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It’s 2023 holiday time!! Hustling to two parties today so making some cute Christmas themed cookies 🙂
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Tried a lot of delicious fig desserts when I travelled to France, so want to catch the season of fig and make a cake out of it to share with friends at our long-due reunion trip!
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Mango sticky rice has always been a dessert I love to order in Thai restaurants, but guilt by the sugar level it has… this time I tried to make mango sticky rice in a healthy way, with low-fat coconut milk, monkfruit sweetener and toasted green beans! The toasted, crispy green bean adds an extra texture to the soft sticky rice and mango.
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Baked babka quite a while ago, made me wanna bake toast, the soft toast that still attaches to each other as you tear down a piece. There are so many flavors available, from Asian toasts like scallion & meat floss, red bean & coconut custard, sesame, to western toasts like ham & cheese! Still improving my toast making skills, but after 4 toasts, I tend to believe in using this recipe.
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Friends made home-made pineapple jam, we also happened to have passionfruit jam from Costco, so decided to make a summer flavor cake in the spring! The passionfruit chiffon cake is very refreshing, in combination with the slightly sour passionfruit + pineapple jam to cancel out the guilt of enjoying cream!
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It’s holiday season! Getting all whimsical about cakes with various flavors. I have never made strawberry jam before, so making the jam from scratch today to add flavors to my strawberry vanilla chiffon cake for a friendsgiving potluck! Gotta say the decoration did not go as expected.. it honestly rarely does.. ha
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Matcha, Coconut and Red Bean are pretty common Asian dessert flavors. I have made a chiffon version of matcha, red bean cake with coconut frosting for friend’s engagement, decided to try to mousse cake version as well. Since I have never made a mousse cake before, decided to try for end of the year drink night with friend. The first try surprisingly still came out not bad! Except for the soggy bottom…
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Having Malaysian Cooking Night with friends and decided to contribute a pandan cake roll to the group. To add more elements (flavors, textures, etc.) to the cake roll, I make two different flavors’ cake roll and whipping cream – Ube and Pandan, two classic south Asian flavors, also made coconut jelly for the first time! I guess the GBBO 2022 is coming to an end, I am again inspired to bake more!
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My college friend got engaged on Sep 30th!! She has been dating her partner for almost (??) 10 years. The day they got engaged, was the 150th month, 4567 days since they first fell in love in high school…High school sweetheart walking into marriage together is like dream comes truth, fairytale comes true? I made the matcha red bean chiffon cake, styled as a rose to celebrate their love of a decade, and more decades to come.
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Potluck time with friends for a birthday party again. Two years ago, I made coconut chocolate layer cake; this time, I do not have cake carrier and want to share something different with friends and introduce them to a more traditional Chinese dessert, hence choosing mung bean pastry.
