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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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Friend sent me a tiktok video with scallion croissants, as someone who loves scallion steam bun, scallion pancake and of course meat floss, I decided to recreate the scallion croissants with meat floss. Thanks to multiple croissant trials at pandemic, I was able to leverage the Weekend Bakery croissant recipe and came up with the recipe to combine my favorite flavors with my favorite pastry texture.
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It’s 2023 holiday time!! Hustling to two parties today so making some cute Christmas themed cookies 🙂
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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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Mango sticky rice has always been a dessert I love to order in Thai restaurants, but guilt by the sugar level it has… this time I tried to make mango sticky rice in a healthy way, with low-fat coconut milk, monkfruit sweetener and toasted green beans! The toasted, crispy green bean adds an extra texture to the soft sticky rice and mango.
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Baked babka quite a while ago, made me wanna bake toast, the soft toast that still attaches to each other as you tear down a piece. There are so many flavors available, from Asian toasts like scallion & meat floss, red bean & coconut custard, sesame, to western toasts like ham & cheese! Still improving my toast making skills, but after 4 toasts, I tend to believe in using this recipe.
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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!
