Little Joy Factory

The weekend is finally here,  and it looks like it will be a beautiful one as I am "going" to a potluck party at I Heart Cooking Clubs !  This passionfruit syrup Bundt cake is the one I will "bring" to the party.   I started to appreciate passionfruit recently after I learned how to select ripe passionfruit. A friend told me that ripe passionfruit is the one with wrinkled, dimpled and dented skin, not smooth skin. What?! This is the first time I heard people perfer wrinkles :). Seems passionfruit is an ugly duckling. It tastes intensely aromatic, richly fragrant. No wonder it has an alluring Chinese name “百香果”, which means "fruit with hundreds of fragrances". Furthermore, passionfruit is rich source of antioxidants, vitamin C and fiber. I eat it every other day now. Can't wait for them to ripen. For those who still don't know how to appreciate passionfruit, here is the secret : Choose passionfruit that looks plump despite any wrinkles. If...

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

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.