My Successful Cheesecake!

I have tried a no-bake recipe for cheesecake, but it turned out cheesy and didn't have the 'flour-y' cake-like texture. I went on in search of a simple, no-fuss baked recipe and the search was not in vain!
Everybody loved it, even the cute 2 year olds!

My cute pineapple tarts! For the Rabbit Year!

I wanted to try baking pineapple tarts for CNY this year and thought I should try doing some cute designs. I searched the cutters I have in my cupboard and thought this teddy bear would do...

I used Bake King pineapple jam and would recommend this to anyone baking pineapple tarts, it tasted great! Being my first time, I omitted sugar from the recipe and my tarts turned out a little dry and bland.

An idea then struck me while having lunch with Wen.

I thought maybe I should try making bunnies since it is the year of the Rabbit! I would only need eyes and the ears. I tried them out over the weekend, got leftover sesame seeds from my x'mas celebration and got some nice sunflower seeds to prepare the ears. Thanks to Wen, he had helped to shell the nuts, though while watching TV!
Lots of hard work on the making of pineapple tarts. First the dough has to be prepared and rested for hours (or overnight), then moulding of the pineapple jams, moulding the dough and jam into a round ball, stick on the sesame seeds, and next the shelled nuts. That's repeated almost 60times!

And off to the oven they stood.

After a good 20-30mins...

I was really glad how they turned out!

CUTE!!

So cute I couldn't bear to eat them.

The only problem... my testers felt they look more like rats than rabbits!!

Urghh..!!

Well, at least they do look cute.

Fruit Tart

I treated my family to a nice fruit tart for teatime, following the recipe of this website.

http://www.joyofbaking.com/FruitTart.html
And it turned out pretty good!

I have been baking...

Attended a baking class not too long ago and it spurred me to stock up my kitchen with flour, sugar, butter and eggs!

And I've put them to good use lately...

Apple Pie


Egg Tarts
I used the remaining pastry from my apple pie to make these for his breakfast!

Donuts

I had troubles making the dough and it couldn't get firm enough to form the donuts my instructor made below. He suggested making round balls instead. And it worked!

Carrot Cake
With a light & nutty lemon cream cheese topping!



Tiramisu
Here's a proud picture of my tiramisu to him.
Believe me, tiramisu is one of the easiest cake to make for beginners. No oven required!
I sprinkled lots of white chocolates as toppings since it's his faves...