These beef empanadas have a spicy sweet beef filling that goes rather well with the puff pastry.

There is something delightful about biting into soft, chewy, gooey dough filled with sweet peanut paste. Roll the sweet glutinous rice dumpling in fresh shredded coconut and you will end up with a most delectable snack.

Dried prawns are rehydrated and processed till fine and belachan and chilli are added. I love that spicy prawny taste.

Making blueberry sauce is a quick and easy task - takes no more than 10 mins. And it is delicious when combined with a crispy buttery tart pastry.

It's meaty, flavoursome with lots and lots of gravy - just the way I like my pie.

I have use 2 alternative methods : baking at 180°C or pan frying.

Christmas Lunch

 It is aromatic, sweet and served cold with gula Melaka (coconut sugar syrup) and light coconut milk.

Cendol aka Pandan jelly dessert is aromatic, sweet and thirst quenching - great for the humid weather there. Key ingredients are green bean flour, pandan leaves, coconut milk and gula melaka. It is served with crushed ice, ice cubes or shaved ice.

The skin is super crunchy and the prawn is plump and juicy. Fried wontons taste great with sweet chilli sauce or on its own.

I enjoy biting into the slightly salty and chewy choux pastry and then the sweet custard like cream.

Mango Crumble

I prefer this version as it has a lot more creamy sauce and tastier through the use of chicken stock and addition of carrot.

Apple & Orange Double Crumble has a soft sweet sour centre and is a perfect partner for the crumbly top.

Main ingredients are almond meal, egg white, butter and icing sugar. I made some today with fresh blueberries and some with almond flakes. I like the nutty buttery taste especially those combined with the sweet sour taste of blueberries.

Adding some blueberries to my standard butter cake recipe has turned my ordinary cupcakes into an extra special treat.

This dessert is one of my hubby's favourites.  He likes it so much that he has learnt to make his own red bean dessert soup and I have to admit his simple recipe is excellent.

My fluffy Banana-Almond Muffins are easy to make. You won't feel guilty eating these muffins as there is no butter and only one egg is used to make 8 muffins!  These guilt-free banana-almond muffins are full of banana flavour and crispy almonds.