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Rose Cake

I wanted to make wife cake but I couldn't find any dry melons in store at this time of the year as they only sell them during chinese new year so I thought what can I use instead...........? Then it came to me hmmmm I like turkish delight so why not rosewater?!

glutinous filling - few drops of rosewater, desiccated coconut  and almond flakes both finely chopped.

This actually turned out better then i expected but it can do with more coconut flavour.

Books

I've been searching for bilingual (Chinese/English) baking books online for a very long time, as most site was in Chinese it was very hard to find.  

Until one day I came across this website  廣達網店, there wasn't a huge variety of baking books but just enough.  You can pay by pay pal and the service was great I received my books within 5 days of confirmation.

These were the books I ordered......... and may I mention I was not disappointed at all! 

冰皮月餅 - Snowskin Mooncake

I love traditional mooncake I came across this lovely colourfully container - Ice Moon cake.  I was fascinated by its colourful packaging/design, I was more intrigued when i read Ice Moon Cake in 4 different flavour. 

Flavours -

2 x Black Sesame Seeds

2 x Green Tea & Jasmin

2 x Taro

2 x Seaweed & Green Beans

I just couldn't resist, I just had to try one!  Very Naughty of me. lol. but the Moon Festival is about a month away! I can't wait that long!

Look how beautiful it is! - Black Sesame Seeds.  

It tasted good........................ too! 

Can't wait to try the others.

Mooncake - 中秋節 2011

Mid Autumn Festival is approaching very soon!  I previously attempted baking moon cake twice and failed twice, this time i found a fantastic recipe book rather then online blogs.  

Title 'Hong Kong Memorable Bakery'.

It not perfect......... practice makes perfect!  I used red bean paste instead of lotus seeds as this was a trial run I didn't want to spend too much on ingredients. 

My aunt gave me a wooden mini mooncake mould, its great!  The only tip I would give on using wooden mould is to flour the inside before placing the dough, otherwise you would have difficulties getting it removing the dough.

Finally the RESULT...............!

Balloon Festival

I took my little girl to our first balloon festival yesterday. The weather was nice and sunny, the wind did picked up nearer to the time when the show was suppose to start, it got delayed by an hour.  

There were suppose to have around 25 balloon to fly, after the fifth balloon took off the wind picked up and started to rain. At least we got to see some took off which was a brilliant experience for me.  

I will definitely return next year but next time we will be camping on the site as the balloons only fly 6am in the morning and 6pm in the evening this is due to do with the weather or something along that line. lol.

we were going to return today to see more balloons and the night glow, unfortunately my daughter wasn't feeling very well.  O well, there's always next year!  

Sweet Potato Pancake

My aunt makes the best sweet potato pancake, so i decided to have a go at it myself.  She mainly makes this on special festivies occasion.


I had a go at it today, almost perfect, it was a little soft it needed more gluteniouse rice flour other then that it tasted great.