Festive baking :

Chinese Almond Cookies

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14 days to Chinese New Year. Have you started your cny baking? :) I just completed a batch of peanut puffs, aka kok chai last night when everyone should have been in slumberland. kok chai is another chinese festive snack not to be missed, especially[...]

cranberries for christmas

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My family seems to have fallen off the holiday food wagon. Actually, we may have forgotten to get on altogether. I think it's that we haven't recovered from the over-indulgences of Thanksgiving. Oh, on the surface it looks like we're[...]

X'mas bakes & Happy 2010!!!

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Like many bloggers out there, I've had a long list of X'mas bakings planned long ahead to do this year. See my calendar and you'll know... it's not only outings in my schedule but baking "appointments" I've scheduled. :) Unfortunately most did not[...]

A late Christmas wish & Happy 2009

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Christmas is over and in a few days time, we are crossing over to the new year again! How time flies... we may not know it as we live our hectic life day by day; but with this blog, I can truly sense it because everytime when I make a posting[...]

Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit!

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I'd wanted to continue participating in the Aspiring Bakers challenge on Chinese Year Cookies but I was too busy to submit my post by the closing date of 1 Fen 2011. :P Chinese New Year cookies has become my yearly to-do event and of course I[...]

KUEH BAULU RECIPE-CHINESE NEW YEAR GOODIES-PART I

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Time really flies and it is the starting of a brand new year. Welcome to 2011 and the first blog post of the year. Christmas had just passed with Chinese New Year in about 4 weeks time. It is time to bake Chinese New Year festive goodies and some[...]

KUEH BAULU RECIPE-CHINESE NEW YEAR GOODIES-PART II

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My 2 nd attempt in baking the Kueh Baulu. Yes this time round, it taste soft and fluffy not as hard as compared to my first attempt. Here is the recipe for baking the all time favourite Chinese new year festive goodies Kueh Baulu. Ingredients 2[...]

Coconut Milk Strawberry Panna Cotta & Florentine Cookies with Palm sugar

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  A light and colorful dessert is both a gastronomical and a visual treat, and the Coconut Milk Panna Cotta I made this weekend fits the bill. The coconut milk & strawberry jelly in it makes it very refreshing and a colorful[...]

Festive Season Inspired Bread Recipe

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Here is a recipe contributed from one of our readers (thanks Lucie Stoker) in the spirit of the festive season. Thanks once again and do share your recipes with us so we can continue to enjoy the endless varieties of banana bread! PREP TIME:[...]

This Festive Season, When Nuttiness Reigns

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At this time of year, I?ve been juggling with career on one hand and the mad Chinese New Year rush on the other. Sometimes, I wish I was born a multitasker, an outstanding one. Weary days like these have had my brain going nuts, and so are my taste[...]