Balanced-flavor recipes from a Taiwanese in Germany

Author: Emily

  • Crunchy and Soft Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Crunchy and Soft Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
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    Crunchy, thick cookies with soft fluffy center. Rich but not heavy and not too sweet Essenstially, I want to create something that is rather thick and crunchy on the edge and pillowy, cake-like center instead of the toffee like middle as the walnut version to avoid the heavy mouth feel with already stong chocolate flavor. Read more

  • Quick Shortcut Kimchi

    Quick Shortcut Kimchi

    Fresh and crunchy, Homemade with your own taste I have been craving crunchy kimchi for a long time in Germany. It is so difficult to find because the ones made in Korea already go quite sour and soft after they are shipped here. Yeah I know sour kimchi can be made into kimchi stew but Read more

  • Strawberry Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

    Strawberry Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

    Imagine strawberry fro-yo in frosting form This strawberry cream cheese frosting tastes like if you are eating strawberry yogurt ice cream. It’s tangy, creamy, strawberry-y. With the chocolate ganache and chocolate cake, it’s just soooo gooood! Most of the strawberry chocolate cake recipes online use strawberry buttercream. I tried it, but to me it’s just Read more

  • Taiwanese Castella Cake

    Taiwanese Castella Cake
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    Jiggly Cake, Fluffly Like a Cloud Taiwanese castella cake is known for its cloud-like texture thanks to the scalding (燙麵 tang-mian) and water-bath techniques. Tang-mian means that we first heat up some oil and use it to “scald the flour”, so that the final product would be extremely soft and fluffy. As for the water-bath Read more

  • Delicate Crispy Matcha Cookies

    Delicate Crispy Matcha Cookies
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    Sophisticated taste for matcha lovers 🍵 This matcha cookie recipe is delicate, crispy and has the destinct matcha flavor. It’s not bitter like matcha, but not too sweet like a regular cookie. It’s more of a simple treat to have on a rainy afternoon. They are comforting, gentle, and soothing. Be careful though, somehow you Read more

  • Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

    Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

    Hearty Comfort Food 🍲 Rich soy-sauce-based beefy broth with tender beef, carrots, and daikon radish. A bowl of perfect balance between deep savory flavors from the broth and natural sweetness from the veggies. This is how we make it at home! This recipe is not the typical beef noodle soup you find on the English Read more

  • Taiwanese Macaron

    Taiwanese Macaron
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    Delicate and fluffy macaron-like sponge cake with buttercream Extremely soft and light structure just melts in your mouth. With super milky buttercream filling, these are like mini sponge cake with a bit more of a crumbly structure. The idea is like lady finger but not dry, like macaron but not cruchy not as sweet. Japanese Read more

  • Soft and Crispy Choco Walnut Cookies

    Soft and Crispy Choco Walnut Cookies
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