We Bare Bears on Pulut Hitam (Black Glutinous Rice) Cake

My friend requested for a We Bare Bears themed birthday cake for her son's 10th birthday. She wanted the bears to be made out of chocolate macarons, but the cake with an Asian flavour of pulut hitam. So here's what I came up with! I used the Swiss meringue method for the macarons. Due to my busy schedule in May, I baked the macarons along with some naturally coloured dinosaur macarons. And froze the undecorated macaron shells. Sharing some photos of the process... Piped...

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Bunny Choux Pastries in Macaron Teacups

Here is my contribution to a mental health awareness collaboration hosted by 2 very talented bakers on Instagram @petite.meringue and @macanomnom!Choux pastry bunnies in macaron teacups, filled with strawberry diplomat cream and with a message that says "You are enough"! I had the inspiration from wristbands with messages that hubby bought from Zox. I took part in this collab not as a mental health sufferer, but as a caregiver to hubby who has been suffering from depression for a...

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Bear-in-a-Box Chiffon Cake

     Here's my little Bear-in-a-box coming to give everyone a beary big HUG!❤❤  Stay safe and take care! We can do it together 💪💪 Sorry for the slow posts. Been a bit swamped with kids and home-based learning. Glad that it is a holiday tomorrow =p. See the texture and box assembly here. Take care everyone! Love, Susa...

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Animal Choux Pastry Truck

It has been a while since I tackled a challenging choux pastry creation. Presenting my version of animal choux pastry truck where everything except the sand is made out of choux pastry! And because it was for a birthday boy, the name was included in choux pastry as well! The various animals were made out of mini choux au craquelin where the piped batter is around 2cm and the craquelin is around 2.5cm in diameter. Before bakingAfter baking. I was testing out a blue powder...

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Popit Chiffon Cake

 Which is cake and which is toy? =p Pop It Chiffon Cake, requested by my kids! 💓If you have a primary kid, chances are you would have heard of this new fidget toy craze. It somewhat mimics a bubble wrap, and helps to provide sensory input and help focus for young children. Regardless of whether they need the regulation or not, kids all love bubble wrap don't they? =)  The two above belong to my girls. And just for fun, I had a Pop It Competition with my kids over Mother's...

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Naturally Coloured Dark Chocolate Macarons

While I have the natural sources of food colouring, I might as well use it 😊. I have made this dinosaur design a few times over the past one plus year but never using almost purely natural sources of food colouring. So I am happy to say that I have managed to capture their whimsical nature using natural colours as well! A little blue and chocolate brown gel food colouring is added to enhance the blue and darker brown colours. Everything else is 100% natural from blue pea flower,...

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100% Naturally Coloured, Refined Sugar-Free 'Roses in a basket' Hojicha Cake

This was a bake that I had to make earlier because my mum decided to celebrate her birthday earlier to coincide with Mother's Day. Presenting my diabetic-friendly, 100% naturally coloured and flavoured basket of roses in the form of Hojicha chiffon cake! I made 4 different types of chiffon sponges :  hojicha for brown, black sesame and a little charcoal for grey, pink dragonfruit for pink and matcha for green. The hojicha sponges were alternated with hojicha diplomat cream and...

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