Barney the Dinosaur Brown Sugar Cookies

The Barney theme song was an earworm for me as I iced this purple dinosaur for someone who requested for these as door gifts! I am not a fan of Barney but kids seem to love him. You may wonder how to make cookies with non-standard shapes without suitable cutters. I made my own template by cutting out stiff plastic sheet in the shape of the cookie, and traced the outline on the dough using a small fruit knife. You may refer to my Peppa pig cookies post to have a look at how this is...

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'Police Gun' Navy Stripes Chiffon Cake (using Blue Pea Flowers)

This is a police gun chiffon cake with navy stripes that I made for a dear friend’s hubby who is a policeman. I think the police is a very noble profession! The gun is cut out purely from charcoal chiffon cake (baked in a 6-inch tray) and it's my first time trying something so different. I certainly hope it looks like one! The top of the cake is designed to resemble a target board for the gun, but I added in 5 stars later inspired by the 5 stars of the police crest.The navy stripe layers...

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'Frozen' Snowflake Shortbread Cookies (icing-free!)

I have a request for snowflake cookies as door gifts for a Frozen themed birthday party. Here's my simple but fragrant shortbread snowflakes! The recipe I use is essentially the same as the one I usually use, with the simple ratio of 1:2:3 for sugar:butter:flour. The dough is still fairly easy to work with when chilled while retaining a strong butter flavour. I love the fact that these cookies are simple yet pretty and are not covered in icing sugar for decorations, something that...

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Princess Castle Chiffon Cake

I finally got to try out my dream castle! This Princess Castle Chiffon Cake is made wholly from chiffon cake from the cones to the towers and all the trimmings! The main cake is made from a 7-inch vanilla chiffon cake surrounded by 5 swissrolls made from vanilla chiffon cake with lemon-infused swiss meringue buttercream (smbc) fillings. These are capped by strawberry chiffon cake cones. In addition the bricks and trimmings are cut out from vanilla chiffon cake baked as layer cakes (thick...

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'Hidden Hearts' Azuki Bean Matcha Logcake with Whipped Azuki White Chocolate Ganache

 I have a request for Azuki bean Matcha log cake with Azuki cream from my ex-neighbour who missed this cake of mine! I made a small, totally kid friendly log for Susanne's family without Matcha added. I adapted the recipe from one that my ex-neighbour loved, but changed the cream from fresh cream to whipped white chocolate ganache to make the whole cake withstand Singapore's hot weather a little better. I reduced the amount of sugar in the sponge cake to accomodate the sweeter...

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'Dora the Explorer' Cocoa-Pandan Chiffon Cake

This is a 'Dora the Explorer' chiffon cake for my friend’s daughter who loves Dora! My daughter also likes Dora and loves carrying the talking backpack (we have a toy bag) around. As I had mentioned in Super Mario, faces are actually among the most difficult cakes and require the most attention to detail because even a slight shift in a feature may result in a different-looking person. I personally felt it was more difficult than Super Mario as the features were more subtle. Since...

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'Doraemon on Dorayaki' 3D Figurine Chiffon Cake

My elder kid requested for a Doraemon birthday bake so I made a mini 3D Doraemon chiffon figure standing on his favourite food -- dorayaki! Mmmm...This red bean pancake is bigger than me! A look at Doraemon from different angles! I wanted to add a red tail behind but felt that it was too much work already with all the facial details, pocket, bell, collar, arms and feet! And since the figurine is quite small, working with the small parts is quite a challenge. Anyway he looks good...

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'Christmas Mistletoe Ring' Rainbow Chiffon Cake (and Cupcakes)

This is another fun pretty variant of the rainbow chiffon cake with green colour at the top, inspired by the Christmas mistletoe rings (or Christmas wreaths) that adorn houses during Christmas time to celebrate the birth of Christ. The donut shape of the chiffon cake is really ideal for making the Christmas ring. It was something that I had wanted to try last year for the school Christmas party but was ditched last minute in favour of the Christmas trees Pandan-Strawberry Chiffon Pops...

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Dove and Poinsettia Melt-In-Your-Mouth Butter Cookies (high butter content)

I have a request for extra buttery Christmas themed butter cookies as gifts so I did a search and found a simple recipe from Nasi Lemak Lover for Chinese New Year cookies that is simple and requires few ingredients. Although the recipe calls for piping the soft dough into simple swirls or simply dropping a scoop of dough on baking sheet to bake, I took up the challenge of shaping the dough into poinsettias and doves! This recipe is really simple but shaping it using cookie cutters...

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Super Mario Chiffon Cake!

This is a Super Mario cake made purely out of vanilla and pandan chiffon cake for my dear Kaai Zenn who turned 5! Time really flies.. when I first met him he was just 2 and he has grown so much and so well! I missed those playdates very much. I really wasn't confident doing the Super Mario face so it was supposed to the Super Mario Mushroom cake until the Elmo chiffon cake came along when she asked again whether possible, and after having tried Elmo which also involves baking the...

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