Light Mango Cheesecake (with yoghurt)

The weather has been sooo hot and mangoes are in season. Here’s a great recipe for a refreshing dessert. It’s non-bake and you can whip this up in under and hour, easy peasy. Recipe (6″) Crust 60g digestive biscuit 50g melted butter Cheese filling 125g Philadelphia block cream cheese 40g milk 2-3 tbsp powder sugar,…

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Crackling Skin Roast Pork or Sio Bak (脆皮烧肉）

This dish is done by my hubby. A simple 5 ingredients recipe. No need for fancy ingredients and tedious steps. Just get a good slab of pork and do each step (like cleaning and drying skin) meticulously and you are guaranteed success. We used fresh Indonesian pork, and requested butcher to cut for roasting. Our…

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Gradient Matcha Mousse Cake (抹茶慕斯蛋糕)

Thank you Amanda Taste for this beautiful cake with a delicious yet light taste. Please go to her YouTube to see detailed steps. I used a biscuit base and so this has become a non-baked cake. Also I upsized the cake to 7″ with some adjustments to the recipe. To increase success rate, do read…

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Kringle Bread (Cinnamon layer bread)

Super yummy bread if you like cinnamon. Looks so pretty too. Recipe 1 dough from Windsor Bread (温莎面包) Cinnamon spread 2 heap tbsp of sugar 40-50g soften butter 2 tsp cinnamon (adjust to taste) 1/4 tsp salt Method 1. Prepare a dough of Windsor bread from the link above, up to step 4. You can…

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Teochew Thousand Layer Spiral Yam Mooncake

I think the shaping and layers are far from perfect. But I love the taste so much, 20 little moon cakes gone over 2 family gatherings. The skin is so flaky it’s hard to slice, but the buttery taste is delicious. Keeping this recipe. Recipe (20 small mooncakes) Yam fillings 500g yam cut into cubes…

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Easy Baked New York Cheesecake

A very easy recipe. There’s no issue of cracks at all. I used top heat only for the last few minutes to give it a brown top. Best part of the taste is the refreshing lemon juice that cuts through the creamy cheese. Recipe (6″ round tin) Base 125g digestive biscuits 60g melted butter Cheese…

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Japanese Cheese Cake (JCC)

Whoosh, I’m so happy with this Japanese Cheese Cake finally after fine-tuning and fine-tuning. Tested many times, no bubbly yolk batter, no kueh or dense layer and no cracks. Nice cottony texture too 🤗. I’ve been trying the few famous recipes but with little success. Most of the times I get a kueh layer at…

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Salted Gula Melaka Nuts Drizzle

Just wanted to make a simple birthday cake for mom-in-law who doesn’t take butter or cream, but loves banana, all sorts of nuts. This cake turned out to be such a hit with many converts saying they didn’t usually like banana or walnuts so much. A note of caution, don’t use non-stick pans as I…

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Yoghurt Soft Wholemeal Bread (old dough)

A soft and fluffy bread using straight dough and quick proof method. The key difference is the old dough or 老面that I added, and the whole loaf was soft and fluffy. My old dough is easy and casual, it’s any bread dough saved from the last bread that you baked. I always make it around…

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