Sweet Things

  • HangZhou Rearranged Chocolate Apple Cake

    I actually left the flat this past weekend. In fact, I even left Shanghai. For the past two months, I’ve been like the love child of an eccentric hermit and a domestic goddess, holed up in our cozy flat, dusted…

  • Chewy Oatmeal Cookies, to Stave Off the Ennui

    For those of you who notice such things, my other blog, the impractical one,  has been lying fallow for a while now. I have no excuses. It’s not as though I’m swamped with work these days either.  In fact, October…

  • Hóng Pútáojiǔ Chocolate Birthday Cake

    This one had been sitting around in my drafts folder for ages, neatly cut and pasted but never attempted.  It just seemed so incredibly decadent that I knew a) I had to make it and b) it had to be…

  • Disarmingly Practical Sino-Happy Chocolate Cake

    Next Tuesday, I’m turning 37 so I decided to make myself a cake a week in advance, for my Thursday breakfast.  37 is a weird age to be turning because it holds absolutely no significance. It’s not a milestone. It…