Salted Caramel Biscoff Cat Macaron Class (for teens!)

I have decided to conduct a macaron class for teenagers during the June school holidays. This cat face design is the same as the one I intend to teach for adults but a full body version. The filling is salted caramel and biscoff swiss meringue buttercream, a flavour that most young people love, including my younger kid! In this class, I will teach the basics of French method, how to pipe the simple cat head, how to decorate the face using edible markers and royal icing, as well...

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Heart Shaker Cookies (Culinary Arts Ministry)

 Sharing this item for my church's culinary arts ministry class this Sunday 28th Mar. May you be blessed by it!Heart-shaped Shaker Cookies (makes 9 shaker cookies or 18 window-pane cookies)Ingredients for Cookie DoughVanilla Butter Cookie 58g unsalted butter (cold, cut into cubes) 50g castor sugar 28g whole egg (1/2 a whole egg) ¼ tsp vanilla essence (1.25g) 120g all-purpose flour, sifted 15g corn starch 1g salt (1/6 tsp) Drop of red food colouring (optional) Candy Window Pane...

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Mango Passionfruit 3D Cat Macaron Class

These may look impressive as 3D standing cat macarons but this class is actually targeted at beginners! Design is inspired by Kokoma's 3D deer macarons. If you are new to macarons and this character macaron intrigues you, come and join me for this class to make these rather uniquely designed macarons filled with a sour mango and passionfruit ganache! Please refer to this link for registration and more details. I will cover the basics of French method and how to pipe, decorate...

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Brioche Wool Roll Bread

 I was really curious about this trending Wool Roll bread I saw everywhere on social media, first inspired from Apron (youtube). I used a different recipe from the original video as recently I love the rich buttery Brioche bread. I do think the wool roll adds a nice touch to the normal loaf and is quite pretty =). Do check out the original video for the shaping technique. Here is my modified recipe using Brioche dough. I am sharing this as there was quite a number of queries on the...

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Cute Puppy Lavender Vanilla Honey Choux Pastries

Wondering what to make for Mother's Day? Why not join me for this class to learn how to make these cute and yummy puppy choux pastries! Instead of making the usual cupcakes or cookies, choux pastry might be a more unique treat. Crispy on the outside, cold and creamy on the inside, fragrant and not too sweet! I will cover the basics of choux au craquelin (cream puffs with a crispy cookie layer), how to make lavender vanilla honey diplomat cream, and how to assemble this puppy...

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Pooh Bee Chiffon Cake

 Always wanted to try making a cute animated video on my cakes. Here is my humble attempt. Can you tell what is happening between Pooh and his friends?With lots of love,Susa...

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Two-Ingredient Edible Rocks

Not all "bakes" with a wow factor are difficult, expensive and/or time consuming to make. Here is one quick and simple creation that only needs 2 ingredients and can be made in a matter of a few minutes! These realistic looking but edible rocks are presented by the hosts of my Youtube channel. My kids said the rocks look so much like the ones they pick up on our reservoir walks 😂. I did a video tutorial to show you how this is done! But for easy reference, let me type it out...

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Mango Passionfruit Cat Macarons

 I was testing out a new flavour combination for both macaron shells and filling in preparation for class material, and decided on a tropical combo of mango and passionfruit. Mangoes are in season now so it's a great time to test this out. And because I love cats, I made these 😊.I had a hard time deciding which photo to use as the cover photo so I did a poll on Instagram and chose the most popular one as my cover. The macaron shells were made using French method but I added...

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Light Rye Sourdough Bread

Wasn't intending to post about this, but I had some friends interested in the recipe, so will just share =). In my experience, adding the dough conditioner/improver makes the bread so much more elastic and softer, but some may prefer not to add as it may not be as healthy. Also, this version is not so sour as my family is not into the real sourdough. If you prefer a sour version, you can proof overnight in the fridge to bring our the sourness of the levain. I didn't have a dutch oven,...

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Mini Cooper Shortbread Cookie on Chocolate Drip Cake

I love a new challenge, much as it can be nerve wrecking sometimes. It pushes me out of my comfort zone and explore new techniques. This bake is one of them. Presenting my Mini Cooper themed chocolate cake! The whole car is made out of shortbread cookie and filled with M&Ms! The requestor wanted red car theme for the chocolate drip cake so I thought of experimenting with creating the entire car out of cookie. Although shortbread is a medium I have worked with since my early baking...

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Giant Sushi Chiffon Cake

 My giant sushi cake saying hi!This giant sushi is a rice chiffon cake sandwiched by two patterned deco roll sheet cakes.Here is my giant salmon:And my giant wooden board below:While you can replace parts of the cake flour with rice flour, I wouldn't recommend substituting all of it as rice flour gives a more "shortness" type of texture.Check out my other "sushi" creations here! This one is my biggest sushi yet! =)Hope this kawaii sushi made you smile!With lots of love,Susa...

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