Wedding Dress Cookie

My white wedding dress cookie.

Wedding Cookies Bonbonerie

Ever wonder what would be a nice bonbonerie for a wedding?
I have are some sample that I made yesterday for a wedding.

Cookies cookies

Been busy yesterday baking.Making a cookie bouquet, and also sample for wedding bonbonerie.

Roast leg of Lamb with garlic and mint

Haven't been feeling well this couple of days. I can feel that winter is just around the corner.
Have no idea what to cook for dinner last night, but managed to find a leg of lamb in the fridge.(you never know what you will find in my fridge)
We used to have a rosemary plant in our back yard, I think we had it for years now.
I haven't have much time to go to the backyard except to hang my washing, so I didn't notice until yesterday that the rosemary plant was missing. I guess it just die because of neglect.
But thank God the mint plants was still alive. So I decided to used mint.

You might wonder how come in the photo the amount of meat is so small. I was to busy talking to my sister on the phone and the family only left me this much of the lamb.



Here is the recipe

1.75 kg leg of lamb, boned
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1 bunch of mint, chopped
3 tbsp olive oil


Season lamb to taste with salt and pepper and sprinkle with the garlic and half the mint. Season the outside of the joint and place it on a rack in a roasting tin (pan), fat-side up. Pour over the oil with the vegetables and roast in a preheated oven at 230°C/450°F/gas mark 8 for 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4.

Bihun Goreng ( fried rice vermicelli)

Vermicelli is one of my favorite type of noodles. I love to have vermicelli fried.


150g bihun,( rice vermicelli) cooked according to instructions on the packaging,
150g cabbage leaves, roughly sliced
3Tb margarine
1 onion, finely sliced
garlic, finely chopped
3 Tb sweet soy sauce
2 Tb oyster sauce
2 spring onion, sliced
salt and pepper

Banana cup cake with Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

Just love Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, and can't get enough of it.
I manage to bring back 2 packets of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup from our trip to the United State.
Come across some yummy new recipe with banana and Reese's. Made about 18 cup cakes.
I can hardly wait to eat it. It took as less then 10 mins to munch up about 3 cup cakes each.

Eggless Chocolate Cake

A friend asked if I ever made a cake with out eggs. I have made an eggless birthday cake for a customer as the birthday boy is allergic to eggs. The child was so happy with the out come as for a few years his mum have to buy an ice cream cake for him.

Here is the recipe that I have used. If you prefer the cake with out chocolate, don't add the cocoa.

11/2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

4 Tbs cocoa

1ts bicarbonate soda

½ ts salt

1 cup water

½ cup vegetable oil

2 Tbs white vinegar

2 ts vanilla extract.

Combine dry ingredients, combine wet ingredients and stir into the dry ingredient mixture. Pour into 20 cm round tin and bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 23-35 mins.

Honey roast Chicken

This is a request from one of my niece who tried my chicken last year when she came and visit us.

Lately I have made this is a special flip pressure frying pan that I bought of a friend. I have found that the chicken cooked in the flip pan is so juicy and moist and it takes half of the time to cook.

1 whole chicken or 1 kg of chicken wings.
7 Tbsp. soy sauce
1/2 tsp. Chinese five spice
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tbsp. hoisin sauce
4Tbsp. honey

In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, five spice, hoisin sauce, honey and garlic. Rub 1/2 of the mixture over the chicken. Rub the remaining mixture on the outside of the skin. Cover the chicken and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Stand chicken on vertical roaster ( if you are using a whole chicken )or on a rack in a foil lined shallow baking dish. Roast 45 minutes. Brush with the left over sauce over the chicken and bake for another 10 minutes.

Birthday cakes for the family.

Birthday cakes is one of my favorite.
Every year I have always make birthday cakes for my family. I have learn to decorate birthday cakes and wedding cakes from my mum. For many years I have watced her decorate many cakes from a small cake to a massive 4 tier wedding cakes.

Welcome to my kitchen

I always love baking and cooking. Growing up I always remember that my mother used to bake and cook everyday.

I still remember the nice aroma of a cake baking in the oven and watchfully looking over the kitchen counter just waiting for the cake to rise, and the excitement of watching mum decorating the cake. I have so much to be thankful to my mum for teaching me to bake and cook.