This is a lego chiffon cake I made for my cutest son-in-law who just turned 3 years old! Erm.. as for why I have such a young sil.. that's another long story altogether! Haha :p
This is an updated and improved version from my 4-flavour Lego Chiffon Blocks, mostly in terms of the natural food colouring. Over the past months, I have discovered Bunga Telang flowers that makes wonderful blue colouring (top row in collage below) as well as blueberry powder (second row in collage) and beet (together with red yeast powder, bottom row) for intense purple and red natural colouring. For the green colour, I used a combination of home-made (from blended pandan leaves' juice allowed to settle overnight) as well as store-bought pandan paste for the colour. The different sectors are hence different flavoured to make use of the natural food colouring like the original post. I was also able to borrow my lovely friend Evon's square chiffon tin, so I was able to bake a taller chiffon cake. Like the previous post, I used aluminium foil as separators and removed them before baking.
Top to bottow: Blue, purple, green and red.
The picture below shows the colour of the batter from the natural food colouring alone. Really not bad at all! Mainly the blue colour needed adjustment from blue colouring.
The yellow block above was made from orange chiffon cake, coloured with orange juice and orange paste, and then adjusted with yellow colouring (cake batter is already yellow so not a lot is required).
It is actually quite a challenge to get the different sectors straight, looking like blocks! I had to bake twice in order to get a chiffon I felt was good enough ^_^". I also had a little bit of browning for the purple chiffon at the corner so I ended up painting a bit with blueberry powder in water. But thank God it turned out well. Happy birthday to Joash!!
Thanksgiving:
Thank God that the chiffon cake was very well-received! This message below was taken from my friend's whatsapp. I am really so thankful for the message!
With lots of love,
Susanne
30/8/2014
This is another Lego chiffon cake I made with a different colour scheme inspired by Lego Legends of Chima. I just wanted to share this cake because I find black much better for natural food colouring than purple (which may possibly have some browning). 2 tsp of charcoal powder is all that is needed to do the trick :).
With lots of love,
Susanne
Hi Susanne,
ReplyDeleteIs this Lego cake baked in a single tin or separately then combine together? Thinking of baking one for my son as he is a big Lego fan too. Thanks for your help.
It was baked in a square chiffon tin. Thanks.
DeleteHi Susanne,
ReplyDeleteThanks for yr advise. Hope to be lucky enough to have the same results as your cake. Rgds.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI am really amazed u can achieve all these colors without coloring! May i know where you buy the ingredients in SG - the blueberry powder, beet root powder and charcoal powder. And the blue flowers??
Does red yeast powder affect texture or taste in cakes? I love red velvet cakes but hate the amount of coloring required - this seems to be a good method! Thanks! Alice
Thanks, blueberry powder and beetroot powder are from iherb. The red yeast powder is better than the beet for red. Does not affect taste, texture wise may deflate meringue if too much (that's why I used a combi) so need to add a tiny bit (1/4 tsp baking powder), but overall still good. Red yeast and charcoal powder are from Phoon Huat. The Blue flowers are from a friend. If you like the contact can email me. The blue flowers itself are on a dull side so the blue needs a dip of food coloring for nice shade. Thanks!
DeleteThanks for the info! Won't trouble your friend for the flowers - I think a little coloring is ok :D
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Welcome! Just let you know there is a little bit of browning for the purple. But I think it's fine :)
DeleteHi Susanne, I like reading your posts with all the creative products. I bake conventional chiffon cake and would like to try to bake this Lego Chiffon. Would like seek your advice on the "use aluminium foil as separators and remove them before baking". The mixture will be pretty viscous and how to remove the foil without messing up the segregation line before baking?
ReplyDeleteThanks, just remove it straight up with 2 hands =)
DeleteHi Susanne, i've bought both of your books but couldn't find the Lego recipes. I am wondering if you could share the yellow Lego recipe? It's for my son birthday. Thanks in advance.
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