Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!!

To all mothers out there, young and old, wishing you a Happy Mother's Day!!

Hope you enjoy this day, reserved specially for you, with your family & loved ones. Hope the happy memories bring a wide smile upon your face when you think back on this day. 

To my own mother, I know you don't read my blog (or any, in fact! haha), but I just want to express my love and gratitude to you. This past 1.5 years has been very difficult and stressful for me, both due to uni stressors and personal stressors. You have never failed to take the time to come and talk to me to take my mind off things, to talk to me about the stressors and help me overcome them. 

Thank you, Mum, for being there for me when I most needed you, not just recently but all my life. Thank you, for your time, love and support. This sounds cliche, but in my mind, you really are the best, and most admirable mother. Hope you enjoy the lunch we have planned today!!

I love you <3

Carrot cake

This is what happens when you talk about wanting carrot cake for weeks and one of your officemates enjoys baking! haha.

One of my officemates loves carrot cake. She rarely eats sweets but one thing she cannot resist is carrot cake - it's definitely her favourite, and it's possibly the only cake she'll eat a whole piece of! She was hankering for carrot cake for weeks and weeks, so I decided to bake one for her one day. I just turned up to uni with the cake and she was so shocked! haha. She loved it. She shared it around the building but it was quite a big cake so she took the rest home.

Another matcha cake!

Hi everyone! How was your weekend? Mine was so jam-packed with things to do. I've got 2 research essays to write...one of which is due next week...which...I have yet to start! ><! STRESS!

But, there's always time to bake! haha. Not really, but will make time to bake for my family. I made this for my Nan's birthday on Saturday! Matcha adzuki cake! I changed ideas quite a few times with the type of cake to make for her this year. Last year I made a pandan longan cake - but this year because I'm so busy with uni, my mind was filled with all sorts of ideas and I just couldn't seem make my mind up. I finally decided on this combination =)

It's not pandan, but it's still green...

And so continues my chiffon-baking adventure! As I mentioned, I love chiffon cakes - a lot of people are daunted by them because of the fragile nature of the egg whites, and granted mine definitely do not always come out nice and fluffy. But...that doesn't stop me from trying! haha...in search of perfection =P

This time, I decided to bake a matcha chiffon cake! Matcha is one of my favourite flavours so I've made it a point to try make more matcha-based desserts whenever I can. Plus, my younger brother loves matcha and I know he will gladly eat my bakes if I made it matcha =P

Tea + cake...the perfect marriage...

It's mid-week everyone! Somehow time feels like it's passing both too quickly and a bit slow. It's odd. But anyway! Here's some cake to brighten up our mornings =)

I love baking chiffon cakes so much! They are just so light and fluffy, you don't feel guilty having more than one piece in a sitting. haha. Plus, I have a smaller mould now and they just look so cute! hehehe.

I had some earl grey teabags at home, and my family aren't huge fans of drinking it. In fact, we usually only drink Chinese tea anyway. So I decided to bake with it - I've seen so many bloggers baking with tea and I was really curious so I thought this would be the perfect time to try, given this month's Aspiring Bakers theme!