Baking is all about mixing measured ingredients and waiting for the oven to do its magic. If you find baking to be therapeutic, you must get your hands on a steam oven to bake the softest treats ever.

Edited version of a story first published Dec. 15, 2009: This old-fashioned charmer is from Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters by Marilynn Brass & Sheila Brass (Black Dog & Leventhal, $29.95).

Do you know that the traditional carrot cake originated from a Chinese Teochew dish called Char Kueh (fried rice cake) and was later brought over to Singapore by early Teochew immigrants in the 1950s?

Make sure you have a wok and lid big enough to accommodate a 22 to 23 centimetre round cake tin. Place a cooling rack in the wok to sit the baking tin on. Fill with enough water so there's about two ...

The simplest way to transform a ho-hum sweet into something that jumps out at customers is to make it look like a different foodstuff altogether. I've lost count of how many bland creampuff-like ...

This recipe for Steamed Taro Cake (Wu Tao Gou 芋頭糕) is a classic dim sum dish, featuring taro, Chinese sausage and mushrooms ...