Desserts

THE signature Lunar New Year staple in Hong Kong – Nin Go (Year Cake), a sticky, sweet treat that we make in batches to give as gifts and snack at home during LNY.

A few years ago I tried my hands on making dorayaki because Ash absolutely loves them. Time moved on and Ash grown up, now with a little brother in the house too. But his love for dorayaki stayed the same and it is also the…

Our neighbours had given us a huge tray of apples… to be honest I didn’t expect it to come this early, I thought apples are more an autumn fruit! Anyway I turn to my trusted crumble recipe originated from BBCgoodfood website. I’ve made a few…

A quick french dessert that everyone loves, with a tangy raspberries twist.

Like many of the fellow foodies, I own way too many baking tins and my baking equipment cupboard is always full to the brim. A bundt tin, a swiss roll tin, a heart shaped tin, big round tins, small round tins, brownie tin… And really,…

Hello!  Wow it’s been a long time since I posted anything… And a lot had changed. I moved house, I had a baby!! As any parents to a newborn baby will tell you, mealtime during the first two weeks of the new sweet baby’s arrival…

I know it’s early. I know Halloween was only a few days ago… but I went to Boots yesterday and they’re already playing Christmas songs. (Don’t you feel a bit sorry for the staffs having to endure that for 2 months?) And amongst all the…

When I was asked to come up with an ice-cream recipe (not making it, but using ready made ones), I was so full of ideas and I surprised myself of all kinds of arteries clogging inventions I dreamt up. I think everyone needs an ultimate…

There’s a change in the air and suddenly summer doesn’t seem so far away any more. With the promise of a healthy glut of strawberries from the allotment, I’ve already been given the order of a strawberries and rhubarb pie from little Ashleigh. The pie…

So I said I’d bake some cakes for Children In Need cake sale at work! And Thursday comes, mild panic set in as I was dreading to produce bear cakes like … Anyway I made myself a tea and set to work, it is fiddly…