“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

John 14:27 NIV

Be still, my heart. 

🐷🐷 mooncakes

And I succumbed. Resisted buying mooncake mould for a long time and I finally gave in. However, I got distracted researching traditional mooncakes and found these cute piggies. How can I pass this chance to bake some? So here they are! Presenting.... Piggies mooncakes.

Aren't they cute? 

Alright! Settled my curiosity and bimbo desire to try all things cute. Back to traditional mooncakes soon!

Mango Chiffon

The holidays are ending. No! Don't go, my holidays! I baked so much this holiday that I think I seriously need a break. Before I take a break, here's a mango chiffon cake for 2 birthday girls.

Everybody thought it's a yam cake, maybe I should bake one that is yam flavoured soon. 

Pretty!

They're so lovely! I asked for 2 items and I got all of those below! So lovely, I cannot bear to use them. I want to save them for people special to me and I just don't know when I'll use them. 

On another note, I had an order for Ondeh Ondeh cake and this must be the flavor I have repeated the most number of times. I get bored easily and I rarely repeat a bake. I like how they're so well recieved though. I've another baking session for this flavour tomorrow by the way. Pretty bored with them. Haha. 

Exploring a mango flavour cake these 2 days, updates soon.:)

Horlicks Chiffon Cake

Flavour of the week is Horlicks, so it's Horlicks pudding, Horlicks 小馒头 and now, Horlicks chiffon.

Wanted to bake a birthday cake for a friend and decided to go with flavour of the week, Horlicks.

Then I thought honeycomb may go with the cake and made some, easy to make, but I suspect the high humidity here cause the honeycomb to absorb moisture really quickly.

Honeycomb 

They got sticky really fast and nearly ruined the cake. It turned a rusty brown.:(

In an attempt to salvage the cake, I covered with strawberries! Worked ;)

All of my friends could not guess it's Horlicks. I guess the mild malty taste of Horlicks blends with cake so well that it disappears in cream too. Nonetheless, the texture was soft and fluffy. 

Baking fun

It's an afternoon of baking fun with close friends from work and 2 children.

We did Nutella brownies and decorated some cakes. It was really fun, the cakes looked a bit strange on their own, but put together, they looked quite nice! 

Thankful that we all had fun;)

All together

Because each of them deserve a photo by themselves,

Poh Kim's 

Mine

Glenda's 

Glenda's too

Garden by Siew Khim

Made for Hayden

Huilan's

Siew Khim's

We are quite creative. ;)

Basic Milk pudding

Here's the recipe for milk pudding, very versatile recipe. Quick and easy.

300 ml+ 300 ml milk

40g sugar

4 tsp gelatine powder 

4tbsp cold water

1. Bloom the gelatine powder in cold water. 

2. Heat 300ml of milk and sugar over low heat till sugar dissolves. (Add flavourings like green tea, milo powder, etc if adding) 

3. Add the gelatine to the heated milk till well combined. 

4. Take the mixture off the heat and add the remaining milk, stirring to combine. 

5. Pour the mix into prepared containers and chill till set.

6. Add any toppings of your liking, red beans, crushed Oreo etc.

Here are some flavours I tried 

Horlicks ones 

Coffee ones

Matcha ones

The possibilities are really endless, be creative! ;)