Rainbow Flowers Snowskin Mooncake

I have been and will be busy making mooncakes for others for two weeks. In the midst of making rainbow snowskin mooncakes,  I thought why not have some fun. And so these rainbow colored flower mooncakes came about :) Aren't they pretty :) These brought a smile to my face as I was starting to feel like a factory churning out mooncakes :p. Here's a pastel rainbow moonie! I used the recipe from my previous post to make these snowskin mooncakes. Check out how smooth the dough...

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Minnie and Mickey Mouse Couple Chiffon Cakes

It was a matter of time that a Minnie mouse chiffon cake would be born to accompany Mickey mouse! They look much happier together, don’t they? :) The female version was inspired by Minnie mouse’s trademark pretty polka dot red dress and yellow heels! In addition, I made a red bow out of excess batter from the base vanilla chiffon cake. The chiffon cakes are dual-flavoured with orange (for head and shoes) and vanilla (for the red base) as requested by the mummy. Instead of painting...

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Green Tea Snowskin Mooncake (updated recipe for snowskin)

Green tea snowskin mooncakes! Made with snowskin that stays soft even after a week of storage in the fridge! I love Ann Low's snowskin recipe for its smoothness but for the past couple of times I have been using it, I find that the mooncakes are only good for 3 days. By the 4th day, the skin turns dry and hard. I played around with the fat, flour and water ratio and came up with something just as smooth but can keep for a longer time :). I will show you how to get the green tea flower...

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Lightning Mcqueen Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Ganache

This is my biggest birthday bake so far! Big cake plus mini cupcakes! As requested by my friend, I was supposed to make a Lightning Mcqueen chocolate cake for her boy that is enough to feed 40-50 people. This is another long post so bear with me and skip any portions that are not of interest :). Here's the big cake! Here are the mini cuppies! I made 30 of them. Recipe for chocolate layer cakes I adapted the chocolate cake recipe from my black forest chiffon cake. The difference...

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Pastel Rainbow Pinata Chiffon Cake

This is a Doc McStuffins-themed pastel rainbow pinata chiffon cake I made for my friend's daughter's birthday! She already had a Doc McStuffins topper so I made a pastel rainbow cake with a pink top decorated with purple hearts and baby blue wordings to match the theme. I could see she really put in a lot of effort to hand make items for the goodie bags, so I was touched and felt I needed to do my best too! This is the pastel rainbow cake with the topper! :) I...

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Checkerboard Cookies

I am supposed to bake a Lightning McQueen birthday cake and suddenly had the inspiration to decorate it with checker board cookies. My friend requested for the birthday message to be made from cookies so I thought why not make use of the same cookie dough base to create checkerboard patterns! For the purpose of framing the cake, I made 2x2 matrix patterns, the simplest form of checkerboard pattern :). Sneak preview of the cake! The birthday boy is 5, not 51 :p. That's supposed to...

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Handmade Chinese Zodiac Mooncake Biscuits (十二生肖公仔饼)

When I saw Aunty Young's post on mooncake biscuits that were soft enough to eat the day after baking, I was tempted to try.  My first attempt last year took about a week for the biscuits to be soft enough for eating. I told my elder kid that I would be making this and we planned to have a "playdoh session" together when he's not in school. Here's my set of 12 animals shaped using hands and a few simple household tools! Pardon the poor photography. It's really tough to take...

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