Marshall and Chase Brown Sugar Cookies

This is one of those way overdue posts 😅. I made these Paw Patrol themed cookies for my friend along with the cake with macaron cake toppers some months ago. Marshall and Chase Brown Sugar Cookies! Brown sugar cookie and royal icing recipe can be found here. I have always used the same recipe as it is always well received. Brown sugar cookie base may not look as pretty as regular white sugar based ones but they taste so much better! Just to share some pictures of the process... I...

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'Baked Mooncake' Macarons with Mung Bean Paste and Salted Egg Yolk

I challenged myself to create mooncake lookalikes last year for both snowskin and baked mooncakes. It took me a few tries to get the looks right as it was tedious and tricky to get all the right "imprints" and mooncake shapes in macaron form. You may read all about it in this post. This year I thought of making macarons that not only look like the real deal, but also taste like it! Presenting my mooncake wannabes! I didn't plan to make the snowskin version this year as I thought...

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Pooh, Piglet and Rainbow motif Snowskin Mooncakes

Mid-autumn is coming again! I make mooncakes every year as my hubby and kids, especially my #3, love mooncakes. So making mooncakes is a must for me every year! This year I used a recipe based on shortening again (instead of olive oil) as it keeps the mooncake softer for a longer time. It is also whiter and prettier. Here is the recipe I used, which makes around 18 50g-mooncakes. Snowskin Mooncake Recipe (Makes 18 pieces of 50g mooncakes) 200g Kou fien (cooked glutinous rice flour) 160g...

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Pusheen and Rilakkuma Tea Flavoured Macarons for Teachers' Day

I had fun with this set of macarons. A bunch of nerdy and studious looking Pusheens and Rilakkumas filled with Matcha or Earl Grey white chocolate ganache for Teachers' Day! They all seem to be giving teachers the message "Cher, we will study really hard as the best gift we can give you!" If you aspire to be able to create macarons that have character and speak to volumes to you, I encourage you to get a copy of my books Creative Baking: Macarons and Creative Baking: Macaron Basics....

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Banana Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Dark Chocolate Drip

I had a request for banana chocolate chiffon cake topped with dark chocolate drip! I took the liberty of including salted caramel white chocolate stripes along the sides of the cake, on the inside ring of the chiffon cake and also for the name. The requester saw my first banana chiffon drip cake and wanted something similar for her son. She actually requested for not just one, but two such cakes for separate celebrations with different number of pax! I baked a 15cm and a 17cm chiffon...

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Sumikko Gurashi Polar Bear Chiffon Cake

Who loves Sumikko Gurashi or '角落小夥伴' ? 💖  This is not my first time making Sumikko Gurashi's Polar bear! See previous post. This Chiffon Cake is inspired by the version from a visit to Tokage's forest house 🌳 in a pumpkin suit! Can you 'bear' to cut the cake? =p With lots of love, Susann...

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Woodland Creatures Choux Pastry

My schedule is pretty much packed from now till end of the year. Whenever I have time, I try to play around with Choux pastry designs as there is so much potential for creativity! Presenting my Choux pastry version of woodland creatures on a tree stump! The stump is made from a large Choux pastry case too so yes, everything is Choux pastry based. I had fun creating this whimsical bake and my friend is happy to take all my creations, which includes some other designs that I will share...

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Chiffon Succulent Cake

My healthier chiffon version of a Succulent cake with no cream! Do you like it? The cake is made entirely from chiffon cake, including the pot and the succulents. The 'pot' is made from baking vanilla-chocolate chiffon cake in a ball cake pan. The bigger pointed succulents were made my cutting sheet cakes into a long zigzag and then rolling them up. The skinnier spiny ones were by stacking snowflakes from chiffon cakes. The long stems at the back were from piping chiffon sheet cakes...

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Macaron Playground on Strawberries n Cream Chiffon Cake

This has got to be one of the most involved piece of work I have done so far. A customized macaron playground with moveable parts on top of a large strawberries and fresh cream chiffon cake! You can only guess at what this creation is supposed to mean. I didn't ask the requester 😅. This is my third macaron playground but the first one I am putting on top of a cake. Characters wearing rainbow coloured exercise suits and different expressions at the playground Here's a back...

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'Merlion' National Day Flag Chiffon Cake

Haha suddenly so many National day bakes.. cos today is a special day! Happy National day to all! <3 I have been wanting to make the Merlion for a long time! Finally get to make this year, albeit a cartoon version inspired by Naiise =). I am glad that the square chiffon tube pan I got from Japan finally got to good use!! I can finally make a true National day chiffon cake! The colour is from Raspberry Jello. For full recipe and video tutorial, click here. Happy holiday and National...

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'National Day' Heart-shaped Bread Loaf (naturally colored)

Just for fun, made a National day-themed heart-shaped loaf bread for the kids, since all of them are singing National day songs from school! The red color is naturally colored using PME red colour. I love their natural range, they have both liquid and powder and very concentrated. The extra kneading affected the structure slightly, but still tastes very nice! I tried a different recipe this time which uses shortening instead of butter, shared by my wonderful friend. I really like it...

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Singapore Flag Earl Grey Cream Puff

I have made Singapore flag brown sugar cookies, shortbread cookies, chiffon cake pops, snowskin mooncake and macarons before. Here's my first attempt at making Singapore flag choux pastry! I was testing out Jell-O's instant pudding mix as choux pastry filling as I am planning for a Choux pastry class for kids and wanted something really simple yet yummy. It is really good and easy! But instead of using just milk as the packaging suggested, I used a mix of milk and whipping cream. Texture...

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Baby Shark Chiffon Cake

Sing with me now.. Baby Shark do do do do, Baby shark do do do do.. Baby shark do do do do.. Baby shark! Heehee seems every toddler can sing this song! This chiffon cake is made similar to my previous cake, except that is is dual flavour, the top uses lemon chiffon recipe instead. The deco is all cut from sheet cakes similar to my previous creations and cookbooks. Hope this made you smile!! Looking forward to the holidays this week! With lots of love, Susann...

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Teh Tarik Graduation Bear Chiffon Mini Cakes with Macaron Hats

My friend requested for these graduation bears for a graduation event at the law faculty of Singapore Management University 😊 Teh Tarik chiffon mini cakes topped with graduation hat macarons! The mini cakes were displayed along with a hundred macaron graduation hats. I posted the recipe for the macaron hats using italian method in my previous post. The hats will also appear in my upcoming Creative Baking: Macaron Basics book but French method is presented. My friend preferred a...

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