Posted in Cupcakes on July 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Mmm. Cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes. White and dark chocolate cupcakes with vanilla or raspberry buttercream frosting. You can never go wrong with that.
I found a cheap pastry decorating kit at Carrefour (only $4.95, with 6 different nozzles!) and had lots of fun making proper cupcake icing for the cakes I made for Peishan’s book club last [...]
Posted in Healthy, Noodles & Rice on July 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve realised that so far none of the recipes I’ve posted here are actually really chinchai, so I thought I’d share one of my simple ones today. Today I made a variation of Chubby Hubby’s Simple Pork Noodles (which itself was a variation of dan dan mian). By adding basil and red peppers, I gave [...]
Posted in Cakes, Comfort Food on July 15, 2007 | 14 Comments »
“Why do you always bake cupcakes?” grumbled A the other day, when I told him about plans for a fourth batch of cupcakes. I had been obsessing over them for the past week - I was thinking of vanilla with a chocolate filling and crunchy chocolate frosting, but no matter how I thought about it, [...]
Posted in Comfort Food, Potato-based on July 9, 2007 | 8 Comments »
You know you’ve made a damn good cottage pie when an Englishman swoons over it. My boyfriend A was ecstatic during tonight’s dinner, and making orgiastic noises while gobbling up two huge scoops. At the end he solemnly took my hand in his and kissed it. “Thank you,” he said, emotionally. “Good. Now do the [...]
Posted in Baking, Cupcakes on July 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
L to R: Closeup of cupcake; and my rejected decoration designs, one of which is Nippletastic!
I first encountered red velvet cupcakes at Johanna’s 30th birthday party in New York two years ago. Instead of a birthday cake, she opted for red velvet cupcakes from a famous bakery (I forget which one, but it wasn’t [...]
Posted in Ingredients on July 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here in Singapore, buttermilk is a foreign concept and usually found in atas (’high class’ 
supermarkets. Luckily, there’s always a quick, easy and chin chai way to make buttermilk - just add lemon juice!
Today whilst making red velvet cupcakes (post to come soon), I added the juice of half a large lemon to 1 [...]
Posted in Baking, Cupcakes on July 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I just love cupcakes - their size, their cuteness, their pretty-ness, their lethal ability to send you into a sugar-induced swoon. And since I got my new oven, I’ve been going on cupcake baking sprees!
I made these about two weeks ago. The chocolate ones with white frosting were made according to a Magnolia Bakery [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hello, my name is Tessa and I like to cook and bake chin chai-stylee.
I started this blog not because I want to be a food writer, but because I just wanted to have an online database of all my recipes, as well as share my favourite dishes with the rest of the world. And yeah [...]
