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…
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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…
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…
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…
Chinese Gluten-Free Peanut Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]
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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…
Chinese Peanut Butter Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]
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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…
Cashew Cookies [Chinese New Year Goodie]
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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 Tiramisu Cake {Christmas Version}
I saw a chocolate Christmas Tree decoration on a white cake on Pinterest recently and I really wanted to try it out because it’s simple and so classy looking! But the problem is I cannot decide what cake to make. In the end I settled with my favourite cake – the Tiramisu Cake.
Halloween Graveyard Cupcakes
Growing up in Singapore, I noticed that Halloween is an event more for teens/adults than kids. We don’t see kids trotting down the streets in adorable “horror” costumes, knocking door-to-door saying “trick-or-treat!”, like what we often see in American movies. Instead, during the month of October, theme parks in Singapore will organise Halloween Horror Nights and hire actors/actresses…
Molten Coffee-Vanilla Cake
I was so excited when Raymund from Ang Sarap invited me to do a guest post on his blog – it’s such an honour! I brainstormed high and low for recipes and in the end decided on a dessert as it’s how Foodie Baker (previously known as Food Is My Life) started, a site to chronicle my…
Black & White Sesame Chequered Cookies
When we moved, I thought that I may not be able to find certain ingredients, such as black sesame seeds (as it’s more commonly used in Asian cuisines), so I was quite surprised to find not just white, but also black sesame seeds in the local markets! Black sesame desserts are one of my favourites because of its…
Lemon Cheesecake
After a long hiatus, I’m back to join the Bake-Along! And what a coincidence is that this Bake-Along is for its 4th Birthday! The theme decided by the 3 ladies – Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids, Joyce from Kitchen Flavours and Lena from Her Frozen Wings – behind Bake-Along this time round is cheesecake, how exciting and delicious, isn’t it?…
Italian Almond Tart + Liebster Award
I’m hosting next month’s Aspiring Bakers event and the theme is Boozy-licious – just bake or cook anything with at least 1 tablespoon of alcohol (yes any kind of alochol!), blog about it, and submit your entry to me! Can’t wait to see what you all have cooked up! I really wish I have at…
“Totoro” Icebox Cookies
Have you heard of Totoro? Totoro is a cartoon character in a popular Japanese movie – となりのトトロ / Tonari no Totoro / My Neighbour Totoro. The movie is produced by Studio Ghibli and I’ve always been a fan of Studio Ghibli’s works, such as Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo etc. Recently…
Hokkaido Milk Rolls
My bread baking experience is building up, this is the 5th bread I’m mixing, kneading and baking from scratch this year and bread baking is so much fun! I have been using the dough hook on my mixer to knead my dough and it was truly a breeze! Unfortunately, the dough this time is a…
Williams-Sonoma Classic Cinnamon Rolls
It’s another round of Bake Along! These cinnamon rolls are so sinful – they are not only filled with a cinnamon-sugar filling, but also topped with a maple-brown sugar syrup that makes them a stickily sweet and heavenly treat fresh from the oven! But somehow I lacked inspiration when taking photos of them – I…
Choux Party: Double Chocolate Cream Puffs
I’ve never thought I’d be a hostess for an event – no reason why… maybe I thought no one will participate in the event I host? Haha what a weird me I know. But being a hostess for this Choux Party has really motivated me to plan ahead what I want to bake for the…
Chocolate and Strawberry Bavarian Cream Layer Cake
Chocolate collar was not very well done… :/ Just blogged about a layer cake recently and I’m back blogging about another one! This cake was made also for an early birthday celebration for a friend. I decided on a strawberry cake as Korean strawberries were on sale, so I bought 2 punnets and used 1…
Spiral Ice Box Cookies [Vanilla, Chocolate, Matcha]
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If you’ve read the post below, you would have known that I am experiencing tons of problems with my .com blog. Maybe I was being a little too ambitious, thinking that it would be a piece of cake to set up a .com. But, apparently that’s not the case! I should have spent more time…
The Home Bakers #14: Chocolate Streusel-Ribboned Cupcakes
It’s time for The Home Bakers again! Gosh, time really flies, it just seemed to me that the previous Home Bakers was only days away! I am gonna keep this post really short and sweet – the host this time is Louanne from Louanne’s Kitchen, and she had picked a very lovely butter cake recipe…
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…
Black Sesame Icebox Cookies
When Nami from Just One Cookbook posted this recipe on her blog, I knew I have to make these yummy little treats. This is a very simple icebox cookie recipe – icebox cookies are cookies made from a dough which has been refrigerated or frozen. The cooling or freezing makes the dough stiffer, enabling the…
Chocolate Log Cake with Varlhona Chocolate Mousse (A Healthier Version)
Everyone loves to celebrate Christmas with log cakes (aka yule logs), and I am no exception. Last year was my first attempt in making a log cake – a chocolate genoise with peanut butter buttercream frosting, covered with a layer of chocolate meringue buttercream, which looks like this: This year, I decided to bake a…
Éclairs and an Award
Éclairs! I’ve missed several Bake Alongs and I’ve decided not to miss any more this time! (Okay, partly also because I’m dying to bake some choux as I love cream puffs and éclairs very much, so this Bake Along came just in time to satisfy my choux cravings!) In case you’re wondering, Bake Along is…
Aria Chocolate Tart
After smudging the table-counters, dirtying several table cloths and tea towels and numerous pots, bowls and plates with lots of chocolate and butter, I’ve finally prepared a MasterChef plated dessert for Aspiring Bakers and Cook Like A Star. Phew! The theme for this month’s Aspiring Bakers is Desserts on a Plate hosted by Swee San…
Crème Pâtissière (Pastry Cream)
Thick, glossy, smooth, creamy, rich, beautiful and delicious – these are just some words to describe one of Earth’s greatest food invention ever – pastry cream. It is one of the easiest and most delicious concoction that can be used as a filling for cakes, tarts, and most notably, choux (cream puffs and eclairs). This…
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…