my little favourite DIY

~ Caterpillar buns with butter cream filling ...毛毛虫奶油霜面包~ Have been missing this butter cream buns for a long long time. My hubby love this very very much. He loves the butter cream...fattening right?? BUT this is really delicious. Margerine vs Butter with is healthier for you?? ~ These caterpillar buns is piped on with custard stripes and is  going to the oven now... ~ ~ It is cooked, just cut a slit in the middle of the caterpillar buns then piped butter cream into it ~ ~ It is done..sprinkle some icing sugar and serve...:) 做好了..筛上少许的糖粉就可以吃了.. ^^ ~

... Fried Doughnuts..:D  My boys love to eat doughnuts. Doughnut is a old time favorites. I guess it one of your old time memories too. My eldest, Shawn has been requesting for this for a long time. I dare not do this because worried it is too 'heaty' for him. Heaty?? what will happen?? He will have sore throat > start a bit of cough ...and so on...  Anyway, recently I found he is in a well condition so I decided to make him some.  ~ Shake the doughnut in a bag of castor sugar... 把甜甜圈放入加了少许幼糖的胶袋,摇一摇就可以了 ~ I know there is friends out there sharing baked doughnut recipe, saying it is more health and it is not heaty. I still find frying the doughnut gives a kind of special taste in it...hahaha of course this is my personal opinion...:D What is heaty, yin and yang?  Find this word funny..right? If you are Asian you will understand what does it mean but if you are not then here is 'What it means?' I got the answer, here: What are heaty and...

~ Two longevity peaches ...一对壽桃~ My youngest son's nanny is going to attend her sister's 62th birthday dinner. She wanted to give her sister a basket of Longevity Peaches... a total of 62 pieces for her birthday celebration. I volunteer to make the 62 pieces of Longevity Peaches for her. These is my trial Longevity Peaches ...:p ~ Hand made..every piece is a master piece of different sizes peach... big n small ...:D 手工做的..每一个都是经典...哈哈是有大有小~ Ingredient for pau skin: This recipe is the same as my 'Hello Kitty paus'  300gms Hong Kong flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp instant yeast 70gms castor sugar 120ml water 25gms shortening or vegetable oil some red bean paste-rolled into small balls (18-20gms per piece) some paper cup cases some pandan paste To do: 1) Mix the ingredients together and knead into a smooth dough. (I used my bread machine to mix and knead for 20 minutes.) 2) Covered the dough and let it sit for 5 minutes. 3) After 5 minutes knead again until it is...

This Mocha Cheese Cake is very Mocha...why do I said that?? Once you see this cake you can smell the scent of mocha and you will feel like having a piece immediately.. Texture of this cake is soft, smooth, moisture, velvety and which the Mocha ..its heaven..haha ..really it worth trying.. I mean you must try this if you like MOCHA..;)   ~ mui mui like to slice this Mocha cheeseCake into little square pieces... 喜欢把这个 摩卡 蛋糕切成小方块~   ~ the 3 layers, that is plain-mocha-plain...三层式~原味-摩卡-原味  ~ Mocha Cheese Cake Recipe is adpated from Malaysian Women's Weekly ~ December 2007 ( I do make a little changes ) Ingredients: 500g cream cheese-room temperature 80g butter -room temperature 300g castor sugar- I used 250g  3 medium-size eggs 6 tbsps double creme-I used dairy whipping cream 120g all purpose flour-sifted twice 1 tbsp baking powder-sifted twice Coffee mixture (mixed well) 3 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp warm water- I used 2 1/2 tbsp 2 tbsp coffee essence...

I have a pack of sour cream laying in my fridge for weeks. Have to use it up before the expired date. B een looking for a new cheesecake recipe to use up my sour cream. I search high n low in goggle search and found this really worth visiting piece of  blog...         This blog is 'Do What I Like' ...owner is FL, a sweet lady who lives in HK. I found this 'Tiger Stripes cheesecake' in her blog. The first look at it, I love the tiger stripes of the cake. Thank to her for sharing such 'a rich, soft, smooth and creamy in texture..sinful' ..that what she share in words...:) ~ Unmould the cake, only after keeping it in the fridge for a night ..~ ~ I am using a cake cutting board to cut this cake. With this board I can measure the size that I need and slice it nice and neat ~ ~ a clean cut. ..(^^)~ ~ Again..a slice for YOU..~ This cake have two parts..the base and the cheese filling. You need a 18cm loose bottom...

~ Hello Kitty with a big yellow nose ...:p Hello Kitty 猫咪有个大黄鼻子....呵呵~ ~ A pink ribbon and a polka dot ribbon, a big nose and a small nose..which one do you like ??...粉红的小蝴蝶和小白波点的小分红蝴蝶结...大鼻子和小鼻子...哪个你喜欢呢?~ ~ Hello Kitty's whisker and eyes is piped on after steaming with cooking chocolate... Kitty猫的眼睛和须须是蒸熟了后用溶化巧克力挤上就可以了 ~ ~This cute kitty is a cat without a mouth....:p.. 这猫咪是...没有嘴巴的猫... :p ~ ~ Take a picture...123 ... Say Cheeseee ......拍张照吧!!!... 123 ..笑...嘻嘻~ Hello Kitty Pau...Hello Kitty 猫咪蒸包 Recipe is adapted from: Chinese Buns...recipe book 食谱是来者之: '包好吃' 书 Ingredient for pau dough: 300gms Hong Kong flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp instant yeast 70gms castor sugar 120ml water 25gms shortening or vegetable oil some red bean paste-rolled into small balls (18-20gms per piece) some paper cup cases To do: 1) Mix the ingredients together and knead into a smooth dough. (I used my bread machine to mix and knead for 20 minutes.) 2) Covered the dough and let it sit fo...

~ A cupcake ... 小杯子蛋糕~  A friend asked 'Do you make cupcakes for children's birthday?' I asked 'For whose child?' She answer 'For my girl..Its her birthday tommorow...' I baked her (JS) 12 little cupcakes. Happy Birthday to her little angel...^^ ~ Baked two sets of 22 little cupcakes  .... 做了食谱的两份...22粒小杯子蛋糕 ~ This is a last minutes preparation. JS requested to have pink icing on the cupcakes and a simple decoration. I happen to have some sugar gum paste dolly, some jelly beans and some candy hearts so I make use of them. All this little little things really comes in handy when you need it. ~ 12 cuppies for her little angel  ....  12小杯是小天使的 ~ ~ Happy Birthday to Eileen ~ Guess what?? I still have some left over icing and cupcakes..so...I make  some  for ourselves  ... ~ The pink icing left not much so I added in a little white icing, it turn out that the pink become pastel pink...nice ~ ~ The sugar gum paste dolly is really cut...