![One-Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes with Vegan Chocolate Frosting For Two [4 Cupcakes]](https://i1.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC08434.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
I was looking through my old recipes to revamp them and I saw a really old Vanilla Cupcakes recipe blogged 9 years back (my blog is turning 10 years next oh my god!) Not only were the photos horrible, they weren’t even rotated upright (meaning you are looking at the cupcakes sideways)… so they are definitely…
Recipes
Egg and Cheese Crêpe Square
Whenever I make crêpes – be it for a cake, a dessert or just with ice cream – there will tend to be a few crêpes leftover. Not wanting to just eat them with more ice cream 😛 I decided to make a savoury Egg and Cheese Crêpe Square instead, which takes less than 10 minutes to…
Coffee Cheesecake with Chocolate Ganache
It’s been more than a year since I last posted a cheesecake recipe here! The reason why I seldom bake cheesecakes these days is because there’s a bit of planning involved – and I’m just not a planner person when it comes to cheesecakes. Whenever I have a craving for cheesecakes, I usually won’t have…
Nasi Lemak Burger
When I first read about the launch of the special Nasi Lemak Burger by a popular fast food chain in Singapore 2 weeks ago, I was intrigued but not that interested because I’ve always liked my food in their original form (I’m boring I know). X, on the other hand, was quite interested to try…
Chinese Eggs and Tomatoes Stir-Fry [番茄炒蛋/西红柿炒蛋]
![Chinese Eggs and Tomatoes Stir-Fry [番茄炒蛋/西红柿炒蛋]](https://i0.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSC07603.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
When I was younger, I’ve never really liked tomatoes so I never understood the appeal of this Chinese Eggs and Tomatoes Stir-Fry dish, even though I had a fervent love for eggs. Now that I’m more in love with tomatoes, I decided to give this a try recently and I was totally blown away –…
Mom’s One-Pan Fried Bee Hoon with Canned Stewed Pork and Bean Sprouts [红烧排骨豆芽炒米粉]
![Mom’s One-Pan Fried Bee Hoon with Canned Stewed Pork and Bean Sprouts [红烧排骨豆芽炒米粉]](https://i0.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSC08163.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
I absolutely love the days when my mom decided to cook fried bee hoon. Her fried bee hoon consists of only four ingredients (excluding the seasoning) – bee hoon (rice vermicelli), garlic, bean sprouts and the secret ingredient that makes it so good and delicious – Narcissus Brand Stewed Pork.
Piña Colada Cake (Egg Yolk Cake + Pineapple Filling + Rum Swiss Meringue Buttercream)
Woo hoo~ Today 10 July is National Piña Colada Day! Piña Colada is a famous cocktail originating from Puerto Rico, made with rum, coconut cream/coconut milk and pineapple juice. It was claimed that the bartender of Caribe Hilton Hotel’s Beachcomber Bar, Ramón “Monchito” Marrero Pérez, was the creator of this cocktail in 1954. Another restaurant…
Egg White Cupcakes with Dark Chocolate Ganache Frosting
After my éclair-baking spree for the past two weeks, I find myself with leftover egg whites from making the pastry cream. So I turned to the books for a cake recipe to use up the egg whites and I stumbled upon Rose Levy Beranbaum’s White Velvet Butter Cake recipe. I adapted the recipe and turn them…
Taiwanese Salt and Pepper Popcorn Chicken (椒盐鸡块 / 咸酥鸡 / 盐酥鸡)
Today, 6 July, is National Fried Chicken Day (seriously who came up with these days?) so I’m back here with another history lesson on this delicious dish! Apparently since a long, long time ago (as far back as the Middle Ages), Scots liked their chicken deep-fried instead of boiled or baked. So when Scottish immigrants…
Eggless Baileys Chocolate Pudding [Small Serving, For Two]
![Eggless Baileys Chocolate Pudding [Small Serving, For Two]](https://i2.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DSC07969.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
Happy National Chocolate Pudding Day (26 June)! To be honest, I have absolutely no idea who created this day – but I would really like to thank him or her for creating this day (and also the person who invented pudding) because I never, ever knew that chocolate pudding can be so easy to make,…
Triple Chocolate Éclairs
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…
Chinese Fish Bee Hoon Soup (With An Easy Soup Base) [鱼片米粉汤]
![Chinese Fish Bee Hoon Soup (With An Easy Soup Base) [鱼片米粉汤]](https://i0.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DSC07826.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
Fish Bee Hoon Soup is one of my favourite comfort foods. The key lies in the soup, and the traditional way of making it is to use fish bones – the bones are first coated in cornflour then pan-fried until crispy. Boiling water (the key to a milky-coloured soup) is then added into the fish…
Watermelon Iced Tea
While we were having brunch at a café in San Francisco during our holiday in April, we saw a very interesting item on their menu – Watermelon Iced Tea. We ordered one to try and were pleasantly surprised at the flavours – the refreshing watermelon taste greets us first, followed by a sweet tea flavour. After coming back from our…
Easy Crustless Quiche for One
Quiche is one of X’s of favourite brunch options on weekends, but for me to wake up early to make the crust, blind bake the crust and make the quiche filling for just one serving – I’d rather sleep in 😛 So to make my life easier and yet satisfy X’s cravings, I go for a crustless…
Peach Moscato [Refreshing, Fizzy and Just in Time for Summer!]
![Peach Moscato [Refreshing, Fizzy and Just in Time for Summer!]](https://i2.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC07714.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
X has been playing around with several cocktail recipes recently and when he brought back a peach from work last week, he decided to make some Peach Moscato to use up the peach and peach juice we have lying in the refrigerator. Which is all fine by me because the summer heat is beginning to…
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…
Korean Spicy Stir-Fried Pork 돼지불고기 (Dwaejibulgogi) and Seaweed Soup 미역국(Miyeokguk)
Today I’m sharing not one… but two Korean recipes that I like making these days – an addictive, delicious and spicy stir-fried pork and a nutritious seaweed soup. We had these two dishes with rice and homemade kimchi, which was so, so satisfying. I took only about 1 hour to make both dishes and the rice, which…
蛋餅 Dan Bing (Taiwanese Egg Crêpe Roll)
One of my favourite breakfasts while in Taiwan is 蛋餅 Dan Bing, a traditional and popular Taiwanese breakfast that many locals eat on a daily basis and travellers’ must-try food when in Taiwan. Beaten egg is fried on a hot plate and top with a thin crêpe (some call it pancake), then flipped over and…
Jim Lahey’s Perfect No-Knead Pizza Dough [For Thin Crust Pizzas]
![Jim Lahey’s Perfect No-Knead Pizza Dough [For Thin Crust Pizzas]](https://i0.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/DSC06409.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
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…
No-Bake Peanut Butter, Chia and Oatmeal Energy Balls (Without Dates)
Craving moments happen to me quite often nowadays as I’m eating smaller portions during mealtimes. Instead of reaching out for that chocolate bar, or that bag of potato chips, or that cake with frosting that I just baked, I decided to make my own healthier snack – in the form of energy balls.
Creamy Avocado and Tuna Spread / Dip
I have half an avocado left when I used the other half for maki sushi (avocado with smoked salmon – they looked horrendous but thankfully still tasted delicious), so the next day I started looking for a recipe to use it up. I have an avocado cookbook which includes recipes from smoothies to kimchi (yes avocado kimchi) to cakes, and one particular avocado…
Homemade Freeform Pork Sausages (Without Casing)
Minced pork appear very often in our daily meals because they thaw easily (I always freeze them in 100-gram portions) and are extremely versatile – I use them in soups, stir-frys, meatballs… Whenever I stock up from our butcher, instead of getting the pre-ground minced pork (which are usually quite fatty), I will request for a separate lean…
Taiwanese Jiu Fen Sweet Potato Balls [九份地瓜圆]
![Taiwanese Jiu Fen Sweet Potato Balls [九份地瓜圆]](https://i1.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC06954.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
About 6 years ago, X and I visited a small town called Jiu Fen (九份) in Taiwan. We climbed up the many steps up the town to a popular dessert shop and ordered a bowl of dessert to share. The dessert contained cooked beans, taro (yam) balls and sweet potato balls in a sweet syrup…
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…
Mom’s 3-Ingredient Green Bean Soup [Mung Bean Soup / 绿豆汤]
![Mom’s 3-Ingredient Green Bean Soup [Mung Bean Soup / 绿豆汤]](https://i1.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/DSC06798.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
My mom is not a fan of long and complicated recipes as she doesn’t like stocking ingredients that are used only once in a blue moon. Hence the food she whipped up are usually simple and straightforward – just like this Green Bean Soup that I’m sharing today – only 3 ingredients are needed! (Okay, 4…
Strawberry Lemonade Moscato
Baking and cooking took a hiatus as I was busy with a commitment for the last few months, but now I’m back for good so it’s time to start whipping butter and searing steaks in the kitchen! But first… let’s start with a drink – a refreshingly delicious Strawberry Lemonade Moscato!