Food-Desserts
All desserts
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Brown Butter Pecan Brownies
It has been a while since i blog and it’s been a while since i baked . I was thinking about baking coconut cake , which i haven’t made for years by now .. but i changed my mind after seeing , i needed 3 sticks of butter just for the cake . Partly i was guilty because i had just finished my morning run and the thought of 3 sticks of butter .. made me re-think . My solution .. well .. was brownies .. though it still uses butter .. but somehow i felt better with my choice LOL This is brown butter pecan brownies , you can…
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Tres Leches Cake
Never heard of tres leches cake when we were back in Indiana . When we moved to Texas , our friend said tres leches was her favorite , so on her birthday , we had tres leches cake , but it didn’t do any good impression to me because to me the cake was overly sweet . It was just an okay cake , put it this way , i wouldn’t spend $25 for cake like that . It was .. yes .. store bought . Fast forward , my mother in law came to visit over this past holiday , i was too busy to make dessert , so…
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Coconut Cream Pie
Coconut cream pie is really yummy , although , for the longest time , i never had interest in trying them when we go out to a pie place , or even when i am in the mood of baking pies . I’ve done many type of pies , from classic apple pie , to pumpkin , all the way to blueberry pie or fruit pie . But never in my life i would try making coconut pie .. it’s just so .. coconut .. nothing really interesting in there . When i was younger , living in tropical island , i had the advantage of eating fresh young coconut…
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July 4th Blueberry Pie
So the title said July 4th ,of course you don’t need to wait til July 4th celebration to make this yummy pie dish !! You can do it anytime , but i would suggest summer would be the best time , because of you want to do it when blueberry is in its peak . Sweet , juicy , reasonable price blueberry from you pick or from the store ! The other day i stopped at grocery store after the gym , and i picked up some fruits when i saw 99 cents a pint of blueberry . To me that’s a great price and hard to pass up .…
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Lemon Madeleines
I’ve made Madeleines few times before . And i remember the very first time i was skimping on buttering the mold and ended up ruining madeleines . But they all turned out nice as far as i can remember . Fast forward , the other day i decided to try this recipe from Baking Chez Moi book that my hubby ordered for me around Christmas time . I did mention i wanted this book , i like Doris Greenspan’s cook book , so i figure i might enjoy her french baking book just like the french cook book . The first recipe i tried was the marble cake , it…
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Oatmeal – Raisin Cookies
After a month long full of sweet last December , to be honest with you , though i baked a lot of them , i hardly had any of them . So , last night suddenly , we had the urge to bake easy simple cookies , my choice landed on oatmeal raisin cookies . I always loved oatmeal raisin cookies . So here is easy simple recipe of oatmeal cookies , you can omit the raisin , it’s your choice , but to me , it has to have raisins for me to like them ! Ingredients : 10 tbsp. of softened butter 3/4 cup of white sugar (…
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Frosted Bourbon Brownies
How to make easy brownies !
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Boston Cream Pie
easy boston cream pie for delicious dessert
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Cake Pops and Cake Balls
how to make cake pops and cake balls
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Indonesian Coconut Steamed Cake (Putu Ayu)
how to make traditional indonesian steamed cake , coconut cake , putu ayu
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French Macarons
how to make french macarons
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Swiss Roll with Mocha Buttercream
So , i believe i had tried making this sponge cake a while back ago , few years ago to be exact . I didn’t think i was quite successful , mainly because the technique to fold the flour into the batter was wrong . And we all know that sponge cake batter is light and airy , and it’s because of the air in the batter , where we beat the eggs and sugar until it’s very light , white and creamy . Well , this morning i wanted to try it again .. it was sunday , we skipped church , and it was gloomy .. What better…
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Chocolate Marble Cake
The other day , a friend of mine mentioned about marble cake .. and now i am hungry for it . When i was young , my mom , used to bake marble cake all the time . I remember helping her making the batter so that at the end, she would hand me the bowl or the spoon and i can lick it off ! It was childhood memories . Mom always made a good yummy and beautiful marble cake . Marble cake isn’t really that hard to make ,it’s quite easy .. just make a batter then you can always add cocoa powder to make marble cake ,…
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Champagne Sangria
This is recipe that i found on foodnetwork , i am not big of wine drinkers . In fact i don’t really drink wine , although i have some wine and liqour in my fridge , most of them are being used to cook or bake when needed . I don’t really care much about wine probably because i have sweet tooth and wine to me , isn’t sweet , they’re sour and sometimes it could be better . The other day i decided to make sangria , all i know about it was , it’s mixed of wine with lots of fruits . I love fruits .. and so…
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Cappucino Knots
Another recipe to use your basic sweet dough is to make cappucino knots . It’s not hard , it’s quite easy , so if you’re a coffee lover , this might be your next favorite thing to snack on ! Direction : 1 recipe of basic sweet dough 4 tbsp. of melted butter , slightly cooled 2/3 cup of sugar 1 tbsp. of espresso powder / coffee powder For the glaze : 1 cup of powdered sugar 1 tbsp. of coffee powder 1/4 cup of heavy cream 1. Divide the dough into 12 equal balls , then roll it into 8-9 inch long rope . Do the same with the…
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Mountain Meatballs
Made these yummy meatballs from Jamie Oliver’s cookbook , one of my favorite chef . Seems like everything that i cooked from his recipes always turned out yummy . This was not exception , although i have to admit , i wasn’t sure about adding more than a cup of coffee into the sauce making . As it turned out , it was really good and i couldn’t even tell there was coffee mix in there !! The meatballs were a breeze to put together , they’re easy and since they’re humongous , they didn’t take much time to make at all . Unlike swedish meatballs , they’re tiny and…
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Lemon Birthday Cake
It’s no secret that anything to do with lemons , are my husband’s favorite . That includes , lemon rice soup , lemon pie , lemon meringue pie , lemon yogurt cake .. anything lemon he loves ! Me ? not so much .. it’s okay .. it’s not my favorite thing . So being a good wife that i am , i asked him , what kind of cake should i make for his birthday ? I imagined he’d say chocolate cake .. anything that has birthday in my mind .. i always picture it with chocolate .. Well i was surprised when he said ” Lemon cake ”…
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Kue Lapis Tepung Beras ( Traditional Layer Cake )
This is what we call layer cake in Indonesia . Unlike the layer cake with cinnamon and more like cake texture , this one was supposed to be the traditional type , made easily with coconut milk and rice flour , no spices whatsoever . They sell this in most of indonesian ‘tradional bakery’ , sometimes you can find them being sold in the ranch market too . They’re only good to be eaten for that day , you can’t save it for the next day since it’s made from coconut milk , and it is called ” kue basah ” if i translated that literally would means ” wet…
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Banana Bread
I made banana bread yesterday , it’s been a long time and i happened to have overripe bananas laying around on the counter . The problem with banana bread is , there are tons of recipes out there , throughout the years i’ve tried plenty recipes , sometimes i forget which one that tasted the best , and which one is the okay so so version . So going through my recipe box was tricky , i had to try to remember which one was this . But the one that i picked yesterday was the one without butter , so i considered it a little healthier version .. 😀…
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Thai Sticky Rice minus Mango
I love thai sticky rice , near the town where i live there is this thai restaurant that we occasionally go to . Me and my friends like to have lunch over there too , their price was very reasonable and they have a very yummy curry . But what i like the most was their dessert , thai sticky rice . I figured it shouldn’t be too hard to make , and so i googled it and i was right , it was super easy . As long as you have the sticky rice , and coconut milk , whether you have mango or not , it’s not a…
