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Friend planned to propose on July 4th and hence made these heart shape mousse for the first time! Recipe is not optimized so needs to keep refining.
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Housewarming gift for friends who like citrusy and chocolate cake flavors. Thought about making Valencia cake (orange and chocolate flavor) at first, but since I have a jar of fig jam and a box of fresh fig, pivoted to make a fig & chocolate cake instead. However, Fig & chocolate crisp bottom is so “chocolate” heavy, completely covering the fig flavor, I decided to make the other layers fig flavor rather than chocolate + fig flavors, and only have a mirror glaze of pure chocolate flavor.
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Tried a lot of delicious fig desserts when I travelled to France, so want to catch the season of fig and make a cake out of it to share with friends at our long-due reunion trip!
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Friends made home-made pineapple jam, we also happened to have passionfruit jam from Costco, so decided to make a summer flavor cake in the spring! The passionfruit chiffon cake is very refreshing, in combination with the slightly sour passionfruit + pineapple jam to cancel out the guilt of enjoying cream!
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It’s holiday season! Getting all whimsical about cakes with various flavors. I have never made strawberry jam before, so making the jam from scratch today to add flavors to my strawberry vanilla chiffon cake for a friendsgiving potluck! Gotta say the decoration did not go as expected.. it honestly rarely does.. ha
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Matcha, Coconut and Red Bean are pretty common Asian dessert flavors. I have made a chiffon version of matcha, red bean cake with coconut frosting for friend’s engagement, decided to try to mousse cake version as well. Since I have never made a mousse cake before, decided to try for end of the year drink night with friend. The first try surprisingly still came out not bad! Except for the soggy bottom…
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Having Malaysian Cooking Night with friends and decided to contribute a pandan cake roll to the group. To add more elements (flavors, textures, etc.) to the cake roll, I make two different flavors’ cake roll and whipping cream – Ube and Pandan, two classic south Asian flavors, also made coconut jelly for the first time! I guess the GBBO 2022 is coming to an end, I am again inspired to bake more!
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My college friend got engaged on Sep 30th!! She has been dating her partner for almost (??) 10 years. The day they got engaged, was the 150th month, 4567 days since they first fell in love in high school…High school sweetheart walking into marriage together is like dream comes truth, fairytale comes true? I made the matcha red bean chiffon cake, styled as a rose to celebrate their love of a decade, and more decades to come.
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I have made rose tea cake once and I was really surprised how the tea flavor really comes out, even during baking my kitchen just smelled like rose tea! As a farewell gift to a friend moving to NYC, I made the rose & lychee chiffon cake. Has been 1.5 years since I made a cake and it turns out super soft and light! (pat pat on my shoulder ha!)
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This is my second time baking a Basque cheesecake. Last time I over-baked my taro Basque cake and did not share the recipe. This time I tried a recipe used by a few homebakers who sell their pastries — Basque Cheesecake with Pumpkin and Salted Egg Yolk! The sweetness of pumpkin and the saltiness kick from salted egg yolk might be a good combination!
