Christmas is coming and Christmas is time for some heavy duty baking. Although it not really tradition in MY family; my mother was not really a fan of cooking or baking. I have always been the one baking stuff but back then, my baking have not been so successful. But that didn’t deter my dad [...]

This is the recipe that I used for my carrot cake. Instead of zucchini, I used carrots. Although, I found that 10 ounces of carrot was a bit much for 1 portion of batter so I mixed in half a portion of batter to make it less carrot-y. The original batter was looking a bit [...]

Here’s the recipe from Everyday Food.
Ingredients

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus more for pan (4 ounces)
1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 large eggs

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush [...]

I love Martha Stewart.
My mother never really baked much. I think it’s not really a Chinese sort of thing. I, however, love to bake. Although, I hate the clean up. Every so often I would get into a mood to bake. When I lived on my own, it was very hard to bake because there [...]

The icing for the carrot cake didn’t turn out so well. It was just butter and icing sugar. We prefer the cream cheese icing. So I scraped off whatever icing was on the cake, mixed it with some cream cheese and now the cake is ALMOST perfect.

We haven’t done too much. Like the past Sundays, [...]

Fredrik is back! Although only till Monday. But he brought me some goodies. Milka chocolates and the new Enigma CD. He’s sleeping on the couch right now.
I didn’t bake a carrot cake from scratch. By the time we headed to the supermarket, it was kinda late. We settled for some cake from a box. It’s [...]

I understand that the bathrooms have tile floors and some of the walls also have tiles, but it’s like the 3rd day! They start drilling at 7:30! Fredrik suggested that I sleep with some earplugs but I have no idea where we might’ve put them. I managed to get a wee bit more sleep after [...]