Happy Chinese New Year!

here's wishing everyone a happy and prosperous new year of the ox! good health, good luck, good fortune, good relationships and a better economy ahead :)


this year i didn't bake the usual CNY cookies. so no pineapple tarts, kuek bangkit, etc...yea too tedious and i had too little time for those :( my final year project presentation took place about a week plus just before CNY.

in fact i baked these cookies just 3 days ago! haha but it's good too cos it's fresher this way. homemade cookies usually can't be kept for long.

these cookies took me a whooping 6 hours to prepare; really tiring but so satisfying! yea but i really dread the washing and cleaning up after baking.

i have finished giving everything out! to my friends, sis's colleagues, grandparents, his family and some to my neighbours. wished i had baked more cos there wasn't really enough to go around.

back to my bakes, i made cornmeal cookies, cheese sticks and crunchy oat delight. both the recipes for cheese sticks and crunchy oat delight are taken from aunty yochana. do check out her cake index for these recipes!

out of the three, i think the cheese sticks was the winner. yum! very savoury, loved the cheesy taste and it was something different from the usual CNY cookies :) received many good reviews for it too!

cheddar cheese sticks

healthy crunchy oat delight - has cocoa crunch and quaker oats in the cookie!

cornmeal cookies - something different as well!

Pandan Chiffon Cake

Here's wishing all a Happy 2009 :)

My wishes for you in year 2009:

Great start for Jan,
Love for Feb,
Peace for march,
No worries for April
Fun for May,
Joy for June to Nov,
Happiness for Dec,
Have a lucky and wonderful 2009.

i baked pandan chiffon cake for the new year, nothing too complicated. haha cos i used whatever ingredients i had in the kitchen.


i tried a new recipe from hugbear baking mum this time round. it calls for top flour instead of cake flour. see my previous recipe here.

i love this recipe as well. simple and easy to follow. really nice green even thou i omitted the green colouring and fluffy as well!

Triple Choc Nutty Brownie

here's wishing all a merry christmas!

this christmas day, i baked a triple choc brownie recipe which was well loved :) super chocalately and moist.


i added milk choc and white choc chunks and some nuts (hazelnuts and pistachios) into the batter and the result was lovely.


haven't been in good health lately thou. sigh. really grateful to him for being there for me :D

better health in the new year to all of you out there!

p.s. i love the pictures. the lighting was perfect :) awesome!

oh yes the recipe was obtained from here. pretty good reviews. do check it out!

Super Moist Carrot Muffins

recently, weng was telling me about her liking towards muffins, 'only nice ones' she emphasized. haha so i was inspired to make some last weekend. and i think the key thing to making nice muffins is to ensure that they turn out moist!


and with that i embarked on finding the recipe. gladly, i stumbled upon one which is definitely a keeper! the carrot muffins turned out soft and moist, with an added crunch. very fragrant too :)

carrot muffins platter!

the star design

and the twirl design!

i decorated some with whipped cream topping instead of the usual cream cheese topping. and i replaced the walnuts with chopped pistachios and almond nuts. and they tasted just as awesome.

Mooncake Cookies With Lotus Paste

here's what i baked over the weekend! my exams ended last saturday so i deserve a baking treat after all that stress ;p



anyway, i have made this before. see this. this time around, i merely used lotus paste instead of green tea paste. and yea i made this in a bid to finish up the leftover mooncake ingredients :)


i love the golden hue of the mooncake cookies! and it's really fragrant too!


here's what it looks like inside...

Konnyaku Jelly Cubes

here's something refreshing for the tastebuds!

made this together with wen phei, jessie and kang last tuesday.

instead of adding the conventional longans/peaches/rambutans, we added persimmons. taste-wise, it's a combination of crunch and chewiness.

i like the nice orange-y tinge :)

and b'cos it wasn't sweet enough based on my rough estimation, i cut it up into cubes and added them into a home-made honey drink. yum!

3 min Choc Cake!

amazing isn't it? in 3 minutes you can actually make a cake that's so choclatey!

i made this for suqi's bday a few weeks back when she bunked in with me in hostel. haha no choice cos the oven isn't working and the only thing i've got in the kitchen is the microwave oven and the stove.


yea so this is a really ideal ;p

i sprinkled some icing powder on the cake and presented suqi with her birthday cake! awesome :)


i guess this would also be a good supper treat (a little unhealthy thou haha) since it only takes 3 mins to make! and the ingredients are really simple too.

i got the recipe here!

pardon me for the lousy picture quality cos i took them with my handphone. the cake looks so much better in real!