Easter Bunny Cupcakes
1 serving
Ingredients
• A cupcake (baked from your favourite recipe) • White icing • Shredded coconut • Pink sugar (make by mixing a few drops of pink
colouring with 1 cup caster sugar) • Jellybean nose • Candy eyes • Food-safe pen (to draw pupils) • Large marshmallow • Mini marshmallows
Directions
1. Frost a cupcake with white icing and sprinkle
on shredded coconut for the fur. 2. Cut a large marshmallow in half width-wise. Squeeze each half slightly to give it an oval shape, then decorate the sticky side of each one by dipping into the pink sugar; set in place for ears. 3. Add a jellybean nose and pop on candy eyes.
Draw pupils with food-safe pen. 4. Add mini marshmallows for cheeks.
When:
Sunday Brunch is from 11.30am to 2.30pm
What’s popping: Free-flow prosecco, Italian wines, Tiger draft beer, Aperol spritz and Campari cocktails
Descend the stairs from the opulent foyer of the Grand Hyatt and be transported to a cosy and welcoming Italian trattoria complete with exposed brickwork, red-and-white chequered tablecloths, and the heady smell of wood-fired pizza. The atmosphere is relaxed and family-friendly – it’s easy to forget you’re in the centre of Orchard. And if you’ve spent too much on shopping, you’ll be glad to know that the brunch is a reasonable $48 per adult, plus $30 for free-flow alcohol; children aged five to 12 eat for just $29.
The buffet is laden with salads and antipasti including freshly shaved prosciutto, buffalo mozzarella with vine-ripened cherry tomatoes and fresh basil leaves, and the biggest Parmesan cheese wheel I’ve ever seen. Large, juicy king prawns and shucked oysters on ice are on the seafood counter; there’s also a whole baked fish and a roast of the day.
However, the food here is really about the Italian flavours; think delicious bowls of blue mussels in tomato, aromatic lasagne, and freshly baked bread with herbed butter. You can watch the chefs prepare the pizzas (from dough that’s been rested for 48 hours), then wood-firing them in the huge brick oven before delivery to your table. Choose your favourite handmade pasta, and the chefs will customise a sauce for you. This is all enjoyed while sipping free-flow prosecco and other Italian wines, or an cheeky Aperol spritz.
Kiddies are welcome, and the staff is attentive. The kids loved high-fiving the chefs and wait-staff, and there were lots of food options for them, including a special tomato pasta and pots of ice creams and gelato in a variety of flavours. Adults can finish with traditional Italian desserts such as the light tiramisu or panna cotta, or even chocolate-dipped strawberries –a fitting end to the indulgence!
Pan Pacific Orchard’s Montreux Jazz Café recently launched a Weekend Jazz Brunch, offered on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 3pm. It features live jazz music, free-flow bubbly, and all-you-can-eat raclette cheese and meatcarving stations – in addition to a choice of a starter, main and dessert. The brunch is $98 per person, inclusive of free-flow champagne, house wine and spirits, draft beers and soft drinks (or $78 without alcohol); kids eat for $16, inclusive of soup, a main course and dessert from the children’s menu. 10 Claymore Road. 6733 0091 | montreuxjazzcafe.com/en/ cafe/singapore
Head to expatliving.sg/wine-and-dine for an EL reader’s review of the new Weekend Jazz Brunch.