國慶酒會--國旗蛋糕食譜

在美國，如果十月十號沒和其他的台灣人一起過，就像任何的一天。今年決定要召集在學校的台灣研究生，讓十月十號變得不平凡! 想台灣駐各國使館在國慶日都有國慶酒會，但從沒機會參加過。那時還沒到捷克做交換學生時，看到已經在捷克做交換學生的同學在問有誰要去國慶酒會，我也好想到布拉格吃國慶酒宴，但根本人都還沒到歐洲。所以現在我要再次在國外，決定自己來辦國慶酒宴!

Pusheen Roll Cake

I don't know when it happened, but I started to like the character Pusheen immensely. That gray tabby cat that you see as Facebook stickers? Those are the stickers I ever use. Then I saw this roll cake video on YouTube, and decided to make one myself. And which adorable character should I make? Pusheen of course!

Steamed Cake: Forget About the Oven

Most people think of cake being made in the oven, but today I'm sharing a new option: steamed cake. Steamed cake is delicious, it's got a texture different from baked cake, it's dense, soft, and perhaps a healthier choice than baked cake since there is much less oil involved. Steamed cake is somewhat of a traditional Chinese sweet pastry, in the Chinese household (or Taiwanese, East Asia in general) a oven is not a standard appliance in the kitchen, in fact, very few kitchens in Taiwan have a oven. Therefore, if you are a oven, and you really feel like some cake, give this recipe a try. When I was an exchange student in the Czech Republic the dorm kitchen did not have an oven, yet one day I felt like making pastry so bad and I thought of the steamed cake. I found a recipe online, and improvised a bit making my own chocolate steamed cake. I made mine using a traditional rice cooker, which is basically a rather simple apparatus that involves a big pot with a smaller pot inside, and water between the two pots heated by electricity. You just need a big pot, and a big bowl that fits inside the pot.