A very dear friend of mine requested for some cupcakes as part of her birthday celebration.
This friend has been supportive of my baking hobby right from the first time I met her, and she tells me that she visits my blog here to take a look at the pictures I’ve posted up when she’s having […]
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Actually baked these cupcakes about a year ago when I first got hold of this cupcakes recipe book (page 24). Although I’ve acquired many more baking books on cupcakes over the year, this remains as one of my favourite cupcakes recipe book.
This recipe is a little different from most of the cupcake base recipes I’ve come across […]
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I cannot emphasize more on how much I love green tea. And I don’t like to prepare my green tea with tea leaves; I like to make them from matcha, which is effectively green tea powder used during Japanese tea ceremony. The quality ones don’t come cheap, and it was my good fortune that I had […]
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The hubby is in love with the chocolate cupcakes which I made for him slighty more than a week ago (and I really have Joycelyn Shu’s recipe to thank for). So, when I asked him if he wanted a chocolate cake or chocolate cupcakes for his birthday, he wasted no breath (or time, for that matter) […]
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The picture above speaks volumes for itself, doesn’t it?
Yes! At this moment, there is a pink Artisan series KitchenAid sitting proudly on top of my black granite counter-top in my kitchen. I shan’t go into the full details about how I finally decided on the pink KitchenAid; let’s just say that I left home awfully […]
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I actually did not bake these cookies recently; baked them last year in June and brought them to the office for the colleagues to try. The recipe kind of reappeared as I was tidying my study room.
I’m not exactly a huge fan of bananas although I don’t mind them and honestly, I’m not too proud […]
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I’ve taken half-day leave from work again, to attend Joycelyn Shu’s cupcake workshop held at Shermay’s. This Level II workshop is of course a continuation from Level I workshop I attended 2 Fridays back.
I had initially thought that attendance in Level I is a prerequisite to admittance into Level II, but I obviously thought wrong. […]
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Am not sure if any of you noticed it, but my blog theme has been resetting to the default theme on an irregular basis since I changed the theme a few days back. It also happened before in the past when I tried another theme. Back then, I thought that theme was unstable, hence I […]
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When one mentions madeleines, French author Marcel Proust shall definitely come to mind, for he was the person who immortalised madeleines in his monumental novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (or sometimes also known as ‘Remembrance of Things Past’) where he described his first awakening ‘encounter’ with madeleines over tea.
Below is an excerpt…
“ …when one day in winter, on […]
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I have been indulging in some quality baking equipment and ingredients recently. After attending the Cupcakes Workshop at Shermay Cooking School, I bought this cupcake bundle set (which sets me back by $89.00). It consists of a cool Cuisipro Deluxe Batter Bowl, Cuisipro Silicone Whisk, Cuisipro Silicone Spatula, 50 regular and 50 mini cupcake cases, […]
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