Food and Hotel Asia 2014
(8th-11th April, Singapore)

Food and Hotel Asia (FHA) in Singapore is the largest international food tradeshow in Asia and is held every two years.

 My favourite halls are the Bakery and Pastry and FoodAsia.


Exhibits from Bakery and Pastry section.

Ready made pastry cases.

Beautiful pastries

Cake displays

Cake decorators

More pastries...

Chocolates,sweets..

and biscuits.

Beautiful edible artwork

Bread Galore

 

 

Happy Easter

Greetings from Mr and Mrs Bunny Cookies

 French Earl Grey Tea cookies

I love all types of tea...and recently my two favourite ones are French Earl Grey and Chai
from http://www.artoftea.com.au/  
I decided to make some cookies using the French Earl Grey tea; rose, sunflowers & hibiscus with the bergamot flavoured black tea makes this a heaven sent brew. 

Heaven-sent Brew

 Using the recipe from Martha Stewart , I made these icebox cookies for Easter.
 Simple method of just mixing all the ingredients with the mixer.

With the addition of the French Earl Grey tea, the cookies turned out to be 
sweet and buttery and fragrant. Lovely.

Happy Easter

Baileys truffles

Adapted from a recipe by UK Good food channel, these chocolate truffles are made with Baileys Irish Cream. To create a richer and more intensed flavour, I added coffee.

Baileys truffles

Marmalade: Minneola Tangelo Marmalade

SunkistFunFact:
Minneolas are easily identified by the knob-like formation at the stem end. This fruit tends to grow large in size and will display a deep red-orange exterior color. They have a delicious tart-sweet flavor. Minneolas have a smooth to slightly pebbled texture, peel very easily, and have few if any seeds.

Minneola Tangelo

Breakfast: Minneola Tangelo marmalade with clotted cream on toast.

Recipe adapted from David Lebovitz’s recipe

Marmalade: CaraCara Navel Marmalade

SunkistFunFact: Cara Cara oranges is a type of navel orange grown in California's San Joaquin Valley.Their interior is a distinctive pinkish red, has an exceptionally sweet flavour with a tangy cranberry-like zing, and they’re seedless.

Cara cara: Juicy and refreshing oranges.

Boiling peels in orange juice.Recipe adapted from David Lebovitz’s recipe

Yummy marmalade.

Happy 2014

Rocky Road cake pops

Adapted from this lovely book "Bitesize", my version of rocky road cake pops has a chocolate brownie cake base, coated with dark chocolate and topped with chopped pistachios, crushed peppermint candies and mini marshmallows.

Step 1: Bake the chocolate brownie cake.

Step 2: Crumb the cake.

Step 3: Add buttercream to the crumb mixture.

Step 4: Roll mixture into balls.

Step 5: Prepare the chocolate mixture.

Step 6: Insert pop sticks into cake balls.

Step 7: Coat the pops with chocolate and sprinkle with chopped pistachios, crushed peppermint candies and finally mini marshmallows. Chill in refrigerator overnight.

Count down to Christmas.....with a list of things to bake...


Fruitcake

"Sugar and spice; and everything nice " is found in this fruitcake.
It has everything sweet and nice in it.
This fruitcake consisted of 2 nuts: walnuts and pecans,
a whole array of wonderful dried fruits like apricots,raisins,sultanas,dates and figs.
Candied fruits used are orange peel and ginger and glacé cherries.
Spices included are cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
This is an adapted version from Mary Berry's fruitcake recipe.


All the dried fruits were macerated in Myers's Rum the night before baking.

Pan was lined with a strip of buttered parchment paper that extends about 2 inches above the pan.

Mixture was then poured in and decorated with whole blanched almonds.

The pan was lined with another layer of parchment for that slow 2-3 hours bake in the oven.

After the long baking, the fruitcake is ready.

Cake having a quick photoshot before retiring into paper and foil wraps with regular feeding of rum til Christmas.

After weeks of maturing the fruitcake, it is all ready on Christmas morning.

              

Christmas Morning

Merry Christmas

Count down to Christmas.....with a list of things to bake...


Gingerbread man

Using the same gingerbread dough from the gingerbread house, I made some gingerbread cookies.

My daughter loves decorating them.

Mr Gingerbread man and his house :)