17 January 2014

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is just around the corner!!! Brought Jonas to Junction 10 after his school ends and he was delighted to see 财神爷. Our cheeky boy went up to him and asked me to take a photo of him with 财神爷.


Feeling so amused by his action, everyone started laughing at the way he reacted. Because the mall is not so big, we bumped into 财神爷 3 times and my Jonas never fail to take a pic with him.
Up till now, he still keep humming "Dong Dong Chiang, Dong Dong Chiang". He really brings a lot of joy and laughter to the family.




16 January 2014

Almond Cookies

Chinese New Year is just round the corner.. I try my best to speed up all the bake starting on 21 January 2013. That will be the day I will slog at home instead of slogging in the office!!

Anyway told my boss that I need to take a 4 days leave to bake at home, he says "YES" you should, just glad that I have an understanding "Boss"... That when the joke came by "Hello I'm telling you I bake cos I in need of money, so you should know what to do next right". LOLZ

Anyway to share this recipe with you all and is pretty easy too.





Recipe for Almond Cookies by XXX (forgotten)

Ingredient
150gm ground almonds
230gm plain flour
150gm caster sugar
1/4tsp vanilla essence
1/4tsp salt
1tsp baking powder
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
150ml corn oil
1 egg yolk for glazing

Method
1.     Combine all ingredients together in a mixing bowl and mix into a dough.
2.     Roll small dough about 7gm each and arrage on baking tray
3.     Brush with egg yolks and bake 175C for about 15 to 20 mins or till     brown.
4.     Cool well and store in containers.


15 January 2014

Grand Marnier Fruit Cake

Fruit cake are one of my mum's favourite, I been finding good recipe for the baking of fruit cake. Finally I chance upon this fruit cake recipe from wendyinkk. There secret to this recipe is the Grand Mariner which got to cover the done cake for 5 days to a week before consume.





It really smell heavenly with the Grand Marnier and my mum and friends love it lotz. I will be sharing this recipe below:



Recipe for Grand Mariner Fruit Cake by Wendyinkk

Ingredient
450 to 500gm of mix fruits
100ml of fresh orange juice
100ml Grand Marnier
Zest from the Orange
(Mix the ingredient except the red and green cherries. Soak it in the fridge for a day. Mix in the cherries while waiting for the butter to soften on the next day)

Next day Ingredient 
250gm salted butter
150gm sugar
4 eggs
225gm all purpose flour
100ml of Grand Marnier for later use

Method
1.     Preheat Oven 130/150C and Line a 8inch tray
2.     Cream butter and Sugar
3.     Add in the eggs one at a time
4.     Add in the sifted flour and beat in the low speed till smooth
5.     Pour in the soak mix fruit including the liquid and fold it
6.     Pour batter into 8inch pan, level and bake for 1.5hrs
7.     Once done remove cake from the oven and drizzle the 100ml Grand Mariner.
8.     Remove it from the baking tray and let it cool and wrap it up for 5days to a week in room temperature before consuming.


Credit of the photo go to my bestie Chrizelyn Tan


14 January 2014

A Moment Of Glory

Indeed a surprise for us as Parents. Received letter from Ministry of Education indicating that my big boy Jayden got the award for Certificate of Academic Achievement and Good Progress Award. Oh My!!!! How can it be??? Hahaha.... It's a total shock for us and himself too.

I would say he did improve a lot compared to Pri 1 in 2012. With his Pri 2 result, he managed to get these 2 awards. Thumb up for him and hope he will continue with this kind of learning attitudes.


12 January 2014

Pineapple Tarts

Chinese New Year is just round the corner!!! This year, I did something I had never thought of. It is to sell my Homemade Pineapple Tarts.

It is really a big project for me as this is the 1st time I'm baking 74 tubs. Seventy-four tubs with 32 pieces each. That's 2,368 of Pineapple Tarts. Wow Wow Wow...

I do hope everyone will enjoy the Pineapple Tarts which I had made and it's to their liking. Feel free to feedback as I feel there is always room for improvement. Enjoy...