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Pineapple nastar rollis our family's favorite CNY cookie. Without fail, we will bake pineapple tarts every year for Chinese New Year. Over the past few years, I have been using this recipe and have made slight amendments to further improve it.Some minor changes that I have made to improve the...
For Hubby's birthday this year, he requested for a simple butter cake. When we were at the supermarket buying groceries, he saw some desiccated coconut and asked that I add it to the cake. This was an experiment of sorts, so I was happy that it turned out really well!Coconut butter cake with Crème...
Every year, without fail, we would bake gingerbread biscuits with our kids. They enjoy it very much and look forward to baking them and then giving them away as gifts to their friends and teachers. It's nice that this has become a family tradition for us at Christmas time.This time, the kids made mini...
Hello December! I'm so excited that December is finally here, because it means that we're merely 24 days away from Christmas ;) For the whole month of December, I will be sharing tons of recipes which you can try out for your festive celebrations.Let's start with something sweet... these mini lemon meringue...
Since Halloween is drawing close (31st Oct!), we decided to do some Halloween bakes with the kids. We had some overripe bananas, so banana loaf it is! You can also make this using a butter cake base, but banana loaf is good for this recipe as banana loaves are not very pretty and that makes it perfect for...
After our success in making the no-knead wholemeal bread, we decided to experiment and make a version with half wholemeal, half plain flour. This resulted in a less dense, lighter loaf which our kids prefer. Furthermore, I added in raisins, a sure winner with my kids. Again, this is a no-knead recipe, which...
This year, we had a week-long celebration for our children's birthday. We had cake after cake (usually over the weekend so the whole family can celebrate together) so Baby C was not expecting a cake on her actual birthday. Since mummy and daddy had the time, we thought it would be nice to surprise her with...
What time is it?It's Cookie O'Clock ;)This school holidays, we did a fair bit of baking at home. One of the things the kids really enjoyed making were German cookies. We made them before twice during CNY, and even then, they had enjoyed the simple tasks of rolling the dough into balls and then imprinting...
Hello everybody! It's "Kids in the Kitchen" time again ;)The kids were itching to bake in the kitchen, so I looked up an easy recipe that they can do and found this recipe for "Chorley Cakes" in James Martin's cookbook. Chorley cake is a flattened, fruit filled shortcrust pastry cake originating from the...
AssalamualaikumBaking time! ok let's go for Brownies uolls..Rujukan : One Lovely LiveBahan-bahannya :1⅓c semi-sweet chocolate chips (use best quality-Guittard or Ghiradelli)5 Tbsp butter1tsp vanilla2 eggs¾c sugar¼tsp salt3 Tbsp baking cocoa⅓c flourCara Membuatnya :Cairkan cip coklat dan mentega guna...
Lately, we've been seeing lots of bread made using Le Creuset Dutch Oven's so we decided to jump on the bandwagon too. Well, Hubby did - my job this time is purely EATING!This is a pretty straightforward recipe - activate the yeast, knead the dough, rise, punch down, second rise and then bake. The...
If we make something in our kitchen three days in a row, we know we're on to something good. We first made this cinnamon and raisin loaf during the long weekend and it was so good, that we made it again and again.Cinnamon and Raisin LoafOne of the reasons why we love it so much is that it is very easy to...
Mother's Day falls on 10 May this year (this Sunday!), and if you're thinking of baking your mom something for this special day, here are 8 easy desserts which you can consider. Click on the names for full recipe.1. Moist butter cakeButter cake is MY mom's favorite cake, so I make it pretty often for her.
Right after making the gingernut biscuits, the kids declared "Mummy, we want to bake more stuff!""Okay little bosses." I quickly flipped through my recipe book to find another easy recipe and we settled on this spiced rock buns. Rock buns (or rock cakes) are a traditional British tea time treat, which are...
Since it's a long weekend here in KL, I promised the kids that we could do some baking. So here we are baking another easy biscuit recipe from Delia Smith's cookbook - gingernuts.I usually try to find recipes which uses cup measurements as it's easier for the kids, but this time the recipe uses gram...
We're having a long weekend here in KL, thanks to the Labour Day and Wesak public holidays. Since the kids are off school, we are planning on doing some baking this weekend. If you are thinking of doing the same with your kids, here's a nice, easy recipe for you to try with them.Carrot cupcakes with cream...
I was looking for an easy biscuit recipe that I can make for the kids while they were in school. I flipped through Delia's cookbook and bookmarked a few recipes. This whole oat crunchies recipe in particular caught my attention as it is described as "the quickest and easiest biscuits I've ever made". Sounds...
So, I've transformed from a person who fears baking bread to an enthusiastic baker, all thanks to my successful attempt in making hot cross bunsand other breads.Quick Easy No-Knead Wholemeal BreadAnother bread recipe which I recently tried from Delia's cookbook is this quick and easy no-knead...
One ingredient we always have in our fridge are lemons. We especially love adding them to our drinks, and one week we had a surplus of them, so I decided to make muffins with the kids. We chose to make lemon and orange poppy seed muffins.When life hands you lemons, make lemon muffins ;)This recipe appealed...
Other than vegetables and herbs, we also plant fruit trees in our garden. Currently, we have kedondong (ambarella), guava, passion fruit, soursop, custard apple, Vietnam apples, pineapple and bananas. And last month, we harvested our first bunch of bananas.It was actually an unintentional harvest, as one...
