This is my first ever post. I thought I ought to make it slightly special or prolific. I’m sitting under the sun eating a breakfast chicken salad at Ulivetto, Sydney. The coffee is good here. I have long wanted more cafes to invent a breakfast salad due to my obsession with greens. Basically it means, “and [...]
I’ve been busy. So busy that I almost lost the bug to bake. Until recently when Dylan asked me why his friends at school get yummy chocolate biscuits and snacks for ‘brain food’ (aka snack time at school), and instead why he always gets boring snacks like fruit, cheese and crackers. I told him that [...]
I was going through some old photos of bakelife goodies on my old black mac and came across last year’s Christmas cookie baking frenzy. It was the year that we started bakelife, i.e. the year that Amel and I became obsessed with baking. It was completely bizarre, as we lived in different continents, same [...]
My latest cupcake attempts failed epically on the frosting front. For some reason I just can’t get it to the right piping consistency-instead it melts and loses shape as soon as I pipe it on. I’m sure the humidity here in Singapore plays a big factor, and the ambient temperature of my kitchen (probably hotter [...]
My first attempt at a real chicken pie last month turned out not too bad at all. I need to work on the pastry a bit more-as it kind of fell apart on me when I was trying to drape the pastry (home made!) over the pie dish. Definitely isn’t a pretty pie, but it [...]
I made these some time ago and I’ve been meaning to post this recipe on bakelife for many months now, so here it is. I can’t recall where I got the recipe from so unfortunately can’t reference the blog, however what I remember is that they had adapted this from 1 Mix, 100 Muffins. [...]
As I mentioned in my recent post on mini pink lamingtons, I’ve been baking like a mad woman. This time of year is what kicked it off for me last year and for bakelife. Last October saw me attempt a carrot cake for Hero’s birthday (this year we bought a cake from the newly [...]
My goal this week was to post a recipe each night on bakelife that I’ve attempted in the last few months – so far so good. Tonight’s post is about these delicious and sinful raspberry white choc spelt muffins. I generally like to mix my flour and use spelt and other non-white flours whenever [...]
I know Halloween has passed but I’ve wanted to blog about these cute little mummy cupcakes every since I made them (successfully!). They were relatively simple to make and seeing them come together was very cool. Inspired by 6 Bittersweets (Xiaolu has amazing recipes and beautiful photography on her little blog), I was looking for a [...]
I’ve been baking like a mad woman. I have quite a few recipes I’m hoping to share with everyone really soon – as soon as I can set aside a little bit of time each day to blog about them. But tonight I’ll share my attempt at baking mini pink lamingtons over the weekend. I [...]