Doraemon Vanilla Chiffon Cake

This Doraemon chiffon cake is for my good friend’s daughter who loves Doraemon. My son also likes Doraemon very much and we almost had it for his birthday last year! Doraemon is a robotic cat who travels back in time in aid a boy Nobita in the cute Japanese manga and anime ^_^. My friend preferred a pop-out 3-D roundish Doraemon face than a 2D one, so here I used my ball cake mold for baking the pop-out face. The picture is not obvious but I actually baked 1/3 of a ball for the face....

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Koala, Panda & Bear Salted Egg Custard Steamed Buns (流沙包)

I almost decided to title this post "The three bears with Goldilocks inside". But then some would argue that koalas are marsupials, not bears. And there's no blonde girl inside the buns but golden custard :p. Here are my beary baos! Check out the salted egg custard and fluffy bun! I am still experimenting with the recipe and steaming times to get the right taste and consistency. This time round, the taste is close to what is commercially sold but can still do with more improvement...

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Rabbit Reduced Sugar Pandan Chiffon Cake (75%)

This is a cute rabbit made out of chiffon cake for my friend's teacher who is born in the year of the rabbit! As she is quite advanced in age, my friend requested for low sugar recipe for pandan chiffon cake. The amount of sugar here is reduced by 25% and my mum who likes things less sweet said it was very nice. The rabbit is made out of vanilla chiffon cake baked in a 11 mm glass bowl (for body), cake pop maker (for bushy tail), and cut-out layer cake (for feet). The wordings and...

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Shooting Stars Rainbow Orange Chiffon Cake

Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are :) This is big rainbow chiffon cake with colorful shooting rainbow stars for a little boy turning 2 years old! The chiffon cake is made of rainbow colors as his mum likes colorful but rearranged to have yellow as the top as we thought pink would be too girly for a boy. His first word was 'star' so his parents decided to theme his birthday 'star'! The rainbow chiffon cake is orange flavored and I used the same...

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Dairy-Free Peaches and Cream Vanilla Log Cake

"Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe Sin had left a crimson stain He washed it white as snow" This hymn written by Elvina Hall came to mind as I worked on this white-as-snow log cake. It's another homely bake just for my family and Susanne's so there's no pressure here to be perfect :). As we are not chocolate people and prefer something lighter, I made the vanilla sponge dairy free and used non-dairy cream (fresh cream would taste better but my family is feeling a little under the...

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Ninja Turtles Pandan Chiffon Cake

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.. Heroes in a half-shell.. Turtle power! LOL.. this familiar song brings a smile to my face =). I grew up in the era where TMNT was popular. A decade later, I'm amazed it is still around and loved.  This cake is for Caleb who loves Ninja turtles particularly Raphael (the red one) and pandan chiffon cake. A Ninja turtles pandan chiffon cake just seemed so right together! I transformed the whole pandan chiffon cake into the Ninja turtles'...

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'Stump of Jesse' Mini Milo Logcake with Horlicks Swiss Meringue Buttercream

"There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit." Isaiah 11:1 I drew inspiration for this log cake from the Bible and from here. While most log cakes are basically high class swissrolls covered with cream or ganache, I was really inspired by the tree stump version that I saw from gracekitchencorner. Isaiah 11:1 immediately popped into my head and I thought I will kick start my log cake making with this :). This is my first...

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Girly Baby Shower Themed Orange Chiffon Cupcakes

This is part of a big project with Susanne that we took on together. She made a bigger cake with some cupcakes and I made the bulk of the cupcakes. Presenting my batch of girly chiffon cupcakes for a baby shower! Girly pram, romper and sippy cup! You only see 3 cuppies here but I made 59 of these. Why the odd number? Hmm not enough cake for decoration. Haha. But 59 was already pretty involved work for me! The cupcakes are orange flavoured with vanilla layer cakes for the girly decorations. Recipe...

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Queen's Crown Chiffon Cake (and Cupcakes) for Baby Shower

This Queen crown is a chiffon cake made especially for a very dear friend's baby's manyue. The baby's name is Queena, so the cake was to be a sweet sweet crown fit for the baby Queen! The right shows the tiered set-up with the crown on top and chiffon cupcakes with various sweet designs and 'Happy 1st Month Queena'. I wasn't confident coping with the quantities in the big project so thankfully I had Phay Shing's help with a lot of the cuppies! The sweet crown with stars above! Close-up...

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Rainbow Cloud Shortbread Cookies

Instead of bringing cakes to school, my little one is bringing cookies for birthday to share with friends :). Cheery rainbows! I followed Guai Shu Shu's easy to remember ratio of the basic ingredients (1:2:3 for sugar:butter:flour) to create this simple cookie. I made a cloudless version some time back. My kiddo requested for clouds to be added this time so there's more work for me! I replaced some plain flour with corn flour so that the cookies have a softer, more crumbly and pleasing...

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Minnie Mouse Strawberry Chiffon Cake

The last time I made a Minnie Mouse chiffon cake, my dear friend Fel remarked that Minnie Mouse will be more like Minnie if she was wearing pink instead of red LOL (pink is Fel's favorite color!). So I promised her my next Minnie Mouse will be wearing pink! :) I made this cake for a little girl who is very very sweet and so reminded me of the pink Minnie Mouse. This sweet cake is inspired by the sweet girl :). I changed the flavor to strawberry so that I could use strawberry puree and...

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'Dinosaur' Strawberries and Cream Chiffon Cake

It's finally time to bake the dinosaur birthday cake after my trial bake two months ago! This is a very involved bake with brown sugar cookies, a 3-D dino, two base vanilla sponge cakes, a green layer cake AND cream to make. Needless to say, the entire thing required lots of planning and patience. So glad that it's finally all come together! To prevent this blog post from being super long,  I won't go into the details of how to make the various chiffon cakes and brown sugar cookies....

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