Sugar Cookies

Additive Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookie time. I found a recipe for Chewy Sugar Cookies on foodnetwork.com.  I thought it would be a good idea to reduce the sugar from one and a half cups of sugar to one and a quarter cups of sugar since I do not like my cookies too sweet; however, I was wrong. The reduced sugar failed to make the cookies chewy. Although the cookies were not chewy, they had a nice texture. They were medium soft and had somewhat of a slight crumbly texture. In addition, they were delicious and additive. The cookies’ strong buttery and buttermilk taste will keep you coming back for more so please control yourself. I had a little try controlling myself; hopefully you will do better than me.  Read more for the recipe. I hope you enjoy!!!

Banana Cake

Banana Cake

A Slice of the Banana Cake

I think I am going crazy. For some reason, I thought it was my mother’s birthday yesterday. I baked her a banana cake since she likes simple and moist cakes. She doesn’t like icing so I just melted some chocolate chips in the microwave. Then, I placed the melted chocolate in a ziplock bag and cut a piece of the corner in order to squeeze the words “Happy Birthday Mom” onto the cake. Unfortunately, my efforts did not necessarily pay off since it was not my mother’s birthday. I guess with all my co-workers' and friends’ birthdays in March, I got confused. Her birthday is not 3/12, but 5/12. I am two months ahead of myself. When she came home, she saw the cake and told me that it wasn’t her birthday, but she will still eat the cake. I guess I will have to bake another flavor cake on her real birthday. Maybe, I will bake her a lemon cake. She likes lemon flavor foods. Read more for the banana cake recipe.

Tapioca Pudding made with Coconut Milk

Tapioca Pudding 

Sometimes I think I am a pregnant woman with all the cravings I have. This time I wanted some tapioca pudding. I was about to purchase some at the Asian supermarket, but decided to make myself some instead. How hard can it be? I found a recipe online for Cambodian banana tapioca pudding. I think this is the closest to what I was craving-coconut milk and tapioca. I omitted the banana’s from the recipe. I just kept the recipe simple to water, tapioca, coconut milk, and sugar. When I was making the pudding in the evening, my mother came into the kitchen to question what I was making and why. I told her my life wasn’t sweet enough. It’s true. It’s not. That’s why I need a dessert to make it sugary sweet!!!

Smile, I got Cupcakes:)

Happy Valentine's Day- Cupcakes from Pamcake

At work today, we had cupcakes from Pamcake, a cute Philadelphia cupcakery located in Rittenhouse Square to celebrate one of my co-worker’s birthday and Valentine’s Day. I had a chocolate cupcake. What I enjoyed about the cupcake was its moistness and its taste. It wasn’t too sweet and didn’t taste at all like your average cupcake. When I say average cupcake, I am mainly referring to cupcake mix from a box. However, I thought the cupcake was too crumbly for my preference. When I tried to cut the cupcake in half, it fell apart very easily. Also, regarding the frosting, it was more on the fluffy side. I don’t know how I feel about that. I generally don’t like frosting. I think the cupcake would actually taste fine without the frosting.  Overall, I will give the cupcake 3 stars for its moistness and its taste. The chocolate and sugar was well-balanced and not overpowering, but I think the cupcake could of still been moist without being to crumbly and good without all that frosting. I guess it is okay to have all that frosting on it since you can just take it off if you don't like it. I pretty sure there are people out there who love frosting.