![Taiwanese Jiu Fen Sweet Potato Balls [九份地瓜圆]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC06954-320x320.jpg)
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…
Asian Sweets
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…
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…
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!
Chinese Gluten-Free Peanut Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]
![Chinese Gluten-Free Peanut Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/DSC00780-320x320.jpg)
Here is another Chinese Peanut Cookies recipe (I can never get sick of peanut cookies because they are so addictive!) Instead of using the shortcut method of peanut butter, these are made with ground peanuts, which I roasted, peeled and roasted again before they are ground into a fine powder/paste. It’s a lot more work involved but…
Cashew Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]
![Cashew Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/DSC00749-320x320.jpg)
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…
Baileys Chocolate Snow Skin Mooncakes
Mid-Autumn Festival is coming! Having tried my hand at making snow skin mooncakes last year, I decided to try out more this year using new recipes and flavour combinations. I’m not a fan of snow skin mooncakes (still prefer my traditional baked ones with just plain red bean paste), but I love making them as…
Kueh Lapis Legit
Kueh Lapis Legit / Spekkoek Disclaimer: This is not a cake for the faint-hearted, not for those who are watching their weight and worrying about their waist/hip lines – this cake’s fatty contents is bound to make your jaws drop and you will need to run God-knows-how-many-kilometres before you can get rid of the calories…
Baked Mini Piggy and Bunny Mooncakes
I’ve actually baked these mooncakes before last year, so there’s not much to say about this recipe (means this is going to be a short post!) 😉 The only change I’ve made was to make the mooncakes smaller in size – they’re about 30 grams: 20 grams of filling and 10 grams of dough, so…
Mini Bunny Snowskin Mooncakes
I can’t believe time past so fast! It seems like just only yesterday I’d made these piggy and bunny mooncakes and I’m already making them again! Mid-Autumn Festival is a very popular festival celebrated by Chinese worldwide and is held on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar, when the moon…
Chinese New Year 2012 – Pineapple Tarts
Chinese New Year is round the corner again! It just seemed like yesterday that I celebrated Christmas and New Year… Don’t you think so? This year I’m making pineapple tarts again. I did not try making the jam from scratch – couldn’t find the time to do so and I was worried that I’d fail…
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival – Piggy and Bunny Mooncakes
This is a story about a piggie meeting a bunny… not. Today is the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar… so… Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Also known as Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival, it is a popular festival for the Chinese besides the Lunar Chinese New Year. When I was younger,…
Celebrating Chinese New Year: Pineapple Tarts
Chinese New Year, aka Lunar New Year, aka Spring Festival, is the most important festival of all of the Chinese traditional festivals. It begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends 15 days later. Nearing the festival, people will spend lots of money purchasing Chinese New Year decoration…