'Sushi' and 'Teh' Chiffon Cupcakes!

Homemade sushi with a cup of hot matcha… Just kidding! It’s ‘Sushi’ and ‘Teh’ Chiffon Cupcakes! Sushi rice: Vanilla chiffon cake Nori: Pandan chiffon cake with charcoal powder Cucumber: Pandan chiffon cake Pickles: Vanilla chiffon cake (with Queen’s natural turmeric-based coloring) Roe: Cut from gummies jellies Tea: Matcha chiffon cake Cup: Vanilla chiffon cake I baked the ‘sushi rice’ in small cupcake liners and the ‘tea’ in medium cupcake liners. I baked the ‘nori’ and ‘tea...

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Little Twin Stars Macarons (Tsum Tsum series part 3)

This is the third in my series of Tsum Tsum macaron bake. Kiki and Lala a.k.a. Little Twin Stars! I filled them with either melted Meiji dark chocolate or raspberry white chocolate. These macarons do not need refrigeration. You may refer to this recipe for the basic batter and steps, and my newly made macaron video tutorial just in case you need more visuals.  Just some points to note... Prepare batter in the ratio of 2:2:1 for pink:blue: beige. Use a Wilton #10...

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Sweet Cuddly Bear Chiffon Cake

This is a special sweet cuddly bear made from Vanilla-chocolate chiffon cake made for my dear mummy’s birthday! I grew up in the era loving Forever Friends bear and somehow ended up modeling the cake after it as my dear sweet, warm mummy reminds me of it! I used a reduced egg yolk recipe with added chocolate paste to get a cream colour for the chiffon cake. The bear face is baked using a big wilton ball cake pan. The recipe below is actually similar to that for any generic cute bear,...

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Strawberry Macaron Pops with Strawberry White Chocolate Filling (video tutorial included)

Here are some strawberry macaron pops for Teacher's Day! My friend requested for these sweet macarons for her kids' school and Sunday school teachers. Although I prefer swiss meringue buttercream based filling for its light texture, it is often not practical to use it when the macarons need to be individually packed and given as a gift in hot and humid Singapore. So I came up with a strawberry white chocolate "ganache" of sorts that is stable at room temperature in Singapore. As you...

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Piping Basic Shapes - Macaron Video Tutorial

After coming up with my first macaron video tutorial on some macaron making basics, the natural progression would be for me to make video tutorials on how to pipe different shapes since I have been asked many times how I manage to pipe different shapes so nicely. This post focuses on the technique to pipe basic shapes like oval, triangle, narrow rectangle and broad rectangle. You may refer to my first video tutorial for piping circles. I will show you how to pipe complex shapes over here....

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'Princess Sophia' Ombre Tier Castle Chiffon Cake

This is my very first Tier Castle chiffon cake and also my first Ombre Castle! It is my 2nd Princess Sofia Castle chiffon cake, made for a very dear friend. I tried a tier castle as she had numerous toppers. I also had the sudden inspiration to make Purple-Pink Ombre capped towers! I made them by baking purple-pink ombre chiffon cake batter in paper cones like my rainbow chiffon cone pops.  Don’t they look sweet unmolding? Happy Blessed birthday Becca!With lots of lo...

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My Melody & Piano Raspberry White Chocolate Macarons (Tsum Tsum series part 2)

This is the second post in my series of Tsum Tsum macaron bake. My Melody and Piano! I made My Melody macarons a few months ago but with a different version. This is the first time I am trying out a new non-refrigerated filling - raspberry white chocolate! I bought some dried raspberry powder from Phoon Huat a couple of months ago on a whim, thinking I can use it as a natural source of colouring and/or flavouring. You may refer to this recipe for the basic batter and steps,...

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Tsum Tsum (Sanrio) Rainbow Chiffon Cake

Sanrio plus Tsum Tsum = Cuteness overload! All the Tsum Tsum Sanrio characters here are made from soft chiffon cake. My heart melted when my friend sent me pictures of these cute fluffy Tsum Tsum Sanrio plush toys! The characters are Little Twin Stars, Tuxedo Sam, Piano, My Melody and Cinnamaroll (some of them I only learnt now LOL). It turned out to be one of my most difficult cakes so far. I learnt a valuable lesson here that chiffon cakes are too soft to stack LOL. These are now...

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Macaron Basics (my humble first attempt at video tutorials!)

This is my first attempt at recording some videos of macaron making process that are a bit hard to show in static pictures. So pardon me for my amateurish attempt :p. All videos are taken using my phone camera mounted on a tripod. Macaronage How should you fold your batter? Not too gently but this way... Use a fold and press motion to incorporate the Italian meringue into the mass. Make sure you scrape the bottom of the bowl to ensure that all the mass is incorporated into the meringue....

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'Roses' Honey Matcha Chiffon Cake (Improved Stronger Flavour)

Honey Matcha one of my favourite flavours because of the moistness of honey and flavour of matcha! I revisit it often as I often get requests for it (my mum and aunty whom I made this for love it!). I previously shared how steam baking plus the addition of honey makes the cake lighter and moister! Here, I have improved upon the previous recipe to have much stronger tea flavour as I have acquired a love for matcha during the time I was in Japan! With better oven control, I was...

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One-Eyed Monster Chiffon Cakepops

Here are some one-eyed monster chiffon cakepops! I used blue pea flowers, strawberry paste and natural pink food colouring, and blueberry to colour the cakes blue, pink and purple. Some artificial colouring is still needed for blue and purple but less is needed. Natural sources of food colouring I was puzzling over how to make the horns on the heads without carving. Suddenly I thought of using paper cones! As I have to make many horns but they are all small, I cut the paper cones...

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Rilakkuma & Kiiroitori Dark Chocolate Macarons (Tsum Tsum series part 1)

Susanne's friend requested for 10 different designs of Tsum Tsum macarons that don't require refrigeration. This is the first time I am making so many different designs in a single bake! I will be posting a 5-part series of Tsum Tsum macarons. Will intersperse the macs with other bakes now and then so you don't get tired of seeing macarons :p. To kick off the series, here are some Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma and Kiiroitori macarons! Needless to say, it was a challenge to handle so many...

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Baymax and Baby Chiffon Cupcakes (Vanilla-chocolate)

This cute Baymax and baby was a simple bake for the family celebration of my bil and daughter (who loves Baymax) who were turning 40 and 4! Hence the giant and small cupcake for each of them :p. The cupcake is made from reduced egg yolk vanilla chiffon cupcake, with eyes and features made from chocolate chiffon cake (because my nephew likes chocolate!). I was trying out the extra dark cocoa powder (Bakeway) I bought from Phoon huat. It does darken the shade very much naturally while...

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Baymax Oreo Cookies Chiffon Cupcakes

I have a request for Baymax chiffon cupcakes for Susanne's friend. She sent a photo of an example of what she would like. Since the design requested was a simple one, I focused on making the cupcakes an awesome one :). Not that I don't give my best for every bake, but I took the liberty of choosing a more interesting cake flavour (not the usual ones you find on our blog) and took pains to make the cakes yummy. Here are my really soft and fluffy oreo cookies chiffon cupcakes topped with...

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