Little House of Dreams: 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011

Recipe: Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

We have decided to share some of our recipes with everyone and what's better to start other than the classics...

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

What you need to get started
280g plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
250g unsalted butter
200g brown sugar
100g caster sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup chocolate chips

What to do next
Preheat oven to 170 deg
Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
Beat the butter and both sugars together in another bowl on low speed.
Add eggs & vanilla essence and continue beating on low speed.
Add flour mixture in 2 parts and beat on medium speed.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Scoop 1 tsp / 1 tbsp (according to size of cookie you prefer) of dough onto baking tray, leaving 2 inches apart.
Bake for 8-10min.

The cookies should turn out crisp around the edges and soft in the center.

ENJOY!! And do let us know how you did with this recipe.

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Dessert Table Peek: Winter Wonderland

And this is the really sweet and pretty table at Daniel & Melissa's Wedding Reception at the lavish Ritz Carlton Millenia Singapore.

Here's a peek at the table we styled...

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Dessert Table Peek: Winter Wonderland

We actually forgot to post up the mood board for the Dessert Table we just styled yesterday...well better late than never, so here it is!

A Winter Wonderland table that is elegant and ethereal. The table will be created with a palette of silver, white and soft blush pink together with a touch of glitter and candle lights!

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Meringue Kisses

A peek at a batch of meringue kisses for an upcoming Dessert Table...

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Saturday, September 10, 2011

a cake called...blush

Meet blush, a petite tier cake in pale pink adorned with a blush pink rosette and dainty white butterflies.

give a little twirl . do a little curtsy . show a little smile ... blush

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Monday, September 5, 2011

Dessert Table: Classic Lace & Pearls

This charming and elegant Dessert Table at Fullerton Bay Hotel's roof top restaurant - Lantern, was definitely a crowd pleaser. The beautiful bride who's gown was made of lace, chose lace & pearls as her theme for the table. She mentioned to us that she isn't a fan of pink hence we decided on a classy palette of ivory and peach.

The table consists of classic favorites such as cupcakes, macaroons and chocolate mousse. Brownies, chocolate profiteroles, cream puffs and wine jelly completed the sweet offerings.

We loved the breezy outdoor setting and it definitely brought with it a very refreshing and somewhat surreal ambiance.

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Dessert Table Peek: Dazzle Glamour

A dazzling wedding Dessert Table at St Regis sparkled with glittery glass wares. The table was grand and glamorous ... tres elegant!

Here's a peek at the table we styled...

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

we love birthdays!

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Wedding Bells

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Soccer Team

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Le Petit Prince

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Wedding Happiness

a 过大礼 gift ...this creation jumped the queue as we just had to post it up first. We think it's so adorable and makes such a pretty gift!

XOXO
Little House of Dreams

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Kaelyn's First Month Celebration

Ok...I have finally gotten down to sorting out the pictures and re-labeling them in order to share with all of you. I set up this Dessert cum Savoury table for my daughter's First Month Celebration in May (ha! yes it took me 3 months+).

It took me some time to think of the theme and colors. Then i narrowed it down to 3 choices - Strawberry Shortcake with pink & green colors, Cute as a Button with colorful pastels or Little Sunshine with a palette of pink & yellow. But it was quite easy to pick after this as this little girl of mine is really a little sunshine!

We had 2 sessions, tea for the friends and lunch & dinner for the family. A very busy weekend indeed!

I started off by designing the invitation. Sunshine, Bunny and Chick were picked to be the key characters of the party. I wanted them to be cute and chubby like how all babies are!

For the lovely tea session, main feature item was of course sunshine, bunny & chick cupcakes combined with flowers and marshmallow babies. I also did little flower marshmallow pops that made the whole table prettier!

Some of the other sweet treats include macaroons, wafer biscuits, cream puffs, chocolate eclairs, tiny marshmallow bites, strawberry rolls and hershey chocolates. Aside from that, I also prepared a salad bowl, mushroom soup and egg & crab mayo sandwiches.

Each guest also received a little box of customized hershey kisses with sunshine, bunny, chick and flower motifs. I toyed with a few ideas initially...a petite cupcake each or a bag of sweet treats but decided then since chocolates are my favorite, it should then be everyone's too! Ha!

I picked hot fuchsia pink, sweet baby pink and rays of yellow sunshine to do up the table. The overall look was to be happy, fun, cheery and bright! Of course who could forget matching cutlery and flowers ... i chose pink gerberas and white daisies, how pretty they were.

Next up was the lunch session the next day...

As we had elder family members joining in the party, we had to prepare more savoury items, moreover it was for lunch. So we had noodles, chicken wings, pandan chicken and savoury kuehs.