Durian Mooncakes

Last weekends, we went Takashimaya Square to search for nice mooncakes! Dh is only interested in "Home's Favourite" durian mooncakes! Above is the 100% durian mooncake 《净榴莲冰皮大月饼》. These durian mooncakes had to be put in freezer or else it will "melt" & become very very soft. Which makes it impossible to cut! Comments for this durian mooncake was too sweet to be eaten but with our sweet tooth, it still taste as nice! Haahaa...

This is their 100% black durian mooncake 《净黑榴莲冰皮大月饼》. The snowskin is made of charcoal powder, so it's a bit bitter. But this charcoal powdered snowskin matches well with durian fillings which makes the mooncake just nice!!!

Woah look at that durian fillings!!! It's made by real thick thick durian meat!!! Yummy........ This is a must try for all durian lovers!! :)

Teacher Day Cake

This is what I baked for my son's childcare Teacher's Day celebration. Nothing special, juz a 8" square banana cake!Heeeheee... Not sure how izzit coz no feedback yet. Ds cannot explained to me whether how is the cake & if the teachers & kids like it or not! Juz hope it is nice!!!

This is the closed up picture of the banana cake! Top looks good but inside is really a mystery now!


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Recipe

Ingredients:
125g butter, softened
112.5g caster sugar
2 eggs
2 large ripe bananas, mashed
225g self-raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 tbsp milk

Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in eggs until combined.
2. Fold in the mashed banana.
3. Fold in half the sifted dry ingredients and combine.
4. Add remaining flour and milk, stir until smooth.
5. Pour mixture into greased 20cm cake tin.
6. Bake at 160ºC for 1hr or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. (If the top layer turns brown after 15 minutes, cover it with a piece of aluminium foil.)
7. Cool cakes in the pan then remove. Slice and serve.

Secret Recipe Cakes

Noticed that I had not baked anything lately? Coz I went to buy Secret Recipe's at 42% discount!! Promo was from 6/8 to 10/8. Went to the SR at Siglap branch on NDP at 12pm but all cakes were sold out. Quite disappointed so try my luck again at 9am the next day! Reached there then realised that the shop is only opened at 11am! So went for breakfast & jalan jalan till 10.50am back to the shop but there were already 10 ppl in the Q.

Got into the Q & start chit-chatting w the aunties in front & behind me (suddenly felt so auntie myself haa). Was told that SR's cheesecake are nice so it's a must buy cake! Went in then found out there are so many types of cheesecakes!! Regret that I din do any homework b4 going down!

Was limited to a few cakes for selection then so I chose 3 cakes (limited to 3 cakes per customer) at a go! The above photo was Chocolate Indulgence!

This is how the inside of the chocolate indulgence looks like!! So many layers esp the creams layers are so thick, much much thicker than the sponge! Felt that it was too rich liao!!!

Description by SR:
Creamy and rich Belgian coverture chocolate and white chocolate filling. Absolutely a luscious, luxurious, sinfully rich chocolate lover's dream.

2nd cake which I had bot is called Expresso Cheese Cake... Made a wrong choice as this cake was too hard & too sweet to be eaten! Yes, coffee smell was great but too bad..... Dh and I can't even finished 1 pc... now the cake is still lying in the fridge & untouched since the 1st pc!! :(

This is how the inside of the cake looks like! Looks more like ice-cream cake? Decided to give it 1 more chance so today I took out to try it again. I left the cut-out pc at room temperature to "de-frost". The cake tasted better when it was soft esp with the chocolate crust!

Description by SR:
A truly spectacular and interesting blend of baked cream cheese with expresso coffee. A cheese cake lover's wish for a cheese cake with strong coffee.

The last cake which I had bot is this Classic Cheesecake! As my friend did not managed to get a cake from SR during this promotion period so decided to sell her one. Since she do not take coffee so I sold her this classic cheesecake coz I had already cut out the chocolate indulgence (which she is more interested in as her dad do not take cheese).

Anyway guess she was lucky that she dun take coffee! Verdict from her was the cake is nice!!! Should be better than the Expresso Cheesecake, i think...

Description by SR:
A traditional blend of mascarpone cheese and cream cheese with chocolate sponge and finished with classic touch of lady fingers biscuit.

Ds Birthday Cake

This is my ds's bd cake! Coz he love excavators & machineries, so bot him a "construction site" cake from Prima Deli! He was more interested in the toys than the cake itself! Haahaa... We enjoyed the cake, it was a really nice chocolate sponge!

Many ppl was surprised & questioned why I din baked a cake for ds but decided to buy one instead! Well, for my skills.... guess I better dun spoilt ds's mini party! Haahaa! But dh did fried bee hoon & curry chicken (his "standard" last minute menu for bd parties)! Was wondering if vevey & family had got "sick" of the food coz always the same old dishes! Haahaa...

Hmmm... wonder izzit the curry that trigger u to deliver JB the very next day, vevey? Too bad JB din get to share the same bd with ds! Anyway everybody will be unique having their own bd date! ;p

Once again, CONGRATS VEVEY & WELCOME JB TO THIS WONDERFUL WORLD!

My Birthday Cake

Okie, this cake is not done by me! Couldn't be me rite? Haahaa...

Right, Dh bot this cake from Angie The Choice for me on my bd last week! Heehee... Vv simple design but is my fav cake (but not fav cake shop hor!) -- Coffee Cake !!!

Dh say he could not "find" a better design cake at the cake shop so settled with this as I love coffee cake mah...

Well, it's not the cake but the heart that counts right? Sweet sweet hor! ;p

Actually I found the cream too thick, tho with 3 layers of sponge cakes in the center! Felt a bit jerlak with so much cream... overall it's really tasted nice n "sweet" (u know wat I mean!) Heehee....

Oysters

Went shopping at Great World City this evening. Dh decided to "try" Jack's Place as that was a restaurant which I longed for... He ordered this dish, "Oyster Natural" as dessert! Woah, I had never tasted fresh uncooked oysters ever since my 1st try at Westin Hotel back in Yr 1994. Took only 1 oyster back then as I very "sua ku", everything also scare to try lor. :(

Saw that big fat oyster meat? Heehee... simply delicious! Esp dipped w chilli sauce & tosbaco sauce! Droooooool.... Well, I can't take spicy food well but dh dipped a lot of the chilli n tosbaco sauce on my oysters! My mouth & tongue was burning hot!!

(Sorry for the poor photos AGAIN, coz dh still think vv "bo liao" to take photos of what we are eating & esp in a restaurant. Lucky, the ang mo family next to us had already left else sure very pai seh! So I quickly snap a few shots & start appreciating my fresh fresh oysters!)

Chilli Crabs

Woah woah woah... this is 1 of the singaporeans favourite food! Yeap, such nice food was definitely not cooked by me! Haahaa.... Bought this for tonight's dinner! Dh had been busy with his work for last few weeks and finally got a sunday off! He decided to "celebrate" it with his favourite chilli crabs!!

Dh got his crabs while I got "nasty" service from the seafood restuarant! Maybe today is a sunday, too many customers so all the staffs busy till face black black? Even the boss also bo chap a customer standing there until leg ache liao! (Normally the boss will try to take orders when his staffs are busy...)

Tried making my order but the counter girl just ignored me & continued to do her stuffs (checking orders on her list!) So I asked loudly (twice somemore) then another staff actually called her to service me :(

Waited about 45mins, saw a box of chilli crabs came out but no one bother to pack it so I thick-skinned go & ask izzit MY CRABS (normally, I will just stand & wait till they rem & called me). The girl was surprised: "oh, there's a crab!" Aiyoh, buey tahan them!! Quickly pay $ & ciao!

Haaaa... so much complained over my crabs! Anyway just to add, we bought 2 crabs & dh let his dw ate all the claws & he took the crabby legs! ;"p