I’m back with yet another cupcake recipe! I hope you aren’t getting sick/tired of seeing cupcakes on this blog… But cupcakes are so adorable! Nobody gets sick of looking at cute things… right? :p I’m having a bit of I-don’t-know-what-else-to-say mood… so this will be a really short post! These strawberry cupcakes are made using…
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Oreo Chocolate Cupcakes
Cupcakes and muffins – aren’t they the same thing? After much reading and researching, I conclude that they are similar, yet quite different. Cupcakes are small versions of cakes that are most of the time frosted and/or decorated; often they are served as light snacks during tea time or as after-dinner desserts. I guess it’s…
Easy Peasy Chocolate Cupcakes
I heart cupcakes. I heart chocolate cupcakes. I heart chocolate cupcakes that are terribly easy to make. Chocolate cupcakes that are terribly easy to make help me attain inner peace. (Sorry, just watched Kungfu Panda 2…) And this is how I made and devour them: Grab some plain flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder…
Brown Sugar Pound Cake
This is a fairly long post – read on for step-by-step-photos; or simply skip to the bottom for the recipe! Pound cake – very literally – is a cake traditionally baked with a pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of sugar and a pound of eggs. But of course, it’ll be too…
Nutty Nutella Tarts
No one can resist these nutty and chocolatey delights – and the best thing is you do not have to prepare the filling at all! Just have a jar of Nutella or any chocolate spread nearby! The variation for these tarts is endless – you can go for strawberry jam, blueberry jam, raspberry jam, peach…
Berry Blueberry Tarts
This is not an ordinary blueberry tart… … This is a berry blueberry tart. It’s not made with the I-don’t-know-what’s-in-there store-bought blueberry jam but it’s made with real, whole blueberries. Store-bought jams are excellent on bread, but they are way too sweet for me. So, as I still have some frozen blueberries, I decided to…
Classic Apple Pie (from scratch!)
The exterior is perfectly golden-brown and is rich and buttery. It is so delicate and flaky that it threatens to give way any minute. The interior is sweet, caramel-y and oozing with deliciousness, with a hint of cinnamon that gives the extra kick. The exterior and interior combine to give a concoction that will…
Coffee, Chocolate and Raisins Muffins
I tweaked the recipe of my blueberry muffins to make some coffee, chocolate and raisins muffins. When the muffins were baking, the strong aroma of the coffee filled the whole house and it’s such a pleasant smell. The coffee taste in the muffins itself is very subtle, but I like it this way. Uber-coffee lovers,…
Perfect-Oh-Perfect Blueberry Muffins
Muffins are my new found favourites! Muffins are cup-shaped (and cute!) bread and are often served hot. Muffin is a term connected with “moufflet”, which means soft, and is it’s an old French word used to describe bread. Typically there are two types of muffins – American and English. American muffins are more common here…
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…
Chocolate Swiss Roll
Swiss rolls are my ultra favourite (okay let me correct that… I have many favourites, and Swiss rolls are one of them…) – soft, light and fluffy cake with yummy-licious whipped cream/buttercream inside. I’ve always loved them for breakfast, tea, and even supper. However, I’ve never tried making one myself. There’s this thing about Swiss…
Yellow Cake with Instant Fudge Frosting
“A best friend always helps herself at your house.” My best buddy literally does just that. Each time she arrives at my house, the first thing she will always do is to open up my cupboards and my refrigerator to see if there’s anything to eat. And when she found something to eat, she’ll simply…
BBQ Chicken Pizza
What do you think of when you hear… “pizza”? I think of the crust – thick and thin; I think of the Mozzarella cheese – how long one can pull the cheese without it breaking; I think of the toppings – from pepperoni to chicken to beef to vegetables to… and I think of how…
Peanut Butter Cookies
Going to reuse an old photo because I forgot to take photos of the baked cookies this time! I’m back! I am going to blog about these cookies before I become overwhelmed by school work. (: When I started my blog, these cookies are the first thing that I blogged about. And now, this blog…
Green Tea Cupcakes
There’s green; there’s tea; there’s star; there’s cake It’s been a very long time since I last posted an entry here. Ever since school started, the workload is ever-heavy and most of my free time are being spent relaxing by watching movies and dramas, reading food blogs and solving jigsaw puzzles. I do cook much…
Japanese Cheesecake
First… happy 2010! (: A new year, a new start. However, I still have food entries from last year that I’ve yet to blog about. I was flipping through my collection of recipes when I stumbled upon this very old recipe book that my friend gave it to me. I saw this Japanese cheesecake recipe…
Mocha Birthday Cake
When a friend’s birthday is coming, it gives me a reason to browse through all the cookbooks and recipes that I have on hand to select a birthday cake recipe; it gives me a reason to ogle and drool over all the lovely pictures of chocolate cakes posted on websites; and the best of all:…
Baileys® Chocolate and Cream Cheese Brownies
It was my friend’s birthday almost half a month ago (yes I know how late this post is…) and he’s a huge fan of Baileys® and brownies, so I decided to bake something that have all of these components in one recipe. I didn’t have any recipe on hand that involve Baileys® and brownies, only…
A Need to Celebrate – Triple Chocolate Cookies
I can’t believe it. No no I can belive it… I should belive it, shouldn’t I? Guess what, it’s already been exactly 1 year since I started this food blog! Honestly, I didn’t exactly remember when this blog is started, but somehow something in my head prompted me to check when the first post is…
Strawberry Shortcake… Cake… Cupcake?
Are there times when you saw/read/heard a dish that makes you crave for it so much that you’re just dying to whip it up right then and now but you can’t because you don’t have the ingredients at hand and can only get them tomorrow? And you know that you have to make them tomorrow…
Let the Battle Begin! Chocolate Cream vs. Coffee Cream…
Well, first cake (or cakes*) of this year 2009! =) This isn’t a battle between cakes, it’s a battle between the creams! After watching a video on how to make a chocolate genoise, I knew I have to bake this cake. I’ve not yet made a successful sponge cake before – either it didn’t rise…
US$250 Cookies – Neiman Marcus Cookies
These cookies have a story behind them. The rumour has it that a customer paid US$250 for this cookie recipe, thinking she was being charged US$2.50. I seemed to have received an email attachement which contains this recipe, but at that time, I didn’t really pay attention to it and didn’t have a go at…
Oh So Nice! Dark Chocolate Tartlets
Can you believe it? The year 2008 is already drawing to an end. It still surprises me, how as we grow older, the days seem to pass faster and faster. Somehow I came to a realization a few days back that I haven’t done anything significant this year. Or something shocking. Or something surprising. Or…
A Tale of Spiral Cookies and Strawberries
Joyeux Noël! I’m sorry for the lack of updates, I just came back from Korea a few days ago. It was a great and memorable trip, I’ll try to upload some photos when I have more free time. Meanwhile for this year’s Christmas, I had a chalet with my closest friends. Due to the lack…
Real Fruits Strawberry Cake
I know I said I’m going on a break. But I seriously cannot resist the urge anymore. Besides, I was conveniently baking another cake for an occasion (which you’ll know what it is very soon), so I might as well bake one more since the strawberries were on sale. Doesn’t hurt to have more cake…
Orange Cookies with Dark Chocolate Chips
It’s been a long while, isn’t it? I baked these cookies a pretty long while ago for my friends. But I never get around posting them. 😡 Besides mint and chocolate, another perfect match to me is orange and chocolate, especially with dark chocolate. And I absolutely love these cookies. This recipe comes from 500…
Chocolate Attack! Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’m back I’m back I’m back! These cookies were last week’s bake but since I forgot to bring my card reader to hostel, I can only update them today. Well, better late then never, right? 😀 I baked them primarily for my OG, but I ate quite a lot myself as well (I can feel…