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Strawberry Cream Cheese Cupcakes 草莓奶油乳酪杯子蛋糕

These strawberry cream cheese cupcakes are soft vanilla cupcakes with delicious natural strawberry cream cheese frosting on top.

In case I have not talked about it here on my blog, I love eating cheesecakes.

Baked ones, non-baked ones, or even the latest basque cheesecakes – I love them all! Let’s admit it – most of the time, an whole cheesecake can be really too much for 1 person to finish (haha!!), or I might feel a little lazy to make cheesecakes at times. So I sometimes turn to cupcakes with cream cheese frosting instead!

Find out how I make these cupcakes in this post!

Buy Term, Invest The Rest

I’m starting a series of personal finance posts to keep track of my own personal finance thoughts and planning. Having graduated from a diploma in banking & financial services, I’m glad to have been exposed to a broad overview of financial instruments in Singapore since my teenage years. Hoping to share some of my experience or knowledge 🙂 What Is “Buy Term, Invest The Rest”? This refers to buying term life insurance and investing the rest of your money, to generate the returns that are comparable to what whole life insurance can bring. Whole life insurance usually covers… Read More

Top 7 Basic Baking Tips

Find out more about some basic baking tips in this post, and why would each of them be important to the success of our bakes!

Do you find it challenging to have consistent baking results? Or maybe simply just want to understand better how the different ingredients work together, so that you can improve your bakes?

Actually, baking from scratch can be easy and fun too!

I started baking on my own when I was much younger, probably around 10 years ago. While I can’t say that the bakes previously were all good (some were like superrrrrr super sweet haha!), but they were all good experiences to me.

Through mistakes and hiccups that I’ve learnt along the way, here are some tips that you can use for next better bakes!

Almond Cranberry Butter Loaf Cake 杏仁蔓越莓牛油蛋糕

Do you enjoy eating traditional butter cakes from old school neighbourhood bakeries? Those butter cakes that are full of buttery aroma, slightly oily but you know you’ll enjoy the rich, moist and fine crumbs?

YUM!

Most of the time, I avoid baking cakes that contain a higher amount of butter (trying to be healthier :p). Since I didn’t have much time on hand, I opted for a quick recipe that didn’t require a lot of ingredients. The fine texture of this almond cranberry butter loaf cake surprised me!

This recipe uses a simple basic creaming method. Find out how to make this in my post!

Baileys Cream Dessert 百利卡仕达奶油甜点

This is a simple Baileys cream dessert made the tiramisu way – sponge fingers soaked in coffee-Baileys mixture, layered with Baileys creme diplomat, and finished with dusting of cocoa powder on top.

This came about when I had wanted to try making some Tiramisu, but I was not able to find any mascarpone cheese! Was glad that the texture turned out great. And don’t skip the Baileys here!

Japanese Curry with Tempura Fish Bites

Rich, savory Japanese curry sauce, served with hot rice, tempura fish bites and fresh salad. Do you enjoy having Japanese curry whenever you visit a Japanese restaurant or eatery? I do! Whenever I have no idea what to eat, or if I prefer a quick meal, I’ll always check if the restaurant has Japanese curry! It’s sort of like comfort food to me.

Passion Fruit Cranberry Loaf Bread 百香果蔓越莓吐司

Soft and fluffy passion fruit cranberry loaf bread, with sourish-sweet dried cranberries for a refreshing, fruity taste. I’m using the bread dough base from my favourite Killer Toast recipe for a easy loaf of bread with just one proofing.

I always like this recipe because I don’t need to proof twice, so I can just make the dough first, and leave it to proof till about 85-90% full before baking. In between I can always do my chores, cooking or just laze around at home.

Chocolate Wacky Cake 简易巧克力蛋糕

Wacky Cake has been created since the America’s Depression Era, where ingredients such as milk and eggs were scarce. This is an easy cake recipe made without eggs or dairy. Here’s the chocolate wacky cake!

Baking Basics: Pandan Kaya Muffins (Mixing Method) 香兰椰加马芬

These muffins are an easy one-bowl mix muffins in pandan flavor, topped with rich kaya and coconut. They are made using oil – you can use neutral tasting vegetable oil or coconut oil – so they taste better and are more moist the day after. If you like light muffins with some bite, you would probably like these muffins!