Fresh Cream Scones (Children's Day Special)

I was hesitant about posting this because it is super quick and easy, looks unassuming, and you can find tonnes of scone recipes from the internet. So why post this? Because it seems that many people are interested in the recipe when I told them my story.... Two years ago, my elder kid's form teacher requested for scones from me since she knew I am a homebaker. This was because the content of what she taught had a mention of scones and she wanted the children to know what a scone...

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Chocolate Bear Bread-in-a-Cone

Children's day is coming and every year the mummies are asked to contribute to their class parties. So this is an early trial for the kids =). I came across cute bread in cones from the talented Little Miss Bento's blog. And my kids love anything looking like ice cream! For those who knew me years back, I actually tried baking chiffon cakes in cone cups 4 years back for the same reason! The chiffon cake-in-cone tasted great out of the oven, but unfortunately cones become soggy after...

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Dinosaur Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream

When dinosaurs roam the earth...I mean cake :p I had a request for dinosaur themed cake and came up with this. As you can tell, Jaycus the birthday boy loves chocolate, so the macarons and cake flavour is naturally chocolate as well. It has been a while since I made a large 9.5" cake with Swiss meringue buttercream filling so thank God it was very well received with everyone at the party loving the cake, commenting that it was not too sweet, including the macarons! Just to share some...

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Peach Kakao Chiffon Cake

Who wants to hug this? =) Peach kakao character from the Korean kakao friends. Who knew peaches could be so cute! Apparently this Apeach character has a playful personally and is a genetically modified peach.. hmm =) This is a giant peach character made from chiffon cake measuring 14 inches long! Quite a bit of carving work for this one. I used strawberry yoghurt chiffon cake with reduced egg yolk vanilla chiffon cake. Thankful cake was well-received! With lots of love, Susanne PS:...

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Reduced-sugar Earl Grey Bear Macarons with Dark Chocolate Ganache

Those of you who have been wanting to take macaron classes from me, I am pleased to announce that it is going to take place at ToTT at Dunearn Road in late October :). Check out the details here at ToTT's website. For a start, I will be sharing how to make macarons using the simplest method --- the French method. Focus will be made on basic techniques, as well as how to create simple cute bear head with some 3D pop-up features. I will be sharing a reduced sugar recipe to create macarons...

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Cinamoroll Chiffon Pudding Cake

Happy birthday to my dearest hubby! He's the best who asks me to make what I like for his birthday lol! =p I truly thank God for him and he is my best curator, advisor and support. And a great daddy too! Back to the creation, when I first saw this Cinamoroll from sanrio, my heart just melted. I finally got to make it today. My base 'pudding' cake is a still bit experimental so I will be sharing about this at a later time =). For the Cinamoroll rabbit, I used the same reduced egg white...

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Minion Coconut Macaron Cake Toppers

I made these Minion macaron cake toppers for Susanne's elder daughter's birthday a while back :). This was a bake done concurrently with the Gudetama coconut macarons using a reduced-sugar Swiss method recipe so you may refer to that post for details of the recipe. Just to share some photos of the process... Piping the shells! A darker blue was used for the overalls so that I can paint over lighter blue on the baked shells to create a denim-like texture. The paint was made by...

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Disney Princess Tier Chiffon Cake

3 tier Princess tier Chiffon Cake fit for a princess!  I made this for a close friend's daughter. She's in the mummies group which started me on my baking journey and I'm forever so grateful for them!! <3   The party theme was Disney princess fairytales so the top tier was inspired by Cinderella (see my previous work on Cinderella carriage chiffon cake), middle by Aurora. As for the bottom tier, do you find it familiar? Yes it's Beauty and the Beast-themed =)....

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Ondeh-Ondeh with Pandan Kaya Gula Melaka Chiffon Cake (sweetened only with coconut palm sugar!)

I have wondered about baking chiffon cakes without relying on caster sugar or artificial sweeteners for quite a long while but didn't get to try it until this bake for my dad's birthday. Presenting my pandan kaya Gula Melaka chiffon cake made using only coconut palm sugar as sweetener! I paired the cake with a simple and yummy deco of Japanese and purple sweet potato ondeh-ondeh balls, making the whole dessert absolutely free from white sugar :) Gula Melaka or coconut palm sugar has...

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Chiffon Mooncakes (Chocolate)

I dressed up some Peanut Butter Chiffon Cakes as Mooncakes last year as gifts for teachers and friends! They were such a hit, I was requested to make these again =p. This year, I played around with different flavour pairings - Chocolate Chiffon Cake as the "Chocolate lotus paste" and both Strawberry Jam (pink) and Pandan Kaya (green) Chiffon Cakes baked as sheets as the "Skin". You can refer to the same method/pictures to make the Mooncake Chiffon Cake from last year, except...

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Rainbow Swirl Custard Snowskin Mooncake (100% natural colouring and no 糕粉 used)

I decided not to make any mooncakes this year so I didn't buy any 糕粉 (cooked glutinous rice flour that is only available at specialty baking supply stores) or premade mooncake fillings. BUT my hands started to itch and I had an impromptu session of making these naturally coloured custard snowskin mooncakes, in rainbow swirls! Pardon the crumbly looking filling as I was in a hurry to take photos and didn't refrigerate the assembled mooncakes before cutting open. Here's a much nicer...

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