Orange Cake

A straightforward recipe here. Wonder how the texture compares with the many other cake recipes from grandmother’s notebook?

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Marble Cake II

Do compare this with the earlier recipe for Marble/Marmer Cake. Both recipes are noticeably generous with the use of eggs, but this one has fewer ingredients. Most importantly, this recipe doesn’t include any raising agent, which indicates that the rise is completely dependent on:
a) the creaming process – remember to cream butter and sugar till [...]

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Sponge Cake II

Like the first Sponge Cake recipe, this is one that grandmother got from a friend, noted here as ‘Mrs Tsiang’.
This sponge cake recipe is quite different from the first Sponge Cake and the Banana Sponge Cake recipes I posted earlier. Those follow the classic Victoria Sponge Cake in having equal amounts of butter, sugar and [...]

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Sponge Cake I

This is the first of two different plain sponge cake recipes which grandma got from her friends. You can see this one is labelled as Mrs Choa’s recipe.
The method is identical to the Banana Sponge Cake recipe which was one of grandma’s signature dishes. The equal quantities of butter, sugar and flour as well as [...]

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New Year Goodies: Sago Coconut Balls & Cashew Cookies

In a recent comment here, one of our readers requested for grandma’s recipes for Chinese New Year goodies. Well, grandma never did much CNY baking in my memory and the recipes in her notebook seem to reflect this as well.
However, I have just come across this cut-out from the newspaper, most likely The Straits Times [...]

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