'Characters in Tea Set' Chocolate Hazelnut Macarons

This is what happens when the requester gives me free reign of design, specifying only the required characters and flavour of filling 😁. Presenting my tea set macaron cake! R2D2, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Marie and Darth Vader sitting in teacups (or hiding in teapot in Piglet's case) Everything in the setup is made of macarons! The wooden serving tray, teacups, saucer and teapot (handle, spout, body and lid!) are macarons! Needless to say, so are all the characters. I must admit that...

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Sumikko Gurashi Neko Chiffon Cake

Sumikko Gurashi Neko, ready to have some dessert! 🤗 Do you feel like hugging her? =D This cake is made in the same style as my previous creation, Ufufy Marie Cat Cottony Cake. You can refer to the previous creation for the recipe. As I wanted cream colour, I used 5 egg yolks instead of 1 whole egg for the egg yolk batter. Neko means cat in Japanese, so this is another cat cake! My favorite part of this new creation is the checkered scarf! The scarf was made using the same method...

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We Bare Bears Cream Puffs (a concise guide to basic Choux pastry recipe)

I will be slowing down posting on the blog as I have to find time to write my next book on Deco Choux pastries in the midst of being the primary caregiver for my family, classes and baking for sale. Really not easy to juggle with many things 😅. I also try to carve out time to bake the designs that are going into the book so that I can determine the details with more precision (such as template dimensions). Today I was playing around with a design that is not going into the book but it...

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Polar Bear-in-Pumpkin Chiffon Cakes

These Polar bear-in-Pumpkin Chiffon Cakes are inspired by the fall season and my previous Polar Bear creations. However, these are smaller cute kawaii versions, baked using Cooked dough method with butter (SCS butter) instead of oil. I am thankful for the opportunity to collaborate with SCS Dairy to do a Cakes Giveaway to celebrate their 60k on FB. Do click in to support or join in the fun if you like =). Have a blessed week! Best wishes, Susann...

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Penguin Family Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Macaron Cake Toppers

As the weather turns cooler in the northern hemisphere, don't you feel like wrapping yourself up nice and snugly like some of these penguins? I made these macaron cake toppers for a family of five that is celebrating a member's birthday. As the quantity requested is small but four colours are needed to make the macaron shells, I used the French method to make these. I shared in my post earlier this week on how I tweaked the basic French method recipe to make the batter stable for a...

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Stella Lou Chiffon Cake

One of my most structurally complex Chiffon Cake Sculpture to date! Stella Lou made into chiffon cake! Do you like it? <3 I found out Stella Lou was Japan Disneysea's new addition,  Duffy's friend. She is a sweet lavender bunny ballerina =). I made this for a dear mummy friend, she was in the group which started me on my baking journey. It is a very special group. When I was tasked to make this cake, I wasn't quite sure how to do it, and sat on the problem for quite a long...

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Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol Purple Sweet Potato and Pulut Hitam Sponge & Pudding Cake

When your little one has a variety of characters that she loves, and you would like to try a unique cake flavour, you get a cake that looks like this :) Peppa Pig meets some representatives from the Paw Patrol squad on top of a black glutinous rice and purple sweet potato sponge and pudding cake! I have shared the recipe for the black glutinous rice chiffon with purple sweet potato pudding in detail in another blog post. It is a more diabetic friendly cake without compromising flavours...

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Christmas Lollipop Macaron Class

Those of you who would like to learn how to make macarons but have never mustered enough courage to attempt, do join me for this class to make Christmasy lollipop macarons! This class is meant for beginners as I will cover the basics of French method, the simplest of all methods in terms of technical difficulty. But the design is not like any other you have seen because I will teach you the trick of piping such swirl patterns! This design is taken from my newly released Creative Baking:...

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Milo Hurricane Swissroll with Kaya Whipped cream

Milo and Kaya is a very school combination that my family loves and is part of our local “kopitiam” or “Toastbox” breakfast culture. It got a thumbs up from my family who love milo and kaya. I will be sharing this item at my church’s Culinary Arts Ministry session this Sunday. For the session, I have scaled the typical 4 egg recipe (10-inch by 10-inch roll) into a 1 egg recipe (7-inch by 4-inch roll). This fits nicely into an aluminium bread loaf tray =). I also tried out a 2 egg recipe...

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Chocolate Hazelnut Macaron Ferris Wheel for Marriage Proposal

Occassionally I get unusual requests. This is one of them. Not only was the request unusual, it was meant as a surprise on board a fairly long flight out of Singapore. Presenting my first macaron Ferris Wheel used as part of a marriage proposal! This is actually the second time the requestor ordered a macaron structure for me for his fiancee. I didn't post the first one as there are so many unicorn macaron carousel posts on the blog already :p. He ordered a chocolate hazelnut flavoured...

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Sally Duck Chiffon Cake

Line Sally Duck having a birthday celebration! =) This is made from Vanilla lemon chiffon cake in ball pans. The hat was made by baking chiffon cake in a paper cone, shared in my cookbooks. Thank God the cake was well-received. My friend sent a picture of her lovely girl with the cake and shared that she loved it! I am always very encouraged by and thankful for these little messages. Have a blessed week! With lots of love, Susan...

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Longevity Peach Lychee Rose Chiffon Sponge and Pudding Cake (version 2)

It has been about a year since I made longevity peach chiffon cake. There are two updates I made to the recipe that I have been using. Between then and now, I have tried using cornflour instead of custard powder as one of the pudding gelling agents for other sponge and pudding cakes and find that it works as well. So for once, my lychee rose sponge and pudding cake doesn't have yellow pudding 😊. Afterall, custard powder is just cornstarch with added colouring, flavouring and salt. I have...

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Witch Pusheen Chiffon Cake

Witch Pusheen is stirring up a blue pea flower cauldron of #meowgical potions! 🤩 Entirely made chiffon cake, including the pot, spoon, squashes, hat and of course the Pusheen! =) This is actually part of a collaboration with Pusheen, for their limited fairytale meowgical fall edition. I am honored and thankful for the opportunity. The actual Pusheen plush has a glowing flashing blue pot! I can only make blue pea flower soup hehe =p Hope you liked this cute creation! With lots...

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Iced Gems Macarons with Ermine Buttercream ( Children's Day Special)

I have a class planned on Children's Day so I decided before hand that I won't be making scones again this year for my kids to share with their classmates, which I have been doing for the past three years because scones have to be made fresh. I need some time to prepare for the class. And that's why I decided to make macarons for them instead. I made neapolitan iced gems a few years ago for Children's Day and thought why not make iced gems again but macaron version. I came up with these...

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