Baby Cupcake Toppers

Made some cupcake toppers for my friend M's surprise cupcakes. M will be delivering her first baby boy anytime soon. Hooray! I hope she'll be very please when she sees the cupcakes. It hasn't been easy for her in this journey to motherhood.

The cupcakes will have a white chocolate cake base topped with some lemon buttercream finished with these cupcake toppers. Aren't those blue feet cute. In case you're wondering what's the letter K for, it's the first alphabet of baby's name!

I have not decided which pair to use. Hmm...more in favour of the second set. Which set are you in favour of?

Today's Breakfast....#3

three pieces of leftover chicken sausages and a cup of homemade yogurt.

A Cookie In Joo Chiat

cookies from left to right: almond cookie, savoury hae bee hiam cookie, japanese green tea cookie

After a good lunch of chicken briyani in geylang serai market, my lunch companion K and I decided a good walk to joo chiat will help speed up the digestion. Knowing K can be very adventurous when it comes to food, I suggested we should go to Home's Favourite for some hae bee hiam (minced spicy shrimp) cookie. Yes! The same type of hae bee hiam that's used in stir-fry kang kong and hae bee hiam roll.

I really love the savoury hae bee hiam cookie. It's not overly spicy, a good balance of savouriness and sweetness, crumbly and full of flavours. K agreed it can be very addictive. The green tea cookie is good but I prefer it to have a heavier touch of tea powder. As for the almond cookie, both of us detect a faint synthetic taste. It could be due to the almond essence used. With oil replacing the usual butter, the cookies are much lighter on the palate.

If you're too overwhelmed to bake your own cookies, do give Home's Favourite a visit. The cookies are reasonable priced and very fresh. They even have small packs that's good for dropping into the children's schoolbags. I know what I want to try in the next visit: pork floss sesame cookies!

Home's Favourite

266 Joo Chiat Road

Singapore 427520

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Mandarins

Saw these australia mandarins while shopping for groceries in the nearby supermarket and added them to the basket. I like to call them little balls of sunshine. Just as you've guessed, I love to use their skins in pastry!

Today's Breakfast....#2

cedele's brown rice salad, roasted vegetable soup & orange juice. It's more like brunch as I had it pretty late. I simply adore cedele's rice or quinoa salads. Not to forget their soups. Find it much better than another well-known establishment that specialises in soups.