Chocolate Banana Sponge

This cake gave an awesome texture and banana aroma. I took lotsa close up pictures because I was so pleased with the crumbs with the little bits of banana mixed throughout the cake. I baked in a round pan, but it can be baked in a tube pan too, as a Chiffon. The recipe is…

Nigella’s Chocolate Chip Muffin

Very easy and very delicious. Just follow the recipe and don’t omit anything. Just a word of caution, don’t use heavily waxed muffin cups that will cause lopsided muffins. See the picture below, all baked using the same recipe. Muffins on the left are lopsided and flat top too! Another tip is to use double…

Purple Sweet Potato Choc Chips Buns

I was pleasantly surprised by the beautiful Colour. The purple potato didn’t turn blue even though I forgot to add lemon juice, maybe the yeast created an acidic environment? Recipe 80g purple sweet potato puree. 240g bread flour 130 ml milk 20g sugar 3/4 tsp yeast 20g butter 1/3 tsp salt 80g to 100g chocolate…

Crown Chocolate Chiffon

Hope you can see that this cake is shaped like a crown. It uses the Controlled Cracking for Chiffon technique which you can read more from the link. When done properly, the crown blooms nicely, the interior texture is fluffy and soft and there is no concave bottom. After much experimentation, the different top and…

Pandan Chocolate Zebra Cake

Recipe 10- 15 leaves, blended with 80 g coconut milk and some water to squeeze out 95g of Pandan coconut milk. 4 egg yolks 50 g sugar 60g cooking oil 100g cake flour 1 tbsp cocoa powder 1/2 tsp green colouring (optional) 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 5 egg whites 50g sugar 1/4…

Chocolate Marble Bread

My crazy chocolate marble bread 😜. When I last did this, I felt discontented, because I couldn’t do one more trifold. This time I finally squeezed in 3 trifold (27 layers), and superbly satisfied, OCD much? Bread is soft and chocolate layer with Green and Blacks chocolate and Varlhona cocoa powder is yummy! Original recipe…

Easy Choc Chip Cookies

This is a super easy recipe, guarantee to be a favourite with the kids. It’s a basic cookie, not chewie  like subways, and definitely not melt in the mouth. But it’s really crunchy old school cookie. When first baked, it’s a little soft and will hardened when cooled. If you like this shaggy look, there’s…

Yummy Homemade Walnut or Almond Nutella

This is an amazingly simple recipe with only 5 ingredients and oh so good. The strong nutty flavour makes you wonder if there’s any ‘nuts’ in Nutella at all. My children gave it their thumbs-up. Recipe ( adapted from Low/ Helen Ho) 100g walnuts or almonds 70g caster sugar 25g varlhona cocoa powder 1/4 tsp…

Chocolate Tarts

After my lemon tarts met with great success (with my kids, that is), whereby they did a clean sweep in a few hours for the 2 times I made it, I decided I could move on to another flavour, chocolate! By this time, I’ve gotten really tired of struggling with my 19 cm tart tin…