'Knight Z Travels Around the World' Macaron Carousel

 This is the fourth consecutive year I am making a macaron carousel for a young knight! Knight Z has taken a liking to travelling around the world so this is this year's macaron carousel for him!

This was an epic bake that needed a lot of time and planning so it was broken up into several sessions. The great thing about macarons is they shells filled or unfilled can be frozen so it gives me the freedom to take it at a more relaxed pace.

You may want to check out my reel for creating the large macaron base over here and the carousel roof over here.

Here's a picture of the partial assembly which I leave to set overnight:

I filled the large macaron pieces with a ring of vanilla bean white chocolate, dairy-free dark chocolate ganache and crunchy chocolate crisp pearls.

The globe spheres are actually hemispherical macaron shells filled with the same dairy-free dark chocolate ganache and Ferrero Rocher.

Smaller macaron pieces are just filled with the white chocolate and dark chocolate ganache.

Here's the reel of the assembly:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAbBrwFyP87/?igsh=YjUzeW16ZnU0YXEw

with love,

Phay Shing

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Succulents & Cacti Marshmallows in Butter Cake Pot

 I made this for my dad's birthday this year!

Made another simpler cake for my uncle's birthday too!

Both my dad and uncle love a little bit of gardening so I thought this theme is just right for them. The old school butter cake recipe can be found in this blog post. I included some prebiotic soluble fibres to make it healthier.

The succulents and cacti are made out of zephyrs, an agar-based marshmallow. Instead of using fresh egg whites, I used meringue powder. Those of you who bought my Deco Marshmallows book may be pleased to know using meringue powder works just as well! Please refer to this reel for the substitution and some visuals:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_ttcPrBzRa/?igsh=M2NycjdyNGRzYjgz

The zephyrs are coloured with a combination of matcha powder and gel food colouring.

Here are some pictures to share...

Piped marshmallows 

Butter cake pot with chopped toasted almond slices as the "soil"

A slice of the cake!

Dad posing with a cactus!

This is the reel with snippets of piping the succulents:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAN_8s2y-Px/?igsh=MW5sbWg5YTZnanllMg==

Both Dad and Uncle loved the cakes!

with lots of love,

Phay Shing

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'Capybara in Teacup' Macaron

 I needed to make some blue hemispherical macaron shells for an epic project so I took the chance to play around with this for fun!

We have a teacup plush toy and one of the capybara plushies we have fit so nicely in it I simply had to make a mini macaron version of it! The capybara is a hand-shapeable filling. I made it gula melaka coconut flavoured with a pandan gula melaka coconut surprise inside. Here's what it looks like when you take a bite of it!

I couldn't bear to do the cut of the capybara so I made a plain round version of it to do the cut scene. Here's a peek at how I piped the hemispherical shell and how I made the capybara filling! 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_HIjKlSuhb/?igsh=MTlsanlvamkxbWtkdg==

I shared the coconut filling recipe in the captions of the reel. I can't share this low fat low sugar hand shapeable filling as of yet as I only discovered it recently and am using it as a class material. It's texture is similar to Orh Nee or Mont Blanc dessert and it's relatively neutral tasting so it can take on many flavours. It's temperature stable too so it won't melt in Singapore's tropical heat.

Stay tuned for the epic project that made use of the blue hemispheres! 

with love,

Phay Shing

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Labubu Chiffon Cake

 

Can you guess which is cake and which is plushie.? Who finds Labubu so cute too? 🥰 I was gifted a Labubu and found it so adorable. Here's a short video of the assembly on my IG. 

With love, 

Susanne 

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Chocolate Truffle White Lotus Snowskin Mooncakes (for CAM)

Hi everyone, here is the recipe for Chocolate Truffle White Lotus Snowskin Mooncake Recipe for CAM class. Hope you will enjoy the recipe as well as the talk! 

Chocolate Truffle White Lotus Snowskin Mooncake Recipe (by Susanne Ng) 
Makes 10 50g-truffle mooncakes 

Ingredients 
70g Kou fien, sifted 
10g Wheat starch 
40g Icing Sugar, sifted 
25g Shortening 
40g Cold water 
75g Cold ice cream soda 
250g White Lotus paste 
28g Chocolate biscuit crumb + 32g Chocolate lotus paste 
Chocolate emulco (1/4 tsp) 
Extra 1 tsp koufien for dusting 

1. Mix chocolate biscuit crumb and chocolate lotus paste in a plastic bag. Roll into a log and divide into 10. Roll into balls. 

2. Roll white lotus paste into a log. Divide equally into 10 (~25g each). Wrap white lotus paste around the chocolate balls and roll into a larger ball. 

3. Mix sifted kou fien, wheat starch and icing sugar together till uniform using a spatula. 

4. Add in shortening and quickly mix using gloves until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. 

5. Pour in the cold water and soda and knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Divide the dough into two. 

Plain dough: knead until smooth and cover. 

Brown dough: add ¼ tsp chocolate emulco and knead until smooth. 

6. To the plain and brown dough, roll into log and divide dough into 5 (~26g). 

7. Flatten the prepared dough into an 8-cm circle. Put the filling and pinch to seal. Dust the dough ball. 

8. Place the ball in, press and push out the mooncake. 

9. Store the cakes in an airtight container (label) and refrigerate for about 1-2 hrs for the mooncake to become firm before consuming. The mooncakes stay soft at least for several days. Enjoy! =) 

With lots of love, 

Susanne

 

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' Animals in Bee Suit' Marshmallow-Choux Pastry Delight

 If you want to learn the basics of deco marshmallows and choux pastries in one session, come and join me for this class!

The bee suit is made of patterned choux pastries and the animals are made of honey passionfruit vanilla marshmallows. The inside of the pastry is filled with dark chocolate passionfruit truffle and honey jelly.

I made the filling such that it is safe to leave it out in the hot tropics as it doesn't contain dairy. Great for gifting or party venues where there isn't air conditioning in hot Singapore.

Please click on this link for more information or to register for this class. There are two dates to choose from to suit your schedule. Don't be intimidated by the long hours as I want the participants to enjoy the process and not rush. You may leave early if you are done early 😊.

See the squish of the marshmallows in this reel!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6ORSsXSL5o/?igsh=MWg0eDNrNDg3aDlvdg==

with love,

Phay Shing

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