Lemon bars are my favorite because they're just the perfect balance of sweet & zesty, and they're perfect for any occasion.
recipe: lemon bars
Category: sweets
because we all have a sweet tooth
recipe: quick & yummy homemade nutter butter cookies
In honor of National Peanut Butter day, and as avid peanut butter lovers, we'd like to share one of the simplest recipes ever -- homemade Nutter Butter cookie sandwiches! Nutter Butter cookies were all the craze for us growing up, and this quick recipe replicates the simplicity and joy of childhood. It's perfect as a snack throughout the day, and will ensure you get that protein in, too!
recipe: easy cream cheese pie
It's National Pie Day! Here's a fun and incredibly easy cream cheese pie. It'll take less than an hour, and looks beautifully designed with fruits. The fruit can be arranged in whatever pattern you like, and provide a tart contrast to the sweetness of the pie itself.
Recipe: Softest Hokkaido Milk Bread
Hokkaido Milk Bread is a Japanese-style bread that's incredibly soft and fluffy, subtly sweet and beautifully-buttery. This pull-apart bread is great for making sandwiches, or just enjoying by itself with a nice warm cup of green tea.
recipe: chinese egg tarts
Chinese egg tarts are popular treats found all over Chinatown, particularly in tea houses as a dim sum dish. Egg tarts are prominent in Guangzhou's food scene, and scholars call it the "quintessential symbol of the fusion between Cantonese and Western cultures."
recipe: brown sugar rice cakes
Brown sugar rice cakes are a classic: crunchy on the outside, chewy on the outside, they look almost like potato fries. But instead of ketchup, they're covered in an osmanthus flower-infused honey syrup, that you (double) dip each bite into.
recipe: steamed brown sugar sponge cake (ma lai gao/马拉糕))
Ma lai gao (马拉糕) is a popular dim sum dessert, alongside the ever-popular salted-egg yolk custard bao. It's essentially a sponge cake with a beautiful caramel color due to the brown sugar, and because it's steamed, ma lai gao is a fluffy, soft and gorgeous cake (it will literally spring back if you push down on it!).
recipe: amber walnuts
Here's an extremely simple yet delicious lil' recipe for Amber Walnuts to add a bit of spice and edge to your life! 🙂
recipe: zebra-stripe japanese cotton cheesecake
My mom loves to bake, and she's frequently sending me photos of her latest creations as I stay in my dorm eating ramen and mac & cheese. *cries* Anyways, this time, she made Zebra Stripe Japanese Cotton Cheesecake, which looks amazingly good, so I thought I'd share it with y'all too!
recipe: cookie butter brown sugar cookies
As with everyone else this quarantine, I have definitely on a baking rampage this weekend (more like, every weekend): after buying some on-sale cookie butter, I figured I'd try one of the many recipes that involved cookie butter. The easiest? These cookie butter brown sugar cookies!
Hungry Mind, Hungry Stomach 