杏仁饼

Peyling juz came back from her holiday trip and guess wat she bought? Almond cookies from Macau! And the best thing is she went Hong Kong with her family. I wonder where she got these authentic Macau almond cookies from as i didn't managed to find them when i was in Hong Kong.
This is the best almond cookies i've ever had!

Nice packaging which makes an ideal gift

Individual packs inside for convenience sake.

Declious flaky cookies with course grains of fragrant almonds in between. Fantastic!

Soft Baked Sausalito

Adam supported himself during his personal selling recently by purchasing a packet of soft baked sausalito and what attracts him to buy is the 'milk chocolate macadamia' flavour.

Here's the expensive $5.50 soft baked cookies which Adam enjoyed during lunch break today. This boy reali knows how to enjoy life! :-P

What a big piece! Sweet chewy cookie with milk chocolate bits and chipped nut~no other word to describe except YUMMY!

Spiral Cookies

Cookies which brings back mum's childhood memories. She loves these cookies and would call them 猪哥饼. Asked mum how she got this name for the cookies and the best thing is she dun even know. My deceased 3rd uncle would always request for this kinda cookies as a child.

The thing about buying cookies in the past isn't as convenient as it is now. Mum had to walk all the way from Tampines Giant all the way till Defu lane market just to buy cookies. And gosh... it's like having to walk 7-8 bus stops coz taking bus isn't cheap hence she rather walk. Furthermore, these cookies are only available in the pasar malam during special occasions

Since I came across a shop selling these cookies this morning, decided a buy a pack to cheer mum. Seems like Adam enjoyed it more than mum. Lolz...

Making of Pineapple Tarts~For the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is fast approaching and it's just like another 2-3 more weeks. Pineapple Tarts is a common and most popular snacks during CNY period, other than this will be Bak Kwa(roasted pork), love letters etc... Gosh, the names of all these goodies reminds me of the tons & tons of calories. haiz.... how to avoid like that? Lucky i'm not a fan of pineapple tarts but, i would love to bake them.
I help Tabby's grandma with her usual CNY bakings. Yesterday was the 1st day and we decided to start with pineapple tarts. Tedious job to do everything from scratch. We bought 90kgs of pineapples in order to bake and give away as gifts.

Lovely pineapple tarts. They do looks like mini sunflower ya?!

Using rubbing in method to prepare soft dough which comprises of flour, egg, butter and pinch of salt. After kneading the dough, let it rest for a short while.

Here's the cooked jam with grated pineapple, sugar and star anise.

Ready stamped out pastry, waiting to be topped with balls of pineapple jam.

1 tray is done and we have plenty more to complete.

Grandma is bz transferring the baked cookies to cooling rack. We have to ensure that the cookies are completely cool b4 packing them into containers, otherwise they will grow mouldy.

If you prefer crispy and flakey cookies like me, you can increase the temperature higer and baked them a little longer in order to have the brown effect. Crispy pineapple cookies are best eaten while hot. Hmm... pastry tart skin is crispy and fragrance, pineapple filling is soft and not too sweet. Yummy~licious!

Oh ya, dear readers, remember to drink more herbal tea in case getting sorethroat from eating all these heaty junk food. :-P

Mocha Cornflake Treats

I used to prepare tis dessert very often b4 i start blogging few years back. I guess the cornflakes trend of mine is back again. I been buying boxes and boxes of cornflakes recently. And do u noe wat's the best thing? Adam can finish a big box within 2 days. He treats them like eating tid-bits, munching on them while watching tv or surfing the net. Hey, i can say that it's a wise choice cuz it healthier as compared to chips. :-P

Ingredients;
1 box cornflakes, crushed
200g milk chocolate
300g dark chocolate
1 tsp coffee granulas

Method;
-Double boil the chocolates until melted.
-Stir in coffee granulas unbtil dissolved.
-Toss in cornflakesand mix well.
-Scoop into small paper cups.
-Place in fridge to set.
-Remove and store on containers.
-Enjoy!

Tray of mocha cornflake treats........ looks so tempting so delicious!

Close up snap on the treats.

Macadamia Butter Cookies

Coming up next after my mocha chips cookie will be macadamia butter cookies. Come to think of it, I should have baked the butter cookies 1st den the mocha cookies, so i no need to wash the mixter and spatula. haha... But aniway, its a last min decidion to bake these macadamia cookies so i find that there are still sometimes b4 preparig dinner.

Ingredients;
180g butter
100g brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
2-3 drops vanilla essence
100g chopped macadamia nuts

Sifted ingredients;
150g flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
50g icing sugar
Pinch of salt

Method;
-Cream fats and sugar till fluffy
-Add in beaten egg, vanilla essence
-Fold in dry ingredients and chopped nuts
-Drops teaspoonful of mixture onto baking sheet
-Bake at 180 degree celcius for 20-25 mins or till browned.
-Enjoy!

Close up on the fantastic lovely cookies where Adam keep praising on the fragrance and cruch of it.

Oh...i feel like eating them, but too bad they didn;t last long, only left 4 miserable pieces by nite time! haha... Tis recipe yields about 46 cookies. The next time round when I'm gonna bake them, I muz remember to buy some white chocolate to add into the mixture, gosh...sounds so fattening ya! :-P

Mocha Chips Cookies

Its been ages since i last bake. Today is May the 1st Labour Day and its a great chance for me to do all my baking. I been wanting to bake some cookies since months ago and I even wrote a list of my "muz bake list" (",)


Ingredients;
125g butter
35g sugar
1 tsp coffee granules, dissolve in hot water
100g chocolate rice
145g plain flour
5g unsweetened coco powder
30g icing sugar

Method;
-Cream fats and sugar, add coffee
-Fold in the last 3 ingredients
-Mix in chocolate rice
-Pipe onto baking sheets
-Bake at 180 degree celcius till cooked
-Let cool, dust with icing sugar
-Enjoy!

Another presentation of the cookies, its best enjoy with a cup of coffee.

Close up on the mocha chips cookies

Nestum Cookies

I been super bz recently and i juz realise that CNY is next wk. I didn't even haf the time to do my CNY bake. I can onli afford few hrs of time(between 1-4pm) on sunday afternoon after my malay conversational class.

Seems like tis yr i gotto make do with onli 1 type of cookie, the rest its either do without or purchase from supermarket. Haiz...i still love homebaked stuff or should i haf a CNY resolution?! Go on a diet and tell myself all these fattening food are bad for mi. I juz shed off 5kgs xia, am so afraid that after the CNY i will put on somemore. haha... allrite den, decided to make do with 1 type of cookie and aniway i'm not the wan eating them. haha...its for dad's frens and family.

Ingredients;

15og unsalted butter

100g castor sugar

1 egg, beaten

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Dry ingredients;

180g plain flour

50g cornflour

20g icing sugar

Pinch of salt

Nestum for coating

Method;

-Sift all the dry ingredients together.

-Cream sugar and fats till fluffy, beat in egg and essence.

-Fold in dry ingredients.

-Roll into small balls, coat with nustum.

-Bake at 180 degree celcius for 20-25mins.

-Cool and store in containers.

-Enjoy!

Oatmeal Raisins Cookies

I was soooo....bz over the weekend.Bz with watching dvd. haha....mum's a korean drama fan & she's kind whom watch, cry like nobody's biz. Dad will always comment: "wat for u watch show that brings u tears?" Haha....but still, dad will bring back dvd of the korean dramas as uncle orr will bring to dad's office for mum.
Last friday nite, as usual, dad brought home a pc of dvd of a show-Boys Before Flowers, which will be shown on channel U soon.

This show is actually a korean version of 流星花园(Meteor Garden) which hit a craze in taiwan sometimes back.
Having watched the japanese cartoon version,taiwan drama version, i still prefer the korean version. Other than the F4 being more handsome :-P, characters' roles aren't as exaggerating & possessive like the taiwan version.
Hmm....reali worth spending time to watch. I managed to complete the whole series within 2 nites. Clever ba?!?! haha...watched till 2-3am on fri & sat. keke..... Gosh, this is more tiring than watching midnite football matches. haha...

Its Mother's Day today & since i already completed my korean drama series, even though i'm so tired from the past 2 nites of buring midnite oil, still i wanna make something for mum.
Since mum loves oats & can'r live a day without them, i decided to bake some oats cookies for her as an appreciation for this special day.
I baked as early as 10am in the moring, in fact this is my 1st time as usually my baking timing on weekends is after 1pm. haha....

Healthy & delicious oatmeal raisins cookies.

Fresh & piping hot from the oven. Mum couldn't resist & helped herself with several of the warm cookies.Glad that she reali enjoy them.

Ingredients;
180g butter
50g brown sugar
100g castor sugar
195g plain flour

Pinch of salt
½ tsp vanilla essence
1 egg, beaten
¼ tsp double acting baking powder
90g instant oats
80g raisins

Method;

-Sift flour,baking poder & salt together, gather in a mixing bowl.

-Cream butter & sugar till fluffy.

-Add in beaten egg & vanilla essence.

-Fold in sifted ingredients & mix well.

-Add in instant oats & raisins.

-Drop teaspoonful mixture on baking paper.

-Bake at 180°C for 20-25 mins or till golden brown.

-Cool on wire rack, store in air-tight containers.

-Enjoy!

My CNY Bake~ Mini Buttery Cups

As CNY is fast approaching, i'm onli left with 2 weekends to prepare new year goodies.Gosh....the best thing is i haven been to chinatown to do new year shopping this year.

I spent the whole day baking cookies yesterday.This is a simple and delicious cookies which are being requested every year.

Yummy~licious Buttery Cups

Wow...plenty of cookies which I'm gonna gave away to my frens & relative.

Ingredients;
450g butter
500g plain flour
180g brown sugar
Vanilla essence
Icing sugar for dusting

Method,
-Beat butter & sugar till fluffy.
-Mix in vanilla essence.
-Fold in sifted flour.
-Pipe mixture onto mini paper cups.
-Bake in preheated oven for 20-25mins or until cooked.
-Dust icing sugar over.
-Enjoy!

Honey Oat Cookies

Oats are the "in" food now. In order to keep up with the trend, i baked some Honey Oat Cookies.


Honey Oat Cookies

Ingredients;

250g plain flour

50g instant oats

120g salted butter

80g creamy peanut bueer

1 tsp honey

2 tbsp UHT milk

Egg wash

Some instant oats for toppings

Method;

-Beat butter,peanut butter,honey & sugar till light & fluffy

-Fold in flour,oats & milk

-Roll into tiny balls, flatten

-Glaze with egg wash,sprinkle with some instant oats as deco

-Bake at 180 degree celcius for 20mins or till golden brown

-Enjoy!

Assorted Cookies

Greetings to all!

My neighbour,Aunty Sarah is a great cook. She cookes fantastic indian crusine. Each year during deepavali, she would invite us to her place for a feast. Other than that, the snacks & cookies that she prepares are yummy!

She baked some delicious cookies for my family the other day.

My favourite is the chocolate covered cookies with chopped almonds.

Freshly Baked Buttery Crisp & My Full Of Crap Bro- Adam

Been so tired over the weekends. Other than accompany Adam to go in search for his soccer boots, i did some baking as well.

Upon Adam's request, I baked Chocolate Chip cookies & Buttery Crisp yesterday.

I totally forgotten about taking pictures of the Chocolate Chip cookies. As it was rather late by time i finish baking, gotto let my parents take over the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Though very tired, but lucky there's Adam to entertain mi during dinner. hah...
Ahhhh...very scare ar! Haha....

Stop Peeping. Dun be scare, nobody will snatch ur food!

Scene 1: Demostration on how to eat.Muz open the mouth super big like Adam's

Scene 2: Going once, going twice....bout to gone liao. Hai yo, stop tempting pple, lucky i'm not very hungry!

Orr....somebody drinking soft drinks. Ah ha, i caught u red-handed!
So lame rite? having dinner oso so much crap. Hmm....Part 2 entertainment continued after dinner.

Oh my goodness, where did this ah nerd come from?! haha....

Adam's actually imitate how Chen Hanwei looks like in a local drama sometimes back. Haha....looks a bit like lo. =D

Choco Oreo Snap

Wow....sunday 13th was a day full of activities.
There were some oreo cookies lying around & nobody eats. So, i was thinking is there anything that i can do to transform the cookies. I come up with Choco Oreo Snap.

Yummy, it was indeed being snapped out fast.

My brother couldn't resist temptations, keep coming back for more, even when the cookies are not completely cooled.

Japanese Cookies

Wow...got a surprise this morning. My fren delivered a box of Japanese Cookies to my office specially for mi. I'm so touched! :-)

It comes in a nicely painted metal box, a cardboard case over it & den place in a paper bag that fits exactly the box'z size.
So class & elegant!

See the inside is so neatly organised. Each & every cookie is individually wrapped. There 's oso a catologue placed inside the box, stating each & every cookies's flavour.
Too bad everything is in jap. Hahaha.... So we juz eat whatever we think might taste nice.
Its actually not too bad, but normally japanese cookies tends to be sweeter & milky.

Cornflakes Cookies

I'm in the mood for baking today. Went to shop for groceries early this morning & in fact, juz finished baking cornflakes cookies, in time for tea-break!

Ingredients;
200g butter or ghee
150g caster sugar
1 tsp grated lemon rind
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 egg yolk
250g crushed cornflakes
260g plain flour
20g cornflour
1 tsp baking powder

Method;

-Sift plain flour,baking powder & corn flour

-Cream fats & sugar till fluffy

-Beat in egg yolk 1 @ a time

-Add lemond rind & vanilla essence

-Fold in flour mixture

-Drop teaspoonful of mixture on crushed cornflakes

-Roll into balls, lightly flatten & place on baking paper

-Bake in preheated oven at 180 degree celcius for 20-25 mins

-Remove from oven & cool on cooling rack

-Enjoy with a cup of freshly brewed coffee!