raksasa biskut

Coooookiiiieeeeesssssss!

in mama’s kitchen

The all-time favourite: carrot (cup)cake with cream cheese frosting

Cherry Ripe chocolate cupcake

rememorari

“Your Waigong used to chop a mountain-ful of small onions when making this. He also used belly pork with a lot of fat. Do you remember?”
“Yeah…”
“This is the Eng Chun Hokkiens’ style of preparing meat rolls.”
“Did Waigong’s recipe included crushed Marie biscuits as well?”
“Yes, I’m making them as he taught me to and now I’m teaching you.”
“Orh… nice.”
“Each time I make this, I remember him, I remember your Waipo…”
“Orh…”
“This is my way of remembering…”

Christmas cakes

Supra’s chocolate fruit cake *Photog: Supra

Oreo cheese(cup)cake with Toblerone and Bailey’s

pause and play

Hui Ling came over to bake some chocolate cupcakes after lunch today. She was pleased as Punch that baking was much easier and more enjoyable than she had anticipated. The cupcakes came out with a nice fluffy texture but looked like cute little cups of Chipsmore ice-cream. They were however, in dire need of more chocolate as I had ran out of cocoa powder and we didn’t overdose on the chocolate chunks. Time to go shopping at the baking supplies shop which sells all sorts of Valrhona products!

We are giving half the cupcakes a spread of Nutella topping and peanut butter for the rest, finishing with a sprinkling of white chocolate drops. I can’t wait to see them all decked out on the office pantry counter top… Somehow, I am imagining chocolate toadstools…

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are going to be long full days this week but I am really looking forward to the short break coming up beginning from the Singapore National Day holiday. I need to catch my breath!

bake with Supra

Vanilla muffins with Nutella® filling and carrot walnut cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

the botak fella

Recently back from his month-long romantic sojourn in Bavaria, Germany, Ryan made us yummy kartoffelklosse (potato dumplings) with pan-fried chicken breasts for dinner while the rest of us made sesame breadsticks, garlic bread, toasted tortilla with hummus dip, pumpkin soup, bok choy with feta cheese pie, Sindi-style tandoori chicken drumsticks, tiramisu, butterscotch layer cake, lychee martinis and lemonade!! True to tradition, the gang got together for one great eat-till-you-burst makan before he returns to Mauritius to begin his new job as Round Island Warden with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, a childhood dream reclaimed.

Notre ami aimé Sheik Fadil Ryan Ramjan, we are going to miss you dearly!! Ce n’est pas au revoir, ont se revoyent pour le Makan Marathon Mauritius in a year’s time!! Kap ou pas kap?