I didn't know that there's a one-stop baking and confectionery shop here in Makati until AJ pointed it to me the other day. The shop is called Sweet Escape and all baking affectionados will definitely find their bliss here! It has about everything you need for baking! I was able to take pictures of some of the baking products available there. Come take a look and get lost ... READ MORE
Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies
Now that I have added "baking" as one of my newly-acquired "skills", I have been wanting to make my own blueberry cheesecake. People dear to me know how much I love this cake. How nice it would be if I (with the help of AJ, of course) can bake and eat it, too! Thankfully, my Ninang Caro shared to me this recipe from Heat Oven to 350 called Cheesecake Cookies. AJ and I ... READ MORE
Shop Craft Supplies, Baking Supplies and Holiday Decorations at Gourdo’s!
Quite a long title for a post, huh? I'm hoping AJ will get to read this because it sums up everything I wanted to have this Christmas, haha! You see, we were at Greenhills Promenade last Sunday (it's been a long while since we're last there), and I passed by Gourdo's at the second floor to see if there are flash sales. I swear, I thought I was transported to Santa's gift ... READ MORE
Chewy Chocolate Chunk Cookies
We finally baked our first batch of cookies, and it was a big success! It took us a while to try baking cookies because we do not have an electric mixer at all. Thanks to this expiring gift certificate worth P1,000 from Anson's Appliance Store (which came with the TV we purchased 2 years ago), we were able to buy ourselves a Moulinex Principio Hand Mixer. So we tried ... READ MORE
Affordable Book Shopping at Booksale
I had so many things planned out today because it's a holiday (Eid al-Adha). I wanted to officially start wrapping Christmas gifts (can't wait to use all those washi tapes I've collected these past months!) and prepare the stuff I'll bring to Cebu this Friday for my nephew's 3rd birthday but, while having my late breakfast this morning, I read about the strong earthquake that ... READ MORE
Baked Yogurt Parmesan Chicken (a melt-in-your mouth chicken dish)
This was our fantabulous chicken dinner last night, paired with pesto macaroni pasta: You all know my not-so-secret-anymore recipe for the pesto pasta (check it out here!) and as I forgot to stock on pasta noodles, we just bought whatever we could find at the supermarket. The smallest pack available happened to be the macaroni noodles, thus the awkward noodles + pesto ... READ MORE
Cheese Biscuits
A few Sundays ago, AJ and I made Cheese Biscuits for breakfast, using this ready-mix flour from Mary Callender's that we bought at Rustan's Supermarket - Rockwell Branch for less than P100.00. It was so easy to do - just whisk together melted butter, fresh milk and the flour. Stir in the biscuit mix until a moist dough forms. We made 5 mounds of biscuits dough ... READ MORE
How to make your own Buttermilk Scones
I love scones! Scones are what I look forward to when having afternoon tea and you saw that when I wrote about our afternoon tea experience at the Manila Peninsula, New World Hotel and TWG Tea Salon and Boutique. So it really gives me great joy to be able to finally make them (mostly with AJ's help!) this morning, following this easy video recipe from The Joy of Baking. The ... READ MORE