Join me on my quest of making homemade treats with less sugar!
Here’s the recipe for a layer cake that I made for my daughter’s birthday in June. The cake layer is super soft and fluffy and I used an extra tall pastry ring to help me with the layering. It is recommended that you use a scale to weigh the amount of mousse for each layer.... Continue Reading →
This chiffon cake is quite similar to Chocolate Chiffon Cake but with a hint of Kahlua flavor. The fats in cocoa powder is problematic as it tends to deflate the meringue at a faster rate, leading to a shorter cake. In order to compensate for the volume loss, I usually implemented the following two tricks.... Continue Reading →
Another Chocolate cake lol. This chocolate butter cake is made with milk rather than sour cream or yogurt which was usually stated in my other chocolate butter cake recipes such as Chocolate Bundt Cake, Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake or Chocolate Butter Cake. Since milk is a lot thinner than sour cream or yogurt, the... Continue Reading →
I made this sponge cake as a base to make a cake for my friend’s birthday recently. The cake was free of dairy products but still tasted great. I have readers who told me about their failure when making sponge cake, especially the chocolate version. Everything was fine when beating the whole eggs, but then... Continue Reading →
I’ve been experimenting with trehalose recently and here’s a chocolate butter cake that I made yesterday. The recipe was adapted from Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake and I did not add any oil and syrup for moisture this time. The result was satisfactory as the cake wasn’t overly sweet nor dry at all. 這陣子都是試驗在糖中混入海藻糖做牛油蛋糕，昨天就做了這個修改自朱古力酸忌廉蛋糕的朱古力味牛油蛋糕。這次沒有添加油和糖漿保濕，但效果仍是挺好的，整體味道不太甜，蛋糕質地也不乾。 Sour... Continue Reading →
I got some ripe bananas at home that nobody was interested in. So in they went to my mixer for a moist and delicious cake. I’ve started using a combination of trehalose and organic sugar for butter cakes recently for reduced sweetness without giving up moisture and so far I’m pretty satisfied with the result.... Continue Reading →
I’ve shared several recipes for chocolate flavor foam cakes before. Double Chocolate Chiffon Cake is super chocolaty which has a brownie-like texture. Chocolate Chiffon Cake is the typical fluffy chiffon cake. Chocolate Genoise is a bouncy cake that is sturdy enough for fondant cake. Flourless Chocolate Cake is, well, flourless (and yet it tastes amazing).... Continue Reading →
Here’s what I made for my daughter’s 11th birthday. I was grateful that the government of Ontario allowed people to create social circles of up to 10 people since mid June so we could bring a cake to my aunt’s house the weekend before my daughter’s birthday for dinner. On the day of her birthday... Continue Reading →
A reader asked me if it was possible to use my Fluffy Chocolate Cupcakes recipe to make a chocolate layer cake for fondant cake. My answer was a no as the cake is too soft and fluffy so would be easily distorted. When the fondant is draped over, the icing may gradually ooze out from... Continue Reading →
The picture of a beautiful chocolate cotton cake my friend recently posted on Facebook has evoked my memory of my cooked dough cake from last year. I made that cake with reference to my my Tang Mian Sponge Cake and 妃娟's 黃金可可蛋糕 (literally Golden Chocolate Cake). The Tang Mian method helps to coat the flour... Continue Reading →
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