Category Archives: Sweet

Strawberry Coconut Ice

If you’ve been following my blog for some time, you might recall the Ice Cream Slice recipe I posted a little over a year ago. Many of you tried the recipe with much success and wrote to tell me about … Continue reading

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Buttermilk Biscuits

After I made my most recent batch of corn fritters, I was left with the age-old problem: What to do with the leftover buttermilk? Besides using the buttermilk to make pancakes or red velvet cupcakes (neither of which I felt … Continue reading

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Billowy Blueberry Cheesecake

What do we do when we want to bake something but our mind draws a blank? Easy. We ask the husband what he wants to eat. “Blueberry Cheesecake!” come the exuberant reply. Ok – so we make Blueberry Cheesecake. And what … Continue reading

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Classic Brownies

*This post made it to the Foodbuzz Daily Top 9 on 22 Feb 2011!* 12 days, 540 brownies. Yup, that’s the amount of time I have left to bake that many brownies. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked … Continue reading

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Chinese Cornflake Cookies

I am pleased as punch. I finally made a batch of cornflake cookies that I’m happy with after two failed attempts. Third time lucky, as they say. =) I love cornflake cookies, and while they’re a fairly well-known Chinese New … Continue reading

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What A Treat!

Such a long time since my last post, I thought I might never blog again! But I’m too excited about the Christmas treats I’ve made this year to not blog, so here’s one last post for the holidays. Because I … Continue reading

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Pasta Frolla Thumbprint Cookies & Other Christmas Ideas

For those of you who read my previous post in its entirety, you might have realised that I had 1/4 of my pasta frolla (i.e. the dough that became the crostata tart crust) left unused. We were informed in the … Continue reading

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Crostata di Longan (Daring Baker Challenge Nov 2010)

I finally joined the Daring Baker Challenge. The daring what, you say? The Daring Kitchen is a society of sorts, consisting of two chapters: the Daring Bakers, and the Daring Cooks. The Daring Bakers are a bunch of crazy people … Continue reading

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Chocolate Fruit Cake

*This post made it to the Foodbuzz Daily Top 9 on 21 Nov 2010!* Ah, my first festive bake… My Japanese class decided to throw a little party today, as a kind of send-off for one of our classmates who … Continue reading

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Gordon Ramsay’s Chocolate Mousse

In early October a good fried of mine from college and her fiance were in town, and we had the pleasure of hosting them for dinner. While I was delighted to cook for them, I did have to spend a … Continue reading

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