Archive for the ‘1.2.5 – Chinese Pastries’ Category
INTRODUCTION
I have been holding this post for a while because I am waiting for my steamed glutinous rice cake to harden so that I can cut and show readers how to prepare this sticky rice cake. Somehow, this is
INTRODUCTION During Chinese New Year, lapis has recently become one of the essential cakes in Singapore and Malaysia. If you are looking for a healthier version, you can consider the following lapis because the butter and eggs are much less
INTRODUCTION
Winter Solstice Festival is a few days away and will fall on 22nd December 2013. On the day, most Chinese will have the habit of eating Tangyuan or glutinous rice flour balls. In my clan, it basically mean that
UPDATED ON 17-JUNE 2014
FOR NON –ENO RICE FLOUR HUAT KUIH, PLEASE SCROLL TOWARDS THE END OF THE POST.
For other Pandan Huat kuih prepared using self raising flour, please refer to: An Auspicious Steamed Cake To Celebrate My
INTRODUCTION
Lapis is in Malay and is literally translated as “layers’. This is a Nonya steamed cake and is different from the Kek lapis. Kek lapis is baked but kueh lapis is steamed and the ingredients are very different. Where
Updated post on 24.11.2016
Upload of new pictures. The batch today is prepared using hand kneading which I am not sharing. Hence the crust will not be as smooth as machine knead. However, it is easier for me, less thing
Dragon Boat activities are basically carried out during the Chinese Rice Dumpling Festivals (Duan Wu Jie (端午节）in Mandarin）and during these festival, rice dumpling were prepared for offering to the famous ancient Chinese Poet, Qu Yuan (屈原). Though the origin
Updated post on 1/12/2016
Prepared some truffles and decide to upload new pictures. Today I have used almond marzipan icing wrap with a macadamia nut. On the outer surface, mostly pecan nuts and macadamia nuts.
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I have prepared these chocolates for my kids to bring back to hometown and gave to relatives as hand gifts. Not long after they arrived, my relative called and “ordered” another few more boxes of these macadamia chocolates. She is
UPDATED POST ON 13-1-2018
I have decided to bake another lapis horlicks using back recipe 1 and I think i have improved tremendously after making many lapis. There is no fault in recipe 1 except the handling are not experienced
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