Posted in Bulletin Board on May 10th, 2013
Another year, another cake! Well, at least I didn’t have to go buy my own birthday cake like last year. Hubby surprised me with this Chocolate Hazelnut cake from Bengawan Solo. Adorned with just berries, pistachio, and gold dust, the cake looks simple but classy. Inside: Three layers of chocolate sponge, sandwiched with fresh cream [...]
Posted in Special events on May 7th, 2013
Our family sampled this Mother’s Day cake from PrimaDeli, and it received the thumbs up from everyone! For Mother’s Day 2013, PrimaDeli has three World’s Best Mom cakes to choose from — Mixed Fruit, Blackforest, and Yummy Yam. We tried the Mixed Fruit — canned cocktail mixed fruits sandwiched between vanilla sponge, coated with white [...]
Posted in Eat-Out: Buffet on Dec 16th, 2012
The short story: Hearty English high tea buffet. Excellent sandwiches, scones, and Guinness beef stew. The long story: This post is way overdue, about 4 months backdated, to be exact. This was in August 2012, when I was in my last trimester, about a month before baby Meredith popped out! Gee. But I have such [...]
Posted in Recipe: Cakes, Cookies, Pastries, Desserts on Dec 11th, 2012
As promised, here’s the recipe for Fruit Pastry Cake (recipe source: Happy Homebaker Baker). Notes in blue are my own modifications.
Posted in Hubby's breakfast on Dec 7th, 2012
Haven’t been doing any baking since Baby Meredith arrived 2 months ago. Fingers itching to bake some cakes, so I browsed my favorite baking blogs for inspiration. Came across Happy Homebaker’s Fruit Pastry Cake recipe. This was a very popular recipe in the baking blogosphere a couple of years back, but I’ve yet to try [...]
Posted in Recipe: Cakes, Cookies, Pastries, Desserts on Aug 28th, 2012
Lately I’ve started baking again. But it’s just basic, no-fuss cakes like butter cakes. Came across this highly raved Sicilian orange cake recipe when surfing the net. Apparently, it was all the rage in the baking blogosphere way back in 2009. It’s actually a very simple recipe, but the result is a wonderfully buttery and [...]
Posted in Eat-Out: Desserts, Pastries, Snacks on Aug 1st, 2012
One of the most exciting new openings this year has got to be Grin Affair. They’ve been highly publicised in the media for their quirky and novel concept of cakes in jars. There are about 12 flavors on the menu. Basically, each flavor is a creation of layered cake and mousse. My companion and I [...]
Posted in Bulletin Board on May 10th, 2012
That’s my sweet 6-year-old niece Melissa and 9-month-old daughter Matilda wishing me Happy Birthday! Heh! Their cute faces are the best presents I could ever have! P.S. In case you’re wondering, that’s a mango mousse cake from Four Leaves Bakery. The image in this post was captured with Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V (review unit from Sony [...]
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