Doughnuts

Ling baked some doughnuts for tea this afternoon.  Some like it plain, with icing sugar and definately those coated with chocolate were kids' favourite!
By the time I got back home after work ~~~ all gone! :(

Butter Cookies with Royal Icing

Ling has decided to bake another round of cookies today.
This time she decorated the cookies with royal icing instead and she wrapped the cookies into little gift-wrapped.
Our friends' kids tried the cookies and they they like it very much.

Butter Cookies with Royal Icing

Past weeks, we had cakes, pastries, buns and today, Ling baked some butter cookies. 

Flowers, Houses and some other shapes with colourful icing sugar, Ling was not too satisfied with the decoration of icing sugar. The kids love it so much.

I will bring few pieces to share with my colleagues tomorrow.

Fruit Tarts ~ Special Request

It seems lots of people like fruit tarts with freshly cut fruits.  We received a special request for more pieces of tarts topped with mangoes and the rest with mixed fruits. 

    The family members given a positive comment for the tarts.  Thank you, Linda.

Mid Autumn Festival ~ 中秋节

Today is Mid-Autumn Festival.  I didn't manage to join the kids for carrying lanterns down at the park, but I managed to get 2 lanterns for my god-daughter and god-son.

My Melody - Shavonne

Little Bear - Jayden

Apart from making the homemade snowskin mooncakes this year, we had received several mooncakes.

Let me share with you those mooncakes I received over the past weeks.

Homeamde Snowskin from --- Connie



Homeamde Snowskin from --- Diana

Other gifts from --- JL and other friend

Peach Cream Cheese Puff Pastry

Ling has baked some peach cream chesse pastry puff for her husband to bring to work this morning, most of his colleagues like the pastry very much.
Coincidentally there is a farewell party the next day at his office and since his colleagues love it so much, they ordered from him 50pcs each of pastry puff and curry puff.

M4SB Challenge & Giveaway Contest by Hapabento.com

I have missed Hapabento.com  contest entry in Aug, hope I'm in time to submit September entry.

Made use of mooncake storage casing to prepare for this entry and I brought it to work the next day ~ Fried rice with baked beans and minced chicken, red velvet cupcake, cheesy biscuit and some fruits. 

Red Velvet Cupcake

Wow wow Wow ... a new flavour from Ling's oven today ~~~ Red Velvet Cupcakes.
She tried this new recipe of cupcake and topped with cream cheese.  Tasted so nice when it's served cold. Adults like it very much, but the kids dont.

Dim Sum Bento 点心小便当

It's been years we'd yet had our breakfast at Toa Payoh hawker centre.  Finally, we went there for some marketing and breakfast yesterday.  Managed to join in the long queue to buy the steamed buns (包子) .
Our friend Diana given us her homemade shumai (烧卖); given me some ideas to fix up a simple bento.
I decided to packed this Dim Sum (点心) bento to work; shared this with a colleague and she likes it very much.

Fruit Tarts

Last but not least, the 3rd item for the barbecue party ~~~ back by popular demand!

Fruit      

       

        Tarts

Orange Cupcake

As mentioned on previous post, more items brought over to barbecue party ~~~ Orange Cupcakes was the 2nd item.

Ling piped the colourful whipped cream and added some simple sprinkles.  Thereafter, packed in cupcake boxes.

Colourful Konnyaku こんにゃく

Ling's husband had 2 barbecue invitations today.  She prepared several items to bring over to 2 hosts.  1st item is colourful konnyaku, more to introduce on next posts.

This round she used fresh cut fruits added into the konnyaku. 

Traditional Mooncakes

This evening, I brought home a box of Traditional Mooncakes Egg Yolk White Lotus from Tung Lok Group, this was given by my new boss (one of the nicest boss that I ever worked with). 
The mooncake is nice and the egg yolks are very fresh.  We will share this with our friends on the actual day of Mid-Autumn Festival ~ coming Wednesday (22 Sep).

Sausage Rolls 鸡肉香肠卷

Ling baked these sausage rolls for her kids' afternoon snacks. 
Her little prince likes it, but not her princess :( 
All adults enjoy during afternoon tea.

Sun Pastry 太阳饼

Often we received gifts from Taiwanese friends their local famous pastry - Sun Pastry / Sun Cake which are nicely packed into gift boxes.

It's rather interesting to have this home-made.  Ling bought the necessary ingridents, plain flour, maltose, sugar, shortening, icing sugar, butter and salt and she baked it. 

Mango Lover

Any Mango Lovers out there? 

Most of us love this tropical fruit.  Out at the supermarket or market, you can easily get mangoes during its season.  If you are lucky, you might get sweet ones.  The last round we had very sour mangoes, yucky... !

I am a crazy mango lover!

Usually we sliced the mangoes, chilled in a tupperware before serving.

Most of us love mangoes.  Today, we are not only eating the sliced mangoes, but is a nicely baked Mango Cake by Ling!  She layered slices of mango on top of the cake.

Simple Egg Mayonnaise Sandwiches

Ling prepared this egg mayonnaise sandwiches for her hubby's breakfast.  Today, no request from her dearest princess, she just had a small portion of this sandwich before school.

Ling used Glico Pocky Strawberry Sticks (hair) and smiley nori punchers (expression).

Egg Mayonnaise & Fruits

Time flies 时间不饶人!  Another Monday morning ~~~ After the long weekend, a fresher day to start with a simple egg mayonnaise with veggies, mini sandwiches with butter spread and some fruits.

This is my 7th day at work and managed to make this charaben.

It's no exception a busy Monday to move on for the rest of the week, lots of documents to be sorted out and I was home late again! (Missed the yummy pumpkin soup that Ling prepared today)

It's been awhile I have not worked longer hours for a 5day week, but simply enjoying this new environment.