日本大好き - Strawberry Daifukumochi いちご大福餅

As an Asian, the usual cake that we grow up with is a little different with western, as we tend to heavily reply on various types of rice flour, and starch on our sweet and savoury snack. And one of my all-time favourite even since I was a kid is Mochi. Mochi is usually referred to any glutinous flour products but in Japan, mocha is generally referred to any traditional cake.

What I love the most of these Mochi is the chewy texture, traditionally the chewiness was made from continuously pounding from cooked rice to paste. But now a day, thing was so much easier for us, you do not need to pound til you sweat to make these delicious traditional Mochi, all you need is just a microwave and it will be ready in less than 30 minutes.

Deluxe Chocolate Banana Custard Tart

I recently bought some recipe book online, and my new favourite is making tart. Even though my family preferred savoury tart over sweet tart but I just love to make pretty sweet tart and decorate them. So I was on my usual routine at home, I finished dinner around 7 and then I start playing in the kitchen (seriously when I said play I do treat it like my little playground).

Cake, Bake and Sweet Show 2014

It had been really busy at work this week and the weather wasn’t helping to make my mood any better. I’ve been slacking on this post which is about the Cake Bake Sweet Show I went last Sunday. There are almost a dozen people asking me whether I’m going to the show or not. To be honest I didn’t really make up my mind at the time but still end up going to the show and it was the best decision I made ever.

There are many Celebrity Pastry Chefs such as Adriano Zumbo, Eric Lanlard, Duff Goldman and several previous contestants from TV show and did demonstration on some of their signature dish. Only if I can make up my mind a bit earlier, I would have go 2 days in a row. I literally sit for 5 demonstration class on the day, didn’t even have lunch at all (probably eat too much sample cake and demonstration cake on the day.)