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Mar
20

Royal icing

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Royal icing is usually used to make wedding cakes and requires a more tedious job compared to using fondant. It sets hard. The cake normally use is fruit cake as this type of cake is compact and will provide a strong base. Three or more layers is spread over a cake, each layer will take …

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Mar
18

High altitude baking

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Sometimes at the end of a recipe, we come across a small section on how to adjust the ingredients if we are baking at high altitude. This mention always makes me wonder. Do we really have to adjust our cooking or baking if we are living on high land, a mountain or if in outer …

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Mar
13

Herb Garden

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I’m back from Cameron Highlands, stayed there for 2 nights at Equatorial Hotel in Brinchang. It was so cold… and raining most of the time. There was nothing much to do except to go shopping for veggies, strawberries and hang around at the pasar malam (night market). Here’s me taken this morning in front of …

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Feb
24

Cupcake or muffin ?

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I bought this very pretty book called “Cupcakes and Muffins” Collectors Edition (R & R Publications Marketing Pty Ltd) last week at our MPH book shop. I love buying cookbooks where ever I go. Basically the book has loads of cupcake and muffin recipes. Know the difference between the two ? Well, I’ll mention here …

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Feb
18

What went wrong with my cake?

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We’ve been through it, the cake that we baked didn’t turn out to be as pretty as the cake in the cook book. This is a normal process, as the saying goes – practice makes perfect. But we need to know what went wrong, so that we can avoid the same mistakes in the future. …

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