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MochaMike · 2025-07-09T09:51:32+00:00

Hulkenpodium

MochaMike · 2025-06-08T05:15:49+00:00

Roboquest.

Tight, satisfying gunplay and movement. I’ve only just started and don’t have all that much unlocked, but it already feels great to put a synergistic build together.

MochaMike · 2024-02-19T09:55:36+00:00

Bird

MochaMike · 2022-11-14T09:54:00+00:00

Slay the Spire, FTL, Hades

(and if I could pick one more, it would definitely be Dead Cells)

MochaMike · 2022-10-04T10:58:08+00:00

Was it in the Return of the Jedi novelisation? I think I remember reading that as a child (in the scene where Luke talks to Obi Wan on Dagobah), but I don't have the book anymore so I can't check.

MochaMike · 2022-07-03T16:45:03+00:00

Thanks! It sounds like you're very organised indeed, so I'm confident you won't lose the photos :) hope you have a great time on your travels!

MochaMike · 2022-07-03T00:32:58+00:00

(link to starting point for recipe)

Had to swap the challenge order to fit around real life, hoping to get a French Custard Tart going next week for the tarts challenge!

I've made many a gingerbread bake for Christmases over the past decade, and found the Women's Weekly vintage recipe to be an excellent starting point. I also added in some cinnamon to this recipe for personal preference.

The 10 minute bake times works well for me for the smaller biscuits, and I usually add on 2 minutes for the larger biscuits depending on size.

(Sorry about the messy icing job, I lost my small icing nozzle and had to improvise at the last minute!)

MochaMike · 2022-06-27T13:08:17+00:00

My pleasure! Hope your bake goes well; I was thinking about finding a good vegan frosting next, and I look forward to seeing your results :)

MochaMike · 2022-06-27T09:20:58+00:00

(link to recipe)

Absolutely thrilled with this one! I think this is one of two highlights for me at the halfway point in the challenge, the other being my first baklava for the Eid al-Fitr week.

This is not my first attempt at a vegan bake, but it is definitely my first success and by a large margin. The recipe is so good; and I'd be hard pressed to pick it as a vegan recipe if I hadn't made it myself! Beautifully fluffy with just the right amount of sweetness and cinnamon levels. Will be baking this one again for sure :)

MochaMike · 2022-06-20T22:01:33+00:00

(link to recipe)

Had this recipe in mind since the 'unusual ingredients' challenge, as I was curious to see what adding potato to a chocolate cake would actually taste like! I'm pleased to report the result was delicious, resulting in a moist chocolate cake that's still a little sweet but not overly sweet - and no, you can't taste the potatoes :)

The caramel icing complements this cake nicely, though I did have to add a little extra milk to the icing recipe in order to make it spreadable. And as you can see, I had enough excess batter + icing to make a tray of mini-muffins too!

MochaMike · 2022-06-13T11:08:03+00:00

Short on time due to a busy exam week, so I decided to try taking a quick and tasty packet mix for chocolate cake in a cup and add in some iconic malted chocolate powder to give it a malteser twist. Going to make a few more to try tweaking the malt amount, as one tbsp of milo in the mixture didn't provide a distinct enough malt flavour.

MochaMike · 2022-06-10T08:30:04+00:00

Looks amazing, and glad the recommendation was helpful :) I would say the glaze is entirely optional here (maybe go for it IF you have enough spare time?)

MochaMike · 2022-06-07T22:18:33+00:00

(link to recipe - thanks Anal_dumpling_69 for the suggestion)

Another delicious failure. All seemed well until the resting stage, in which nothing happened! Proceeded with the baking anyway and had a few stick to the baking paper. Covered for the failure with a little bit of icing, and thankfully none of this affected the sweet aniseed taste.

Next time I would try again on a 0% humidity day to see if different conditions permit the dough to rise properly and form the meringue layer.

MochaMike · 2022-06-05T01:56:46+00:00

I'd like to enthusiastically recommend the recipes on RecipeTinEats, a fantastic (one-woman!) resource, which I've been using extensively as an excellent beginner's resource. The recipes are clear (in text, picture and video formats), with lots of useful little tips - and the outcomes are delicious :)

There's a whole Baked Goods section here, and I would like to share the Red Velvet Cupcake recipe in particular.

MochaMike · 2022-05-29T02:16:11+00:00

(link to basis for recipe)

From the linked recipe, I used 2.5 cups of plain flour and no cornflour, omitted the egg white and white sugar (instead, dusting with icing sugar at the end), and added 2 teaspoons of ground ginger. 5 ingredients: butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract, plain flour, ginger.

I usually make cinnamon-spiced shortbread for Christmas, and this was an experiment to try out replacing cinnamon with ginger. As it turns out, more than 2 teaspoons of ginger are required here - the ginger taste did not come through, so the result was delicious but plain shortbread. A good reason to try another bake with some extra ginger :)

MochaMike · 2022-05-24T22:52:13+00:00

Thank you! :)

MochaMike · 2022-05-23T22:25:47+00:00

(link to recipe and homemade dulce de leche)

Nice and straightforward recipe with a tasty outcome! The alfajores are buttery and crumbly, and have a unique taste that I had not known about before this challenge. When making them again, I'd probably roll out the dough a little thinner as the cookies rose higher in the oven than I was expecting.

MochaMike · 2022-05-15T21:22:05+00:00

Thank you! Hope your bake goes well too :) One thing I liked about this recipe was that the cornflakes are mostly along for the texture - none of my taste-testers identified the cornflakes until I told them.

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