6 Flavour Rainbow Chiffon Cake

I had very lovely friends coming over to the "West" to visit all the way from "the other planet" of Singapore (lol!). I wanted to design another pretty 6-flavoured chiffon that was as lovely as them! I came up with a cake with all my favourite elements - rainbow, hearts, flowers - with a very sweet, "beachy" feel (or so I dreamed!). The recipe and method is pretty similar to that of "6 Flavour Rainbow Hearts Chiffon Cake" with a different flavour to each rainbow layer: red (red...

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Peanut Butter and Chocolate Macarons

The craze for macarons has been around for some time and for a long time, I was afraid to attempt making them because I have heard of how hard they are to make. I finally mustered some courage to try and after some failures, I came up with something decent for a bride-to-be who is a fan of Reese's peanut butter cups :). I took the liberty of decorating these peanut butter and chocolate macarons with chocolate flavored royal icing sugar and some heart and flower shaped cupcake toppers....

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Lemon Bees Chiffon Cake and Cupcakes

Ever since I started baking chiffon cakes in glass bowls, I dreamed of making cute animals using these bowls. The most common hemispherical shaped ones are ladybugs and bees. Susanne beat me to it to create really cute ladybugs so I am left with the bees. Here's Mama bee with her three baby bees :) This was a bake that I nearly gave up because Murphy's Law was at work more than once. I originally wanted to make black sesame flavored stripes for the bees but the bake turned out horribly...

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Hello Kitty Baby shower-themed Vanilla/Lemon Chiffon Cake

My daughter and myself (oops..secret revealed!) love hello kitty, so when I saw Sharron's hello kitty cake mould, I couldn't wait to try out a hello kitty cake with 3D patterns. The colour scheme is light blue and pink because I had in mind a hello kitty themed-baby shower for baby "whale" (nickname for baby in my tummy :)). Thanks Sharron for so generously lending me the cake mould! I combined both the patterning technique, hello kitty moulds and hearts cookie cutters to create...

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Black Sesame Sakura Chiffon Cake

It was love at first sight the moment I set my eyes on dried sakura flowers. When my dear friend Joan went to Japan and generously brought back a small tub of pickled sakura for me, I just couldn't wait to try it! Being rather adventurous, I wanted to go beyond the usual sakura patterns on the base of the tin, and sought to pattern the sakura flowers on the side of the tin as well to create more 3D sakura patterns. I was surprised the dried flowers stuck well to the sides...

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Iced Gems

Some like to pop these tiny beauties into their mouths whole, some like to break apart the icing and biscuit, eat the biscuit and then followed by the icing, and some just wanna eat the icing :P. Iced gems! Don't they just bring back fond memories of childhood? As kids we love these and I love the ones that Khong Guan produces. My kids love them too and asked me to make them, and so I did! I was searching the internet for iced gem recipes and to my surprise, I couldn't find many....

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Black sesame-Red Bean Ladybird Chiffon Cupcakes

Don't you just love these cute creatures? I wanted to make cute chiffon ladybugs that would bring a smile to anyone's face and be so light and yummy to eat! Not being a fan of artificial colouring, I paired up black sesame chiffon with azuki chiffon to pattern these cute bugs. It was also a good chance to try out my new silicone mini round moulds for making small chiffon cakes! I made a picture tutorial for it for a friend and will share it here :) Ingredients (makes 16 ladybirds) 3...

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Matcha Azuki Sakura Patterned Chiffon Cake with Hidden Hearts

I got all excited after seeing Susanne's Valentine's Day Hearts-in-all-directions Strawberry Chiffon Cake and wanted to make a cake like that too! Thanks to Ssb Baker for showing us how to bake cakes with hidden hearts, we were both inspired to try. I decided to combine two techniques, piping patterns on chiffon tin and using cookie cutter cut-outs of a separate cake, to create a Sakura patterned cake... with hidden hearts of course! I used the same recipe as my previous Matcha Azuki...

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Matcha Azuki Layered Chiffon with Azuki Cream

Matcha (green tea) and Azuki (red bean) flavors are a pair that go so well together that I decided to make a cake that is bursting with these two flavors. And to give the cake an extra oomph of flavor and texture, I added red bean cream. So here's my first attempt at making a layered chiffon cake with  cream sandwiched in between the layers. My neighbors who had this loved the combination very much! I had some leftovers of cake and cream so I made some Swiss rolls. I was pleasantly...

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Valentine's Day Hearts-in-all-directions Strawberry Chiffon Cake

Valentine's day was around the corner and I wanted to make a special cake filled with hearts everywhere! I had been toying with the idea of hidden hearts in cakes ever since I saw it done on pound cakes but was afraid that the hidden chiffon cake would end up being overbaked and hard since chiffons were so delicate. Then came ssb baker's wonderful post on hidden heart chiffon cake (a big thank you!)! Immediately, it got me excited to try a 3D hearts cake with hearts...

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6 Flavour Rainbow Hearts Chiffon Cake

My newest labour of love! A dream rainbow chiffon cake with 6 flavours embedded into the cake (and also a heart in every slice)! :) It all started because I was asking my hubby which flavour he would like the chiffon and this is the result! I drew up a 6-sector wheel and designed in the flavours according to their natural colours: Red (red bean), Orange (orange), Yellow (lemon), Green (matcha), Blue (berries - required the most colours), Purple (strawberry-beet). Below describes the...

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Panda and Teddy Bear Chiffon Cupcakes

I am really having lots of fun using the glass bowls to bake chiffon because the possibilities are endless! I really love to make food look cute too when there is a chance to do it and the inspiration strikes, so I couldn't wait to make these cute beary chiffon cupcakes :). The teddies are Milo flavored (my elder kid's favorite flavor so far) and the pandas are vanilla flavored. Here's the recipe (makes about 6 bears): Ingredients: Egg yolk batter 2 egg yolks 13g caster sugar 20g...

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Osmanthus/Green tea “Rainbow Cloud” Chiffon Cake

I dreamed of a happy cake with rainbow arching up the cake towards the clouds (I'm still a dreamer :))! I wanted to try patterning a rainbow on the sides of the chiffon tin using the improved patterning batter recipe that had better consistency.  Osmanthus flowers were then in vogue, so I decided to try osmanthus chiffon. I paired it up with green tea as it was a pleasant combination, and I was looking for natural colouring for the cake (am still not a fan of too much artificial...

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Rainbow Hearts Chiffon Cupcake

Valentine's Day is around the corner! Although hubby and I always believed that everyday should be Valentine's Day, not just 14th of February, I thought some of you may like to prepare some gorgeous and yummy heartsy bakes for your loved ones. So here's my unplanned bake that turned out quite gorgeous -- rainbow chiffon cupcakes with pink heart in the middle! As I still have mandarin oranges at home, this is another mandarin orange chiffon cake (Again?! Well... I am really trying to...

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Snow Mountain (雪山) Hokkaido Chiffon Cupcake

I fell in love with Hokkaido chiffon cupcakes the very first time I saw them. Being a fan of the gorgeous snow mountains in Japan, I thought how lovely would it be to have fresh cream oozing out of snow capped volcanoes! I looked for the recipe which would make the most crumpled chiffon so that I could inject lots of fresh cream. I found the answer from Dreamersloft's blog which compared hokkaido chiffon cupcakes from 2 famous blogs, Nasi Lemak Lover vs Reirei of All That Matters....

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