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Diposting oleh
good reading on Jumat, 28 Desember 2007

One year has already past since I first started this blog.This was my intention when I first started this blog:I hope I am able to get ideas and suggestions from fellow home bakers to improve my baking skills. At the same [...]
More about → A Year of Home Baking
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good reading on Senin, 24 Desember 2007

Santa Claus finally came over to our house last night ;)My two boys have been waiting for this day ever since the school holidays started. During the past weeks, they kept changing their minds about what to wish for from [...]
More about → Here Comes Santa Claus!
Diposting oleh
good reading on Minggu, 23 Desember 2007

Living almost right on the Equator means that we never get to see snow on Christmas. In fact I didn't get to experience snow until we went for our honeymoon. My first encounter with snow was at Mount Titlis, Switzerland. [...]
More about → Let it Snow!
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greenspan's black and white chocolate cake: let's say it had potential but came short in delivery. i had to decorate with tons of white and dark chocolate shavings to distract people from the ugly sides of the cake the [...]
More about → RECIPE REVIEW: DECEMBER MISSION: GREENSPAN'S BLACK AND WHITE CHOCOLATE CAKE
Diposting oleh
good reading on Sabtu, 22 Desember 2007

any ideas what to do with curdled white chocolate mousse?I knew I shouldn't have mouthed off about how I didn't think there would be a problem with me making Dorie Greenspan's Black and White Chocolate Cake recipe.Perhaps [...]
More about → CURDLED MOUSSE EMERGENCY!
Diposting oleh
good reading

a stack of christmas cookie boxes ready for givingWHEW! with all this baking going on, i forgot to make christmas cards this year (oops!) so instead i made a little card with a list of the contents inside I don't want [...]
More about → CHRISTMAS COOKIE BOXES: LAST ROUND!
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good reading on Jumat, 21 Desember 2007

This is a slice of a birthday cake I made for my younger son.As compared to his elder brother, somehow, it seems to take a longer time for this boy to grow! Due to his small built, plus, his behaviour, he seems to be a baby [...]
More about → Colour My World
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crispy, crunchy and not too sweet--these are a perfect gift for a chocolate connoisseurAAAACK! only 4 more days until Christmas! There's so much baking and Christmas cooking to be done and so little time! I've whittled [...]
More about → ALMOND COCOA NIB STICKS
Diposting oleh
good reading on Kamis, 20 Desember 2007

pistachio & cocoa nib thinsAt last, my baking frenzy is winding down. Here I am playing around with the Nibby Pecan Cookies ; replacing the pecans with pistachios as Tartelette did. I didn't bother chopping the pistachios [...]
More about → PISTACHIO COCOA NIB THINS
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good reading on Rabu, 19 Desember 2007

tiffany snowflake cookies a bowl of cute vanilla pod mini-snowflakesthis was cakebrain's first stab at decorating intricate snowflake cookies with royal icingAfter my fortuitous excursion to Williams-Sonoma, where I picked [...]
More about → TIFFANY SNOWFLAKE COOKIES
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good reading on Senin, 17 Desember 2007

here's what the first batch of christmas cookie boxes looks like insideAhhh...'tis the season to be weary. clockwise from top left: world peace, vanilla butter, green tea christmas trees, bah humbug black sesame butter [...]
More about → CAKEBRAIN'S CHRISTMAS COOKIE BOXES: ROUND 1