Birthday Gifts!!!

A new set of baking equipment from both my sons

My favorite CD from a good friend(Yin)

A beautiful portrait of me from a fine young man, Tim.

Birthday!!!

A Slice of coffee sponge cake with lemon cream cheese topping and almond nuts.

My birthday cake! Age : secret!

Yesterday was my birthday! I baked this coffee sponge with lemon zest cream cheese topping.The taste was good except I need to improve on the cake texture. It was rather "springy". I thought it would be better if it had more "body".....

My preference are butter cakes. I have very positive feedbacks about my butter cakes. However when I use either whipped cream or cream cheese topping, I will need to chill the cake as the topping taste better chilled. Unfortunately the texture of chilled butter cakes are more "compact" and "heavy".

So I decided to try baking sponge cake instead.... and so begins my journey of a thousand miles in sponge cake baking !

Deep Fried Char Siew

Deep Fried Char Siew

Ingredients:

3 strips of pork belly ( each strips cut into 3 pieces)

5 or more tablespoon of brown sugar ( YES! A lot of sugar)

2 tablespoon of light soya sauce

Method:

Marinate pork belly with sugar and soya sauce. Leave it in the fridge overnight.

Deep- fry pork till brown or cook.

Taiping Wan Tan Mee

BEFORE........ raw

AFTER!!! ready to eat!

Few weeks ago, my friend(Yvonne) gave me some raw Wan Tan Mee she brought back from Taiping. I was happy to have it, not realising that it was THE BEST wan tan mee I've received!

I cooked the noodles and have it for lunch! It tasted very nice. It's texture was different from the one I bought from the wet market.Later, I found out that Taiping is famous for it's Wan Tan Mee. wow....

The first round I cooked the noodles without Char Siew and Wan Tan. When I realized the noodles was so nice, I kept the rest till I bought some pork to make Char Siew and Wan Tan so that the Wan Tan Mee can be eaten at it's best!

Keep a look out for my next posting on homemade Char Siew and Wan Tan!

Mini Choc Cupcakes

Variety 1 : chocolate toppings with colourful sugary flowers

Variety 2 : Chocolate toppings with mini MM sweets

Variety 3 : Chocolate toppings with chocolate nibs

Mini Choc Cupcakes

Descriptions:

Moist Chocolate Cake with chocolate icing and chocolate nibs.

Suitable for small gatherings / finger-food menu parties / kids parties.

Size:

Mini cupcakes about the size of 50 cents coin

Ingredients:

Self-raising flour, butter, sugar, eggs, good quality chocolate and cocoa powder, vanilla essence.

Orders must be placed 2 days in advance. Cake will be baked the night before (for collection in the next morning) or the same day (for collection in the afternoon or evening).

Collections of cakes are available from Monday to Saturday only.

Minimum orders :36 mini cupcakes

Selling Price:

36 mini cupcakes - RM22/=

48 mini cupcakes - RM30/=

Banana Walnut Cupcakes

Banana Walnut Cupcakes

Descriptions:

Banana walnut butter cake

Size:

Standard cupcakes with diameter 2.5”

Ingredients:

Self-raising flour, butter, sugar, eggs, bananas, walnuts, vanilla essence.

Orders must be placed 2 days in advance. Cake will be baked the night before (for collection in the next morning) or the same day (for collection in the afternoon or evening).

Collections of cakes are available from Monday to Saturday only.

Minimum orders: 6 cupcakes

Selling Price:

6 cupcakes – RM 10/=

9 cupcakes – RM 12/=

Scandinavian Blackcurrant Sponge Cake

I found a great way to get rid of a bottle of jam which we bought 2 months ago. We didn't like the taste of the jam as it was sour.
Today, I baked a butter sponge cake and spread the jam on it.
Guess what? The cake and the jam disappeared so quickly that I had to bake another round for CK!