Hello Kitty in Strawberry Suit Chiffon Cake

Hello kitty dressed up as a giant Strawberry! 🍓🍓 Do you love strawberries?🍓🥰 I made this cake again for a friend who loves Hello kitty and strawberries! Hello Kitty was one of my earliest creative chiffon cakes and recipe has been shared here. Here, I used a larger pan and decorated the clothes into a strawberry using sheet cakes. Here, I combined Hello kitty with a "Wood stump" chiffon cake. A version of the "Wooden stump" cake has been shared here.  Here I...

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Spongebob and Patrick Raspberry Dark Chocolate Cake

This is a long overdue post but I had more pressing bakes to post first. That's why the 2 month delay. I made this Spongebob themed raspberry dark chocolate cake for a friend's daughter! Toasted almond flour that I use for making macarons is great as edible "sand"!  I made the mini chocolate cake concurrently with the stump cake so you may refer to this post for detailed recipe and link to my original ultimate chocolate cake recipe.  Here are some photos for the process...

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Hollow Macaron Shells ---the Science, the Solution and why I don't get Stressed about it

Of all the "macawrongs" that bakers experience, hollow shells is perhaps one that many tear their hair out over. While I don't obsess over hollows because I understand why it is fairly difficult although not impossible to achieve full macaron shells consistently (see the happy red shell below), many bakers do. I have typed my response too many times over in the macaron group so I have decided to once and for all, pen it down properly so I don't have to repeat myself 😂. The blue...

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'Rainbow Bunny In Pink Castle' Macarons on Chocolate Banana Cake

This is perhaps one of my most massive bakes that is almost on par with my macaron playground on strawberries n cream cake I made in 2018. I made a pink ombre castle with rainbow and rainbow bunnies out of macarons! The whole thing sits on top of a 6-layered dark chocolate banana cake! A macaron structure like this really needed time for planning and execution. I used the swiss meringue method but tweaked the recipe for a reduced sugar version without needing to use rice flour to...

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6-sector Rainbow Hearts Chiffon Cake

6-sector Rainbow Hearts Chiffon Cake... which is your favorite? Pink or White? Revisited this cake over Valentine's day to encourage a friend and also some healthcare workers. Watch a video of the Hearts Roulette spinning! I have shared recipe for the cake in Creative baking: Chiffon Cakes (book cover below), and also shared a video tutorial of the cake on Youtube. Many on Instagram shared they prefer the newer pink version! Which do you like? Pink White With...

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Valentine's day Pusheen Chiffon Cake

Happy Valentine's Day! Will you be my Valentine? <3 Chiffon cake inspired by Valentine's day Pusheen with a Giant heart candy! It was love at first sight when I first saw it! Sending some love and hugs to everyone in the midst of this difficult time.. and truly we are very thankful for all the brave healthcare workers on the frontline. A big thank you.. With lots of love, XOXO, Susanne ...

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Gudetama On Toast (spherified lemon curd on panna cotta and lavender vanilla chiffon cake)

This is a bake I squeezed in for a young lady to bring her some cheer. She happens to be a fan of Gudetama. The concept of this bake was inspired by the first episode of season one of Sugar Rush, the baking competition. On that episode, one of the contestants made "egg on toast" for the confections round of the competition but the egg yolk was spherified pineapple curd on top of egg white (milk panna cotta), midori buttercream with marshmellows and a coconut pound cake (the "toast"). I...

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Chocolate Piggy Choux Pastries

We just said goodbye to the Year of the Pig but that doesn't stop me from making these cute piggy choux pastries! "We have piggitude!"  I had a request to make some simple pig choux pastries but they should sport different facial expressions. I have made and taught pig choux pastry a year ago but I decided to inject a bit more life to them by giving them a range of expressions and changing the design of the ears a little. You may refer to this post for detailed recipe of the...

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Winter Pusheen Chiffon Cake

Left or right? Pusheen and Cheek in winter is so cute! 💓💓 This is inspired by their Surprise plush - Winter Wonderland! Another exciting Pusheen news, "Let's Bake! A Pusheen Cookbook", a collaboration between the creator of Pusheen, Claire Belton and myself is coming in June! It's filled with sweet treats of all kinds, for all levels of bakers! You can preorder a copy of the book here. Also praying for the Wuhan virus situation.. everyone please stay healthy! With...

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