NARCISSISM IS NECESSARY

This was inspired by a recipe I saw in one of my recipe books. The original recipe called for hazelnuts, raspberries and whipped cream filling, but obviously, as the title has indicated….I replaced them with almonds, mangoes and cream cheese. I used almonds because it’s cheaper than hazelnuts and I happened to have them in [...]

I made this for Father’s Day. The lemon and coconut flavours complemented each other gorgeously in this light, fluffy cake. Aside from a mille crepe, this is the most time consuming cake I’ve ever baked. I was standing from 11am – 4pm just making this. The end result made it all worth it though :) [...]

I have a confession to make. This was supposed to be an attempt to make lemon macarons :P However, instead of macarons, these turned out instead. I decided to call them lemon almond sandwich cookies because no macaron feet appeared. I didn’t want to file this under “Cooking Failures” either, because they are DELICIOUS! # [...]

It’s called brownie pudding cake because it’s basically 2 desserts in one. How? During baking, it separates into brownie on top of a silky chocolate pudding. # – The brownie pudding cake. This took me about 5 minutes to prepare. I’m serious. 5 MINUTES! Just mix everything up and then stick it in the oven [...]

It was close to 10pm and we suddenly developed a crazy hankering for pudding. I really wasn’t in the mood to make anything too labour intensive or time consuming. As I flipped through my favourite recipe book, “A Year of Desserts – 365 Delicious Set-by-step Recipes”, I came across this curious looking pudding called “apple [...]

The last time I made a cheesecake was for my own 15th birthday party. Wow, that’s like 12 years ago but I still remember the party so vividly. I wore blue jeans, blue denim vest and a white top underneath the vest which I painstakingly selected for maximum presence. I was so fashionable. 1999 was [...]

When LSA was back in town recently, we got her to pop over for some homemade dinner. I made this as a dessert because: 1. It’s simple to whip up the meringue and just let it bake for 2 hours while I continue with the rest of the cooking. 2. Chocolate pavlovas are possibly one [...]