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The other day when I baked my second batch of the Famous Amos Cookies, towards the end, suddenly had an idea: Mickey Mouse Cookies!

So I made a bigger ball, with 2 smaller balls attached to the ‘ear’ sides.

But then… not successful ler. My Mickey Mouse Cookies looked very ugly. The one on the left looks still quite okay, but the one on the right looks so pathetic lah the ears –> doink down, more like a bear than Mickey Mouse. Hahahaha!

One for Ian and one for Isabel, for immediate consumption. LOL!

Few weeks ago, when I was cleaning my fridge, I realized there are so many ingredients that were going to expire soon, which I bought some time ago, planning to bake a Chocolate Banana Cake for DH’s birthday.

I didn’t manage to bake it because of the new demanding job (ya, so demanding that I worked till 10pm on last Friday in the office, and it seems to be like an upcoming trend!).

So I have decided just to bake the cake even without any events.

It turned out to be very nice. Even nicer than the Chocolate Indulgence cake earlier, and I think it is because of the good quality chocolate that i used. This chocolate costs double the previous one, as a topping it tastes really yummy. It is also the same chocolate that I used for my ‘Famous Amos Cookies’. The only issue I had was how to slice the cake evenly. You can see that the top layer was so thick and the bottom 2 are so thin!! I always have issue in this. :p

My kids loved it so much and ever since then they kept begging to bake it again. LOL!

For more info on how to bake this cake, you can check out my cooking blog here for Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe.

I got this so called ‘Famous Amos’ cookies recipe in a chain mail some time ago. Never bothered to try until Piggy’s SIL tried and confirmed workable.

Last weekend I finally baked my first batch of it. Here is the outcome:

During baking, the aroma was so rich and filled the whole house, just like how the Famous Amos filled the malls. Isabel kept popping out from her room, sniffing around, trying to get some to eat!

I divided them into a few shares, thinking 2 tins for ourselves (1 reserved for CNY, 1 for immediate consumption), 1 tin for MIL family, 1 tin for Piggy and 1 tin for Aiyu. My mom can’t eat anything with sugar, so she said she will skip this.

But then… it is so delicious that, I couldn’t resist myself – nearly every night I would open it, pop at least 2 or 3 pieces into my mouth. Ian and Isabel as well as DH were eating a lot as well. It finished within a week, with a LOT of control.

Yesterday morning, Aiyu told me that it is very nice and asked for the recipe.

If you want the recipe, I have posted it in my recipe blog here – Famous Amos Cookies.

The key is in the chocolate that you use, I think. I have used the more expensive chocolate. Now I understand why Famous Amos is so expensive!! The amount of chocolate that goes into the cookie is so so so much, that it can be called “Sinfully” delicious cookies!

Yesterday I made this steamed blueberry cheesecake. Very easy to bake… oh, not bake, it was STEAMED.

Yes, so if you don’t have an oven at home, or think baked stuff is ‘heaty’, you can try this version.

It is very easy to make. Too easy that I doubted that it could be successful, but it did. The only complaint I have is the overpowering egg scent/taste. It uses 6 eggs, which is 50% more than what I normally would, for a cheesecake same size. So, if you want to make the same, do reduce to 4 eggs and I think it would be even better.

Isabel loved it. Ian hasn’t tried it as I am writing this post. LOL!

I keep forgetting to take a photo of my dragon fruit enzyme. The other day, my friends came for New Year Eve celebration, and we drank half the bottle. Now I better quickly take a photo, or I think it will be gone soon.

Look, when I keep it in a wine bottle, and served in a wine glass, it really looks like red wine, right? In fact, it tastes exactly like red wine.

I made this batch in 2 containers, this is one of them. Another one, maybe I put too much sugar, maybe due to different type of sugar used (brown sugar instead of ‘red sugar’ like the first one), it tastes more like fruit juice than wine – although I harvested it 2 days later than this one!! I really don’t understand loh.

Anyway, I am now trying to make Pineapple Enzyme. It should be ready by end of this month.

It was with 2 pineapples (not the Sarawak type, about RM1+ each), 3 lemons (RM3+) and 1 pack of Chinese ‘ice sugar’ (RM1+).