Ive been cultivating my own sourdough starter for the past 5 months, and now, Ive been substituting yeast with an active leaven from my starter. This one was a leftover dough from a monkey bread I made for a friend's open house, its a few days fermentation, hence it have a nice zang to it. As it was a midnight snack, I topped...

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Armand and Amir's surprise birthday at Fancy Breakfast Club. As usual, Armand request a special "surprise-me" cake for his birthday. Im in a cheesecake strike, and well, seeing that I just arrived in KL, I had limited time to juggle and to squeeze in a big dramatic cake. Finally, the key profile for the cheesecake was: key lime, kaffir lime, coconut, and palm...

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At some point I fell into the craze of Milk Tea. When I was working in the cafe back in Kuala Lumpur, one of my favorite drinks off their menu (obviously besides coffees) were this Earl Grey Milk Tea. I would admit I was kind-of obsessed with it. I've been wanting to expand my cake flavors, pushing my limit: hence I came up...

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I've always been a fan of Cinnabons, since I was a little girl; a good weekend is when we go to the mall and grab some fresh hot rolls. My first Cinnabon was in Raleigh, North Carolina. You know what they say, when you have tasted the best version of something, its hard to settle for less (the ones in Malaysia is not...

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When I found the Karpatka I also found a recipe for Krówki (which literally means little cows 🐄) : a milk-caramel toffee candies - its milky smooth, melt-in-your-mouth. I had it for the first time, about a year ago, I remembered we stumble upon it by accident - in a Polish bakery in St. Kilda. So when I saw this recipe, I thought,...

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Last Sunday I had a late start and soent the day in Masters buying home stuffs.  We finished around 3pm, and after feeding Jo, we started to realise how hungry we were. Too lazy (and tired) to go to the store, I scrambled the fridge. found some eggs, mushroom, chives, chicken breast - and decided to make omelettes. We recently bought truffle infused...

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A week after I came back from KL for raya holidays, the family went on a dim sum craze over the weekend, almost everyone went for dim sum buffet! And at my favorite restaurants! Although I do have dumplings from time to time, from the dumpling place near J's house, it's incomparable. I guess when you've been in a new place for a...

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