First Order Of The Year

Here's wishing all a Happy Chinese New Year!

We just delivered our first order of the year yesterday, it was an order of carrot cake and agar agar for a small New Year's get together. We're glad to say that everything went smoothly, no hick ups here or there, was afraid that we might have gotten a little rusty since last year. Thankfully the our trusty Kenwood mixer still work like a charm.



















CWL took a one month haitus during January, decided to do a little new year cookies baking or rather its an excuse for a little ME time ( Hey hey don't judge us we're humans! We need rest!)
Whipped up a few batches of our all time favourite Cashew Nut Cookies. We really did enjoy the whole process , good to be back on our feets again although it was really exhausting cutting out the cookies indiviually and placing a halved cashew on each cookie. It was tough, yes, but we did it lovingly! :)

This year we were a bit more aspirational so we decided to distribute these home-baked cookies instead of those sterotypical (Read: Boring) Bangawan Solo ones during our New Year visits. Besides we do indeed feel a soft glow of accomplishment surround us when we pass these cookies out to our always obliging relatives. Talk about an ego boost!

Next up, we're catering for a large CNY party next Saturday. We were thinking of during something a little special this time round, something more suiting the festive. The festive mood has been so lacking this year, it feels as though the New Year just steathily crept up from behind us and then disappear again just as abruptly. Just shows how badly an economical gloom can hit the population. Its gets me all depress just thinking about it, I did'nt even get to do my usual tour around China Town this year round. No wait, there's worse, I did'nt even get to sample durian this year. Sobs, talk about a lack of festive cheer.

This little "special" dessert will require some preparation so the team will be scouting around all the baking shops on the island looking for that special mould. I must say, Im pretty excited about how it'll turn out it has been a long time since we took on something so intricate. Haha I shall not give away anything more, it is afterall a surprise piece!

-Rachel-