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January 9, 2022January 9, 2022Amanda

chic // red wine pear chocolate tart

You might remember the apple tarte tartin I did recently. I struggled with getting the apple caramel layer out of the silicon mold and that was an issue I was just itching to solve – and so I did, albeit with quite a different variation of the recipe. Behold, a red wine pear and chocolate […]

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January 8, 2022January 8, 2022Amanda

trio // mini pound cakes

Dessert blogging requires at minimum a set of three skills – photography, writing and of course, baking. I tend to prefer a certain aspect over the others at a given point, which rotates as the days go by. However, there have been stretches of time of late where none of these activities can hold my […]

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January 8, 2022Amanda

2022 // blueberry lemon tartlets

Here it is – the token commentary on the turn of a new year. Happy new year folks! Entering the third year of covid my expectations for the next three hundred odd days are frankly below sea level so here’s wishing that we are all alive, physically and spiritually, at the end of 2022. Cheers […]

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Modern apple tarte tartin
December 11, 2021Amanda

like gloss // modern apple tarte tartin

I was browsing through my older blog posts when I discovered one which had a section of code that was all messed up. I had to reenter the block of text in the draft in order to fix it, and in the process I read what I wrote line by line. It was a paragraph […]

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October 17, 2021October 21, 2021Amanda

fuzzy // double chocolate brownie cookies

Whenever I’m in a baking slump and am trying to get back into the swing of things, I look for desserts that I feel like eating and are also simple to make. Baby steps. And these cookies fit the bill perfectly.

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September 20, 2021December 11, 2021Amanda

my favorite baking books // part 1

Today I thought it’d be interesting to look back on my favorite dessert recipe books and how they’ve shaped my baking style and preferences. Hope you find my recommendations interesting x

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English scones with Cherry Jam on tray | Wild Reverie, by Amanda
September 19, 2021September 19, 2021Amanda

a breath of fresh air // english scones

Sometimes life feels like an endless stretch of filling up hours with things to do, places to go, people to see. And when packed schedules are punctuated by pockets of free time, the question shoved behind streams of daily tasks eventually makes it way to the forefront – who am I? Beyond our accomplishments and […]

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Matcha white chocolate bon bons l Wild Reverie, by Amanda l Singapore
August 13, 2021December 11, 2021Amanda

crystal // matcha white chocolate bon bons

Nothing fails to brighten up a dreary day like a bit of sparkle and shine in sweetness. I held a glass up to the sunlight and watched the rays reflect of the surfaces of these bon bons like polished emerald-streaked diamonds. Stunners, and with taste to boot. I used a white chocolate with too low […]

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Chocolate Pistachio Raspberry Tart l Wild Reverie, by Amanda l Singapore l Food Photography and Dessert Recipes
July 20, 2021August 13, 2021Amanda

darker // pistachio dark chocolate tarts

Lately I’ve been embracing shadows and the appreciation of natural vibrancy of colours against a darker backdrop. I love how muting the peripheries draws your eye towards a more central focal point, akin to slowly being wrapped in a warm blanket, fold by fold. It’s like getting lost in a feeling, rather than in the […]

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Sea salt honey florentine shortbread cookies l Wild Reverie, by Amanda
June 21, 2021August 9, 2021Amanda

trying // honey florentine shortbreads

When I had the opportunity to redesign my entire blog when I made the jump from Blogger to WordPress, I pictured my new space as an island in the middle of a nowhere, a sort of haven for my thoughts unaffected by time or reality, hence the minimalist layout with just a single column and […]

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Chocolate Butterfly Cakes l Wild Reverie, by Amanda l Singapore l Food photography and Recipes
May 26, 2021Amanda

being // chocolate butterfly cakes

So, recently I’ve started baking and selling my desserts, and it’s an amazing feeling to be able to financially profit from something that I generated purely by myself, from making the actual dessert itself to building a brand image and fanbase. I think I’m extremely lucky that I can turn my hobby into a business. […]

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May 18, 2021Amanda

magical madness // coeur

I have come to embrace the madness of baking multiple types of desserts each consisting of several components, all to be completed within the same time frame. There was plenty of scheduling and midnight oven humming, boxes to fold and dishes to wash. The magic of seeing it all come together piece by piece eventually […]

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April 19, 2021April 28, 2021Amanda

one hundred // chocolate pistachio ‘garden’ tarts

Over the past week I embarked on the herculean task of baking 100 tarts for a wedding and I’m happy to report that my oven is still intact and my fridge doesn’t hate me. Here is the pictorial proof of my valiant first attempt at mass production – enjoy.

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April 5, 2021April 5, 2021Amanda

floral escape // mini passionfruit cheesecakes

Inevitably taurean, I have once again reunited the worlds of dessert and flowers – the dreamiest of dimensions, an escapist’s paradise. Certainly a more pleasant alternative to life as I know it these days, which seem to be an endless loop of dread and disappointment (when will it end? Do we just live in strange […]

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March 24, 2021March 25, 2021Amanda

wild reverie // milk chocolate passionfruit tartlets

I didn’t mean for two months to lapse since my last post but so much has happened in between. I decided to move from Tokyo back to Singapore permanently after days and nights of deliberation and was occupied with the logistics of it all for the past several weeks. Up till the point I boarded […]

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January 10, 2021March 25, 2021Amanda

(i think i made you up inside my head.) // no-bake mini apple rose cheesecakes

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) – Sylvia Plath

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January 2, 2021January 2, 2021Amanda

new updates (recipe index + newsletter) // vanilla praline tartlets

Finally the most torturous 365 days in recent history can be referred to in past tense and humanity has stepped into what one can only anticipate to be a more smooth sailing chapter. In short, happy new year! In conjunction with the new year and the accompanying notion of a fresh, clean start to old […]

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December 29, 2020January 2, 2021Amanda

in pursuit of style // apple band tart

The re-questioning of personal style seems to be an annual affair at this point. It’s hard to definitively say if the broadly sombre atmosphere of 2020 and the somewhat shaky prospects of the upcoming year play a substantial role in this shift, but my stylistic preferences are becoming increasingly monochromatic and very much less sunlight […]

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December 25, 2020December 31, 2020Amanda

arcane // red wine poached pear tarte tartin

I watched the hazy morning glow streaming in through the windows give way to tiled rectangular shadows on the wall like the black and white keys of the piano. I counted the seconds as I watched them slowly and gradually grow fainter. …seven, six, five, four, three, two, one… and they were gone.

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December 24, 2020December 31, 2020Amanda

pierced hearts // apple rose tartlets

Occasionally there are moments where my eyes land upon an image so strikingly beautiful that it feels like its beauty is collectively crystallised into a long, slender icicle, gliding through the air seamlessly, like an arrow through the heart.

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