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Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there! It’s a little too early to wish my mum. In Mauritius, we celebrate on the last Sunday in May. Anyway, how was your weekend? I thought it went as quickly as it came! Oh by the way, did ya notice the new layout? We lunched at my [...]
Last year, I baked him a cheesecake. This year it’s a small chocolate cake An old fashioned chocolate cake actually The birthday boy – So not going to use thin long candles next time because they wouldn’t stand straight! The candles wouldn’t blow out because I used magic candles :) It’s a moist and spongy [...]
Morning and Happy Easter! :) How is the weekend so far? Mine has been good. I met the girlfriends at Brewerkz for dinner last night. The guys were watching a live soccer match and we, girls were just busy yakking with each other. It’s been two months since we last met. After dinner the group [...]
Evening all! Just came back from my sister’s place. Will blog about it tomorrow. I made these Prawn Cabbage Shroom cakes for lunch today. They are so quick and easy! Recipe follows … Ingredients 1/2 a green cabbage 5 prawn balls (or use fresh prawns) 5 shitake mushrooms 3 tbsp flour 1 egg spring onion, [...]
I’ve been contemplating baking a flourless cake since a while ago and I finally baked one! I made a very moist orange & almond cake. The recipe was adapted from both FoodSafari cooking show and from my Baking book. I had all the ingredients at home — 3 cups of ground almond (purchased from PhoonHuat [...]
I’ve made muffins a couple of times (using the mix dry and wet ingredients together) but I’ve never made cupcakes (using the creaming method) before! So I decided to make some buttermilk cupcakes. I used one recipe from my baking book but twisted it a little – I reduced the butter by almost half, added [...]
I baked a sweetened condensed milk cake yesterday :) I had a can of sweetened condensed milk in the pantry and after searching for recipes that use sweetened condensed milk, I came across one post on eatmedelicious with a recipe for Sweetened Condensed Milk Cake. The cake looked super easy to make (just need 5 [...]
I hardly bake cakes. I’ve only baked 5 round cakes in the past one year! I recently had this interest to experiment with cakes. By this I mean twisting the original recipe, like reducing the amount of sugar, oil or butter or simply using substitutes. Out of the 5 cakes, 2 turned out delicious (my [...]
Happy Birthday to the dear husband! I baked him a birthday cheesecake for his 29th birthday because he loves cheesecakes :) It was my first time baking a cheesecake and I have to say that it was pretty dang good :) Especially for a first timer haha. Dinner was very international! We have Indian (curry), [...]
