Minced Meat Steam Sponge Cake 肉燥蒸蛋糕 （中英食谱）

Have you ever tried making a savoury steam cake? This is my first attempt making this minced meat savoury steam sponge cake and surprisingly it turned out to be deliciously good! I was shedding much tears while cutting up the shallots and it was worth it after all! 😂

Photo updated on 24 August 2018.
This recipe is featured in the “Gourmet Living - 食尚品味” bilingual magazine Aug/Sep 2018 issue.  

Taiwanese Fried Radish Cake 台式萝卜糕 （中英食谱教程）

This pan fried radish cake is one of my family's favourite tim sum and we will always order it when we go for yum cha in restaurants. This radish cake can be eaten either steam or pan-fried. We prefer the pan-fried version as it has a thin crunchy layer on the outside from frying, and soft on the inside. The ones sold locally are usually the Hong Kong style which uses Lup Cheong (chinese sausage) as one of its ingredients. The Taiwanese version uses ground pork instead and I decided to give it a try after seeing the recipe in Carol's book. It turns out to be just as nice. Do give this version a try if you haven't tasted it before. 

Steam Moist Chocolate Cupcake 蒸湿润巧克力杯子蛋糕 （中英食谱教程）

I have been trying out my electric steam oven to steam cupcakes but have failed several times as the cupcakes simply did not rise and collapsed instead. Finally, after trying out this steam moist chocolate cake recipe which I found online last week, it worked on my Brandt steam oven, not only did it rise, it exploded somehow and had a cute mushroom head. :D I love its unique look, quite unusual from the neat looking cupcake.  The cupcakes are chocolatey rich, super moist and not too sweet. Great for chocolate lovers like me! :)

Red bean paste steam buns & Char Siew Bao (Roasted pork steam buns) 豆沙包 / 叉烧包




第一次做包子，还可以吗？

喜欢烘培的我，偶尔也想尝试做些中式点心。之前在网上看过大同小异的包点食谱，但都有使用白油。 我本身比较不喜欢用白油，所以至到最近看到不用白油的包子食谱，就把之前收集的食谱拿来比较一下。参考之后，混合一些部份，就做了以下的食谱。第一次做，选择了比较容易包的豆沙包， 也是我女儿最爱的包子，味道还不错！可是，喜欢叉烧包的小儿子，就在一旁呱呱叫，说妈妈不公平，只做了姐姐喜欢的口味。所以为了安抚他，就说妈妈下一次一定会做叉烧包给他吃。为了不让他等太久，一个礼拜后就履行我的诺言。叉烧包不比豆沙包容易，因为豆沙馅我是买现成的，叉烧馅就要自己准备了。还有包法也比较有挑战性。 我觉得这次不是包的很美，需要多加练习。你们可以上youtube找一找‘如何包包子’的视频，看着学习。

Besides baking, I like to make Chinese Tim Sum too. I have wanted to make steam bao for long but those recipes which I had come across use shortening. It is one ingredient which I prefer not to use. Recently, I saw a bao recipe which does not use shortening at all. I refer to the bao recipes I have on hand and came up with the following recipe. My first attempt was Tao Sa Bao (Red bean paste steam bun) which my daughter loves and the second attempt was my son's favourite Char Siew Bao.