Postage Stamp Chocolate Magic Custard Cake

My friend wanted a cake for hubby's birthday and I asked her about his preference... he likes chocolates and generally doesn't like cakes. Hmm... sounds like regular chiffon is out. Since I know the birthday boy as well, I know he likes coffee, doesn't like overly sweet stuff and Doraemon. And so, I came up with this small chocolate magic custard cake bursting with chocolate flavor that is enhanced by espresso, and packaged as a Doraemon postage stamp! Unfortunately the postage stamp...

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Singapore Flag Brown Sugar Cookies

As national day approaches, I thought it would be fitting to bake something patriotic. Here are some brown sugar cookies dressed up as Singapore flags! Not very professionally done but I just wanted to have fun and share the joy with kids in my neighborhood. This is a semi-planned bake as I had lots of leftover cookie dough from my upcoming birthday bake. My friend and her family loved everything about the elephant birthday cake I made for her little boy so much that she wanted an...

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Cars Snowskin Mooncake

I actually have been making mooncakes for many years, way before I went into baking! :) Reason being that my hubby loves snowskin mooncakes :p. It was a yearly event that I would make snowskin mooncakes for him. Just a walk down memory lane. These were my first mooncakes in 2007 using traditional moulds! My hybrid-colour mooncakes were actually quite unique at that time :). This year I bought some cool cute cars plungers so I couldn't wait to try them out! The plungers are really...

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Black Glutinous Rice Chiffon Cake Encore!

Hope you are not sick of seeing pulut hitam chiffon cakes yet :p. I am still trying to clear the queue for this cake! I baked 2 today! One 15cm chiffon cake and one 17cm chiffon cake. Here's one... ...and the other is another cake with arabesque motif exactly like my previous pulut hitam bake because my mum liked that a lot. I must have been bitten by the leaf bug. My previous bakes,  ombre lime chiffon cake and black forest chiffon cake, have leaves in them. I couldn't resist...

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Rainbow Chiffon Cake with Semi-painted Flowers

This is another pastel rainbow chiffon creation for someone who loves rainbows, maybe as much as I do! :) I love how sweet it looks! I slightly modified my previous recipe Pastel Rainbow Chiffon Cake to remove the steam baking whom many have asked if it was necessary. As a result, I have increased the liquid and vanilla content and also reduced the baking time to get a moister cake. I also took this chance to experiment with semi-painted flower decorations, i.e. painting a layer...

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Black Forest Chiffon Cake

My friend wanted a black forest cake for her dad's birthday that is not too sweet and not too high in fat (but as yummy as possible so dairy cream was used instead of whip topping) so I came up with this :). I filled the cake with cream only between 2 sandwich layers and on top to minimize the amount of cream and used less sugar to fulfil my friend's requirement. I loaded the cake with lots of cherries and used fruit liquor to ensure that the cake is still packed with flavor. I love...

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Singapore Flag Red Velvet Chiffon Cake

This is an early National day bake for my son who is currently into world flags. Check out his drawings :p Drawings can be improved but they are so dear to me! I used natural red colouring from beetroot to make the red velvet chiffon cake, similar to my previous post Red Velvet Racing Cars Chiffon Cake. I managed to grab hold of some beetroot powder online, so I couldn't wait to try it out. Without the proper acidic pH, the beets will turn brown. So to keep the colour vibrant...

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Butterfly Life Cycle Snack Time Fun

"Can you arrange the life-cycle of the butterfly in order? " This is another trip down memory lane.  Long before I started my baking adventures, I was having fun by playing with my kids' food. Sometimes it's purely for entertainment, sometimes it's for educational purposes. My "food art" was by no means anywhere near professional standards but it was good fun :).  I had inspiration one day to have some fun with biscuits, fruits and cheese, my kids' staple for snack. I didn't...

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Horse Japanese Sweet Bean Buns (using Wu Pao Chun Champion Toast Recipe)

It's really fun that my children are starting to be involved in my bakes. They have started to request for all kinds of animals for snacks and I have become their "zoo master" who whips up all sorts of animals ^_^". So this week's request was a horse and this is my valiant attempt at a horse (phew!). Yee haw! :p Anyway, my family cannot get enough of the sweet Japanese red beans! I chanced upon another type of sweet red bean in Daiso called "Japanese sweet bean jam with whole azuki...

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Ombre Lime Chiffon Cake with Lime Curd and Cream

My friend wanted me to bake a gorgeous cake she saw on the Internet and that's how this cake came about :). Presenting my humble 6-layered Ombre lime chiffon cake with lime curd and fresh cream. I didn't follow the recipe as it looked really sweet and buttery but copied the cake deco as it is really beautiful. Since my friend prefered something less sweet, I decided to come up with my own version using a butter-based chiffon cake recipe, with lime curd added to provide a really...

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