Still Small Chews: Faux Peach Cookies

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butter, cookies, dessert, hazelnut cookies, hazelnut spread, hazelnuts, peach cookies, sweet, vanilla

The last quarter of the year has always been the busiest time of the year. I’m not sure why but I always get multiple cake orders at the last quarter. Sometime it is quite challenging to balance the work, the cake order, and the recipe-trial-hobby at the same time. But if you ask me which one I like the most, I would have to choose the recipe trial. Not that I don’t enjoy doing the cake order, but I like the feeling of not knowing how the food is going to taste or look like. Well, most of the time it does not look like and taste the way how I expect it to be :)… (I have lots of kitchen failures – if you must know). But still it is just so curious and exciting to try new recipes.

For this new recipe, you are going to get another entry using nutty ingredients. Well, you can blame me for liking them so much.

Snake Pie: Almond Pistachio Filo wrap

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almond, almond cake, butter, dessert, filo, filo pastry, ground almond, pastry, pistachio, sweet pastry, vanilla

One of my close friend came to visit me last week, it was not really a visit since she was just happened to be in the city for a day. But she did came and it was a rare occasion, so I thought maybe I should make something special for her. I know she likes nuts, specially almond and I happened to have a box of filo pastry sitting in my fridge. So M’hanncha is the ideal combination :).. thanks to Pinterest for the idea.

Cookies and Cream

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chocolate, chocolate cookies, cookies, cookies and cream, cream, dessert, ice cream sandwich, oreo cookies, sweets, vanilla, vanilla bavarois cream

Yes.. it has been a month since the last post. The office work (with all of the traveling and the non stop issues) had been consuming all of  my energy lately. I barely had time to cook  because I still had to continue work at home. But luckily Chinese new year holiday come at the right moment. So here we go, the long awaited dessert post ;).

Asian Twist: Black Glutinous Rice Souffle with Coconut Cream

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black glutinous rice, coconut, coconut cream, coconut mik, coconut sauce, dessert, glutinous rice, rice, souffle, sticky rice, unique souffle, vanilla

Combining local flavor with some western twist is always tempting but you should be careful because it doesn’t always work. The weirdest combination that I tried is the latest product from the local Mc*. They were selling this curry puff burger, which is basically burger with curry puff patty. I think that was the worst creation ever and they should consider to fire their R&D guy.

Flourless Crumbly Cheese Cake

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almond, almond cake, cakes, cheese, cheese cake, flourless cake, vanilla

We had visitors in the last couple of weeks, so we’ve been quite tight up with the ‘tourist guide’ role for the last 2 weekends.

While for this week, I had a business trip to Tokyo for 3 days. And of course, whenever I’m in Tokyo, I have a list of places that I have to visit. One of them is Sadaharu Aoki in Shin Kokusai Building – Marunouchi. His cakes are to die for. How I wish I could make it by myself.