Classic Sweet Scones

I managed to come home early yesterday and decided that I really should try out this recipe I had for scones.. I absolutely LOVE them and Prasad calls them super-scones! :)

Oreo Cheese Cake

Oreos has to be one of the best-est cookies in the world. I follow the "twist-lick-dunk" mantra religiously, minus the "dunk" bit because I don't drink milk. So it's more like "twist-lick-chomp" for me.. :P Just when I thought that Oreos can only be eaten as it is, I discovered that the Peckham's down my road sells this super-duper-licious-awesomely-yummy-cake called Oreo Cookie Bash. I've tried finding the recipe for that cake but to no avail. So I tried looking for just "Oreo Cheese Cake". I found several recipes online but they either had condensed milk in it or weren't baked. I didn't like very sweet things, so condensed milk didn't appeal to me. I don't have a very huge fridge so a non-baked cheese cake would also not be too feasible.. So, I had to come up with a recipe using my limited baking knowledge.. :)

Chocolate "Sponge" Cake

A friend of mine placed an order for a birthday cake for her son. Her requirements were simple enough: she needed it for the 11th of October (and she placed her order more than a month in advance) and her son likes chocolate. Stay away from the fruits, just chocolate. Then came the challenging bit: "My son likes dinosaurs"..

Right. So I have to create a dinosaur-themed chocolate cake for a 5-year-old kid. Boys at that age probably will not fancy the docile looking brontosaurus (the long-necked one which would make my life a LOT easier) but would perhaps go for the more aggresive T-Rex with claws and teeth. *rawr* A T-Rex will be a LITTLE bit more challenging because (a) it has teeth (b) it has claws (c) it has stripey patterns on the back, all of which may prove to be a bit of a challenge. I've been trying to come up with ideas for the past few days and think I've come up with a feasible plan..

But first, I have to practice making a chocolate cake. I found this recipe which used a certain ingredient which I've discovered during one of my other baking experiments.. This "secret" ingredient is what makes a cake SUPER moist and soft but at the same time solid.. So I baked away and here's what came out of the oven..


I've passed the cake around to be tested and so far the comments were great! Yeay! I've received comments that the cake is really moist and although it looks like a sponge cake, it doesn't have the consistency of a sponge cake - it was a lot more moist and firm compared to a sponge cake. Another person asked me if it was a caramel chocolate cake! :) As you can see, I'm really pleased with the outcome..

Now, I'll continue thinking about the decorations for the cake and will put up pictures of it once it's done. It'll be a test to my (non-existant) artistic skills, and not to mention my patience. But I always like a challenge and I hope the dinosaur will look like a dinosaur of some sort and the kids will love the cake!

p/s: Will put the recipe for this cake at some point.. In the mean time, will let you guys ponder about the "secret" ingredient.. Cherio!

Chocolate Cheese Cake

It was the annual IMU Junior-Senior Dinner yesterday whereby all the senior IMU-Edinburgh Transfer students will gather to meet the newbies and welcome them to their new "home".. :) I've always enjoyed gatherings like that because it was the only opportunity I'll get to meet the rest who have been so busy with studies and have not seen them in ages although we're in the same hospital and seniors who are already doctors - just to catch up with them. And it's always fun to hear all these stories that they have to share about their jobs and things that I myself will be doing in 2 years time - if all goes well, that is..

The tradition every year is that the seniors will take the juniors out for dinner, but this year the organisers decided to go for a pot luck. And as with all gatherings, I will bake something (I should try cooking some day..) and this time I decided to try a chocolate cheese cake recipe which I sort of improvised from a cheese cake recipe that I found..

And here's the cheese cake..


I received very good comments about the cake and I think people were more awed by the decoration more than anything else! (I was quite excited about it myself.. :P) However, I've also received a comment that it should be more chocolatey - so I'll work to improve on that. Once I'm happy with it, I'll put up the recipe - which will take a while since my exams are coming up!! Nevertheless, this was a relatively easy cake to bake and I think I'm starting to enjoy baking cheese cakes!

Chocolate Cupcake

It's Prasad's 22nd Birthday today and I had to think of something that's easy to bake and easy to hide and of how to fit in time to shop for a present! It's been a bit of a nightmare-ish week for me - being in the hospital from 830am-5pm almost every day and coming home extremely exhausted. At times like these, I wish I was back at home when 1 Utama was only a 5-minute drive away and was opened till 10pm. (Oh 1U, how I miss you..)

In order to fulfill my mission of getting a present and baking him something, I had to lie - a lot. Here are some snippets of our text messages:

P: Where are you now?
K: Kirkcaldy. Still here. [Fact: I was running to FCUK to find this shirt for him]
(20 minutes later..)
P: How's it going?
K: On the train home. Just left! [Fact: Looking at stuff in Zara]

K: Hey, can you please borrow this book from the library for me? I'm still stuck in the ward. [Fact: I was getting ingredients for the cupcakes]

*sigh* I do feel extremely horrible for lying, but it was all well worth it.. :)


I found this recipe and it had natural yoghurt as one of the ingredients. I've never used yoghurt in any of my recipes before but I thought I'd give it a try. It was quite risky 'cos I only had one shot at this (that one afternoon that I was supposedly in the ward) and if I screw up, Peckhams here I come! The cupcakes were really easy to make and within 1 1/2 hours, I made 9 cupcakes, the icing and I even managed to wash up! The final product was amazing too! Prasad absolutely loved the cupcakes and is eating them one at a time after every meal.. They're a lot denser than your normal cupcake which makes it different. They're not solid or firm and extremely moist and soft!

The decoration wasn't my best though - I was doing this in the kitchen while Prasad was "sleeping" in his room. So I was straining to listen to see if he's moving about in his room and trying to work as quickly as I could. It turned out he didn't fall asleep and could hear me going about the kitchen.. So when I went into his room at midnight, he was looking at me wide-eyed.. Oh well, I tried!

Happy Birthday Dear! :)

Recipes coming soon!

After much thought, I've decided to share the recipes of the stuff that I've baked on this blog.. :) I'll put them up in between studying/hospital work/other random things that I do, so watch this space! Hope you'll enjoy them!

Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies

I got this recipe from a cookbook which my bestest friends bought me for my last birthday.. It's by Rachel Allen and apparently her cooking/baking show has just started in Malaysia! Her recipes are simple, straightforward, no fuss and she gives really useful tips and ideas at end of the recipes..
I left this cookie in the oven for slightly longer than I normally would - just to test how crispy it can be. The cookie holds very well and doesn't crumble at all.. A really simple recipe for very simple and yummy cookies..