Little Joy Factory

Have been to Hokkaido once, I was really impressed by the local diary products such as cheese, butter, chocolate and ice cream.  Even the fresh milk in Hokkaido also tastes smoother. So, when I heard Hokkaido Milk Bread is the theme of the month chosen by  Free and Easy Bake Along event, I am more than happy to join the organisers (Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids , Joyce from Kitchen Flavours and Lena from Frozen Wings ) and bake along this savory bread!  

Last week, a colleague followed my simple bread recipe and successfully made her first batch of bread. She told me with excitement that the bread is soft and fluffy, smells so nice that her whole family love it! The best part is that the recipe is fool-proof, which gives her a lot of confidence. She can't wait to explore other recipes from my blog.  I am really glad for her,  and hope she enjoys herself in the wonderful land of baking. Prior to her baking, she asked me a few questions, which are common among all the beginners. One of the question is how to convert cup to grams. Though the information is readily available all over the web,  it's quite troublesome to check one by one for all the ingredients used in a recipe.  That reminds me of this long overdue task , which is to consolidate the measurement conversions for the most often used baking ingredients into my blog.So, I created a new page n...

Yesterday was one of my colleague's last working day in the company. To bid farewell, he bought us a delicious hazelnut cream cake. The cake is light and moist with  aroma of cinnamon. Everyone likes the cake,  and some of my colleagues even said the cake reminded them of my walnut cake ! It's really a compliment to me. Actually, my walnut cake does not have cinnamon in it.

September mid-term school holiday has passed quietly. As we did not plan to go anywhere in such a short period, kids stayed at home most of the time, and I went to work as usual. Without the pressure of waking up at 6am in the morning, I stayed up late on a weekday and baked my 2nd Bundt cake.     Some left-over blueberries have been in my freezer for months. I used them mostly in cheesecake

  As Mid-Autumn Festival is around the corner, restaurants and supermarkets are piled up with different type of mooncakes. Talented bloggers are also making beautiful mooncakes that rival the commercial ones.  As a mooncake lover and home baker, how can I miss the fun? given my fondness for Suzhou-style mooncakes, I decided to bake meat mooncakes.

This Peach Cream Cheese Cobbler is by far the most scrumptious cheesecake I have ever baked. It's made with butter crumble, juicy canned peaches and rich cream cheese. Baked in a glass pan,  it can be very tantalizing just by looking at it, not to mention the wonderful smell!

A facebook friend posted a photo of her homemade Poppy Seed Bundt cake last month. I was completely sold the moment I saw it. What a beautiful cake! It looks so moist, delicious and ... romantic! A quick search on the internet, I learned that Bundt cake is simply the name used for a cake baked in a Bundt pan, and it's not generally associated with any single recipe.