Macarons, macarons, macarons!

Baked a batch of them today with different fillings.

Macarons filled with passion fruit/lemon curd

Macarons with with confiture au lait de Normandie.

Macarons with orange cream cheese.

Assembled macarons.

Macaron caps cooling on rack

The previous bake of macarons had filling using the recipe of  caramel fleur de sel. 

But instead of sea salt, I used rock salt.

Baked some savoury muffins for  Teatime:

Bacon 'n' Cheese muffins

This is adapted from a Corn muffin recipe and turned out quite tasty.

Macaron baking day again.

Prepared this tiramisu for my sister's birthday. This is a simple cream combination of cream cheese, sugar and heavy cream. A refreshing layer of lemon curd with passion fruit is added to this recipe.

Happy Valentine's Day too.

Baked my first meringue today.

Fruit pavlova which in my version consists of : Passion fruit lemon curd and fresh blueberries.

The Pavlova dessert was first created in the early 1930s in honor of the ballerina Anna Pavlova, a Russian ballerina.

Macarons with hazelnut chocolate cream.

Macarons just out of oven.

Happy Chinese New Year. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Have a wonderful OX year ahead.

Only managed to prepare this Kek Lapis this new year.

The layering was quite satisfactory and I  managed only 12 layers.

I enjoyed building up the layers but it was a very "sweaty" process.

An enlarged view of the Lapis layers.

Baked this Chocolate cake for my son's birthday :

This is a dual layer chocolate cake with raspberry jam filling and coated with chocolate ganache.

Today's lunch:

Spicy chicken pie.

Filling for the pie :Curry chicken with potatoes

2009 has arrived. Happy New Year.

Baked this Ham & Mushroom Quiche on NY's eve for my family potluck party.

Merry Christmas !

Baked some Gingerbread man and Christmas cookies  ....

Enjoyed decorating the cookies with my children on Christmas eve.

Have a Blessed Christmas and happy holidays.

Baked this Passionfruit Lemon Curd Tart late last night due to busy schedule.

The lemon curd made with passionfruit juice and pulp is delicious and goes very well with toast and scones.

More blueberries....

Today's bake: Blueberry Breakfast Cake using dark brown sugar.

Baked a dozen of  blueberry muffins today. These muffins are best made with fresh blueberries.

A parade of chocolate cupcakes personally iced by the 

birthday girl herself. 

Happy Birthday.

My nephew visited us last Tuesday. We cooked lunch together and also made our dessert together-Black forest cookies.(Very densed triple chocolate cookies).My son requested for Cinnamon flavour so I sprinkled sugar cinnamon on top of some cookies. The largest cookie was shaped by my nephew. 

Taught my daughter how to made brownies today. We made double chocolate brownies with roasted pistachios. She enjoyed measuring and mixing all the different ingredients. Enjoyed baking with her.

Made curry puffs today. Fillings were curried potatoes with hard boiled egg. Instead of deep frying , I baked them.

Today is Deepavali-a public holiday for everyone. . Made these Triple chocolate muffins with my daughter. These muffins were topped with pieces of Valrhona dark bitter chocolate given by a friend.

My daughter put everything together under my instructions. She was thrilled to see the end product and happily enjoying the fruit of her labour. 

Hidden berry cheese cupcakes-My own version of cheese cupcakes. The base is biscuit crumb and dried cranberries were placed on the base before filling the cups with cream cheese.

A layer of raspberry puree was added onto bottom of the crust.Delicious!

Cream Cheese Torte.Cream filling is made with combination of  cheese cream and cottage cheese.