CNY Cookies for Sale

This marks my maiden try at selling home baked cookies for Chinese New Year.   I've tried several recipes that I am comfortable with and decided on the following types of cookies.

Top Row Left - Daisy Cookies - Box of 56 pcs
Top Row Right - Melting Moments - Box of 56 pcs
2nd Row Left - Pineapple Blossom Tarts - Box of 42 pcs
2nd Row Right - Love Letters by my Aunt - Tin of approx 100 pcs

Should you wish to order, do drop me an email at jlow050505@hotmail.com or like my Confections Page on Facebook.

Many thanks for all those who have already placed their orders.   Am so very thankful for your support & trust.  

CNY Love Letters

This is one of the "must-have" item for us each Chinese New Year.   Love Letters!   Who does not like them?    I grew up making these with my mom, aunt, uncles & cousins but I've stopped joining them since I got married.    We used to make them in a big way for sale during CNY.    Good money but long hours in front of the charcoal grill.    I can gulp down an entire tin in no time ... how about you?  Do you like it?

CNY Cupcakes

CNY came and went with a blink of an eye! I sure do hope that means I had a great time!! Did you?

I took a couple of days off before CNY to bake for the family and also to fulfill some orders. I am happy that I found my love for baking and it has really helped me "find myself" in someway, you know. Other than work & Bryan, now I feel I have something that is for "me" and I feel as if I have made myself useful again and of some value in being "me" ... does it make sense?

Anyway, back to CNY. I made quite a number of designs this CNY but below is two of my favourites. These 2 designs were also the most ordered designs by several of my customers. And mind you, these are all first time customers as I only started selling my cupcakes back in December :-p



















I have hardly blogged about stuff on Bryan and other happenings, but you know, things are getting pretty routine and nothing "hip" is happening other than makan-makan and lou sang here & there.

This weekend, I'm hopping over to a friend's place to learn to bake macaroons! Do you like them! They are pretty delish but I've heard they are very sensitive creatures, meaning very difficult to bake lah. So, fingers crossed, our baking session will be successful. Keep you posted ya!

Lights Nite Out @ i-City Shah Alam

For the past 2 years, I was actually wondering if there would be anything new in town during CNY other than shopping mall decos. The temple at Jenjarom was the past hit and we were there 5-6 CNY ago. Never went back there again since it is now just flooding with tourists and locals during CNY. Then I read about Ng Yen Yen lauching i-City!


We did not have any program on the 3rd day of CNY so we decided to head to Shah Alam to check it out. I had my expectations lowered so it was kinda nice when you are there and see what you actually expected.


It was originally done up for X'Mas back in Dec 09 but lacked publicity I guess. I actually found them to be really beautiful especially those done up for X'Mas. For CNY they just added hundreds of lanterns to the existing deco, so it was not over-the-top beautiful but still worth a first visit.

Entrace was free. Parking was free too. They have multi-storey car parks available and walking over was not a problem. We were they just past 7pm and the crowd started pouring in past 8pm. By then, we were done viewing and was on our way out searching for dinner.

With Bryan, we dont normally have a time to slowly enjoy every single thing we do or eat *wink*.

CNY in School

Bryan had a pre-CNY party in school on 12 February. So I donned him in a traditional chinese costume which I bought in HK when I was there visiting back in July last year .. yeah, I kept it for this CNY ... such advanced planning by this Virgorean mommy!


It fitted him perfectly and off he went to school to show off to his friends and teachers. There were only 2 boys who wore traditional costumes.

Being Bryan, he only stood there for like 5 seconds. Even that 5 seconds, teacher had to practically hold him there. After that, teacher also gave up. Let him run lah, all round the school.





Parents of kids contributed to some CNY goodies to be shared with their classmates, so I made some cuppies as Bryan's contribution. I used a cartoon theme even though it was a CNY party cos I reckoned kids would not really understand CNY yet, so I do hope his classmates & teachers liked it.