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…
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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…
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]
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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,…
Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き Japanese Savoury Pancake) [Okonomiyaki Sauce from Scratch Too!]
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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!
Chicken Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken)
Just like ice cream, I have another love-hate relationship with anything deep-fried. While I can still say no to ice cream sometimes, I usually will succumb to their crispy coating and that oily satisfaction when eating deep-fried food. Every cuisine, be it Chinese, Korean, Malay, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, American, Italian, French etc, will definitely have some food…
Kimchi Fried Rice
This is my third time making kimchi from scratch at home (without gochugaru some more!) and one dish that I’ll always make with them is kimchi fried rice. I like to incorporate plenty of vegetables in my fried rice but chopping up cabbage, carrots, onion etc can be a chore sometimes, making fried rice a bit more time-consuming to…
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…
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…
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…
My Mom’s Quick Braised Tau Kwa (Extra Firm Tofu) with Minced Pork
I love eating tofu – be it silken or firm; deep-fried, braised or steamed; smelly or non-smelly! But finding tofu overseas (in non-Asian countries) can be really difficult. For the first few months when I’m here, I only saw tofu packed in paper boxes that don’t need to be refrigerated, which looks really weird. As it was also…
Sweet and Sour Pork (Gu Lou Yok / 咕噜肉)
Cai fan (菜饭), literally translated to “vegetable rice” or known as Economical Rice, is a dish where we pair a portion of steamed white rice with vegetables, meat and seafood dishes of our choice and is available in every food court or hawker centres in Singapore. Different cai fan stalls will offer different types of dishes for you…
Mini Coconut Cheesecakes
Buying coconut milk used to be a headache when I first moved here because I couldn’t tell the difference between coconut milk, coconut cream and coconut milk lite. In Singapore it’s really easy because I usually just buy the fresh ones and there are only two types – big size and small size. But thankfully now I…
Peanut Butter, Oatmeal & Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cookies are one of my favourite snacks – they are small, cute, and feel a lot less sinful when eating one of them as compared to eating a cake. The unbaked cookie dough can also be easily frozen, so I love to freeze some whenever I make cookies and save them for a rainy day. (Figuratively,…
Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Fresh Mint Chocolate Frosting
This intensely chocolatey and moist chocolate cupcake, frosted with a refreshing and not-too-sweet chocolate and mint buttercream, then drizzled with a luscious and rich chocolate ganache, is perhaps one of the most delicious and chocolatey cupcakes I’ve ever baked and eaten.
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…
Korean Keema
The moment I saw this recipe over at Joyce’s blog, I knew I have to make it. Both X and I are huge fan of one-dish rice meals – he loves it because it’s easy to eat and I can simply scoop it on top of rice, meaning less dishes for him to wash up later; I love it…
Peach Layered Cake with Peach-Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Happy Mother’s Day! How is everyone celebrating this wondrous occasion? To be honest, we don’t celebrate Mother’s Day (I hate going to restaurants who are out to rip us off), and now that we are 8,000 km apart, I won’t be able to bring my mom out for dinner. So I called her yesterday and we had a really…
Chocolate Oreo Cheesecake
And here is the last installment of the Cheesecake series (here’s the first and second one)! You have perhaps seen this cheesecake on my Instagram, when I brought this cheesecake to office for my colleagues. One of my colleagues requested for an Oreo cheesecake, but because I’ve already made one before, I decided to adapt…
Durian Cheesecake
Hello, how have you been? Pardon the almost 2-month absence from the blogosphere! I was revamping the whole website, including shifting the blog back to WordPress. This whole process took a bit longer than I expected, but I really like the new layout (and I hope you like it too!) There are still a few…
Prawn Bisque
The names “prawn” and “shrimp” are often used interchangeably – what differentiates them is their gills. Shrimp have branching gills while prawns have lameller gills (source). To be honest, I have no idea what that means and don’t have much interest in finding out. I only know they are delicious! I have wanted to make…
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Last day of November! Where did all the time go? Before today ends, I better hurry blog about my oat entry for Little Thumbs Up! I’ve chosen a classic for my oat-themed bake – the oatmeal raisin cookies! I love oatmeal cookies as they are soft, chewy and delicious. In fact, sometimes I will leave…
Tofu-Pork Meatballs with Sticky Sauce
While browsing the photos of recipes I have yet to blogged, I saw this meatballs recipe and realised that it fulfills the Little Thumbs Up theme this month – soy (which includes tofu!) Tofu is a food that I really love – there’s silken tofu that is like a blank canvas, ready to go with…
Totally Chocolate Chip Cookies (Nigella)
Everyone knows what their perfect cookies is like. Some will want their cookie soft, some will want it crispy, some will want it chewy, some will want it sticky… And some will want a combination of a few characteristics, like soft and sticky or crispy and chewy. What’s yours? For me, I have cravings for…
Crispy Durian Rolls
I grow up loving durians. When I was a kid, we used to go back to Malaysia to visit my grandparents during the June school holidays. Coincidentally, June is also the durian season, so my grandfather would always bring back a huge gunny sack of durians on one of the days we were back. All…