What to do with Mandarin Oranges??

Thanks Joyce (jthorge) for sharing this muffin recipe using the orange juices from the CNY mandarin oranges. Instead of leaving it to rot, I used some of it to make this simple and yet delicious Blueberry and Mandarin Orange Muffins.

Happy Valentine's Day - 14th Feb!

Wishing all pals a Happy Valentine's Day!

This cake is baked for A. Thanks for being such a wonderful friend:) Hope she enjoy the cake.




with some leftover melted chocolate yesterday, I made into little chocolate cuppies..

Birthday Cake for Hubby

11th Feb is Hubby's b'day. We had dinner at A's place on 10th Feb. Thanks for her yummy prawn noodles soup! Thanks B for his great wines too! We enjoyed the good food and great company on that night!

I baked a birthday cake for hub to share this joyous occasion with a few friends on that evening:)

More CNY Goodies!

Managed to upload more of my CNY cookies today.. squeeze out sometimes this afternoon to do some updating before I am back to my daily chores! hehe..













Assorted Pineapple Tarts
(Thanks Got2bme for her recipe)

Crispy Almond Slices
(Thanks Yochana for her recipe)


Green Peas Cookies

ready packed and gave away...

CNY COOKIES

WISHING EVERYONE "A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS LUNAR NEW YEAR!"

GONG XI FATT CHOY!!



Melting Moments - Original Flavour


Melting Moments - Chocolate Flavour


Peanut Cookies (using fine peanut powder)


Crunchy Peanut Cookies (using roasted chopped peanuts)


Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies


Chocolate Chip Cookies


Green Bean Cookies

Oreo-Cookies Cheesecake

With 2 blocks of creamcheese, I decided to make a cheesecake for ds' cell group on Saturday. Knowing the children except elder ds, love anything chocolate, I was set on making a chilled Oreo-Cookies Cheesecake for them. I am happy that all of them like it very much. In the end, elder ds was tempted or I should say 'force' to give it a try by eating a small piece of it:)

Fishy Fishy!!

A simple dinner for all at home. We had fish and chips! But 'Ah Gong and Ah Ma'(my in-laws) not use to eating this (just fish and chips), I cooked some rice for them to eat with the fish instead. Well, I m glad that hub and the children love it. Oh btw, I bought the sutchi fillet at Carefour for $2.50/pkt. There are 3 big pcs in a pkt. I bought 4 pkts altogether. Think is on promotion then..

Here is my FISH AND CHIPS!

What we had for Christmas Day?

Is PARTYYYYYYY!!!!!! Yippee!!! Youngest bro-in-law suggested the Christmas Party to be held at my place this year. We usually do it every year at his place. So, this was our FIRST Christmas Party at home. We had some friends and relatives over to celebrate with us this festive occasion:)

We decided to do pot-luck. Beside the logcake and cupcakes, here are some of the dishes from friends and relatives. Was busy eating and only managed to take some of the food photos, missed out the pizzas, chicken drumlets, veg lemak, cocktail dessert etc...hehe..


Onigiri

Mee Siam
Mini Char Siew Pao
Roasted Duck
Mee Goreng
Salad with Mango Yogurt dressing

Colorful Agar Agar

Christmas Bakes - Logs and Cupcakes

Didn't have much time to bake much for Christmas this year. Very much wanted to bake some gingerbread cookies and shortbread cookies but time did not permit. Well, I managed to do 3 Logcakes and a batch of cupcakes.

From these to.....


Vanilla Logcake....







Chocolate Logcake and.......


Coffee Logcake



Baked a batch of Chocolate Brownie Muffins, frosted with chocolate ganache and decorated with toppers I bought from Taipei.

Bei-Tou, Taipei

Beitou 北投區 (Peitou in Wade-Giles) is a northern district of Taipei famous for its hot springs.





























One of the dessert shop in Beitou.






Traditional yam and sweet potatoes balls dessert (serve cold or warm).





Chilled Japanese Mochi drizzled with chocolate/mango sauce, topped with grounded nuts.

Sweet potatoes with Beancurd dessert served warm.