Pandan Custard Tarts

If you have been following my blog, you can easily tell that pandan is our favorite flavour. It has that sweet fragrant and lovely green colour and is used a lot in Asian culinary especially South East Asian. In Indonesia, where I come from, pandan is used on numerous traditional sweet cakes/snacks/drinks for it’s smell and colour, there are some savoury dishes that also use pandan for extra fragrant; we can say pandan is a staple in almost every household.

At home, my mom likes to bake this custard tarts in the original flavour, just with a dash of vanilla extract. When I tried this first time, I divided the custard into two batches, one just the original and I add pandan extract to the other batch. Turns out my husband prefers the pandan ones and I, too agree with him. The pandan ones have that nice smell and I think they look pretty (read: unique).

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Green Tea Cupcakes with Buttercream Topping

This is actually a normal vanilla cupcakes that I added some green tea powder, hence green tea cupcakes. I think it is a nice variation, although I may have added too little green tea powder that the taste and fragrance is just barely there. It still makes a good company for cuppa tea 🙂

green tea cupcake

Bread Challenge 3 – Soft Bread with Tangzhong

My third attempt on bread baking: recipe with “tangzhong”. This is by far my favourite method and I have made several batches of bread using this very method. Tangzhong (aka water rouge starter) method was introduced by Yvonne Chen in one of her  Chinese cookbooks, was called as a secret ingredient that originated from Japan for soft fluffy bread and stays so for few days.

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Bread Challenge 2 – Roti Boy aka Bun with Coffee Flavoured Crusted Bun

Learned from past experience that my bread attempt didn’t came to satisfaction, I searched for other recipes and more tips from many other bloggers. During the research I stumble on this recipe of Roti Boy Wannabe (this recipe was found from here) and I know I just have to give this a try because I love sweet bun and coffee, even better if you can combine the two in one 🙂

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