7 Quick Prep Meals that Can Double as Dessert and Breakfast!
It doesn’t matter if you’re cooking for a family of eight or just whipping up a meal for yourself, you should always aim to make good tasting food that everyone can enjoy. Dinner is a time for family to get together after a long day of work and studies. We unwind our stresses and […]
What Baking Habits Can Help Save the Planet?
Instilling an eco-friendly mindset and daily green habits is important for the health and safety of our future generations. Every little bit helps when it comes to taking care of our planet Earth. Yes, even baking! While you can take charge and adopt using as many reusable baking equipment and food containers […]
Common Cake Problems and Why They Happen
Baking is a great hobby with delectable results! It’s a therapeutic hands-on activity that many people from the younger generation have taken up. But no one starts off as a master chef. When you’ve worked hard on your cake, it can be rather discouraging to have it not come out as desired. Here’s […]
What are Some Easy Ways To Decorate Your Desserts?
Some people will go on and on about the glorious wonders of dessert decorating elements like buttercream frosting or fondant. But these take time, skills and patience to master. The more elaborate and complicated the decoration, the more fun it is to make. However, sometimes, you just want to sit back and enjoy your […]
Get to Know The Functions of Your Convection Oven
Desserts shops and easy microwavable premixes can only do so much to sate your appetite before your fingers start itching to make your own baked goods. Days, maybe months pass by as you consider whether or not to actually get an oven. But rest assured, your money won’t go to waste! After all, you […]
5 Effective Team Building Games That You Can Play Indoors
Every family has their designated couch potato or modern day hermit. But spending time together for family bonding shows that you care about each other. We all go through hardships together, but it is the people we stay with that will be most affected by your moods and behaviour. Building and maintaining the strength […]
Natural Flavourings and How to Use Them
Many people agree that when it comes to food, as fresh and as natural as possible are the best way to go. This means no processed food like nuggets or instant noodles! This is also why fresh and natural foods have a tendency to be more expensive, not to mention their shorter shelf life. […]
How Do Cakes and Breads Rise?
Have you ever wondered about the science of cake baking? How does yeast make bread rise? If you bake as a profession or a hobby, you are sure to have spent some time just watching through oven windows at your rising masterpiece. Besides, it’s always fun discovering the science behind how our world […]
11 Easy Desserts that Always look Good
Food is a great way to get likes and comments from your friends and followers on social media. Regardless of whatever language they speak or what country they come from, humans love to bond over food. It’s a universal love language that speaks to everyone, especially on Instagram where the #foodporn always seems to […]
5 Desserts with Fun and Weird Names
When it comes to any dish, especially baked goods, naming is meant to be helpful first and foremost. In the dish’s names, there is the name of the ingredient (sometimes more than one) and maybe the category of dessert it is. (image credit: canva.com) An example of this is a Raspberry Pie. In […]
What to Do with Your Leftover Ingredients?
Leftover ingredients during baking are rare but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen! Perhaps you’ve wrongly measured out your ingredients, or there’s just that little bit of chocolate left behind that would just go to waste if you just washed it down the drain. Leftovers are great for just making a small portion […]
How to Get the Most out of Recipes Online
If you have dabbled with baking as a hobby, you’ve definitely gone down some rabbit holes on the internet searching for the perfect recipe to guide you. But when you make your desserts, you want a recipe that you can trust won’t fail you. After all, it’s a waste of time, money and […]
5 Different Types of Flour and Desserts You Can Use Them For
Flour is one of the main ingredients in almost all of your most favourite desserts. Even beginner bakers are well familiar with all-purpose flour. From cakes to cookies to crusts, all-purpose flour seems to be able to make almost everything! Almost… While this extremely versatile flour can satisfy a lot of people, […]
7 Traditional Malaysian Desserts for Your Family
(image credit: needpix.com) You should always make some free time to make an effort to reach out to your family members. After all filial piety is a value that we want to pass on to our children every generation. As Malaysians, one of our main points of pride is our multi-cultural diversity. Indian, […]
11 Different Ways to Add Fruit into your Desserts
Fruits go a long way in changing the flavor of your desserts. Don’t bore yourself with plain ol’ vanilla essence. And there’s so many ways you can use them too! Here is a list of 11 ways to add fruits to your desserts. Go forth and increase your intake of vitamins and natural […]
5 Best Caramel Desserts!
Caramel is a syrup-like sauce that is made by only using white sugar. If you want its cousins, butterscotch or toffee, you will need to use brown sugar and butter. Caramel can also be creamier by adding whipped cream to make softer caramels like milk caramel. However, salted caramel is especially prefered by adults […]
Bread to be Loved
Everyone loves bread. Fluffy, indulgent carbohydrates that can be eaten on its own and complements practically any dish. There’s so many kinds of bread as well! Everybody has got at least a few as their favourites and it is easy to see why when each different type of bread has their own unique […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Buttercream Flowers
It’s always spring somewhere in the world, even if it isn’t, we’re in Malaysia. Here we always have flowers that bloom at some point in the year. With their bright and vibrant colours, it’s no wonder we love putting them on our cakes, cookies and macarons! However, not everyone is an expert baker […]
7 Desserts that You Can Make without an Oven
It can be a hard life for an aspiring baker without an oven. So many desserts may seem so close but just out of reach. After all, kitchen appliances are expensive and microwaves are just more convenient to everyday life. But why limit yourself to just microwavable desserts? Here are 7 dessert recipes that you […]
The Why’s and How’s of Healthy Baking
Defined as “to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.” by Dictionary.com, one thing amazing about baking is the versatility of the craft. But even then, for certain delicacies like custards and cheesecakes, you would need a water bath to make sure that it cooks properly without falling apart. […]