Baby’s got Bake

Posted in Baked Goods on April 19th, 2007 by mei| | .

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I love love love love baking. There’s nothing quite like baking from scratch especially when the recipe calls for 20+ ingredients which I’ll procure from 10 different locations. There used to be this place called the Mami Store in the Shida area that consolidates all the baking goods you’ll ever need but they closed down. Sigh. Now I make do with City Super in the basement of the Far Eastern or Jason’s at Taipei 101. And for those who are looking for baking pans, the lifestyle section of City Super carries a selection as well as the Japanese Tokyu Hands Creative Life Store at the Breeze Center and Mitsukoshi A4.

chocolate_zucchini_cake.jpgPantry Magic opened up in Taiwan recently but it’s in Neihu where most of us Taipei-rens would probably consider far. They have some nice stuff such as silicone baking trays that I haven’t seen eslewhere locally.

These are two cakes I baked recently: A Banana Coconut Cake (top left) and a Chocolate and Zucchini Cake (right). Not going to rehash the recipes but you can find them here and here, respectively.

I have stopped baking with white cane sugar. Now, I only use a mix of brown sugar ( “black sugar” 黑糖 in Chinese) and this light and very soft brown Muscovado sugar (available at City Super). Be sure to sift sift sift the former brown sugar as it’s very lumpy. No need for the latter. Muscovado sugar is quite expensive here (140nt for 500g - hey, it’s just sugar!) but it’s well worth it. Just cut half of the sugar amount with the cheaper local brown sugar. Trust you me, I can taste the difference when I stopped baking with refined white sugar. I almost held a grudge against a buddy of mine (Mr. Bobino, you reading this?) when he didn’t have any of the Chocolate Oatmeal cookies I baked for his dinner party (read: overly sweet white refined sugar) but all is forgiven now that he ate and complimented me on my previously mentioned Banana Coconut Cake.

He’s just not getting any chocolate oatmeal cookies I bake the next time I make them - with brown sugar.

Pantry Magic 魔法廚
No. 357, Cheng Gong Road, Section 1, Neihu
02 2796 0011
內湖成功路4段357號
www.pantry-magic.com/taiwan

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  1. Rose said,

    on April 20th, 2007 at 12:47 am

    oh, i hear a threat in this post. Mr. bobino what do you have to say? will you promise to eat her baked goods next time?

    well, even if he doesn’t, hon, I’ll eat his share!

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