I have been having a bad allergy problem like so many of other Texan these days. And today is the worse. Started with a little streak of redness on my, as usual, right eyes. My dear husband bought me the eye drops. Put it on, 5 minutes later instead of getting better it’s swelling. That…
Author: carrieshanks
I am a proud mom of a 16 years old boy. I am Chinese with a little Dutch descent and was born and raised in Indonesia. Moved to Texas to be with my better half.
I love cooking, baking to anything artsy … when I have the time.
I enjoy creating stuffs..and watching people enjoy what I create.
Cooking and baking are my passion. When I am bored and not doing any baking nor cooking, I found myself sitting with a sketch book or canvas, though I also like to work my scribbling online. Any form to let my ideas flowing from my head.
Being away from home is what made me live in my kitchen. I found it hard to find food that I missed which suit to my taste. I started cooking first then after few years paying so much on celebration cakes I dare myself with a little push from my co-worker to start entering the baking area. I learned using fondant after one night sitting and playing with playdough with my son and making little figurines. And of course with so many episode of CakeBoss, I am obsessed with this cake world.
So here I am sharing with you with what I have been prepared for my friends and family.
Hope you enjoy my blog, and as always any positive comments or opinions are welcome…Be Sweet ;).
Steamed sponge cake aka Bolu Kukus
Steamed sponge cake or should I say cupcake since it’s made in a little cup? Known as Bolu Kukus. It’s an Indonesian cake that is very famous, not only because it’s pretty looking, taste so good, kinda sorta healthy, and some people are “cursed” for having no success in making these cake smile. Healthy? My…
Time Out
A moment to put yourself on timeout, timeout from the world and all the craziness. Just put a paused and removed away from the hectic life. Funny that my son actually think that this is a painting about him on his timeout corner.
Finally done!!!
Yeyyyyyy….finally I finished ..I think…my baby. Check it out: Drizzle Dippin. After lots of trial and error, lots of discussion with “the expert” so to speak. I finally made a page to share my creations. Knowing how I am, I think you will see changes here and there in the long run but hey to be…
We gotta start somewhere!
Hi y’all as Paula Deen says…The butter queen. I adore her. She is awesome I don’t know why but I have been thinking about Paula, her recipes, her story, her restaurant, her hard work to get to this point. She is amazing, at least from what I read. Anyway, it’s gotta start somewhere..and I have always been…
The beginning.
I have made up my mind to stop myself from baking. At least until I reach my goal on my weight loss program. I will start a new diet that sounds promising. Some of you probably have heard about the Dukan Diet which according to the news had helped some celebrities to lose weight and not to…
Cake Balls grrrrrrrrrrrrr moment!
It is true when you are not in a full force mood on baking, better don’t do it at all. I was pretty happy with the first cake ball I made. It was moist, the coating was smooth and I used chocolate chip that time. So today after sent my husband to Kroger to get…
Cake Balls Obsession
It’s a cold Sunday morning. My DH and DS still asleep. I have done my running around to get my “cake balls obsession” ingredients this morning. Grab some donuts on the way, filled in my car with gas and I am here now blabbing. Since I made those cake balls I am obsessed with them….
Mango or Peach Cobbler
We are supposed to go on a picnic around the lake today but thanks to Texas weather which unpredictable, and turned out to be awesomely cold today we could not go. However since we are in charge of bringing the dessert and my husband voted for Mango/Peach cobbler and or Tiramisu, we decided to still…
It so worth it!
The wait is over.. my patience is paid off now. I made 3 of the cake balls in a hurry this morning before I went to work. Gave one for my husband and brought the 2 other pieces to work. Right when I got to work my husband emailed me and said that was delicious….
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