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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!
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Happy New Year 2021!! Finally got ube halaya from Asian market and was determined to bake something with it, thus chose ube sesame cake over ube chocolate cake. As a matter of fact, ube chocolate could have been a better combination as both ube and sesame are strong flavors and could play central role in cake. Separating them is not a bad idea.
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Merry Christmas!! This was a special Christmas that everyone in the apartment stayed back and did not fly home because of the pandemic. There was no tree in the apartment nor other decoration. To make the holiday festive, I made a cake inheriting Christmas color green and red, and made up for real Christmas tree with piped Christmas trees on the cake 🙂
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Got a request to make a cake with either coffee or taro flavor, thought it would be a fun experiment to combine these two flavors together in the same cake, so I decided to try a taro coffee cake. Trying a new way to decorate cake, other than piping whipped cream patterns, I went for MIRROR CAKE! I would rate this cake for a 5/10 success for mirror glaze, 9/10 success for new flavor innovation! I also included mirror glaze mistake demo at the end!
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Work has been busy lately, which surge my urge to bake even stronger. A friend’s birthday arrives right on time and now I am branching out to bake a cake for her birthday — chocolate coconut cake! Would love to share what I did well and did badly for my first cake as future tips!
