Matcha Ice-Cream Cake with Dan Heng & March 7th Marshmallow Toppers

 My elder kid wanted matcha ice-cream cake for his birthday and requested for Honkai Star Rail theme with Dan Heng and March 7th as the characters of choice. It's a challenge because anime type characters have tonnes of details and I have not made ice-cream cakes before and wondered if photography would be a challenge in tropical Singapore. Fortunately, I managed to pull it off with this delicious number!I used my default basic marshmallow recipe and shared the ingredient list...

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Orange Chocolate Hazelnut Log Cake

 I have a large unopened bottle of chocolate hazelnut spread, Hazella, from Redman. It's nowhere near expiry but it's not the habit of my family to consume bread with sweet spreads for breakfast and I only use it for bakes. This is the reason why this year's log cakes for my family and friends are orange chocolate hazelnut flavoured.  Here's a closer look at the larger log cake at the back.The log cakes consist of:- Orange chocolate hazelnut chiffon sponge, brushed with...

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Penguin and Reindeer Marshmallows

 As Christmas approaches, I start to give some thought to the log cakes I am making for family and friends. Log cakes need some decorations too so I thought it's fitting to include some cute and squishy characters as toppers 😊.Marshmallows can be made ahead of time and frozen until ready to use as decorations or for consumption so they make perfect cake decorations. Much more fun than fondant or plastic decorations since you can squish them!Here are some pictures of the piped marshmallows...

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Angel S'mores

 You have seen my iced cookie version of angel cookies. Here's my S'mores version using the same template!The angel S'mores are angel marshmallows on my favourite (and default) brown sugar cookie coated with chocolate! I didn't use the classic Graham cracker base as my brown sugar cookie has a similar flavour profile and I happened to bake some brown sugar cookies.I reused the template for royal icing transfers for making the angel marshmallows but I enlarged the template a little...

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Graduation Bear Marshmallows

 I made some marshmallow graduation bears for my niece who is graduating from preschool.I made some heads-only version as well as full body onesI shared the piping video tutorial on Instagram and you may see it here:https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0Acw_7yX_j/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==For those of you who bought my Deco Marshmallows book and want to try your hand at making these bears, you may use the shiba template from the book like I did.I used the 3.5cm circle template for making...

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Totoro Surprise Roll Cake

 Totoro Surprise Roll Cake!💓 "Totorolly" cute?🥰  I combined cake patterning and cream patterning. Assembly video on my IG here. With love, Susanne&nb...

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Guinea Pig Wife Biscuit (low carb version)

 Hubby loves having 老婆饼 (wife biscuit) at the start of the day sometimes but Chinese pastries are usually not keto/diabetic-friendly. That's why I decided to make a more sugar-free/ low carb version of his favourite Chinese pastry as his birthday bake.These cute pastries are modelled after a guinea pig plush we have at home whom we have named 圆滚滚 (pronounced as "yuan goon goon" and it means roly-poly in English). Here is 滚滚 looking at the pastry version of himself 😆!We have a soft...

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'Dog & Bunny Picnic Fun' Chocolate Macarons and Cake

 I made this cake for a girl who loves food, bunnies, her Maltipoo pooch and chocolatey stuff with crunchy bits so I created this for her birthday!I used my default Swiss meringue method recipe for this bake but I split this bake into three separate sessions and applied different variations of my Swiss method recipe to different batches. For the large green base, picnic basket and mini food items, I used all the egg whites in the Swiss meringue. For the bunny and dog, I split the...

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Baby Jesus and Angel Cookies

 This is the third year our church's Culinary Arts Ministry is having a cookie giveaway project. And for this year, we decided to tell the Christmas story through cookies! Several of us are involved in baking hundreds of cookies so this takes some co-ordination and planning in advance. With many of us having busy schedules, using royal icing transfers is one way to make a big project more manageable. I am in charge of making the angel cookies and a couple of other members have kindly...

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Chiffon Cake Longevity Peaches (no artificial colouring added) on Pandan Kaya Cake

 I have been making longevity peach chiffon cakes for the past 9 years and this is the first time I decided to make it as naturally coloured as possible for my grandmother's 88th birthday. You may click on this link to see my past bakes that are longevity peach themed and made in various flavours like lychee rose and yuzu. Grandma likes to celebrate her birthday according to the lunar calender so the actual date we celebrate is not fixed each year. Because of this, I had to make the...

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