Kat's Notebook

Ever since we bought a 10lb box of strawberries from Costco, a thought came to mind: I want to make a strawberry cake! However before I moved into action I brainstormed what kind of strawberry cake I wanted. I researched recipes, pictures, and videos. I finally settled for a 2 layer chiffon cake with buttercream [...]

If you’ve been reading my past entries on recipes, the reason why I bake what I bake is mainly because of surplus of a particular ingredient. Well this time, it’s carrots! My mom loves carrot cake. When I was younger, she will order carrot cake and I would be puzzled why she would order a [...]

I’ve always avoided chocolate on my baking recipe. Chocolate is too sweet and fattening. Not that fruit-type of cakes are not but still chocolate evokes weight gain. But my aunt has told me to bake a chocolate cake for her co-worker who was the bearer of my Nintendo DS gifts. My aunt works at this [...]

The Chinese tang yuan is a mochi ball dessert with or without filling served in hot soup. I love this dessert. I can only remember a handful of times when I’ve eaten this in the past but still the memory was a bit blurred. I needed to satisfy this tang yuan craving. At first I [...]

I’ve gone without breakfast for a week and my stomach growls at work before lunchtime. I usually eat bread with cream cheese but I’m too lazy to shop for bread. Anyway, I’ve been eyeing the poor-looking overripe bananas my father left us and decided to make them into muffins. I thought I could do the [...]

Lately, I’ve noticed that I get indigestion more frequent than before. Twice now eating at home during my 1 hour lunch break, I will return to the office with a bloated and uncomfortable stomach. It’s an indigestion attack again. I usually pride myself of having a good metabolism. Before, I could eat a very big [...]

My baking extended to the French world with Pâte à Choux (paht-ah-shoo!). Exotic as it sounds, for the laymen we know it as Cream puffs! Lucky supermarket had a sale on eggs – 58cents/dozen. So off I went to buy and made my choux puff pastry. If you want to impress your guests with a [...]