Join me on my quest of making homemade treats with less sugar!
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
I’ve shared several recipes for chocolate flavor foam cakes before. Double Chocolate Chiffon Cake is super chocolaty which has a brownie-like texture. Chocolate Chiffon Cake is the typical fluffy chiffon cake. Chocolate Genoise is a bouncy cake that is sturdy enough for fondant cake. Flourless Chocolate Cake is, well, flourless (and yet it tastes amazing).... Continue Reading →
It was my son’s 8th birthday last week and instead of making a cake for him, I made a fruit tart. The tart shell was a tweak from Chocolate Mixed Berry Tartlets and I used pastry flour and icing sugar to make the texture more crumbly. In order to prevent the shell from being too... Continue Reading →
Pound cake is named for the traditional proportions of a pound each of flour, butter, sugar and eggs. The following is a scaled down version that incorporates leavening agent (baking powder) for a less dense pound cake and milk for added moisture. I also tried something new by substituting trehalose for a portion of the... Continue Reading →
EC Bakes 小意思 