Butterscotch Cream Pie with Ginger Snap Crust

This Butterscotch Cream Pie is sure to please anyone who is in the mood for plenty of sweet and creamy butterscotch. 

The recipe is adapted from Karen DeMasco's The Craft of Baking. I was intrigued with the concept of this book as the author teaches you how to create your own recipe from a combination of basic recipes. I like how the author made the recipes to be versatile so that it can be used in other recipes. For instance, the crust of this pie is made from the crumbs of ginger snap cookies. If you ever get bored of eating ginger snap cookies you could turn them into this wonderful pie. 

If you already have a bottle of ginger snap cookies lying on your kitchen counter, this will be an easy and quick pie to make. You will only have to bake the crusts and pour the cooked filling into the pie and refrigerate it for a few hours before serving.

Japanese Condensed Milk Bread

The long weekend is upon us again! 2015 is the year of long weekends. What are your plans? For me, you know it, it's bake, bake, bake! Weekend is the time to hone my culinary skills.

I was looking for some quick inspiration for last week's baking project and I came across this interesting bread recipe from Nasi Lemak Lover's blog. She's such a good cook and baker and her recipes are awesome! I would highly recommend visiting her blog for some really good home cooking ideas.


You'll love this Japanese Condensed Milk Bread if you like sweet and milky bread. The portion of this recipe is not huge and it's good if you don't want to store bread too long in the fridge. It'll probably last a day or two for a family of four, depending on how many big eaters you have.

Time for a healthy treat - Chia Seed Blondies

Many may have heard of brownies before but have you come across its sister, blondie? 

A brownie is a cross between a soft cookie and cake and is always chocolate flavoured whilst a blondie is the non-chocolate version of brownie. According to a source, blondie contains butterscotch and butterscotch is basically the combination of melted butter and brown sugar used in the recipe.You can tell that both brownie and blondie got their names from their colour. 

There are three textures to brownies/ blondies , fudgy, chewy and cakey. Fudgy brownie is totally moist and dense whilst cakey tends to be light and crumbly. Chewy is somewhere in between fudgy and cakey. Out of the three, I'd go for chewy. A balance in everything would be good, don't you think?

Strawberry Almond Tart

There is something comforting about having these strawberry almond tart. It's light and the sweet and sour taste from the strawberries goes really well with the toasted almond flakes. These are perfect if you want a little bit of indulgence without feeling guilty.

Easy Peasy Guilt-free Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Balls

The best way to enjoy chocolate minus the guilt is to make a healthy chocolate dessert. I wanted to have chocolate but at the same time I want it to be something satisfying in a good portion and won’t leave me sluggish after, so I came up with the idea of a dessert with chocolate, oats and peanut butter all rolled up in one. This recipe is yummy and filling and is sure to satisfy any chocolate cravings minus the guilt.