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. […]
11 Desserts That are Fun to Decorate
Baking gives us a canvas with which we can feed both our mouth and eyes. What kind of desserts can offer us the best outlet for diverse creations? 1) Sugarcraft Sugar crafting is more of creating a dessert ornament rather than a dessert itself, but if it isn’t one of the most glorious ornaments […]
When is the Best Time of Year for Outdoor TB Activities?
Night Walks One of Malaysia’s many fortunes is that we get to be surrounded by nature. Even city dwellers are only a few hours drive away from a ocean-side holiday or a jungle trek. However, you wouldn’t even have to go far to discover the flora and fauna in the hidden nooks and […]
6 Desserts Ingredients That Can Fight A Weak Immune System
With the current outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), people are buying out stores for supplies and ingredients because they need to bunk down at home. So right now you might be someone with options in your fridge and a craving for sugar. Or maybe you simply just want a healthy snack. If you […]
How Group Baking Can Save Relationships with Communication Skills
Work is stressful. Tears and headaches are par for course when it comes to being a working adult. Unfortunately, most of it comes more from miscommunication with colleagues rather than simply deadlines. There are only 2 magic ingredients that you need to improve and reinforce your relationships and communication skills: subconscious association and personal effort. […]
5 Leadership Criteria You’ll Learn From Baking Team Building
Wondering how it feels like to get something meaningful done together with your workmates other than rushing endless deadlines? Feeling like having a short getaway from the workload with your colleagues but prefer to stay indoors? Ready to bring your company’s weekend activity to the next level? Fret not! My Weekend Plan is here to […]
Benefits of Baking and Why You Need It
Even if you are changing jobs, lost someone, had a disagreement with a colleague, struggling with your children or having a crush with someone, you should never put it hard on yourself. AIA Vitality Survey 2017 reported that Malaysian employees are overworked, stressed and lead unhealthy lifestyles. Don’t be part of the statistics. One […]
Experiential Team Building Activities 2020 That Can Shape The Future of A Company
Team building activities are essential to keep company employees engaged with one another and build rapport outside of the working environment. It is very common nowadays to see companies taking initiatives in organizing such activities in one way or another, be it inside the office or having fun outside. The reason behind is simple. 86% […]
The Ultimate List of Team Building Activities for 2020
Organizational success is largely dependent on employee engagement, which largely depends on the investment that managers make for their teams. It builds trust, mitigates conflict, and encourages collaboration and communication which ultimately leads to a healthy company culture and boosting the bottom line. Here’s a diverse mix of team building activities that you can do […]
Baking Team Building Malaysia
If there is one universal truth that is as true as any, it is that food unites everyone. Cooking as a family or with friends and loved ones brings us together because the whole experience enables us to share our culture and heritage through food while providing nourishment to one another. This very act of […]
How to Make Red Velvet Cake
If it isn’t obvious yet, we love the red velvet cake here in MyWeekendPlan. In fact, we love it so much that we covered on the basic steps of baking this Red Beauty in a previous article on our specially curated list of must-have Chinese New Year baked goodies. This time, we’re going to […]