Safari Themed Macarons with Milo Swiss Meringue Buttercream

I have a request for safari themed macarons. Any animal and quantity at my convenience.... My kind of request when I have many other macarons to bake as well :). Thankful to have such a thoughtful requester! These were baked as and when I had the capacity while I baked for the creative macaron book. There are hippos, zebras, tigers and giraffes :) For your convenience, I will just type out the recipe. Ingredients: 200g almond powder/ground almond, preferably superfine 200g icing...

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'Miffy Birthday' Strawberry Yoghurt Chiffon Cake

This is a sweet Miffy cake for a sweet church friend. I am thankful and blessed for the opportunity. The Strawberry Yoghurt flavour was chosen by the hubby and it matched perfectly with the sweet Miffy theme. The recipe for Strawberry Yoghurt chiffon cake is from here but scaled down to 7-inch chiffon tin. I aliquoted out 8 tsp of batter and added in a drop of strawberry paste to get a darker line for the base. I cut a cute mini birthday smash cake and pink balloon from excess pink...

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Longevity Peach Lychee Rose Chiffon Sponge & Pudding Cake

You have seen cakes with cream and "naked" chiffon cakes like what we have on our blog. Here's a "new" type of cake that I came up with for my grandma's and aunt's birthdays. My aunt whose birthday is also around the corner celebrated at the same time too! Soft lychee chiffon sponge sandwiched with refreshing lychee rose pudding, topped with canned lychees stuffed with more pudding! If you can't imagine what this cake is like, think of Pandan kaya cake but lychee and rose flavoured instead...

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'Green Monster' Pandan Chiffon Cake for Halloween

This is a cute Green Monster made from Pandan Chiffon Cake! It’s a simple, fun and alternative bake for Halloween-themed kids’ playdate from the usual pumpkin and scary stuff. It's my first cake after the month-long busy photoshoots for the creative chiffons book so I was happy to try something simple and experimental! The eyes are made from pandan and vanilla chiffon cake pops, which were immediately snatched up by the kids! =p The face is made from a 6-inch pandan chiffon cake from...

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Miffy Shortbread Cookies

Here are some really easy Miffy shortbread cookies! You may be wondering why am I posting something so simple in our blog. Well, why not :p. To be honest it's because I have been really busy with bakes and writing for the chiffon book I am co-authoring with Susanne and the macaron book I am doing on my own. This is a bake that I recorded but haven't had the chance to publish some time back. I used the cookie cutter that is sold at Isetan to make these cookies. Keep in mind that any...

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Creative Baking: Chiffon Cakes book with Marshall Cavendish (Chiffon book 1)

*Updates (20/10/17) Creative Chiffon book 3, a most comprehensive Deco Chiffon Cake Basics book is launched. The 3rd book is a step-by-step picture guide to Basic Techniques and recipes centred around the pictures! (20/9/16) Creative Chiffon Book 2, titled Creative Baking: Deco Chiffon Cakes is launched at all major bookstores. The second chiffon book covers more innovative 3D patterns, festive cakes, cute animals (character chiffon), and trending flavours like salted...

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Pororo Chiffon Cake

I made this Pororo Chiffon Cake quite a while back but haven’t gotten down to blogging due to the crazy busyness with the Creative Chiffons book we’re working on. Yesterday we wrapped up the last photoshoot with Marshall Cavendish, so thank God for that! =) This chiffon cake base is actually a two-tone 'Frozen' landscape chiffon cake, but I forgot to take a picture of the side profile! It’s my humble attempt at making a ‘pop-out’ Pororo from chiffon cake, not easy at all due...

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“寿” Pandan Chiffon Cake with Gula Melaka Swiss Meringue Buttercream (macaron shell decorations)

This is one of those cakes that taste better than it looks :p. I made this 6" Pandan chiffon cake with Gula Melaka swiss meringue buttercream together with the large order of 40 longevity peach cupcakes :). All decorations are macaron shells except the leaves. The lady who ordered this for her 90-year-old grandmother loved the design of a longevity peach themed cake I made last year and would like something similar. So this cake was modelled after my old one. Since I had some leftover...

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