These soft and sweet butter coconut buns are super easy to make with my step-by-step pictorial to guide you! This is the only sweet bun dough recipe you’ll need. Fill with your favourite sweet and savoury fillings. Double or triple to make a large batch for any picnic or tea […]
Japanese strawberry shortcake is an ethereally light and creamy dessert made of deliciously moist and fluffy sponge cake layers, filled with sliced strawberries in Chantilly cream. Decorate with luscious whole strawberries and cream – and – for that extra special yummm, sprinkle lavishly with white chocolate curls! My, oh my! Has […]
Indonesian layer cakes are decadently moist, gloriously buttery and wonderfully aromatic. These layered butter cakes are loved for their richly sweet and spiced-infused flavours, and often tinged with dashes of liquor – rum or brandy being the usual favourites! Here, these cakes are given a fresh twist by layering dried fruit, […]
Oh, the yummm continues! Two posts ago, I wrote of a drool-inspiring, rich and creamy, homemade Nonya kaya (coconut jam), that we Singaporeans (and visitors alike, who are as much into our food culture as we are) enjoy in characteristic Singaporean fashion. Spread lavishly onto thick or wafer-thin slices of toasted, soft […]
Kaya (a Malay word meaning ‘rich’) is a coconut egg jam, widely eaten as a spread over toasted bread, soft buns, and as a cake filling or topping. It has a smooth texture, is creamy and rich tasting, made primarily with coconut milk and eggs, subtly flavoured with pandan leaves, and […]
A super easy, simple and tested recipe that turns out a soft, tender, and moist chocolate vanilla swirly marble cake, perfect for everyday tea. If you haven’t yet pinned marble cakes on your list of must-bake treats, it’s time to re-think that list! Because marble cakes aren’t just good, they […]
Fragrant, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth pineapple tarts are even more delicious when made with home-made pineapple jam (filling) and the perfect sweet shortcrust pastry dough. Last week, I thought I’d get working on my list of must-have, home-made, festive Chinese New Year goodies (and at the same time, pen a series of […]
An excellent easy-to-bake recipe for durian Indonesian layer cake (durian lapis cake), fit for your everyday tea treat, or the festive Lunar New Year. Hello everyone! This is my first post in 2016 (!!!). I know I’ve been away for quite a while – it’s all been a whirlwind of travelling, feasting […]
A very easy-to-follow recipe for a Chinese dim sum favourite, ma lai gao (馬拉糕), or Chinese steamed sponge cake, that’s extremely soft and springy, fluffy, and tasty! When you think of making ma lai gao (馬拉糕) or Chinese steamed sponge cake, think of the saying, “Good things come to those who […]
A quick method recipe for this dim sum and tea-time favourite, delicious Chinese steamed sponge cake. Don’t you just love it when a cake comes together perfectly? And in just a few simple steps, you too can make this fragrant, moist, soft and fluffy, Chinese steamed sponge cake (ma lai […]
This all-time popular cake recipe post just got a whole lot better! Now updated with step-by-step photos, so whether you’re a novice or experienced baker, you can easily bake up and savour this incredibly rich , marvellously moist and super buttery cake. Update! Dear readers, I hear you! You’ve been […]
A traditional Chinese dessert of glutinous rice balls (tang yuan) filled with sweet black sesame paste in a fragrant sweet osmanthus and ginger soup. This is a very much loved Chinese dessert that I could never have too much of, or too often. If I could trot everyday to my […]