About Joys
A happy WAHW, based in Singapore. Trained in French Baking and Pastry Arts, a humble learner in lifelong knowledge and skills. Advocate & share home-made and home-baked goodness.Live well, Love Much, Laugh Often. To Your Tasty Moments.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Uptown Sweets Goes Live!
Well worth the sleepless nights, and body aches … Finally I can declare Uptown Sweets is Live! It shall start as a One (Wo)man Operation, offering hands-on Baking & Pastry Arts workshops, including family favorites and specialized classes in chocolate, … Continue reading
Posted in Baking Joys, Home Workshops
Tagged Baking Workshop Singapore, Launch, Uptown Sweets
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It’s Royal Icing Time
The celebration cakes I always liked while growing up is Traditional European Wedding cakes, especially the ones with white on white piping ~ heavy dose of it, and so artfully presented. Not so much to eat them but to ogle … Continue reading
Sharing Nicholas Lodge Sugar Arts Collection ~ A New Perspective
I spent 2 weeks in Atlanta recently. Other than a short 2 hour visit to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, and meeting up with 2 ex-colleagues and their spouses for dinners and of course the hotel where I spent my nights, … Continue reading
Journey of A Fondant Dummy Cake: An Immediate Familiar Connection
You may want to buckle it… The It refers to the carton containing my dummy fondant cake I was carrying home to Singapore on a 27 hour journey from Atlanta. I was on a United Express from Atlanta to Chicago … Continue reading
Mont Blanc Tart @ Bunmeido Ginza, Tokyo
Last day in Tokyo on 22 July 2010 was amazing… I was amazed at myself to be able to taste 3 different places within 4 hours and yet enjoy each experience to the fullest.
I always enjoy sitting in a cafe to relax, more often to dream, at times to write my journal notes. It must have started as a habit during my business travel years when I traveled places alone, ate alone, read alone, and did so comfortably alone. (It is no wonder I am quite a loner who spent the last year comfortably alone at home “revising” when my hub is at work.) Then again when I decided to break free from corporate life, I spent a lot of time reading, planning and dreaming in cafes. Then again in Houston to do my 20 week course in Baking and Pastry Arts, I spent my weekends tasting cafes, reading and at times meeting new friends. Even now, my hub and I love spending time together tasting, enjoying our books and at times discussing ideas in cafes. The cafe energy moves ideas. Continue reading
