'Thomas the Train' Blue pea flowers-2-tone Pandan Chiffon Cake

Ah Thomas the train again! It seems to be so popular among kids. It's one of the hardest characters to make as faces are really difficult to sculpt, but it was requested by a close mummy friend so it was really difficult to refuse her (usually toppers would have been required). The is sculpted from a 'bowl' chiffon cake, and mounted at the side of a 6-inch Blue pea flowers chiffon cake. I also cut blue strip and grey strips from sheet cakes to complete the Thomas profile, using melted marshmallows to stick on. The base is a 9-inch Pandan 2-tone chiffon cake (waves in Creative baking: Chiffon Cakes).

Sorry that my blogging has been so slow lately. I have difficulty juggling with my 3 kids, book launch, cake making, blogging and answering questions =p. Sometimes I'm so busy I feel like a clown! But I'm still current on Instagram as I only need to post pics, especially before I forget that I made it.

Blessed Thursday! Over the mid-week hump.. yay!

With lots of love,
Susanne

And here's my newest labour of love, at all major bookstores now (Popular, Kinokuniya, Times etc).

It features step-by-step guide to new 3D patterns, cute animals and pops, festive cakes, and an extended 6-page detailed troubleshooting guide and basic section. In addition, there are trending new flavours like Salted egg yolk lava chiffon cake! More information here. 

There's also a book event coming in Oct, so do look out for the flyer coming soon!

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Thomas the Train Engine Yard Chiffon Cake

I was given the challenging task of making a Thomas the train engine yard from chiffon cake for a dear mummy friend so.natty some time back. My first thought was that it was not possible. But then I realized it was actually similar to pointed waves in the new cookbook, Deco Chiffon Cakes in the pipeline. After I stuck some green chiffon sheet cake planks with melted marshmallows over, it looked like an engine shed! The trains here are not made from chiffon though haha.. I once made a chiffon Thomas and almost died! So I told her I was unable to make so many.. =p

I would like to share a great find for natural red food coloring introduced by a baking friend. I didn’t know baking supplies stores carry a PME line of natural food coloring (only available for some colors). The natural red coloring from cochineal is a great addition to red yeast rice powder for coloring the cake red naturally. The PME also carries natural green food colour. Unfortunately, blue was not available, so I had to use blue pea flowers (with a dip of wilton blue gel to brighten the shade).

Chiffon cake was lemon chiffon cake, divided 2/3 red and 1/3 blue as mentioned above.

Thankful cake was very well-received and my friend shared the lemon chiffon was really yummy!

With lots of love,
Susanne


More loving creations here:

Creative Baking: Chiffon Cakes

and Deco Chiffon Cakes (in the works)

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