bento – hello! i am back to bentoing. ;)

after  a super long break, i am back to packing ‘cute’  food for my daughter. i have been experimenting new food to replace nori facial details. i find nori punching to picking and placing tiny ‘eyes’ and ‘mouth’ on food  a little stressful especially in a mad morning rush. it is more so when the tiny [...]

mini flower cupcakes

this week is a school holiday break so i have not been making any bentos.  i was inspired to make some cupcakes after seeing pl and dee’s. i  bought a 5kg ready made fondant after our first cupcake ‘workshop’ and have not touched it since. that was many moons ago and it will expire early next year! these [...]

bento 124 – 3 in 1 day, banana cake, mini sammies and mooncakes

i wanted to bake banana cake last week and had barred anyone from eating that 3 remaining very large bananas for 3 days. hehe .. they were super ripe last thursday morning, so i skipped bento-ing to bake. my son agreed to buy ‘healthy’ food from the canteen on condition that i give him extra allowance. usually he’ll eat [...]

hello kitty chocolate/chocolate chip/banana/walnut sponge cake

i didnt make any bento snacks for my kids  this morning.  k and i baked chocolate chocolate chip sponge cake yesterday night.  we had that for supper, breakfast and snack,  and most likely tomorrow’s breakfast too!  no, that’s not too much of a ‘good’ thing, hehe… we baked them in teeny weeny mini paper cases  and 2 medium size hello kitty. [...]

garden bento contest

i refer to my previous post. the contest is now closed and it is time to vote! please click here to see all the 17 beautiful garden bento entries and voting instructions. mine is “blissful garden”, index no 8, er… .number EIGHT , =P hahaa.. my description for blissful garden is as follows: “we lived [...]

bento 25- cartoon choco muffins

Baked some non- dairy choco muffins the night before. Wanted to take it easy this am. But still late for work! Baked half of the recipe and yielded 16 muffins. Used a fork to mix instead of a whisk.( recipe stated both are ok). Big mistake!! The batter was Super lumpy, huge ones!! And way [...]

pineapple muffin (steam)

‘jelak’ of eating orange, choco, banana muffins, hubby requested for pineapple ones again. cant find any easy recipe after browsing the net. so here i am again, with my trial and testing method, the ‘agaran’ technique =). i attempted a second time, using half of the steam banana cake recipe. made 4 muffins. cake texture [...]

orange muffins

I woke up early on sun and decided to do some baking since hubby didn’t show interest to go cycling. Baked orange muffins using half of the basic non dairy recipe. Below is the variation i made, trial and testing method – Added two – Orange zest Orange juice 1/2 tsp mixed spices Some chopped [...]

pineapple muffins (non-dairy)

I tried to bake pineapple cake using the chocolate non dairy recipe. Tested out only a quarter of actual recipe. In case it’s not nice and need to be trashed. Substituted half of the water with canned pineapple juice n mixed 2 rings (cut into small pieces) of the pineapple to muffin batter. Made 8 [...]

mickey

Meet Mickey! My newest addition to the cartoon baking moulds. Love, love them to pieces! Also chk out pooh and my beloved kitty. Feeling nostalgic.. isn’t it ? bring back fond childhood memories. I made these ‘muffins’ two nights ago with a non dairy chocholate cake recipe – eggless and butterless ! Super soft and [...]