Almond Honey Butter Sponge

Actually a traditional egg sponge cake, but the addition of almond flour, butter and honey gave unbeatable flavour and aroma. These little cupcakes baked beautifully with a flat top that didn’t crack or sink after cooling. The interior is simply cottony soft. Hard to believe, but it’s made with whole egg recipe (no egg separation)…

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Blueberry Yogurt Muffins

I needed to use up some Greek yoghurt and decided on these blueberry muffins. This is a traditional muffin recipe which prepares wet and dry ingredients separately and then combine them by hand whisk through a few quick stirs. No electric mixer is needed. Prep time should not be more than 30 mins. I tried…

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Japanese Hamburg Steak (Hambagu)

Ok, this dish really doesn’t look so fancy, especially since I didn’t take a picture of the glossy glaze that I made along with it. But it’s a family favorite and fairly easy to do, and nutritious for growing kids. I make it so often cos the kids like it. The patties are tender and…

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Oven Fried Chicken Wings

The result of this oven fried chicken wings is real crispy skin, not grilled, not oily, but real crusty crispy skin. No oil needed and most of the oil is also baked out of the chicken skin. The chicken flesh remains moist and tender. Only downside is that thr oven is full of splattered oil….

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Sourdough Tearing Toast 流泪吐司

Converted yet another favourite yeasted recipe to a sourdough one, having fun doing this. There’s a renewed sense of energy in my baking journey. This is a popular Taiwanese recipe, I use the yeasted version all the time for all sorts of buns, sandwich loaf application. It is very tasty and fragrant. Yeasted version here….

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Walnut Sourdough

I always get beautiful loaves with this recipe, I suspect the messy walnut inclusions help with releasing the ear, 😄. It’s the standard SD recipe for me, just watch out and adjust bulk fermentation based on your environment temperature and your starter strength. Recipe 300g bread flour (I use mostly Japanese bread flour and Bob…

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Sourdough Sweet Milk Bun

After a long spell of playing with all inclusions and flavours for my traditional sourdoughs, I thought it was high time to try soft enriched loafs which my little girl favours. What better recipe to start with than her favourite sweet milk buns, the yeasted version is highly popular on this blog and can be…

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Red Wine Sourdough

A beautiful, delicious loaf that gave an awesome spring in the oven. Red wine does interfere with fermentation, so I have increased levain percentage and then compensated with reduced hydration. Red wine also lends depth in flavour and goes really well with sourdough. Recipe 300g flours ( I used 130g malted flour, 170g Japanese bread…

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Melt-in-the-mouth Peanut Cookies

This recipe, is soooo delicious and so easy, it really is a must-bake for CNY if you like peanuts. There are only 5 ingredients! I have used peanut butter to save all the trouble of roasting and blending peanuts. And certainly using a quality brand peanut butter that you already like, avoids potential risk of…

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