I made these soft and tender matcha cookies for my aunt in September. This is actually a variation of my Vanilla Bean Cutout Cookies. I add more sugar to balance out the bitter flavor from the matcha powder. These cookies are soft and tender because of the cake flour and icing sugar. Egg yolk will … Continue reading Matcha Cutout Cookies (Soft and Tender) 抹茶印模曲奇(鬆化口感)
Here is the cupcake version of my Chocolate Genoise (Dairy Free) that is made with milk. This is not the traditional way of making separated eggs method sponge cake. It involves beating the egg whites into a stiff meringue first before beating in the yolks. And then followed by the folding of flour, liquid (milk), … Continue reading Chocolate Sponge Cupcakes 朱古力海綿杯子蛋糕
This was the cake I made for my friend’s mom on her birthday and I used an entire 400 g pack of frozen durian with seed for the filling. You could add more or less sugar according to the sweetness of the durian. If the durian is s fibrous, pass the mixture through a sieve … Continue reading No-Bake Durian Cheesecake 榴槤芝士凍餅
This is the second flavor that I developed for my nerikiri mooncakes this year (read about my first flavor in the blog post, Sugar-Free Matcha and Red Bean Nerikiri Mooncakes). These no-bake mooncakes are similar to Japanese confectionery but a lot less sweet. Both the crust and filling are made with sweet white bean paste. … Continue reading Chocolate Espresso Nerikiri Mooncakes (Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Nut-Free) 朱古力特濃咖啡日式練切月餅(無蛋、無奶製品、無麩質、無果仁)
I’ve been making sweet red bean paste for my homemade mooncakes (read about my blog posts Sweet Red Bean Paste and Sugar-Free Sweet Red Bean Paste for more details) and this is the first time that I flavored it with Chen Pi. Everything is basically the same. I just dumped in some chen pi when … Continue reading Sweet Red Bean Paste with Chen Pi (Dried Mandarin Peel) 陳皮豆沙餡
I have friends (including myself) who are diabetic and need to control their diet so I’ve been making sugar-free mooncakes for several years (read about my blog posts, Sugar-Free Crispy Matcha Mooncakes With Sweet Red Bean Paste and Sugar-Free Traditional Cantonese Mooncakes for more details). Realizing that some other friends or their kids have food … Continue reading Sugar-Free Matcha Red Bean Nerikiri Mooncakes (Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Nut-Free) 無糖抹茶紅豆日式練切月餅(無蛋，無奶製品，無麩質，無果仁)
I made this white bean paste out of sugar substitute for my mooncake this year. Compared to Japanese white bean paste which is super sweet, this white bean paste is only lightly sweetened. The reduced sugar amount will make the bean paste dry and crumbly so oil is needed to make up for the moisture … Continue reading Sugar-Free White Bean Paste 無糖白豆沙餡
Another Chocolate cake lol. This chocolate butter cake is made with milk rather than sour cream or yogurt which was usually stated in my other chocolate butter cake recipes such as Chocolate Bundt Cake, Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake or Chocolate Butter Cake. Since milk is a lot thinner than sour cream or yogurt, the … Continue reading Chocolate Bundt Cake 2 朱古力環形牛油蛋糕 2
I made this sponge cake as a base to make a cake for my friend’s birthday recently. The cake was free of dairy products but still tasted great. I have readers who told me about their failure when making sponge cake, especially the chocolate version. Everything was fine when beating the whole eggs, but then … Continue reading Chocolate Genoise (Dairy Free) 朱古力海綿蛋糕(無奶製品)
I usually just use diluted tomato paste or store-bought pizza sauce for my pizza due to laziness (check out my Thin Crust Pizza recipe here). This time I decided to make my own from scratch as I have a surplus of heirloom tomatoes that I grew in my garden. This tomato sauce is great for … Continue reading Homemade Tomato Sauce 自製蕃茄醬
