For my niece's 5 year birthday, I decided to make her a cake. I asked her what her favorite princess is and she said "Sleeping Beauty". Well, aunty doesn't have the tool for that, what I do have is a Cinderella set so I convinced her that Cinderella is really the best one. I'm very grateful that she accepted that :) The rest of the cake making was also a negotiation process and the end result was a cake that both the 5-year-old and the aunty loved. The base is a angel food ca

After staying put at home for the past year anticipating the arrival of baby Marlon, we finally got a chance to escape to the sandy beach in the Caribbean during the spring break. Someone was even more anxious than I was, she packed up weeks before the trip. Together with little cousin Chloe, the two little girls make the best travel companion. With a large family on the move, we needed a good lodging to not only be able to hold all of us but allow us to fully enjoy and relax

Years ago I was trying to make Taiwanese Pineapple cake. The effort to exactly replicate that was not successful but I was quite happy with what it ended up with. It is somewhere between a cookie and a cake and filled with lemon curd or any type of fruit conservative you like. I still do the pineapple filling once-in-a-while. But my favorite is the lemon curd and that really makes the flavor pop. The process is a little bit tedious. Fortunately, I have the perfect helper for