August 17, 2020 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Sweets, updated recipe

Failproof flakey pastry stuffed with mochi and chocolate

[ezcol_1fifth]-[/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] Listen, I've made this flakey pastry about four times now.  And each time, no matter how every single signs along the way was pointing towards an inevitable heartbreaking disaster, somehow, miraculously, it always turned out amazing.  I've stuffed them with jam and cheese, with fruits and nuts, and this time, with bittersweet chocolate blended together with dark brown sugar and peanut butter plus a good chewy padding of sticky rice mochi on the bottom, and still I couldn't manage to fuck it up.  More crispy and shards-like than puff pastry, but more defined and layered than pie crust, comes together fast and relatively easy, and goes down even more so. So, as someone with a very unlucky track record in the baking arena, I pass this recipe onto you.  I'd say good luck, but something tells me you won't need very much of it. [/ezcol_3fifth] [ezcol_1fifth_end][/ezcol_1fifth_end] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end] HERE A VIDEO DEMO ON HOW TO MAKE THE PASTRY (WITH A DIFFERENT STUFFING): https://youtu.be/z3vCW0XtL7Y *UPDATE 2021/01/01:  The amount of butter is changed. *UPDATE 2022/01/21:  For the dough, I added 1 1/2 tbsp of canola oil to make it softer and cripsier.   [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:217]

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January 15, 2016 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Sweets

WEDNESDAY’S THROW-IT-TOGETHER TEXAS SHEET CAKE

[ezcol_1half] I didn't intend to sneak a cake recipe in between my travel-inspired posts, but this is the easiest-yet-delicious cake recipe I have yet to encounter, and I think you should do it. Look, I'm not exactly a practician of 30-minute meals.  I don't mind getting down and dirty with a recipe for the better part of my day and get disgustingly anal with minor details.  But for those who knows me, knows that when it comes to dessert-baking, specifically cakes and such, I then become what Nat Geo would call, a cake-sloth.  If the recipe, even at a glance, contains any mentioning of words like "softened/room-temperature butter (subtext: have my cake and eat it tomorrow)", or "creaming (scrape till my ass split)", or "sift (is Santa coming or I'm covered in blow!)", or "beat eggs one at a time (zzzz

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July 8, 2015 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Sweets

CHURROFFLE AND CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM SANDWICH

[ezcol_1half] YES, CHURRO WAFFLES [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Gotta run today!  Leaving you quickly with yet another inbred waffle abomination.  Churros + waffles = churroffles.  Yes, apparently, churro waffles, too.  A clear proof that I spotted on Instagram, from Monochrome Bistro in Singapore, where they serve it with what looks like a huge scoop of cookies’n cream ice cream.  But you know, call me romantic.  I’d like to think that even after being barbarically deformed in between the burning metal teeth of a waffle griddle, that even when its own mother couldn’t recognise him anymore, that even when his previously tall and slender physique now seem like the mirage from another life… that deep down, churro still wants chocolate.  And chocolate still wants churro too, stubby and crooked as he is.  It’s true love. So here it is.  Churroffles tumbled in light brown sugar spiced with cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg, then go on to hug his soulmate, deep dark chocolate ice cream in a summer reunion.  Love is in the air.  Can you feel it? [/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end] [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:74]

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September 4, 2014 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Dairy, Sweets

sea salt buttercream on a chocolate cupcake

[ezcol_1half] CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE, HARDLY ANY  NEWS. BUT A PROMINENTLY SALTY AND SWEET BUTTERCREAM, REALLY GETS ME EXCITED [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] THERE are good, convenient reasons why, I've never made cupcakes before. There are things best left unknown, things that, let's just say, won't help you enjoy your favourite foods by knowing.  Like the day I peed myself a little when I first poured in all that heavy cream, running as thick as blood, into making my most beloved Hokkaido "milk" toast two years ago.  Oh mommy, it wasn't milk

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June 27, 2014 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Dairy, Sweets

BROWNIE-COW POPSICLES

SHUT UP, SHUP UP, SHUP UP [ezcol_1half] Let's play a game, shall we? Let's see how much of my babbling you can withstand before you say "shut up, shut up, shut up!" and burst into the kitchen to make yourself one of these milk and any-brownie, or as I call it, brownie-cow popsicles? Right, so you see here's the thing. I kinda love Earth. Maybe not enough to tie myself to a tree per se, but I do love Earth enough that I have more bicycles than mascaras, and I haven't had myself an ungodly orgasmic piece of toro, for like more than three years now. And believe me, I do love my ungodly toro. But there's something else I love dearly as well

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