Pencil Case-ペンケース-

It is September.  My girls have gone back to school again.  After they spent a few months in Japan, they asked me to make pencil cases in the way they want to.  One wanted a large poach style one (…

Green Tea Swiss Roll -抹茶ロールケーキ

Yesterday was one of my best friends’ birthday.  I made puff pastries with cream diplomat, a vanilla swill role with raspberry and blueberry and this matcha swiss roll for her birthday dinner…

Pain au Lait-生クリーム入りパン

This bread is very rich, soft, sweet and moist.  Instead of water, fresh cream with 36% fat and milk is used.  Small amount of butter is also added to the dough during kneading process like brioche…

Pain Rustique – リュスティック

This is a Japanese interpretation of Pain Rustique. It requires preferment. The recipe is from a Japanese book by Masako Takahashi. As the dough require 75g of preferment, it takes almost a half da…

Cocoa Angel Food Cake-ココアシフォンケーキ

As angel food cakes are really popular in Japan, I tried one at home.  I used a recipe from cookpad, a Japanese recipe website.  Although generally angel food cake recipes do not have baking powder…

Taiyaki – たい焼き

  My daughters who were born and brought up in England love traditional Japanese snacks.  This is called Taiyaki, a fished shaped pancake filled with a sweet red bean paste.  We bought a Taiya…

Small Rolls -プチパン

At 8pm, I realised there was no bread  for breakfast in my cupboard.  I baked these bread quickly using the proving function of my oven.  Ingredients (for 6 70g rolls) – strong flour 100g, me…

Milk Bread – 牛乳パン

It has been a year since my last post.  Although I have been making things, I have not had a chance to post anything…. This is a milk bread using only flour (250g), fresh yeast (6g), salt (4g…

Red Berry Mousse Cake – 苺とラズベリーのムース

3rd of March is a girl’s day in Japan.  We display the special dolls and wish daughters’ good health and happy life in the future. We also eat some special dishes for dinner which we al…

Strawberry Roll Cake – 苺のロールケーキ

I made this strawberry roll cake and bite size brownies for the Chinese new year  party hosted by a Chinese friend of mine.  She asked me to bring something sweet as she likes my cakes.  Roll cake …