Round sweet donut

with icing coating

Zi char from fernvale

today, we had tabao zi char meal

from fernvale coffeeshop

Fried hokkien mee

I like to use very localise (dialect) language for my food :)

i just had this for dinner....at SKM KPT....quite good

I used to eat a lot of fried hokkien noodle at one time in my life.

It is still one of the well-loved food by me, i even ate it when i got chicken pox....lol....i had totoally no appetite and only crave for it then.....that period was just after i got married, i was living near newton circus then....every evening after work, i will drop by the famous hawker centre & ordered the ver special 'dark' fried hokkien noodle from my fave stall, Guang Fa. It was the old Newton Circus layout, i think the stall number was 63. I was there so often that the 'uncle' recognised me & always gave me priority...without waiting. btw, for weekend, you have to wait up to 20 mins for your order. Take it or leave it. It was so popular then. I have since shifted far away :(

I understand that after the renovation, the business is not as good...is it fengshui issue?

It is now facing the carpark....

Anyway, i got pregnant 4 years after later, and i have to stop eating the noodle, bcoz everytime i eat it, i vomit....see...my baby is rejecting it.....so for at least 9 months, i didnt touch the noodle, the uncle must be wondering what happened to me....lol

How-to : Birthday Cake

Ingredients

1. 90g flour
2. 100g Sugar
3. 4 eggs (medium to big) about 65g per egg type
4. 1 tsp baking powder
5. 90g butter
6. ½ tsp vanilla essence

Instructions

1. Beat sugar, eggs and vanilla until creamy
2. Fold in flour and baking powder
3. Melt the butter and add into the above mixture
4. Bake for 15mins in 175ºC

Final touch-up:-

use chocolate for the eyes and nose. jam or cherry for the mouth.

whipped cream with coloring for the hair....using piping bag (self-made with baking paper will do)

Nasi Lemak

Toa Payoh Lor 7 Market - stall #2

verdict: so-so

was not as good as we were hoping

Cost$8.10

Kaya bun

Limited kaya fillings

Kueh Lapis #3

whisking of egg whites

The layering process

Bread Bun - points to note

1) after using dough hook to mix them, there is no much kneading needed

2) leave the dough aside for fermenting...observe for double in size

can consider putting dough in plastic bag to speed up the expansion

3) then take the dough and roll them into the size required, cn be 20g, 30 or 60g depending on your personal preference for the size of bun

4) put them neatly on baking tray (do not add filling yet)

5) do not add any flour at this stage

6) try to do them in an air-con environment

7) leave the tray aside, wait for the rolled dough to double in size (do not stay in aircon now to speed up)

8) once it is double, quick add in the filling, can be sauages, curry, plain (with sweet cross on top)

9) bake them...baking time will depend on the size of the bun

Good Luck trying

Baking@home - Kueh Lapis

After my 3rd try with making lapis, i am writing down the observations i recorded:-

1) make sure not to overuse the egg whites

2) whisk egg whites with sugar

3) whisk egg yolks with sugar

4) mix spice, butter (cut into tiny cubes), vanilla essence

5) sieve flour with baking powder

6) blend in egg white, egg yolk and flour into butter mix

7) make sure the air bubbles are cleared

8) ensure standard amount each layer

9) top layer slightly overbake for appearance

Passion

Like what you do and do what you like

Baking Tools

these are the things that help me....

Baking@home - Bread

:) starting off my keep baking site with bread

my first foray into making bread

why so? bcoz i heard so many times that it is very difficult to make bread...

This is the first tray output, didnt do too bad for a first timer. There were plain sweet bread, hotdog bread and specially home-made hae-bee- hiam bread...gosh...that was spicy...

I am going to make another round...maybe next week...to perfect the skills

How-to : Nasi Lemak -chilli

cooking chilli

partial ingredients

Nasi Lemak - final presentation

How-to : Ikan Kunning

how to fry the fish

Baking@home : Mini American Cheese Cake

trying to re-create the one we love to eat

preparation

final product

verdict - base too thick / not enough cheese

Mini American Cheese Cake

trying to re-create the one we love to eat

preparation

final product

verdict - base too thick / not enough cheese

Baking@home - Kueh Lapis half size

After many years of 'hibernating' from baking...i'm back in full force...

since my last biz in pineapples tarts during CNY period zap my energy...:)

and when am i back....bcoz of LOVE

the power of LoVe.... hahaha...we talk about that another time.

let's see my lapis

this was the 1st

this was 2nd, more ambitious...i made two instead of one since the oven is pretty empty & the the 1st one was gone under half an hour

Where did we eat - Great World City

big curry bun