Combined CNY Angpow Giveaway and Blog Anniversary!

Hi everyone! For the first time, we are joining 16 fabulous bloggers to come together to reward readers with an ang pow! Chinese new year time will also be around our blog anniversary when our blog was first launched! We officially opened the blog around 3rd week of Feb 2014 though we started writing in Jan 2014 and backdated our posts to Dec 2013. Thanks for journeying with us this year! Just leave a comment below and then indicate on the Rafflecopter you have done so to stand a chance...

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Panda Chiffon Cake

This is an adorable Panda chiffon cake I had fun making for a little boy who loves panda! The face is made from vanilla chiffon cake (reduced to 1 egg yolk recipe) baked in my wilton ball cake pan. The ears are charcoal chiffon cake baked in my cake pop maker. The bamboo and leaves and his name are cut out from pandan chiffon cake. These were glued to the cake with melted marshsmallows. The base cake is also a reduced egg yolk vanilla chiffon cake. I made panda paws running over the...

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Snail Shortbread Cookies

I had some leftover shortbread dough in the freezer that needed to be cleared before my next intensive bake. Not wanting to stress myself out, I chose to make these absolutely easy cookies! Mama had some bits of leftover pink dough that turned into a rose! I personally prefer natural flavours and colours for the swirl like green tea or chocolate, instead of these bright colours. The feelers are melon seeds with a dab of chocolate at the tips. The I had less red dough so I rolled it...

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Matcha Azuki Bean Iced Gems

I have been wanting to try out Azuki Matcha combination for iced gems for quite a while but had been too busy to do so. Finally I got down to experimenting! Presenting my assortment of Azuki beans and Matcha iced gems! I tried different combinations of biscuit base and royal icing. For green tea fans, the entirely Matcha one would be for you! The green tea flavour is lovely! I was afraid that adding too much red bean paste would affect the drying of royal icing so the flavour was noticeable...

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Frozen Castle Chiffon Cake

This is a Frozen version of my Princess Castle Chiffon Cake for a lovely friend's daughter's birthday! This is also another dream I had! Here, I have changed the pink cones into blue for the Frozen palace and decorated the towers with snowflakes instead of pink hearts. The trimmings between the cones and pillars have also been changed into 'ice spikes' to add to the Frozen theme. Do you feel cold already? :p The same recipe is used in Princess Castle, except that I have half the...

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Snoopy Macarons with Lemon and Chocolate Filling (tips for piping complex-shaped macarons)

I had some leftover batter from making panda macarons so I thought why not make some Snoopy ones especially since Susanne was making a Snoopy cake as well. And if these turned out well, the recipient may be thrilled to receive these! Check out the yummy cross-section! Nice crisp outer shell, soft chewy insides and lovely lemon and chocolate filling! My kids loved it! You can find the recipe in my panda macaron post along with baking tips for light-coloured macaron shells. What...

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Snoopy Chiffon Cake

This is a Snoopy Chiffon Cake for a dear friend whose handsome baby is turning one! She and her hubby love Snoopy very much and asked if I could make a design with Snoopy hugging a heart. This was one of those cakes I really enjoyed making because the Snoopy is 'aw-so-sweet'! The Snoopy sitting on a house is just nice for a green pandan chiffon cake making the green grass! I hid a marshmallow surprise under the chiffon cake house which they loved! I was super glad to take a 'break'...

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Panda Macarons with Lemon and Chocolate Fillings (baking tips included)

I have a request for panda macarons so here they are :) Lemon and chocolate flavours were requested so I made half with lemon swiss meringue buttercream and lemon curd... Yums! ...and half with milk chocolate ganache... Yums too! I used the same basic recipe as my Mickey mouse macarons, so I will not type out the detailed steps here but instead highlight points to take note when baking fancy, light-coloured macarons. As usual, I prefer to use a template to get fairly...

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Barney Chiffon Cake

I took a while to post this Barney cake as I wasn't feeling too confident about it. Barney is really not easy to do! While the real Barney is so cute and hoppy (my kids now into Barney Sing and Dance), it is really difficult to capture his lovely disposition and expressions in a cake. I also used too much blueberry powder as natural coloring for the Barney cake, as a result the cake was a little patchy and not as smooth as usual (ah.. downside of using blueberry powder as coloring,...

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Osmanthus Wolfberry Water Chestnut Cake Roses (桂花枸杞子马蹄糕)

Lots of yummy but heaty food are available during the Chinese New Year period. Why not try this simple refreshing dessert that is healthy and cooling :). Presenting my auspicious looking gold-and-red osmanthus wolfberry water chestnut cakes dressed up as roses! Don't be deceived by our looks. We are very easy to make! I made osmanthus water chestnut cake with whole wolfberries inside some time back. This is another lovely variation of the dessert. You may double or triple the recipe...

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Ninja Turtles Rainbow Chiffon Cake

This is a 9-inch "Ninja Turtles" Rainbow chiffon cake for Jayden who loves Ninja Turtles! He requested to have 4 cute ninja turtles instead of one big ninja turtle like my previous Ninja Turtle (Raphael) Chiffon Cake. So I made pop-out ninja turtles heads by baking pandan chiffon cake in egg shells (see pastel rainbow chiffon pops for instructions on how to prepare and bake chiffon cake in egg shells) :). He was lactose-intolerant and wished to enjoy a rainbow cake, so the...

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'Frozen' Ombre Christmas Tree Iced Gems

Susanne requested for some Frozen themed iced gems for her son Caleb's birthday so I made these blue ombre christmas tree shaped little treats :). The recipe is the same as my original iced gems recipe so I will not replicate it here. Blue pea flower extract was used to cut down on the amount of artificial blue colouring needed. I soaked about 1 tbs of dried flowers in 2 tbs of water for 20 minutes before straining and squeezing out the water from the flowers. What's new about this...

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Frozen 3-tier Chiffon Cake

Happy blessed birthday to Caleb!! It’s finally my son’s birthday! And like many kids over the past year and this year, he wanted a Frozen birthday party (*gasp* not again! LOL). This 3-tier Frozen chiffon cake was something that almost didn’t happen. I had greatly miscalculated my cake batter that day as I was in rush to bake (overshot my time with the previous cake and my eggs were super big!). So I started to fill up all my spare tins (I have a penchant for buying cute chiffon...

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