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 [...]
Archive for July, 2007
White or Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla or Raspberry Buttercream Frosting
Posted in Cupcakes on July 28, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Basil Pork Noodles with Sliced Red Peppers
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 [...]
Chocolate Ferrero Rocher Cake with Nutella Ganache
Posted in Cakes, Comfort Food on July 15, 2007 | 34 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, [...]
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
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 [...]
Got Buttermilk?
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 [...]
Magnolia Chocolate and Cedele Carrot-Walnut Cupcakes
Posted in Baking, Cupcakes on July 8, 2007 | 4 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 [...]
The Chin Chai Chef Is Born
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 [...]
