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
I’ve been baking more and more since the pandemic and this is one of the things that I bake more than usual. I have made pizza dough with all purpose and bread flour before and the pizza dough that I was most pleased with was with Italian tipo 00 flour. Unlike flour that is commonly … Continue reading Homemade Thin Crust Pizza 手工薄餅(薄脆批)
I’ve been experimenting with trehalose recently and here’s a chocolate butter cake that I made yesterday. The recipe was adapted from Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake and I did not add any oil and syrup for moisture this time. The result was satisfactory as the cake wasn’t overly sweet nor dry at all. 這陣子都是試驗在糖中混入海藻糖做牛油蛋糕，昨天就做了這個修改自朱古力酸忌廉蛋糕的朱古力味牛油蛋糕。這次沒有添加油和糖漿保濕，但效果仍是挺好的，整體味道不太甜，蛋糕質地也不乾。 Sour … Continue reading Chocolate Bundt Cake 朱古力牛油蛋糕
I got some ripe bananas at home that nobody was interested in. So in they went to my mixer for a moist and delicious cake. I’ve started using a combination of trehalose and organic sugar for butter cakes recently for reduced sweetness without giving up moisture and so far I’m pretty satisfied with the result. … Continue reading Chocolate Banana Bundt Cake 朱古力香蕉蛋糕
A friend of mine has made some really cute bow tie shaped buns recently and told me that the shaping process was super easy. I was convinced after watching the video she shared with me and decided to make some with my daughter right away. 之前朋友介紹EC做可愛的蝴蝶結造型麵包，並說製作超簡單的。看過她分享的影片後EC也認為製作十分容易，於是便立刻跟女兒動手試試。 You could use any kind of sweet bread dough … Continue reading Bow Tie Buns 蝴蝶結麵包
I had some leftover durian flesh from my No Bake Durian Cheese Tart that I made last week so I used that for a pound cake. This is pretty much the same as my Vanilla Pound Cake, just with durian added. If you love durian you gotta try this cake. 上星期做免焗榴槤芝士撻時剩下了少許榴槤肉，於是便做了這個磅蛋糕。蛋糕配方基本上跟雲尼拿磅蛋糕差不多，只是增添了榴槤肉而已，榴槤控一定要試試。 If you don't have … Continue reading Durian Pound Cake 榴槤磅蛋糕
The City of Toronto has entered stage 3 of the reopening plan and restaurants are now allowed to reopen for indoor dining. We were still vigilant and only ordered take out and celebrated my 40th birthday at home. I made this tart as dessert and I had to make it twice simply due to my … Continue reading No Bake Durian Cheese Tart 免焗榴槤芝士撻
