Rat Choux Pastries with Mandarin Orange Pastry Cream

As the year of the Rat is approaching soon, why not make these 😊 Rat choux au craquelin filled with lightened mandarin orange pastry cream!  This also marks the 7th consecutive year I am making mandarin orange chiffon "oranges"! They have a special place in my heart as they were my first experiment to bake chiffon in glass bowls and one of the earliest deco chiffon creations ever, which was made for my mother-in-law. Details of how to make the mandarin orange chiffons can be...

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3D Cartoon Rat Chiffon Cakes (Chinese New year)

Are you looking forward to the year of the rat? 2020 is the Year of the Rat according to Chinese zodiac and the intelligent rat 🐭 is first of all zodiac animals in the race.The little cute rats are made entirely from chiffon cake 🍰. Recipe for these cute rats are shared below: 3D Cartoon Rat Chiffon Cakes (Makes 3) Egg yolk batter 2 egg yolk 6g castor sugar 26g vegetable/corn oil 28g water 4g vanilla extract 40g cake flour Natural food coloring/extracts 2 egg white 22g...

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'Leon in a Chocolate Bomb' Earl Grey Macarons

When I asked my elder kid what he wants for his birthday bake, he told me he wanted his favourite Brawl Stars character, Leon, in a pinata of sorts that can be cracked open like a pinata. He also wanted Leon to be made using macaron as the medium with Earl Grey filling. And what does Mama the baker come up with? I decided to make all the components edible as far as possible. And so I decided to hide Leon in chocolate bombs which are to be cracked open by a brown sugar cookie hammer! I...

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Line Brown Bear Snowman Chiffon Cake

Who would like a HUG from me? <3 Line Brown Bear playing dress-up as Snowman in this chiffon cake creation! My last post before Christmas.. Merry Christmas and love, joy and peace in advance to you and your families!! And here's sharing my favourite verse from the bible which is the reason why we celebrate Christmas!! With lots of love, Susanne =...

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Strawberries n Cream Logcake

My last Christmas bake from home for the year, strawberries n cream log cake! I decorated with a couple of reindeer I made from my masterclass!  I have been really busy with classes/test bakes and dealing with some admin stuff for my kids for the next academic year but managed to squeeze in this bake that took me only a couple of hours to put together, including chilling in the freezer (if you don't count the premade reindeer macarons and strawberry jam filling I used). If you...

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Chocolate Stump Cake with Meringue Mushrooms

I don't usually accept last minute requests but this one I couldn't refuse. My mum asked for a logcake I can make at my convenience, so I decided to let this request ride on a planned bake that involves making my ultimate chocolate cake. I usually bake chocolate chiffon sponge for log cakes as the sponge is soft and flexible enough to roll into swiss roll. Since the sponge I use for my ultimate chocolate cake isn't suitable for making swiss rolls, I make a stump cake instead 😊 Mushroom...

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Gingerbread man Chiffon Cake

Help! My yummy Gingerbread man ran out of my oven! Anyone can help me catch?? =p Made this cute cake for my dear niece's birthday! The kids had such fun imagining this was a real Gingerbread man who could jump out, cutting the cake and sticking candles! Gingerbread man blazing.. with too many candles.. The aftermath.. poor Gingerbread man! The cake was gone is seconds! Thankful it was well received. Blessed Christmas in advance! With lots of love, Susan...

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Chinese New Year Macaron Teacup Class

I finally mustered enough courage to conduct a class for creating something with hemispherical macaron shells! Auspicious looking teacup macarons filled with dark chocolate ganache, yuzu mandarin orange curd and yuzu mandarin orange Swiss meringue buttercream! It will be the first time I am teaching at ArtZ Baking and  Culinary studio so I am excited about this collaboration! Please click on this link to register and for more class details. Not only will I cover the basics of...

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Sumikko Gurashi Chocolate Choux Pastries

I made some Sumikko Gurashi choux au craquelin for hubby's birthday as well as for my friend. Both of them love dark chocolate so the pastries are filled with dark chocolate pastry cream 😊. Tonkatsu is hubby's favourite because he has such a cute and sad back story, and looks really cute too. And of course I had to include Tonkatsu's favourite pal, Ebi. I have to admit that this set wasn't entirely the easiest to work with due to the shape. It would have been easier if everyone was...

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3D Olaf Chiffon Cake

"Do you want to build a Snowman?" <3Have you watched Frozen 2?I loved it so much, so here's my first full 3D chiffon cake Olaf! He made me laugh so much in the show =D. So this is my humble work of love. The last time I made Olaf was 5 years ago when Frozen just came out. It is a much simpler semi-2D version. I had forgotten how to make it though, for this cake, I actually redid the eyes for this cake 2 times! It is not easy to capture the look of characters really. Do you like...

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