Apple Strudel 苹果果馅奶酪卷

What to do with additional Green Apples? Ling chopped out some cubes of green apples, added some raisins, cinnamon powder and Voila ~~~~ !

That's your apple strudel fillings.

She scooped the fillings and spread over the ready made puff pastry. The delicious apple strudel ready in about 20 minutes.

Sausage Bun

Ling used the same dough from butter coconut buns to bake these delicious sausage buns.  Both her kids loves these home-baked buns.

Butter Coconut Bun

C-O-C-O-NUT.... Yes ! Butter Coconut Buns ~~~ great recipe that Ling's found and she decided to bake the buns today. 

It has been awhile havent eaten this and now we have the home baked buns!

1st Bento @ Work ~~~ 自制"爱"心早餐 ~~~

Time flies, 4 months "honeymoon" at home and now back to work (a 5day week  short term job).

How to beat Monday Blues? ~~~~ Made a very simple bento to work. (cheer up myself)

Bought a small packet of "purple" bread from neighbourhood bakery, it's vanilla & chocolate cream spread and it taste nice.

Using one of my favourite bento boxes - Little Twin Stars - Manged to add "little hearts" using of nori on the bread, added a piece of snowskin green tea mooncake made by Diana and some biscuits for tea break.  The snowskin green tea mooncake taste nice, not too sweet.

  

Choux Doughnuts 奶油甜甜圈

After the "small project" yesterday, a little relax today and Ling started to flip through her recipes.

She decided on Choux doughnuts for tea this afternoon.  Wonderful idea!

Yum Yum ..... the melted chocolate on the doughnuts!  Fabulous!

Teachers' Day 教师节

Teachers' Day 教师节is around the corner. World Teachers' Day is celebrated across the world on 5 Sept, however official school holiday in Singapore falls on 1 September.

Our good friend, Diana offered to bake some cupcakes for our princess as she has received some orders.
Diana baked the cupcakes and we offered to decorate the cupcakes.  Both Diana and Ling's kids brought these lovely cupcakes as Teachers' Day Gift to their respective teachers.

When the parents collected the cupcakes, they were amazed with the decorations. Some parent and teachers even commented : "It's too lovely to eat" (太漂亮, 不舍得吃!) ~ LOL!

More photos can be viewed here

~~~ Yummy Poppyseed Cupcakes ~~~

2nd "workshop" on Snow Skin Mooncake 冰皮月饼

After the 1st trial of making the snow skin mooncakes, Karen's colleague shared another recipe with her.
We made pandan flavour snowskin mooncakes today, using this new recipe.  The taste and texture were much better, nicer than the 1st trial we made. 

Most of us like this recipe best as the taste were nicer.
We bought some new "character prints" and they turned out great too, some prints were not visible ~ sigh!

 

We even tried in on "egg" & "konnyaku" moulds!   LOL ~ it works!

Click here for more images on flickr.com (some not too visible on its print)

Another round of Vanilla Butter Cupcakes

Vanilla butter cupcakes seems like a "popular demand" these weeks, so we baked again today.  We used some new cupcakes liners for this round which we bought from Phoon Huat.

Salad & Fruit

After sending my god-daughter to school this morning, I decided to prepare a very simple salad for breakfast with the leftover red capsicum, Japanese cucumber, carrots, red cabbage and sweet corns. 

Today, I used one new 'nori puncher' which Ling bought from Cake DIY, Hong Kong during her recent trip.  They are unlike other nori/craft punchers, didnt give a complete cut as mentioned by Karen.  I tried using the "crispy" seaweed, somehow it turned out "ok" with little 'hiccups'.

A Fruitful Day back to school on Friday

While I was browsing through Tona's blog 3wks ago, I learnt that Shannon's Blog has various charaben bento lovers' blog links.  I have only managed to join in week 11 & 13 so far.

I was cracking my head what to submit for Hapabento B.O.M.B for August entry ~ "Back To School".

My god-daughter has yet requested bento for school past weeks.  She loves the fruit tarts that her mom baked last evening. 

She'd a lousy day after school yesterday (lots of homework to be completed), so I thought of making a "fruitful morning" the next day.  I packed the fruits tarts, small mandarin orange, her favourite apple flavour Yakult and some "fish" shape biscuit for her  to bring to school.   She said to me "I'm sure, today I will have a "fruitful" school day!" and she left for her lessons early in the morning. 

Unfortunately, I was late for the submission :(