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This year my mum is in Taiwan on Mother's Day so we celebrate a belated Mother's Day...^^ when she is back. My mum make a special request from me. She requested a Fruits Cake for her Mother's Day cake. This is the cake I made for my mum. Instead of hazel nuts I add in almonds. I love the smell of almonds when you bake it. Hmmm.... its so so... awesome. This is a more simple version Fruits Cake. If you love Fruits Cake you must try this. Ingredients: 120g raisins 60g dried black currants 60g dried apricots 60g dried pineapple 40g dried green grapes 40g dried plums 80g hazelnuts and mixed peel 30g glace cherries 60ml rum 120g butter 120g soft brown sugar 2 eggs 120g plain flour 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg 30ml rum **I use brandy instead of rum in my Fruits Cake. **you can use any combination of fruits as long as it is 500g, eg I am using packed mixed fruits. To do: 1) Preheat oven to 170c. 2) Prepare a...

My dear hubby's and Shawn's birthday falls on April. My hubby loves this New York Cheese Cake since having it once in Secret Recipe. My distributor HW brought us there when he is back from Singapore. This is New York CheeseCake before I decorate it. I made this cheesecake specially for Simon ~my hubby~ for his birthday. NEW YORK CHEESE CAKE I ngredients for the base crust: 24 pieces of oreo biscuits~crushed into crumbs 3 tbsp brown sugar 100g/3 tbsp butter ~melted Method: Mix all the base ingredients together and press into the base of a 23' loose bottom baking tray. Set aside. Ingredients for the cheese cake filling: 1100g Philadephia cream cheese~ soften 1 cup castor sugar 3 tbsp plain flour 1 tbsp vanilla essence 1 cup sour cream 4 eggs Method: 1) Beat the cream cheese until it is smooth. Add in castor sugar mix well. 2) Add in plain flour and vanilla essence mix to combine. 3) Pour in sour cream and beat until it is well blend in medium speed. 4) Beat in eggs o...

Shawn's birthday falls on April like his daddy's birthday. He is looking forward to have a dinner with all his uncle and aunty friends. Firstly, he will celebrate in his tadika with his school mates and classmates. This cake I made for him is his second part of his birthday celebration. This is a White and Dark Chocolate Mousse Cake. This is also another white and dark chocolate mousse cake that I make for Boey, Shawn's cousin jie jie. Only this one decoration is a bit different...^^ Side view of this cake is simple only. Ingredients for the Chocolate sponge cake: 125g sponge mix 1 tbsp cocoa powder 30gm milk 45gm melted butter 3 eggs To do: 1) Beat sponge mix, cocoa powder and eggs for 2 minutes. Pour in the milk and beat for another 7-8 minutes or until the mixture is double volume. Fold in the melted butter. 2) Pour into a 23cm baking tray. Bake at 175c for 20 minutes. 3) After the sponge cake is cool, slice it into 2 pieces. Set aside. Ingredients for dark chocolate mo...

Its afternoon tea again, today we are having cream corn bun. This is a corn shape bun, looks like a seashell. I like this because I can filled it with any flavour of cream. Like this ones I filled it with blueberry cream cheese, Mmm.....yum. Blueberry Cream cheese corns These are the corns, fresh from the oven....:p 非常可爱 的贝壳小面包。。 These are the empty corns before filling in the cream... 你喜欢什么馅？奶油吗？还是芝士呢？ 。。。 自己 DIY 吧！。。。（^^) Ingredients for sweet dough: 300ml cold water 7 tbsp castor sugar 1/2 tsp salt 500g bread flour 2 tbsp milk powder 40g butter 2 tsp instant yeast To do: I am using Noxxa breadmaker machine to do this bun. 1) Put in all the above ingredients one by one into the bread pan. 2) Press mode 10, it will take about 55 minutes included first time proof for the dough. 3) When is ready, take out the dough and light floured the work surface to prevent the dough from sticking. 4) Divide the dough into 30gms-40gm...

Haha..I saw this spiderman buns in a bakery magazine in a bookstore. I found it very interesting. I decided to do them for Shawn and Sam for a surprise. Ingredients for the dough: 250ml cold water 50g whip cream 7 tbsp castor sugar 1/2 tsp salt 500g bread flour 2 tbsp milk powder 40g butter 2 tsp instant yeast Method: 1) Again I use Noxxa Bread maker to make my dough. Put all the ingredients into the bread pan. First add in wet ingredients, then dry ingredients. 2) Press mode 11, this mode included mix, knead and first proof of dough. 3) When the dough is ready just take it out from the bread pan and divide into 30g each round doughs. You will approximately have 30 buns. 4) Cover it and leave it for 10 minutes before wrapping in the filling. 5) You can wrap in any filling you like from red bean paste, cream cheese filling, peanut butter etc. For me I wrap in a buttermilk filling, my Shawn loves it. 6) After wrapping in the filling, place it on a greased baking tra...

This is a Chilled Marble CheeseCake, its a simple yet a real nice dessert. Its a smooth cream cheese with the mix taste of dark chocolate rum and vanilla and a sweet biscuit base. You could prepare it for a Saturday night dessert when have friends coming over for a dinner. ~Chilled Marble Cheese Cake~ I am using Dark Toblerone with almond nougat in this chilled cheese cake... ^^ The base of this cake I am using sweet biscuits. You can use digestive biscuits too. Base ingredients: 150g digestive biscuits 60g melted butter Ingredients for the filling: 250g cream cheese 80g castor sugar 1 egg 1 tbsp gelatine powder 2 tbsps water 250ml whipping cream ~ whipped 1 tbsp rum 60g dark chocolate 1 tsp vanilla essence Method to make base: 1) Finely crush biscuits. Combine with melted butter. 2) Press into a base of 20cm round cake tin. Chilled in fridge for 20 minutes. Method to make filling: 1) Mix gelatine powder with 2 tbsps water in a bowl. Stand the bowl in hot water until the...

Muffins could be a very filling kind of snack. It can be a breakfast or tea time snacks. I like this muffin because it had carrot in it. Kids sometimes do not like vegetable and with the carrot in a muffin they will eat without realizing there is carrot in the muffin...... ^^ Carrots and Walnut Muffins Ingredients (A): 125ml corn oil 125g brown sugar 1 large egg Ingredients (B): 105g self raising flour 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp cinnamon a pinch of salt Ingredients (C): 100g carrots (grated) 35g walnuts (chopped) 40g pineapple(crunch and drain) Method; 1) Preheat oven at 180c. 2) Beat ingredients (A) until well combined. 3) Add in ingredients (B). 4) Fold in ingredients (C) and pour into ready muffins cases or paper cups. 5) Bake for 18 to 22 minutes. **If you like to frost these muffins, you could do that too with cream cheese frosting. Ingredients for cream cheese frosting: 125g cream cheese 1 cup icing sugar 1 tsp lemon juice Met...