cookies (Nigella’s Rainy Day Biscuits)
Wow can you believe it’s December already? The weather here is getting colder and colder everyday (it was 5C yesterday morning!) and sometimes all I want to do is just wrap myself up in a blanket and snooze away on the sofa… but that will be such a waste of valuable time! So here I am, churning out…