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Today is Christmas Eve. Have you plan anything for tonight?? My family and I, we are attending the Christmas Eve mass in the Cathedral. I love the Christmas Eve mass as you can hear the lovely voices from the choir group singing the Christmas Hymns and Carols. Forever Friends is sending a gift to you!!!  可爱的小熊圣诞红丝绒杯子蛋糕祝你圣诞快乐！！  Velvet cupcakes without the FF topper, just cream cheese rosette frosting! With Santa FF bear topper. Which one do you like? The rosette frosting or the FF bear topper? :D This velvet cupcake is moist and dense. It pair very well with the cream cheese frosting.  Christmas Velvet Cupcakes （圣诞红丝绒杯子蛋糕） Recipe adapted from 星期天的烘焙时光-郑荣仙者 （this book is in Chinese - Home Baking by Parandal) makes: 5 cupcakes Ingredients for velvet cupcake: 70g unsalted butter  80g castor sugar  1 egg 55g sour cream 35g milk  88g plain flour  12g cocoa powder  1/2 tsp baking powder  1 tsp r...

Forever Friends bears are so adorable! Don't you think so?? They can be seen on any greeting cards, as plush toy, as computer wall paper, as calender cover, almost anywhere you want them to be.  I have never thought that I would make them with fondant until a friend request me to help her to make a birthday cake for her hubby. She send me a picture of what she want. A heart shaped sponge cake with 1 bear topper. Then I tell her that 1 bear seems like too lonely. Let make 2 bears together. She wants a really adorable, cute and sweet bear. Hmmm...  I made the first bear and send her a picture. She then asked me 'Only one??' Then i send the the following picture.. below I made her this pair of Forever Friends - couple. She replied 'O i love it!' Then she asked me again 'Where is the cake??' Then i send her another picture ...    This is the whole cake with the FF on top of the heart shaped snow cheesecake. Personally i feel its lik...

Bake Along #59 this round is baking 'Cream Cheese Brownies from 'How To Be A Domestic Goddess"  Nigella Lawson. Baking this brownie is easy and  the method is straight forward. No beating or using the mixer at all. Just mix, stir and pour BUT this one is quite different. There is a step which is quite challenging that is adding the cream cheese part. I chilled the cream cheese before slicing it into thin pieces but my hands are too warm. The cream cheese become soft and its can't be slice so i had to flatten the cheese with my fingers.  I would like to thank Joyce and Zoe for helping me out when i send SOS for help!!  Hahaha!! you must be thinking what is the connection of baking with SOS.. Want to know why?? scroll down and  i will tell you why...:D This Cream Cheese Brownies is so delicious till my youngest ask for more the second day..:p I used unsweetened chocolate instead of bittersweet chocolate. At first I have not idea how to...

Hi, hi, hi, everyone, I hope you have a great day and a great week! I have been MIA for a while again...:p hope that I will not after this .. lols It's a rainy day here today....We actually have been having shower rain in the morning for this few days. Monday was bad, it was raining the whole day. Tuesday was not too bad, there was some clear sky in the afternoon, Wednesday and yesterday was bad, it was raining the whole day, heavy shower rain. Today is a cloudy day with just a light shower rain. It is cool and nice when doing baking in the kitchen but fetching the kids from school is not that convenience ><~  ...This was drafted last week and it is about last week. How about this week ??  Today is a great sunny day in the morning but in the afternoon there is a light shower rain. Hope that the weather will turn sunny and bright on this Chinese New Year .. This is the first month for Little Thumbs Up in year 2014. Last year was a great year...

Saw this mini cheese bread in "Original Flavor' while browsing through the book. Thought it is quite interesting. No need to shape the bread dough after mixing and kneading. All you need to do is to roll out the bread dough flat and square. Then cut into small cubes. Let it rise until it is 1.5 of it size and bake in the oven.  在 '原味' 看到这一口乳酪面包,好喜欢呢!! 一口一粒肯定回吃个不停咯...哈哈哈 有微微的乳酪香,软软的面包,真的不错吃 ^_^ Sam called this parmesan cheese bites, he just can't stop eating one after another. The taste is a mild parmesan taste and the texture is soft.   I like it with extra cheese, so i slice small piece of cheddar cheese, cut a small slit at the side and sandwich the cheese in ^_^ yum..yum   微 微的 帕马森干酪香, 再夹上一小片车达乳酪更佳呢 ^_^ 一口接一口, 甜中带点咸, 哎哟!! 忍不住多吃几个!!   Texture of this mini bread is fine and soft. It is still soft even the next day :D 面包的蛮柔软呢,留到第二天还软软 :D Wanna try some... help yourself with one, two and three bites   ^_^ 来吃, 一,二,...

Cold Oven cake?? Never attempt to bake a cold oven cake before. I would love to give it a go and see how it goes!!  您有尝试过烤蛋糕不预热烤箱吗?? 我呢!!就是想尝试做这个免预热烤箱的乳酪磅蛋糕, 看看效果如何?? Guess what?? I baked twice...the first baked i used a heart shape bundt baking pan and 2 small silicone cup cake mould. These cakes turn out to be good but something happen. When i unmould the heart shape cake it dropped out and break into two:o but the cake taste really good. So i decide to bake another time. 这食谱我做了两次..第一次做,用了一个心形和2个小杯. 当在脱模时蛋糕被我不小心摔破了:( 就不给你看丑丑的了.. 第二次就做了一个心形和一个小长条的蛋糕. 这次我自己很满意. 我用了 Mich 所用的食谱. 她把杯的量转换到克的量了,简单多了. 谢谢她!! This is the second baked which i am impressed, a cold oven cake turn out to be a really nicely brown, soft and delicious cake. Whereas the first cake is taste nice only that it doesn't brown nicely and it is a bit dense.  虽然第一次有意外不很理想不过第二次可就很满意了.. 原来, 免预热烤箱烤出来的蛋糕也可以这么松软好吃!! 我家的大小宝贝都爱爱爱..:D This is the freshly baked from a cold oven...免预热烤箱的两蛋糕 '出炉了...