Sweet Little Bites
Well damnit, apparently this blog is now officially two years old! See, people don’t believe me when I tell them that I almost forgot my actual birthday last year, perhaps now they’ll see that I really am that forgetful!
I just want to say thank you to my readers - I know a lot of you […]
Steamed buns - one filled with sweetened red bean paste, the other with finely chopped spring onion
With China, Japan and Korea being in such close proximity to each other, it means that many dishes cross the short distances to each country, either in its existing form or being recreated into a new variation (such as […]
So what do you get when you take a sponge cake, chop it into squares, smother them in thick glossy chocolate icing then give them a good dredging in dessicated coconut?
Why, a wonderful treat known as the lamington, of course!
Much like the humble pavlova, the lamington’s origins are contested - this time, not just between […]
Cream puffs are one of those desserts that can appear either super posh or as everyman’s fare, depending on how you dress them. Filled with a simple vanilla pastry cream and dusted with a little icing sugar, they are delightful sweets that are easily held in the hand and devoured in a few quick bites. […]
After seeing the darling chocolate macarons by Gilly over at Humble Pie, I was reminded of the fact that I hadn’t tried making macarons in a very long time. I last blogged about them in August last year, but the truth is that I had tried them a few more times with rather disasterous results. […]
