My 1st Home-made Snow Skin Mooncake

Marble Butter Cake

I bought a fruity cake book written by Alex Goh recently and find some of his recipes and methods easier for a amateur mommy baker like me... :)

So I started with the least ingredients needed like a butter cake. The marble effect was done using some coca powder and milk with a separate mixture. The whisking method was quite tedious for me when I am using a handheld electric whisk. I had to whisk the butter and sugar till light and fluffy state; and also the egg white and sugar till stiff peak. The most challenaging part was also when I had to fold in the flour into the butter and also the eggwhite later on.

Of course, with my gestational diabetes haunting me now and wanting my family to have some healthier home-baked cakes, I reduced the sugar by about 40%. Fortunately, the taste was still very nice.

I would say this cake was quite a success minus the fact that the flour and eggwhite wasn't folded in perfectly...

A Meaty Pork Dish...

I was wondering what to cook for today's dinner and managed to think of this dish using minced pork. Basically I add some oyster sauce, five-spice powder, cornstarch powder to marinate it. Then I pan-fried them using a shallow frying pan.

Giselle's daddy said it goes very well with rice just that they were a little too saltish... Oops!

Choc Chips Muffin

I had some chocolate chips left in the fridge and hence decided to do some mini-muffins. You can see from the picture above that it really has alot of choc chips. Haha.. Luckily I reduced alot of sugar for the batter so as to balance out the sweetness...

Giselle, being a sweet gal, tried to help me scoop the muffin mixture into the individual cups :)

I noticed that some of the muffins did smile very nicely but some not... weird? Don't know what exactly went wrong...

Blueberry Tart to try out... :)

Was trying to do a tart pastry from scratch and found this recipe which I modified abit.. Wasn't too bad though :)

Pork Ribs Prawn Noodle

Got the recipe from http://www.mywoklife.com/.

It is really very easy to cook and very yummy too!!!

Walnut Butter Cake

Since I have some walnuts at home, decided to try this Chef Judy's recipe again as I remember it to be very yummy when I did it in class with Stephanie.

However, maybe due to my age, I forgot to add in baking powder as required in the recipe. Luckily the cake still turns out to be very light and soft.

Sweet Buns

Tried this sweet bun recipe from happyhomebaking's blog but obviously I didn't shape it nicely enough. The texture of this bun was supposed to light and fluffy but but I just couldn't get enough of the fluffiness. Will give it a try again soon.

Matcha Chiffon

Another chiffon cake again. haha.

One of my good friends passed this recipe to me as my brother been wanted me to bake one for him. He said he tried once at Tampopo Jap Restuarant and it was very nice. I told him I don't have such standard but no harm trying out.

This round, my eggwhite couldn't obtain the good stiff peak that I wanted as my eggwhite wasn't pure enough. Wanted to redo but I had ran out of eggs. Hence, no choice, just have to continue with it.

The batter was abit watery compared to the usual chiffon batters that I did previously. Hence, instead of scooping the batter via wooden spoon into the cake tin, I just pour the whole batter into the chiffon tin.

The end result was a soft, dense chiffon cake. haha.

Cheese Chiffon Cake

Since NTUC was having promotion for cream cheese, I bought 2 blocks and tried my hands on Cheese Chiffon.

The end result was a soft, light and fluffy cake but I couldn't take much of the cheese though. I find it is more like a normal vanilla sponge cake. hehe.

Happy Mothers' Day to ALL!!!

Did a layered Strawberry-cum-Peaches Sponge cake to bring to my Parents-in-Law Place for a little gathering.

I bought a Japanese non-dairy cream from Meidiya to frost the cake. This is my 1st time using non-cream and you could see it wasn't well done at all. I have to use ice to keep the cream temperature while whipping it.

The cream melted a little when it was brought to my PIL house. Everyone enjoyed the cake though and the best thing is I forgot to take a picture of the interior after it was sliced out. Nevertheless, the cream was very very yummy!

Apple-Cinnamon Crumble Cake

I have always been a fan of Apple Crumble and hence when I chanced upon a similar recipe in a book, I told myself to give a try on it.

For the crumbs, it is just unsalted butter rubbed in self-rising flour (sifted with cinnamon powder). For the base, it is a layer of butter cake which is thinner than usual). I was lucky that the results was very good (according to my husband). The sourness of the apple gave the whole cake a nice taste when the crumbs and the butter cake were mixed with sugar. Luckily I reduced the sugar a whole lot :)

Raisins & Choc Chips Mini-Muffin

Wanted to bake some muffins for Giselle and hence got this recipe from happybakingmum's blog. This round I let Giselle joined in the process and she really enjoyed it very much. Of course, part of her enjoyment also came from messing up my ingredients... Haha!

Golden Baked Breaded Pork Cutlets

I copied a recipe from Internet quite some time ago and decided to try it today. Since it was baked in the oven, I find the overall texture rather dry. But the taste was quite alright.

However, this is a healthy version of a "deep-fried" food for kids.

Cotton Sponge Cake

Tried to bake a Cotton Sponge cake today and the taste and texture turned out to be quite alright. As this recipe doesn't call for Baking Powder, you could see this cake sank a little after it has cooled down. I reduced the sugar again so that I can distribute some to Giselle's classmates.

It is an 8-inch cake, hence, I definately can't finish it at home.

Pork & Lentil Burger Bento

This is consider my 1st lunch bento for Giselle. I am very happy that she finished everything in the box, except the papers, of course. haha.

She ate it after her Berries World class and told me she likes the coleslaw and burger very much :)

Pandan Chiffon - Part II

This is my 2nd attempt on the all-time favourite Pandan Chiffon. The texture this round is better than the previous round as it is more fluffy :) And also, I have reduced the sugar by 20% so that Giselle can eat more.

Organic Chewy Oatmeal Raisins Cookies

I bought a smiliar type of cookies from a neighbourhood provision shop and immediately fell in love with it. I chanced upon a recipe from happyhomebaking's blog and realised she did this sort of cookies before. The texture is really "muffin-like" and abit chewy.

http://happyhomebaking.blogspot.com/2007/03/chewy-oatmeal-raisins-cookies.html

i tried it out immediately using the organic ingredients that I have. The comment from my hubby is excellent!!! He couldn't stop eating them. Giselle loves it too but I didn't allow her to eat much as I find it abit too sweet for her. Will remember to reduce the sugar the next round when I bake again.

Pandan Chiffon

I managed to get the Coconut milk from Sheng Siong since I am around the area this morning. Finally get to bake this popular chiffon with the recipe from Prima website. I replaced the green colouring and pandan juice by just getting the Pandan Paste from Phoon Huat. Saved me alot of trouble too.

The recipe is just right for a 7" chiffon tin but I didn't dare to pour all the batter into the tin for fear it may overflow, hence, I put the baked the remaining batter in 5 cupcake tins.

The texture is very soft. In addition, the fragrant and sweetness was just right for me. Since my uncle is also a fan of Pandan Chiffon, I gave the whole chiffon to my uncle who is flying to Hong Kong this week :)

Golden Citrus Chiffon

Tried this recipe today again after I have graduated from cake making (foundation) class by Creative Culinaire. The texture is just right but I found it still too sweet after I reduced the sugar abit. Next round I am going to be more daring with the reduction of sugar.

The next project will be the Pandan Chiffon since Adrian likes this very much.