Mamon Cake

I got this recipe from http://www.bloggang.com/viewdiary.php?id=monnira&month=11-2008&date=13&group=75&gblog=5

I'm not sure how this philippino sponge cake must be. For me, it somehow likes a better version of Kanom-Kai, with more moist. Get along well with cheese (but my mom prefers jam on top).

The recipe i worked on today uses vegetable oil. if you prefer, the blog mentioned above also got few more recipes that you can try. The butter one is also good but a bit too moist for my mom (she prefers this one).

1/2 cup of cake flour
1/2 cup of caster sugar (i use normal sugar)
3 Eggs (separate egg yolks and egg white)
1/4 cup of vegetable oil
1/2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of cream of tartar
1 tsp of vanilla extract

1. Preheat the oven at 180 degree
2. Sift together cake flour and baking powder
3. Whisk together egg yolks, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract until well combine
4. Whisk together egg white and cream of tartar at the high speed. Add sugar and whisk until it reaches firm peak
5. Add egg yolks mixture and whisk (still at high speed) until well combine
6. Fold in flour. Make sure that it is well combined
7. Bake at 180 degree for 10-12 minutes

I had this cutie cakes with home-brew cafe latte (for melbournian info, i'm now on Jasper Coffee, Blend 10).

Mocha & Muffins, Four Seasons Hotel

Mocha & Muffins
Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok (at Parichart Court Area)
155 Rajadamri Road
Bangkok 10330
Tel. 02 250-1000

When I was young, this hotel called 'Regent', now is 'Four Seasons' and i was quite familiar with this hotel back then as my dad and my brother used to have haircut here, came here almost every month, i guess. My most favorite part of this hotel is the garden located in the middle of the hotel. The hotel building has the garden inside, surround by the guess rooms, like an hidden forest, with little bridge and small canel and everything!

I totally forgot about this place. Long time that i last came to this hotel. Then, i found out about LoLo's blog accidently and found his post about this place in his blog and it reminds me about this secret garden. Apart from the nice place, LoLo told me that they use Vittoria. (Found out at the shop that they did not use gold, just normal one).

This is just the bakery shop of the hotel, hidden besides secret garden. so i didn't expect that much, but I can make sure that everything will be at least average good in the hotel standard.


look at the place! you can choose to sit outside: in the garden or in front of the shop like french cafes, or if you like air-conditioning room or the weather outside is too hot, you can sit inside the shop.

As you can guess, i ordered latte as usual. Perfect milk froth with perfect amount!

My so-called 'Petit Fours'. They do both normal size and mini (petit) size. I can't decide which to order. So instead of going for big one, i went for 3 small ones. I did ham&cheese croissant, coffee macaron, and cheesecake.

They also served coconut cookie with coffee!

The mini croissant is amazing!!!!! fluffy, crispy, and cheesy! heard that sausage roll is also amazing (both mentioned in LoLo's blog and i also took away some for my family and got the same comment from my bro) but i am sweet tooth, so i go for sweet instead of 2 savouries. Cheesecake is also good, but i expect more as the croissant is THAT amazing. Macaron is ok, honestly, i ordered it just to make a good company with bitter coffee.

my latte is sooooooo good! fulfill my miss-melbourne-coffee feeling. Vittoria is usually used in lots of cafe in Mel (at least the cafe at my law school uses Vittoria, and i have a latte/mocha/flat white a day on weekdays there. Note to SL and LS, do you remember which coffee bean the cafe at my place use?) so it brings back good memories back there. But better than that, can someone convince Jasper or Dancing Goat to open their shop in Bangkok? :)

Haagen Dazs (Affogato)

Haagen Dazs
website: http://www.haagen-dazs.com/

Everybody knows that Haagen-Dazz is a good place for franchise icecream and i also saw that they use illy (italian brand which rates as good in Thailand. but what i know from someone, he told me that in Europe or Italy, illy is not that good as it is here.)

I dreamed of Brunetti Coffee Affogato (promise that i will do the blog about Brunetti in Melbourne). Brunetti served Affogato in a martini glass, 3 small scoops of vanilla icecream, top with whipped cream and a little jug of espresso!

While here, they served one big scoope of vanilla icecream with flake of chocolates and a shot of espresso in a coffee cup with 2 waffles.

Start pouring!

Look how concentrate i am with coffee pouring...more, more, more!

Finish pouring. Icecream started to melt and you can help it by stirring more. The combination is perfect! Hot espresso with cold icecream...