CAKE POPS CLASS AT SCOOPY’S & CREAM

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Have you ever heard of cake pops? They are bite size cakes on the lollipop sticks with colourful and interesting design. You can design the cake pop with whatever design you can think off, wrap it up nicely and is ready as a gift. Cake pop is popular for birthdays and special theme party where children or even adult will be attracted to it.

I have always wonder how the cake will stay nicely on the lollipop stick and how do I coat the cake with different colouring that I have wanted? Happen to chance upon Groupon website having discount on cake pops making class at 50% discount. Without hesitation, I had purchased the voucher and signed up for the cake pop class. I really love Groupon as the website really offers great deals at promotional price.

The class was held at Scoopy’s & Cream in Downtown East E!Hub level 5. The theme for the cake pop making was actually Halloween. I had attended the class last month. Here we go!

Scoopy’s & Cream

The teacher was very patient in teaching us in doing the cake pops and there were 2 more teachers that go around and answer our queries in cake pops making. We actually did hands on in making the cake pop from moulding the shape, putting the cake to the stick and finally designing the cake pop. I had fun doing the cake pop and below is the picture of my moulded cake pop. The teachers there are very friendly and they really make the class interesting by preparing lots of colourful melts and cake decorative for us to design our cake pops.

Moulded Cake Pops

The final product. Colourful and beautifully decorate cake pops.

With the right class size of 10 students, I guess everyone benefit from this cake pop making class as the teachers try their best to share their knowledge with us and ensure everyone are able to make their own cake pops. Thumbs up!

I am so proud of the cake pop that i had done! After completion, all you need to do is to wrap it nicely with colourful ribbon or theme colour ribbon and is ready as a gift!

I really enjoyed the cake pop making class taught by Scoopy’s & Cream and understand more in cake pop making.

With Christmas around the corner soon, perhaps you can do your own cake pop and give it as a gift for your love ones or friends! Start thinking of the design now.

I will also try to make cake pop to see if i can apply what i had learnt. Time to head down to buy the ingredients for the cake pops. Stay tune for more updates!

HOMECOOK FOOD GATHERING

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Recently we had organised a gathering at our friend’s place. It is very nice of him to whip out many delicious home cook dishes for us. It makes us feel so warm and at home. Thank you friend for having us.

Here are the photos of the delicious food that he had cooked for us:

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Stew Chicken With Carrots & Potatoes

Marinated TopShell

Steam Tofu with Mince MEat Garnish with lots of ‘Chong’

 Corn Soup

 Simple dishes but cook with love and sincerity. Perhaps we should organise more of this gathering so that we can share recipe with one another not forgetting lazing in the house after a full meal. We had really enjoyed ourselves that day with yummy home cook food and of course the right company of friends.

Stay tune for my next post on the recipe for the corn soup. It is so simple to prepare and delicious too. Thanks friend for sharing the recipe with me.

Cheers! Mid Week and looking forward to the long weekend!

DRAGON GATE RESTAURANT – DIM SUM BUFFET

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Some backdates:

I have been looking around for affordable dim sum weekday buffet for our friends gathering so that we can enjoy the food and make use of this opportunity to update one another with our lives. Since it is our poly mates wedding on a Sunday, few of us had decided to take leave on Monday, take a break from our work and have dim sum buffet and not forgetting shopping therapy session.

Happen to chance upon some food blog giving review on Dragon Gate Restaurant and best of all it cost less than $20 for weekday dim sum buffet. It is located at HarbourFront centre and they had quite a spread of dim sum in their buffet list. With that good price and location, we had decided to have our dim sum buffet at Dragon Gate Restaurant. Oh not forgetting to mention, they will need at least minimum of 4 adults for the dim sum buffet.

The restaurant is very spacious with round dining table + 10 chairs and it feel like we are attending another wedding dinner. Looking at the dim sum menu, we are quite happy with the spread of food they offer considering the price of the buffet. They also have free flow of porridge and hot desserts at the counter too. Photos mean more than words, here are some of the pictures of the dim sum we had ordered.

With so many meaty and fried stuffs, it is good to order some green vegetables to go along with the dim sum.

 Overall the dim sum is good and we are happy with the variety of dishes available with the price that we pay. A good place for gathering and affordable food. We will definitely come here again for the dim sum.  

Here i ended off the post with some of the photos taken with my good friends and frog @ the restaurant:

Stay tune for more posts.. Really looking forward to Year End, with baking classes, birthday celebrations, holiday with frog and our friends and not forgeting Christmas! Wohoo!

M&M TOPPED CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

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I had baked chocolate cupcakes for frog 30th birthday. It is easy to bake and you can do fanciful frosting and decoration at your cupcakes.

 

 Very colourful right??

Here is the recipe for the chocolate cupcakes:

For the cupcakes

150g butter

100g sugar

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

200g plain flour

2 tbsp cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

8 tbsp milk

For the icing

1 egg white

200g icing sugar

1 packet m&m chocolate

Method

Preheat the oven to 180  degree celcius an line  a muffin pan with 12 paper cups.

Cream the butter until light and fluffy, then one after the other beat in the sugar, eggs and vanilla extract.

Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa to the creamed mixture with the milk.

Alternating additions of dry ingredients and milk.

Spoon into the prepared paper cases and bake for 25 to 30 mins.

Icing

Beat egg white until semi stiff, then mix with icing sugar to make a smooth thick frosting.

Put a little of the icing on each cupcake, decorate with as m&m and allow to set before serving.

*Tips: Let the cupcakes cool down before putting the icing. If not the heat from the cupcakes will cause the icing to melt.

Store in air tight container for up to 2 days. Freeze for up to 3 months.

Makes 1 dozen.

Go ahead and try this recipes for your love ones.

I am glad that frog loves the cupcakes i had baked for him. :)

Sol Tasca

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Frog had brought the Groupon voucher 2 months ago $20 for $40 worth of food at SolTasca. We had not been to a Spanish Restaurant before and thought it could be worthwhile to give it a try for the Spanish food.

Spanish food is known for their finger food, appetisers or snacks known as Tapas. Tapas may be serve cold or hot. Paella is another dish that is very known for. It is the typical, rich rice dish from Valencia, located on the east Mediterranean coast of Spain.

Sol Tasca

Here are what we had ordered:

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Spanish Omelette

Spanish Omelette

Seafood Aglio  Olio

Seafood Aglio  Olio

As you can see from the photos, the ingredients used were very fresh.

Homemade Onion Rings

The onion rings are very tasty even though without dipping in any sauce.

The ingredients are very fresh and the portion for the Tapas is more than enough for 2 people. Guess we had over ordered. Should have order 1 seafood Aglio olio instead and another type of Tapas to try. Both I and frog are actually very full after eating all of what we had ordered. Very filling and tasty!

The next time we will try their Paella. However, you need to wait for at least 30 to 40 mins for the Paella to be serve to you as the Paella are freshly prepared once the customer had ordered them.

Great place for chilling out too with the right ambience, drinks and finger food.

Sol Tasca

3 Fullerton Road #01-04

The Fullerton Water Boat House

Tel: 6533 8913

Website: http://sol-group.com.sg/soltasca/

DOUBLE BAY AUSTRALIAN RESTAURANT & BAR – RAFFLES CITY

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 Always wanted to go to Double Bay Restaurant to try out their food and dessert. This austalian restaurant is famous for their quality fish and chips, homemade dessert and beer. The restaurant is located at Raffles City just opposite Raffles Hotel.  Good for chilling out with friends or some cosy gathering with your love ones.

Cosy contempary ambience plus great food!   

 Beer batter Sea Bass + Chips

 Fresh fish that melts in your mouth! Yummy!

The fish and chips is not those usual kind that i had eaten as the fish that they used is really fresh ( not those frozen kind of fish fillet). Although the serving is quite small, i guess is the quality of food over quantity.

Banoffee Pie

English pastry based dessert made from bananas, cream and toffee, on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. The bananas are caramelized with disgistive biscuit crust on the top layer of the bananas. I and frog had never tried this dessert before in Singapore and we are in love with this dessert.

Great combination of the ingredients used in the pie: Caramelized bananas + toffee + biscuit crust

The Banoffee pie taste not too sweet and you can add $2.o0 for a scoop of vanilia ice cream.

Nice presentation of the dessert too!

 

I and frog will definitely go back to try other food and dessert @ Double Bay. Really enjoy our dinner there !

Thank u frog for the lovely treat!

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Here is the link : http://www.doublebay.com.sg/

HAPPY VALENTINE DAY

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This year Valentine Day fall on a Monday and i guess all of us will be either working or studying. Monday Blues… Thus weekend is a great time to celebrate this season of love and to spend quality time with your love ones. If you are still thinking on where you should bring your love ones for a nice, simple meal. I and frog had found some restuarant at B1 of Central Clarke Quay that is not too crowded and the price is reasonable too.

Frog had brought me to Fine Cuts to have our Valentine Day Dinner. The restuarant is located at the basement of Central Clarke Quay. 

They had set dinner menu for 2 people consisting of soup of the day, any main dish (Beef or pork) and lemonade drink. The set dinner cost $28 + for 2 people that we find that the price is very reasonable.  Since we had not try the food in Fine Cuts, it is worthwhile to mak use of this occassion and try out their food.

FINE CUTS @ CENTRAL CLARKE QUAY

Greeny SALAD

MY MIXED GRILL (PORK)

MEDIUM RAW STEAK

For the price of the set dinner and the ambience of the resturant, i guess it is a good deal for some decent western food. Thank you frog for planning this dinner and we both had our fill for our VALENTINE DaY dinner.

Simple and Cosy!

:)

HAPPY VALENTINE DAY TO ALL!

PORRIDGE FOR THE SICK

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I am down with a flu and cough. Poor me.. It is time to built up my immune system and stay healthy for the brand new year. Guess i must be more selective of what i eat too. More vegetables, soupy stuffs, vitamin C and of course more fruits. Less oily and sugary food too. I will to cook more often so that i and frog wont have to eat out too frequent outside which we are quite sick of it.

Porridge for the patient (me)

Pork mince meat plus carrot and canned button slice mushroom. It is very easy to prepare. Just put the ingredients into the rice cooker and select porridge function (if your rice cooker can cook porridge t00) and it will be ready in about 45 mins to an hour time. It is just like cooking rice but with the addition of more water and the ingredients. I  had added two dried scallop for the sweet taste of the porridge too. Yummy and healthy.

Time to eat medicine and take a rest.

Hope that i will have a speedy recovery.

“Nitez everyone!”

CHINESE NEW YEAR FOOD

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Happy Chinese New Year to all my Reader!

Sorry been neglecting my blog due to busy preparation of the CNY and busy work. Hope you guys had a great Chinese New Year! CNY is a time for great home cook food and festive cookies. A time for family/friends to get together and enjoy nice home cook food and goodies. Here are some pictures of yummy home cook food:

Chu yi @ Frog’s Ah ma place:

A table spread of delicous home cook food by ah ma and frog’s cousin!

Ah ma famous pork meat ball! Supper addictive! I am falling in love in it. Fried Tan g Hoon! A dish that is not easy to cook but frog’s ah ma make this dish super delicious! It makes us wanting for more tang hoon!

Chu er: Gathering @ our House

A simple meal prepared by me.

Nice Soupy!

My fav Steam tofu with mince meat

With Valentine Days in a week time, hope you guys have prepared a nice place for dining or even bake some cookies/cakes for your love ones. :)

Cheers n stay tune for more post on recipes that uses microwave to cook. Simple and healthy recipe for working adults.

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Huat arggh!

KUEH BAULU RECIPE-CHINESE NEW YEAR GOODIES-PART II

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My 2nd attempt in baking the Kueh Baulu. Yes this time round, it taste soft and fluffy not as hard as compared to my first attempt. Here is the recipe for baking the all time favourite Chinese new year festive goodies Kueh Baulu.

Ingredients

2 large eggs

60 grams sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

60 grams plain flour

1/4 baking powder

Method:

  1. Put eggs into a mixing bowl. Use high speed to whisk until frothy.
  2. Add in sugar slowly.
  3. Whisk mixture until very light and fluffy for about 20mins
  4. Fold flour slowly into egg mixture in one direction.
  5. Greased the tray with oil using a brush or pandan leave.
  6. Pour into greased trays.
  7. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200ºC 10/15mins till golden brown. Remove Kueh Baulu from the moulding tray.

I used the pandan leave to brush the moulding tray.

Kueh Baulu moulding tray.

The Kueh Baulu is crispy on the outside and it taste great!

A easy recipe and it is not so time consuming as baking other CNY festive goodies. All time favourite goodies that is simple to bake. Go and try it!

Practice makes perfect!

I shall continue to experiment and look up for other chinese new year goodies to bake. Stay tune! :)

Any queries on the recipes or sharing of CNY goodies recipes please leave a comment or send an email to yummyfoodbook.hotmail.com

Cheers!