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The Power of Sprinkles Cookbook

The Power of Sprinkles is from the creator of the hugely popular bakery brand The Flour Shop, Amirah Kassem’s debut cookbook that features 35 cake recipes, including the famous rainbow cake! This is a book not to be missed!

the power of sprinkles book review

Num Noms Festive Baker Challenge

To celebrate the launch of Num Noms Series 4.2, we were invited to get festive in the kitchen and bake some cookies! We were sent the new series 4.2 mystery packs along with a Christmas stocking and a jar full of delicious ingredients for this Festive Baker Challenge. It has been awhile since we blogged about Num Noms. Now they have released even more characters that were inspired by sweet foods and flavours, such as donuts, fro-yo and cookies!

Num Noms Festive Baker Challenge series 4

Pandan Pretzel Recipe

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias

Did you know that recently the Singapore pandan cake has made headlines, after being named one of the world’s 17 best cakes by the travel website of US news outlet CNN? They have described the cake as essentially a chiffon cake infused with green-coloured juice from the pandanus palm.

Having this Collective Bias opportunity, I decided to make a Pandan Pretzel to celebrate World Pretzel Day which is today!

Pandan Pretzels

Chinese Swiss Roll Recipe

The Swiss Roll is one of my all-time favourite cakes and I usually buy them from the Chinatown supermarket or bakery shop!  The recipe that I love is where the sponge is always very light and thick which makes it so tasty.  Since earlier this year, I have been trying different recipes, watching YouTube channels for inspiration and after a few attempts, I think I have found a great recipe that bakes a great sponge.

swiss roll with choclate strips and orange cream

Date & Walnut Loaf with Honey Cream Cheese

After trial and error, I finally managed to bake a moist and soft Date & Walnut Loaf!  This is a Mary Berry recipe but I have personalised it to suit me.  Everyone who tried it, loved it especially with the honey cream cheese spread!

date & walnut loaf with honey cream cheese

Sweet Piggy Bun

This Easter holiday, we have been busy baking and decorating lots of cakes and buns like Sweet Piggy Bun & Chick bun, thanks to Wilko who sent us a surprise bundle of baking goodies to make it happen! My children love to help me in the kitchen and with these extra tools we had a lot of fun!

We have received this gorgeous blue Mason Cash mixing bowl, Mason Cash measuring jug, revolving rolling pin, whisk, Oink Oink mixing spoon, Oink Oink spatula, mini scales, heart cookie cutter and 9” spring form cake tin.

love wilko baking goodies

Christmas Tree Wreath Cake

Christmas tree wreath cake! I can’t believe it is almost December which means Christmas is just a few weeks away now! We have been so busy buying presents, wrapping, writing cards and letters to Santa! Also not forgetting busy keeping our Christmas tradition of building a gingerbread house and making chocolate Christmas trees!

christmas recipes & craft book

Chocolate and Walnut Brownies

We have never been a big fan of brownies because they tend to be too dense for our taste buds but I decided to experiment with it as I am trying different types of bakes each week. My son and I tried out this recipe together. It is from The Secret of Cookies which I bought it from Singapore. I have changed some of the ingredients for ingredients more widely available in the UK.

chocolate and walnuts brownies

Casdon Annabel Karmel Baking Range Review

Both of my children enjoy cooking and baking with me. Cooking and baking is a great way to develop an essential life skill as well as spend quality family time together. It can be stressful at times but I find that preparation is key and also having the right tools for job too. Some of the regular tools in the kitchen are too cumbersome and heavy for them to handle.

Toy company Casdon has teamed up with baby food expert and cookery book writer Annabel Karmel to create a range of cooking tools that work as normal kitchen tools. These high quality Casdon implements are all approved by Annabel who has written special recipes that are easy for young children to make. The range includes baking sets with cake moulds, baking accessories, mixing bowls and decoration tools which have been available to buy from mid-July.

annabel karmel casdon

Minions Sweet Corn Steamed Cakes

As many of you may know, the brand new Minions movie hits cinemas on 26th June 2015! We can’t wait to watch it now! To celebrate, Green Giant is challenging bloggers to create the ultimate Minion-inspired summer snack.

So I created these Minions sweet corn steamed cakes! I can understand that it might sound weird for some people but in fact, in Asian countries, sweet corn is used in many recipes. We even have sweet corn ice cream, sweet corn jelly and not forgetting the popular chicken with sweet corn soup as found in many Chinese takeaways and restaurants.

Most children love cake! But not all children love vegetables! By combining these two together, we made sweet corn cakes! Sweet corn is naturally sweet, healthy and nutritious!

minions sweetcorn steamed cake

Cinnamon Waffle Dippers

I have recently received this Wilton baking tray dippers for review and at the back of the instructions is this breakfast dippers recipe provided by Wilton. This Cinnamon Waffle Dippers is very simple to make and you can also use any waffle recipe for this tray.

cinnamon waffles dippers

Milo Tiramisu

Ever since I learnt how to make Tiramisu via Sacla Cookery School (read my Sacla Aubergine Parmigiana’s recipe here), I wanted to try it out! So I finally I got around to it!

This is my first time making Milo Tiramisu and it works! The best of it is that I didn’t even use raw egg white. I find it hard to make tiramisu with raw egg white as I am not used to eating raw food. So I swapped it with mascarpone instead. I know that you can buy pasteurised egg whites which would be better in this recipe. The product is called Two Chicks but not many places sell it near us. I couldn’t find it in Tesco or Morrisons but managed to find it in Waitrose.

This will take only 30 minutes to make and you need to let it rest overnight before you serve.

Milo Tiramisu recipe

Butternut Squash Muffin

Did you know that Jamie Oliver has teamed up with Moshi Monsters favourite character Furi to inspire young budding chefs around the world to get into the kitchen and learn how to cook? The duo have been cooking up a storm in Jamie’s kitchen to create a delicious Butternut Squash Muffin.

Butternut Squash Muffin recipe

Hidden Easter Egg Chocolate Truffles

For this Easter, I decided to make these delicious hidden mini Easter egg chocolate truffles for my little guests. This recipe is inspired by Co-Operative Food Home Bake’s March week 2 chocolate truffles recipe. I was going to make a huge centrepiece dessert recipe – a chocolate egg filled with chocolate mousse but changed my mind at the last minute, and decided to make these simple chocolate truffles with hidden mini eggs.

hidden easter egg chocolate truffles

Mini Monsters Cake

Learning to make creative cakes is something I’ve always wanted to do. Having only a couple hours of a sugar craft course, I did made a few creative cakes like a Batman cake and Spider-man cupcakes I made for my son’s birthday.

mini monsters cake recipe

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Welcome to ET Speaks From Home. My name is Eileen, mother of two children aged 14 and 13 with visual impairment. We've been online since 2012 and continue to grow. I love to cook, craft, DIY, write about Chinese Culture and YouTube reviews.
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