analog girl in a digital world
a blog by selina zawacki
I started off with these mini mousse domes. I’m planning to make tiny mousse for friend afternoon tea in a couple months, so thought I’d start experimenting with the dome mold early haha. These have a white chocolate shell colored with purple potato powder, a chocolate mousse, white peach lavender jam (from the farmers market)…
Documenting lunar new year (and mike’s bday) dinner 2023! 💕🐇🧧🥟 I think this is the first time I’ve been able to celebrate the new year with my parents in at least 10 years!! So grateful that we can cook and eat together again, and looking forward to many more meals to come. ♡ Dishes made…
I wanted to bake something for Michelle’s birthday, so over the weekend I baked these Regency Queen Cakes. I found the recipe by googling “regency dessert recipe” and clicking one of the first results that came up. 😂 I largely followed the recipe aside from a few small changes: I halved the recipe, then added…
This weekend I inadvertently ended up making what could probably count as a pretty traditional american, easter dessert. 😂🍓 It definitely reminds me of desserts I’ve eaten with both my dad’s side of the family (jello cake comes to mind) and Mike’s family (his mom makes a really delicious jello dish that includes sour cream…
Tang yuan! Even though I generally eat this dessert warm, it still feels oddly refreshing. The texture is so perfect – like a softer, lighter, chewier (bigger) version of boba? And then the lightly sweet ginger broth rounds everything out and makes a bowl of tang yuan feel so wholesome and satisfying. ♡ I make…
Here’s our Lunar New Year feast from last night (and probably for the rest of the week – not everything is pictured because it didn’t all fit on the serving dishes 😂)! 🥟🍊🧧 I’m sad we weren’t able to celebrate with friends or family again this year, but hoping it will be safe again soon….
For christmas Mike got me a bunch of different fruit powders from Chef Rubber so that I could experiment with natural flavors and colors in my baking. 🙂 They accidentally sent an extra large container of the banana, so that’s the first I chose to play with haha. I’ve been wanting to make marshmallows again…
I made 3 mousse cakes this past week, and I finally managed to get daylight photos of this 3rd one before bringing it to @iamchubbybunny‘s halloween party last night (I swear I tried putting the cut piece back in but it didn’t cooperate hahah). 🎉🎃🕷 Here are the layers: Chinese sponge recipe from Kristina Cho’s cookbook,…
Racing against the sun to take food photos is stressful (I only had about 10 minutes from setup to sundown)! 😂 But it’s too hot to bake in my apartment the rest of the year, so I’ll just have to make do with the sunlight I’ve got haha. I’ve been trying to work on my…
Another year, another round of homemade mooncakes – this year though, I made them with Pam and Sarah! ♡ Making mooncakes is definitely better with friends, since it means I automatically have people to share them with (I’m physically incapable of making a small batch). 😂 A couple of close-ups by Sarah: This was my…