Red Bean Mooncake

Mooncakes are out at the downtown oriental stores. My sister gave me two Red Bean Paste with 1 Yolk Mooncakes. I think they all taste quite similar except for different fillings. The ones I found downtown were Lotus, Pandan Paste, Durian Essence, Red Bean Paste, and Pineapple. I had the pineapple mooncake and my conclusion is it tasted like pineapple tart. T & T have some reduced sugar mooncakes. BTW the pineapple mooncake was about 4 cm (approx. 1 1/2" square) and there were 10 pieces for CA$16.99

Steamed Haw Flake Cake

I have tried postponing making this cake like forever! I was a little skeptical in the beginning about the final product. There weren't any cream crackers so I had to drive downtown to purchase some for this cake. I put the whole cream crackers into my kitchen aid food processor and grind it until it it more or less like bread crumbs. For future reference reduce the sugar to 80g and I will divide the batter into four parts so each layer will be even rather than counting each ladel as I added in each layer. Since I followed the recipe as directed I discovered that if I didn't steam the second layer long enough that is why the center of my cake caved in! This is due to lack of experience on my part but next time I will do a much better job. Frankly it is good enough for my tummy and definitely a keeper. My hubby likes it so do I! :)

Recipe source from Jode's site.

Sarawak Serikaya Cake

Thank you Boon Kien for this lovely recipe. This is quite a moist cake even after 3 days and it wasn't extremely sweet. I think I could taste more horlick in this cake. Even though I don't have the exact browning sauce (gulai hitam) I did it anyway. I didn't know for sure if 11/2 hour of steaming was good enough or not but I went ahead and steam a little longer and i wrapped up my steamer's cover with kitchen towel so the evaporated steam will not drip and wet my cake. So far it turned out really well and I am pleased with the result and the taste of the cake. So this will be definitely another keeper! :)

Japanese Cheesecake

I have never tasted a cake so soft. It felt like cotton puff!

Tom's Orange & Poppy Seed Cake

I adjusted the recipe a little by adding a pinch of salt to lemon curd and a little more lemon juice. I didn't cut the cake into three parts instead into two parts. Note: For future reference add less sugar to syrup. This one use a lot of ground almond. Don't forget to add more lemon curd in between the two parts. Recipe Orgin: bbcgoodfood

Lemon Poppy Seed Cakelettes

Top with chocolate lemon drops since I didn't have the tip for it I ended up using a star tip. This cakelette is about 11/2" in diameter and it is not that chocolatey. Note: perfect size for canapes. Recipe orgin: Death by Chocolate by Marcel Desaulniers.

Butter cake with Zebra design

First attempt and hubby mentioned that it is a bit dry. I thought it tasted more like butter cake since it required half a pound of butter. Since i bought the food color from Safeway and it is kind of diluted. The color green didn't stand out much but will add more and try to use concentrated green icing colors instead.

Black Christmas Rum Cake

You can store this cake as long as you want.