Even though I don’t celebrate Halloween, I wanted to create something fun for this day. Since I didn’t have time to go to a baking shop to grab new supplies, I baked a Mocha Cake and decorate it Halloween style!
Desserts
No-Mixer Okara Chocolate Cake [Eggless & Dairy-Free]
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If you make your own homemade soy milk, you will always end up with a by-product – the soy pulp, also known as tofu dregs or okara. Okara is an extremely nutritious by-product, containing proteins, soluble and non-soluble fibre and isoflavones. However, okara has a slightly gritty texture that I don’t enjoy with my soy milk, so…
No-Mixer Banana Loaf / Bread / Cake with Peanut Butter Swirl
Before going for a holiday, it is a must for my friend and I to purge the refrigerator and the pantry to make sure there won’t be any mouldy or smelly surprises waiting for us when we return home. There were times when we would pass each other groceries that we couldn’t finish (the beauty…
Salted Egg Yolk Cream Puffs
I brought back a new ingredient when I went back to Singapore recently – salted egg yolks in powder form! Salted egg is a preserved food product made by soaking duck eggs in brine or packing them in damp, salted charcoal. The resulting egg will have a white that is salty and a yolk that…
Baileys Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Chocolate Frosting
Hello everyone! (And hello blog! Sorry for neglecting you for quite some time!) Taking step-by-step photos in the kitchen these days is getting a bit difficult because the driver for the LED lights that lit up my countertop exploded blew recently. Not to mention my camera’s a little cranky too – it’s not able to…
One-Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes with Vegan Chocolate Frosting For Two [4 Cupcakes]
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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…
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…
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…
Eggless Baileys Chocolate Pudding [Small Serving, For Two]
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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…
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…
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.
Taiwanese Jiu Fen Sweet Potato Balls [九份地瓜圆]
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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…
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://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/DSC06798-320x320.jpg)
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…
Eggless Yogurt Chocolate Cake [No-Mixer, One-Bowl]
![Eggless Yogurt Chocolate Cake [No-Mixer, One-Bowl]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC05978-320x320.jpg)
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…
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…
Mrs NgSK’s Butter Cake [Flat Top with Egg-Separation Method]
![Mrs NgSK’s Butter Cake [Flat Top with Egg-Separation Method]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC05324-320x320.jpg)
I think butter cake is my most-eaten cake during my childhood. My mom would occasionally buy a loaf for our breakfast or sometimes treating us to a butterfly butter cupcake after our swimming lessons. The first cake that my mom baked after buying the our first oven is also a butter cake! I love butter cakes – they are soft, buttery, have this skin…
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…
Matcha Snow Skin Mooncakes with Red Bean Filling
It’s been almost 3 years since I last made any mooncakes! I don’t remember why I didn’t make any in 2014, but in 2015, I didn’t because of the lack of mooncake ingredients and I left my mooncake moulds back in Singapore. When I went back to Singapore in June, I picked up a packet of kou…
Vanilla Gelato
I have a love-hate relationship with ice cream. I love eating it, but I hate the calories and fat it gives me. So today I’m sharing a low-fat ice cream recipe! Nah I’m just kidding, I don’t believe there’s such a thing as low-fat ice cream. It’s either you eat it, or you don’t. So if I’m going to…
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…
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…
Tub Tim Grob (Thai Red Rubies in Coconut Milk)
Tub Tim Grob (ทับทิมกรอบ) is a Thai dessert that consists of little red rubies (edible of course!) made with water chestnuts and tapioca flour, served with sweetened coconut milk and ice. It is a sweet, refreshing and delicious dessert – just the perfect treat for the summer!
Chocolate Granola
Chocolate lovers, you are in for a treat today! After finishing my peanut butter granola, I decided to play around with the granola recipe to make a chocolate version – imagine having chocolate for breakfast – it’s perhaps the best way to start the day! P.S. This is a scheduled post as I’m currently away on holiday! Thank you…