Snow White's Colour Changing Skirt Chiffon Cake

 Do you like Snow white's colour changing glitter skirt? 💛💖Watch the video here to see the transformation!Inspired by Tik tok foodie.beats's sprinkles video, this is my full chiffon cake version!🥰I personally like the pink skirt more!💕 How about you?😀Hope this cake made you smile! =)With lots of love, Susa...

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McDull Lychee Choux Pastries

This is a way overdue post! I forgot I made these choux pastries end of 2019! Besides making McDull macarons for a request, I made some Choux pastries as well 😊 McDull in apple and watermelon suits!  I filled the pastries with lychee pastry cream that is lightened with non-dairy whipped cream. Recipe can be found here. The detailed recipe for choux pastry batter and craquelin can be found here. I made these pastries at the same time as the Pokemon ones, that's why the same...

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Why are macarons difficult to make?

I am finally launching my new Youtube channel! This has been about 5 months in the making with long periods of musing over content or long breaks when I was too busy to work on Youtube stuff due to classes, bakes for sale or family. I have been wanting to share what I know about this topic of why macarons are difficult to make for the longest time! Meet the hosts of my new channel! I love cats so naturally the hosts are kitties. My new channel is named "Baking with Phay" because...

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Valentine's Day Cute Ox Surprise Chiffon Cake

 What is the most moo-ving surprise you have received for Valentine's day?💖💖Hope my surprise hearts ombre chiffon cake moo-ved you to smile! 🥰And here is the Valentine's Ombre hearts chiffon cake! I made ombre layers both at the sides and the top of the chiffon cake! See my previous ombre hearts creations here.Hope the cute cake made you smile lots!With lots of love,Susa...

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Year of the Ox Macarons

This was something that was in my mind that I couldn't put away until I have made it because of the compulsion it evokes. I was just musing over how people all over the world would love to receive some blessings during this pandemic chaos, at a time when the Year of the Rat draws to a close and the Year of the Ox is about to be ushered in. This was what I made! I pictured Little Brother Rat offering Big Brother Ox an early new year greeting by offering up teeny mandarin oranges in...

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Melt-in-the-mouth Ox Pineapple Tarts (easy tip to make pink noses)

Would you bear to eat these pineapple cow tarts?🥰😛Watch the video! I share a new way to make the noses pink! 🐮🐽 I first shared this method to make my Valentine's day pineapple tarts many years back.'Melt-in-the-mouth' Ox Pineapple Tarts (portion is enough to make 42 ox tarts) 420 grams Pineapple Jam 227g unsalted butter, cut into chunks, soften at room temperature (2 sticks butter) 60g icing sugar 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten 1 tsp vanilla extract 350g plain flour 47g corn flour...

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Jawa and Tusken Raider Dark Chocolate and Earl Grey Macarons

I was asked to make some macarons for a Star Wars fan club event that was supposed to happen back in May last year but it got postponed until end November due to the pandemic. The drawings for a rather chibi version of Jawa and Tusken raiders were given to me so it was very helpful when I had to make a total of 66 character macarons like these! I used the Swiss meringue method to make these macarons. The shells alone I chose to split over 2 days to bake as I still have my hands full...

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Macaron Teacup Bouquet (Online class)

 This was a last minute decision but I am glad we made it! I am supposed to teach the Chinese New Year themed macaron teacups with an auspicious Chinese character "吉" on it in a week's time. But because the class looks set to be small and there was interest in an online class for macaron teacups, we decided to do a video of the physical class to create an online class.Most of my followers on Instagram and people from the macaron Facebook group aren't Chinese so I thought something...

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Ox Family Chiffon Cakes (Chinese New Year)

 Happy "niu" year!💖The 牛 family is getting ready!!🐮👨‍👩‍👧‍👦😛What are your plans for the moo-vellous new year?🥰💖These are made similar to my Chiffon Cake Piggy Family I made for Chinese New Year two years back. Hope this cute creation made you smile!With lots of love,Susa...

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Fortune Cat Mandarin Orange Choux Pastry Class

What better way to welcome the new year than with something cheerful, auspicious and delicious! Presenting my version of "招福猫" filled with mandarin orange diplomat cream! You will learn the basics of choux au craquelin, how to assemble and decorate this cat design, and how to make mandarin orange diplomat cream. The class is full but you can still contact Sharon for this class as we are opening up another one in early May. Fortune cat, while very much Chinese New Year themed,...

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