A TPcal Dessert

and other goodies from my kitchen

This page has been discontinued as from November 2007.

The pix have migrated here.

 

In reverse chronological order

 

 

 

Chocolate chantilly piped on almond tuile, topped with raspberries

 

Thumbprints with blueberry jam and mixed fruit jam

 

Foreground: Mixed Nut, Back: yolk covered with green tea paste, then white lotus paste

 

Mooncake 'doll' biscuits filled with red bean paste and green tea paste

 

Kiwi Pear Mascarpone Mousse Cake with Savoyardi Biscuit and Almond Dacquoise base

 

Baked Rice Pudding flavoured with orange blossom water and rosewater served with XO prunes and chopped pistachios.

 

Molten Chocolate Cake served with tiramisu gelato

 

Pithiviers - puff pastry filled with rich almond cream.

 

Chocolate Biscotti with mixed nuts (pecan, pistachio, walnuts) and choc bits.

 

My version of Paris Brest

 

Blueberries muffin

 

Fruitcake Cookies

 

Choux Pastry Swans filled with Creme Patisserie

 

Malted Double Chocolate Cake with White Choc BC

 

Apple Almond Turnovers

 

Hungarian Knot

 

6-point star made from 6 braids each

 

Dresden Stollen

 

Pannetone

 

Gingerbread Men

 

Sticky Fudge

 

Figgy Pudding with Brandy Sauce

 

Booze-laden fruit cake simply decorated with Pecans, Apricot and Cherries

 

Apricot Macadamia Biscotti

 

Toffee Brownies with Maraschino Cherries stuck on White Choc

 

Cherry Shortbread

 

Thin light crepe filled with pure durian flesh

 

White Chocolate Blondies

 

Mozart

 

Ping Pei Rolls, half filled with lotus paste, half with black sesame seed paste

 

Plum Tarte Alsacienne

 

White Lotus Double Yolk Mooncakes

 

Red Bean Mooncakes

 

Rugelach

 

Lemon Apricot Bars

 

Honey Cake

 

White Chocolate Cheese Mousse on Brownie Base, filled with Strawberry Jelly

 

Fruit Brioche

 

Hundreds n Thousands shortbread

 

White-choc dipped Flapjack

 

Blondies

 

Pistachio Biscoti

 

Benedict Bars with Plum Jam

 

Lemon Cake from Baking with Passion

 

Banana Mousse and Sable Diamante

 

Orange Muffins - who needs the glaze, anyway?

 

Rich Financiers in an unconventional shape. An indulgence.

 

Chinese Chives Pancake

 

Pumpkin Carrot Soup with Sourdough Baguette

 

Honey Walnut Cake - made with Strong Flour and Rye Flour

 

Fish Pie - layers of rice, parsley, fish and eggs inside

 

Fish Cake fragranced with Kaffir Lime

 

Poached Pear in Pastry - served with Custard Sauce

 

Cornish Pasty with 2/3 Savoury and 1/3 Dessert

 

Easter Eggs...I call them Dinosaur Eggs.

 

Chinese Tea Eggs

 

Crustless Leek Tart

 

Simnel Cake with Homemade Marzipan. Another layer is hidden in the middle of this rich fruit cake.

 

Zebra Cake

 

Steamed Orange Pudding with Caramelised Topping

 

Cha Siu - Barbecued Pork Belly

 

Mom's wudaogo/yam cake with my chili tomato jam

 

Kaya Roll

 

Tofu and Vegetables Tortino

 

Quick Mill Loaf with Millet Flakes

 

Green Tea Ice-Cream with Coffee-Flavoured Chips

 

Black Sesame Seed Ice-Cream

 

Teriyaki Mackerel Souffle

 

Cheese Onion Sourdough Bread - Delicious toasted and eaten with soup.

 

Santan Flower-embedded Agar-Agar

 

Mandarin Orange Oat Muffins

 

Rich Sugee Cake covered, first, in homemade Marzipan, then Modelling Chocolate.

 

Sandwich Loaf made from Organic Wholemeal, Spelt and Plain Strong Flours

 

Yorkshire Puddings - 'Yum' with Roast/Gravy

 

Sourdough Spelt (an ancient flour) Bread

 

Bread Wreath with indentation to fit wine bottle.

 

Chewy Brownies

 

Sourdough baguette

 

Very chocolatey Choc Chip Cookies

 

Thin crispy pizza

 

Cornbread with Ham Bits, Corn Niblets and Sauteed Onions

 

Benedict Bars - layers of  Shortbread Base, Strawberry Jam and Flaked Almonds on top

 

Bacon Capsicum Pizza

 

Pineapple and Teriyaki Chicken Pizza

 

Overloaded Pizza

 

Pumpkin Cheesecake with Cointreau flavoured Whipped Cream

 

Cranberries and Currant Scones

 

Thin Pancakes served with Maple Syrup and Sliced Bananas

 

Kek Lapis (Spiced Layered Cake)

 

Raisin Cinnamon Loaf

 

Wholemeal Crackers - Various flavors (front to back: ginger chips, paprika/cracked black pepper, sesame seed, cinnamon)

 

Pecan/Hazelnut Butter Cookies

 

Rainbow Agar-agar

Little Note: I get so many people asking me for this recipe...so I'll post the link here.

 

Prune Clafoutis

 

Chocolate Chip Wholemeal Blondies

 

Pls click to enlarge. Freehand-styled Koong Chai Paeng and Chue Chai Paeng filled with red bean paste.

 

White Lotus, Red Bean and Mixed Nuts Mooncakes.

 

Mini Shanghai White Lotus Paste Mooncakes the size of a golf-ball with a quarter of an egg yolk in each.

 

Soft Onion Herb Bread Sandwich with Sourdough-battered Onion Rings

 

Teochew Spiral Yam Mooncake

 

Carrot Cake with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds and Caramelised Pineapple Slices studded on a Caramel Glaze.

 

Shanghai Mooncakes - love the buttery crust.

 

Tau Foo Fah served with either ginger and pandan infused syrup or palm sugar syrup

 

Ping Pei ( Snow-skin) Mini Mooncakes: Green Tea Skin with Red Bean Paste, Orange Skin with White Lotus Paste

 

Apple-studded Cake (with a hint of cinnamon/nutmeg) with Caramel Filling

 

Made Coconut Candy from the leftover gula melaka for the sago pudding

 

Sago Gula Melaka taken with palm sugar syrup and coconut milk (in this case we used evaporated milk instead)

 

MSG-free Prawn Crackers with flour and prawns in 1:1 ratio

 

Mini Peach Baos, also called Sao Bao, filled with lotus paste and red bean paste

 

"Mom, it's so delicious!" Lemon Cake with Lemon Glaze

 

Sourdough Wholemeal Pita with shredded chicken filling

 

Homemade Hotdog Buns, custom-made sizes, fresh from the oven. Yum!

 

Sourdough Corn Muffins with creamed corn

 

Cookies with Nestum, cashew nuts, raisins and glace cherries

 

Seafood (mussels, squid, tuna and white fish chunks, shrimp) Quiche

 

Blue-nana-berry Pie

 

Sandwich Loaf made with organic unbleached flour.

 

Decadently rich Chocolate Cupcakes filled with Peanut Butter Rum Cream Cheese Filling.

 

Honey-soaked Sea Coconut in Konnyaku Jelly.

 

Green Tea Kasutera - an elegant Japanese Sponge Cake

 

 Peach Charlotte with peach cream cheese filling and almond and Cointreau-sprinkled ladyfingers. Almond dacquoise base.

 

Streusel-topped Apple Pie

 

Matcha Cookies with sunflower seeds and white chocolate chips

 

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies - the girls' fav.

 

Blini - I love it with salsa and shredded roast meat.

 

Sourdough Oat Cranberry Wholewheat Muffins - literally bursting with goodness.

 

Latte Pound Cake with Coffee Glaze

 

Kugelhopf - a dream sponge

 

Apple Plum Crumble - comfort food for a rainy day

 

Light and Crispy Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Plum Galette

 

Neengo sandwiched in Kuih Kapit (fan-shaped loveletters)

 

Moist Banana Muffin with Chocolate Morsels

 

Steamed Pumpkin filled with 'smooth-as-silk' Kaya

 

Wholemeal Banana Yogurt Cake with Chocolate Ganache Filling and Lemon Buttercream Frosting.

 

Kuih Bangkit/Shih Fun Paeng - a CNY melt-in-the-mouth must-have

 

Mini Jam Buns/Scones filled with Fruits of the Forest and Apricot Jam

 

Brandy Spice Cake

 

Marshmallows - Peppermint Swirl on Lychee

 

A Banana Bread which turned out to be cupcakes, some of which wanted to be topped with a caramel frosting

 

Bakewell Tart with Layer of Lingonberry Jam

 

Fluffy melt-in-the-mouth Marshmallows half in pandan flavour and rose flavour.

Little Note: The basic marshmallow recipe can be found here. Flavour it as you like.


Green Tea Tiramisu with homemade sponge fingers

 

Truffle Almond Pound Cake filled with maraschino cherries

 

Durian Butter Cake smothered with durian custard

 

Gourmet Carrot Cake with everything in it but the kitchen sink

 

Cheesecake wrapped in chocolate and iced in coffee swiss meringue buttercream, with a chocolate ball. The girls named this 'UniMind'.

 

More cheesecake...this time Manhattan Cheesecake flooded with homemade Dulce de Leche sauce.

 

Very Tangy Lemon Pie decorated with giant strawberries and grapes.

 

 

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