I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with Tafu’s Green Tea Powder because both my sister and I stopped drinking it after a while. We have other green teas that we prefer so this doesn’t come out much. But when I saw this recipe for Matcha Mochi Cupcakes from Tiny Urban Kitchen, I… Read More Green Tea Mochi Muffins
Happy 2019 everyone! Since I had the day off, I decided to spend it catching up on baking that I’ve been wanting to do & using up some of the snacks in my house. My dad declared a moratorium on us buying tea and/or snacks due to the overflowing cupboards. To help with that, my brother… Read More “Out with the old, in with the New” Year Bakes
For some reason or the other, I ended up with two types of those baking box mixes. Since this is the weekend before Christmas, I thought it was a good time for some Christmas baking! This is what I made! The thumbprint cookie mix was bought… because I’m extremely bad at self-restraint in a Marks… Read More Christmas Bakes
I baked yesterday! And I noticed something interesting: in the past half year of work, I’ve baked 3 times, made non-baking sweet treats twice, and cooked a couple more times. This means my cooking is roughly the same as when I was in uni, doing stress baking (in fact, I was talking to a friend… Read More Strawberry & Raspberry Shortbread (Scones??)
I wish the title of the post was a prelude to me saying “and by the way, I got to go to Buckingham Palace and have tea with the Queen” but nope, that didn’t happen. Instead, I was trying the tea that Ethel gave me. It was from Buckingham, though, so I was pretty excited about… Read More Trying Buckingham Palace Teas
Yesterday, I learnt how to make 浮島 (ukishima – the cake like thing) and 桃山 (momoyama – the biscuits in front). The MVP of the day was shiroan (white bean paste) because we used it for everything. And I mean everything. First the 浮島. Here it is just out of the oven. It’s basically shiroan… Read More Wagashi Class
Here’s a food-filled post (because I’ve been strangely unmotivated to blog lately). Last week, I went for my second wagashi class! This is what we made: The flowers are 水仙 (suisen), and the white thing is 花びら餅 (hanabira mochi). Both are new year sweets, or so I was told. My flowers aren’t very good though… Read More Wagashi Class + Line Cafe
Guess what I did yesterday? I made Sakura Cheesecake!! I actually took lots of photos with my DSLR, but I forgot to bring it home twice in a row, so I shall just post the photos that I took from my phone (which makes me wonder why I took the photos on my DSLR if… Read More Sakura Cheesecake
So, if you’ve been to a Japanese supermarket lately, you might have seen this in the candy/children’s candy section: GUDETAMA PUDDING!! I tried it out recently, and I figured that I might as well share the instructions/pics about the process, because it’s all in Japanese (and I plan to bring this back for my family… Read More Gudetama Pudding
Happy (or not so happy) Monday! I hope you had a good start to the week! Anyway, I went for my first baking class yesterday, and we made a grapefruit chiffon cake. And with this lesson, I’ve confirmed (not that I needed to), that I have no arm strength. I got so tired whipping the… Read More Chiffon Cake + Notes from Secret Witches Exhibition