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Constellation Inspiration is a sweet, buttercream-coated journal that started in early 2015.  

A journal I was hesitant to start but one that I am so glad that I did. I have always struggled with starting a new journal or notebook; I never wanted to ruin the pristine, clean nature of the blank slate and writing the first letter on the first page has always proven to be the biggest challenge. But once the first word has been gently etched on, the rest just flows.

The words all flow at an ebullient rate until it becomes an ode, a love letter of some sort. One that declares my love for all things beautifully sweet. Once the first recipe was developed and the first set of photos was edited, the desire to learn more, the hunger to create, and the need to perfect, overtook me. 

These recipes, these love letters dedicated to all things delicate and sweet, are inspired by seasonal flavours and florals. They are also inspired by places I have been and flavours that have lingered since. They are grounded by many accounts of late-night recipe testing that took precedence to whatever else I was doing at that time. 

At that time I was completing my Master’s degree. In psychology, to be exact. I loved psychology and still do. I will never regret dedicating over six years of my life and a bit of my sanity to it. But it was during this time I found myself in a love affair with creating. I bake to create. To create something that really shows that the sum is indeed greater than its parts of flour, butter, and sugar.  To create something that shows that there is splendor in the familiar and you can always tease beauty out of the prosaic.

I bake in my tiny little kitchen in Vancouver, BC. But inspiration stems from all over. I still catch myself dreaming about the Ispahan croissant I lined up for outside the Pierre Hermé storefront on a rainy Parisian afternoon, the English pea cake that ended the most perfect meal at Rose’s Luxury in Washington D.C., and the mountain of fresh beignets I washed down with a café au lait at Café du Monde in NOLA. I travel to eat, to experience, and to be inspired.
Ultimately, this journal is a collection of recipes, stories, and love letters that are sweet to read, and even sweeter to eat. 

These love letters are dedicated to you.

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Lunar New Year Cookie Box

This Lunar New Year cookie box is inspired by a 'Chinese New Year Tray of Togetherness' (全盒), a goodie box imbued with symbolism. For my cookie 全盒 this year, I made different cookies with flavours I've enjoyed growing up: black sesame wreaths, black sesame linzers, shortbread oranges, as well as kinako cookies
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Grilled Chewy Rice Cake (燒餅)

These rice cakes only have two Chinese characters for its description, 燒餅, and the best translation for it would be 'grilled rice cake.' What the simplicity of the name doesn't tell you unfortunately is what truly makes these grilled rice cakes so special – it uses glutinous rice flour instead of regular rice flour, which produces a mochi-like texture. Grilling or frying these mochi-like cakes give them an extra layer of flavour and texture compared to traditional steamed mochi.
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Easy Sugared (Tanghulu-style) Strawberries

Since I have been sharing Instagram Stories tutorials of many of my favourite childhood treats, I knew I had to share a recipe for these sugared strawberries. This is perhaps the most simple ‘recipe’ of all the childhood...
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Cute Everyday Japanese Cookie Box Inspiration

If you asked me what is the one thing I love baking and photographing more than anything else I would not even hesitate for a moment to tell you that I love creating cookie boxes. What started as...
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i just saw my first cherry blossoms of the season! i just saw my first cherry blossoms of the season!! so i’m going to start making 🍡🍡🍡 now!! brb!!

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✨🏮 lantern festival 🏮✨ marks the last da ✨🏮 lantern festival 🏮✨ marks the last day of chinese new year and one of the best parts about the festival is eating tong yuen (glutinous rice balls). instead of serving traditional sesame-filled glutinous rice balls this year, i am adding homemade taro and yam glutinous rice balls into one of my favourite traditional chinese dessert soups, 芋頭西米露 (taro and sago pearls in coconut milk). i shaped my taro and yam glutinous rice ball dough into hearts and stars because family is an important theme during chinese new year and serving heart-shaped tong yuen to my family is extra meaningful to me. to those that celebrate chinese and lunar new year, i hope you had a wonderful and safe celebration this year and may year of the ox bring you and your loved ones so much happiness. recipe is on the blog — link in the biooooo!

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red bean cream! matcha cream! pandan jelly! choux! red bean cream! matcha cream! pandan jelly! choux!

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fruit sandos ftw !! 🍓🍊🥝🍑🍈 ⠀ ⠀ fruit sandos ftw !! 🍓🍊🥝🍑🍈

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