Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Icing

I wanted to try my aunt's delicious chocolate cake recipe but I didn't want to be too ambitious and made it into chocolate cupcakes. She didn't share with me though her icing recipe and told me to buy the instant fudge icing at the store.

I didn't want to do that so since it's small scale stuff, I decided to use Martha Stewart's chocolate ganache icing recipe. It has three ingredients: chocolate, heavy cream and some corn syrup. I used dark chocolate for my icing and I was amazed with how easy it was to make. And look how shiny my cupcakes are!

I'm gonna make some more of these and this time with my Hershey's chocolate cupcake recipe. Chocolate overload! :)

Mango Hello Kitty Cake

I've had these molds for quite sometime and it is only now I got to use them. I wanted to make my boyfriend something special for our 5th month so I looked for a mango cake recipe online since he likes mangoes a lot. The recipe I found was actually for a cupcake one from the cupcake project, so the cake I think is a bit heavy, with a bibingka like consistency. I placed mangoes and strawberries inside with butter cream icing. I hope he likes it. :)

Sittori Chocolates from Daiso/Saizen

My sister and I were surprised to find snacks and noodles being sold at Saizen. Saizen here in Manila is known as Daiso in other parts of the world. We saw some of the snacks sold here in Taipei. The one I bought and is writing about is called Sittori Chocolates.

From the package I thought the chocolate snacks were covered in chocolate. But when I opened it, it was a kind of wafer snack with a very light chocolate coating. The wafer-like biscuit tasted like Nissin's Rubik's Wafer but a bit more chocolatey to the taste, probably because of the choco coating. It was sweet yet light so it's not overwhelming. I'd definitely buy some again.

Glico Potato Stick

My sister went to Thailand about two months ago and like all our travels, we always visit the convenience store to find any interesting snacks. And here is one of her interesting finds, Glico Potato Stick. It had interesting flavors like Japanese curry and BBQ but we found the cheese flavor the yummiest.

The sticks were light and flakey and the flavor wasn't too overpowering. I think it's much better than chips because it wasn't too salty for me. But I dunno really since I couldn't read the nutrition information since it was all in squiggles.

Cheese pimiento, my version

And I'm back. Sorry to have been out for sometime. :)


Anyway, I've got a lot of food pictures, waiting to be uploaded and written about here so I guess I better get started.


My sister and I went to the grocery a week ago and saw this package of buy-one-take-one bread by the counter and it looked yummy enough for us to buy. However, we had an arguement about what to put on the bread with our limited budget at the moment. I suggested to make a cheese pimiento spread but she didn't like the idea because it reminded her of our school baon when we were kids, those days when our mom didn't have much money to buy hotdogs or ham.


Anyway, I bought the ingredients for the cheese pimiento the following day when I wasn't with her and did my own version of my mom's recipe. And when I asked her if it tasted like anything we ate before and she sheepishly said it was much, much better. The cheese pimiento spread could even be a dip for chips and snacks. When we were kids, I used to think my mom used mayonaisse. But she actually used milk.

So here's how I did it:




















Cheese Pimiento

1 package of Eden Cheese
1 small can of Carnation Evaporated Milk
1 small can of red pimiento
sugar (optional)


1. Grate the cheese in a bowl.

2. Cut the pimiento into small slivers or slices. How many to put in will depend entirely on how much you'd like it to taste "pimiento".

3. Combine the cheese, pimiento and mix in the evaporated milk. Add sugar to taste.


Hope it's as easy for you to do as it was for me.