Savoring Spoon

Healthy Salted Caramel Sauce

August 15, 2014 Dairy-Free

Homemade salted caramel drizzle is amazing. Especially when it’s sans heavy cream and butter. Even though this caramel is healthier, it still has all the delicious taste of salted caramel made with cream and butter = can we make an extra jar please? This caramel is also easier to make than traditional salted caramel so you […]

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Crunchy Homemade Fried Chicken

August 12, 2014 Asian Dishes

When I was five, the first deep-fried chicken restaurant opened in the city I lived at in China. My mom biked there with me on the back of her bicycle and we waited in a long line. I could smell the oil from outside, and though I’d never had fried chicken before, I knew it […]

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Berry Vanilla Birthday Cake

August 8, 2014 Cakes

This is my favorite style of cake. A simple white cake decorated with chocolate swirls, chocolate words, and fresh red berries. The berries make the cake taste light, perfect for Spring and Summer. Unlike fondant cakes or cakes with fancy royal icing flowers, all you need to decorate this cake is a few simple tips […]

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Daisy Fondant Cake

August 1, 2014 Cakes

I made this cake for my friend Grace’s birthday, and it was one of the funnest cakes I’d ever made. This cake is 100% vegan from the cake to the decorations 🙂 The flowers and colors were so fun to do, the perfect evening activity when you’ve spent your daytime looking at a computer screen […]

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Steamed Pork Buns

July 25, 2014 Asian Dishes

Remember those fluffy steamed pork buns you ate at the dim sum place or picked up at 99 Ranch Market? This is your chance to make it at home! Steamed buns (also known as bao zi) are a Chinese dim sum classic, and the filling comes in all flavors and textures. The pork and vegetable […]

Tagged as: chinese, dim sum, pork buns

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Raspberry cupcakes with surprise center

July 17, 2014 Cakes

Hello there! I’m super excited about these cupcakes, because in addition to being delicious and vegan (code: healthier) they have a surprise center! I bought a cupcake corer when I started med school last Fall, but school and classes got in the way and anywho this is my first time using it (but will NOT […]

Tagged as: cupcakes, fruit glaze, vegan

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Moist banana muffins with sweet drizzle

July 14, 2014 Breakfast

I used to make banana bread pretty regularly using butter and sour cream. It was tasty, but pretty unhealthy, so not something I would eat for breakfast. This banana muffin is the healthier and moister version of the banana bread I used to make. Plus it’s vegan! Because this is the lightened up version, you […]

Tagged as: banana, muffin, vegan

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Red Bean Soup | Tang Yuan

June 28, 2014 Asian Dishes

Hello! Update: Some of you have asked me where to find certain cooking tools and ingredients, particularly Asian cooking and cake decorating material, so I have set up an amazon shop with links to where I get the things I use. There are annotations under many items about how I use it, and if you have […]

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Sticky Soy Sauce Chicken

June 15, 2014 Asian Dishes

This chicken dish is the chicken dish I make when I feel like making chicken. It’s delicious and easy to make. I’ve made the liquid version of soy sauce chicken many times adapting the wonderful recipe from Appetite for China, but until now had trouble making the chicken look dark brown. The flavor is delicious […]

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Vegan Vanilla Rose Cupcakes

May 9, 2014 Cakes

This week it was one of my friend’s birthdays, and to celebrate a couple of us planned a surprise birthday party for her. When I think of her, I think of the color lavender because she’s very warm and comforting. She also likes flowers, so I thought it would be fun to make an edible […]

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