Lemon Pistachio Cakes

Now that Marc is more independent, I have found myself baking a little bit more. I recently stumbled upon this recipe and since I had quite a lot of pistachios (from chinese new year hampers), I decided to give it a shot. The shelling of the pistachios were painful but the cake turned out fragrant and nutty. If had similar flavours to baclava, the middle eastern sweet. Will definitely make this again.

Glam Loaves

Baked some butter loaves over the weekend and decided that I am going to try making a series of "GLam Loaves" for the festivals. Easy to cut, easy to eat, no fuss.

Pandan

I absolutely love the smell of pandan. It makes such a difference to so many Malaysian dishes and desserts. Almost a staple. So, I got my hands on some over the weekend and decided right away that I'd want to make a pandan coconut loaf for the office on Monday.

Extracting the pandan juice from the leaves were easy. As I was extracting, it brought back familiar smells of childhood, when my mum made coconut agar-agar for our birthdays. That.... just so comforting.

The cake turned out nice and moist. Personally I preferred it without the dessicated coconut topping. Just the cake on its own is good enough for me.

Fruit and Nut Loaf & Lychee Butter Cake

I was pretty stressed up at work yesterday and decided to take my mind off things. Out of so many recipes that I have marked to try I decided on these 2, a fruit and nut loaf for those who crave for a burst of flavour and a lychee butter cake. The fruit and nut loaf is made out of a cinnamon batter filled with chopped apricots, prunes, raisins and walnuts. The recipe did call for walnuts but I had some pecans at hand so I just replaced it. Brilliant! this loaf cake was brilliant! moist and full of flavour. The texture, interesting, its crumb is not as soft as that of a butter cake, but sits well in the mouth. Love this.

When I was growing up in Ipoh, we use to have a fresh cream ( it was the rage then! thank goodness we had progressed from the disgusting oily icing)Lychee cake. It was light and fresh. Moving away from fresh cream, people becoming more health conscious are making a pass on the cream and more on the substance. This cake is interesting, light pink lychee flesh peaking through the butter cake. I think if you are looking for something different, this could be it. Will be fiddling more with this recipe. I have ideas.....

Oreo Butter Cake

A sinfully moist cake with chunks of crushed oreo cookies. A nice treat for tea.