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Asian-Inspired

When I first started my baking journey, making Asian-inspired treats was never my priority. I grew up eating mochi and mooncakes, so why would I want to make them. I’ve also always though that these treats were not as “fancy” and not things you would see at fancy bakeshops and patisseries. Fast forward a few years, my nostalgia for the sweets I ate growing up has increased tenfold and more importantly, I realized that a dessert doesn’t need to be many layers of genoise, buttercream, pastry to be “fancy” and delicious. Asian treats are some of my favourite things to make and eat it now and I’m so excited to share my take on the sweets I ate growing up. I love the Easy Sugared (Tanghulu-style) Strawberries, White Rabbit Candy Cupcakes, and this box of Chinese New Year Cookies. In the last 2 – 3 years, I’ve been working hard on perfect my mooncakes and these are my favourite ones so far: Kabocha Salted Egg Yolk Mooncakes with Sago Pearls.

鳳梨酥 Taiwanese Pineapple Cake (from Mooncakes & Milk Bread!)

Matcha Mooncakes with Chestnut and Salted Egg Yolk

Taro and Salted Egg Yolk Mooncakes 2.0

Bakeries in Vancouver’s Chinatown

Taro Coconut Sago Dessert Soup (椰汁芋頭+芋圓西米露)

Lunar New Year Cookie Box

Osmanthus Flower Jelly (桂花糕)

Grilled Chewy Rice Cake (燒餅)

The Ultimate Shaker Cookie Tutorial

Matcha Neapolitan Sugar Cookies

DIY Meet Fresh: Yam and Taro Ball Dessert

Dango! Warabi Mochi! More Mochi!

Chinese New Year Cookies

Kabocha Salted Egg Yolk Mooncakes with Sago Pearls

Salted Egg Yolk Crystal Sago Cakes

White Rabbit Candy Cupcakes

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a new strawberry rolling pin for spring! 🍓 som a new strawberry rolling pin for spring! 🍓

some tips for using an embossed rolling pin:
 - choose a shortbread or sugar cookie recipe that has no egg or leaveners (baking powder, baking soda)
- roll out cookie dough with a regular rolling pin, then chill dough in freezer for 5 - 10 minutes until it is slightly firm (dough should no longer be sticky)
- generously flour embossed rolling pin before using
- you can also flour the surface of the rolled, smooth cookie dough to be extra safe
- after rolling out dough with embossed rolling pin and stamping cut outs with a cookie cutter, freeze cookie cutouts on lined baking sheet before baking — this will help the cookies retain the design during the baking process

#bakefromscratch #cookiedecorating #shortbread #bombesquad #cookiedough
cherry blossoms are starting to bloom in vancouver cherry blossoms are starting to bloom in vancouver and i’m so excited to make all the mochi, dango, cookies, and jellies with one of my favourite flowers of springtime. here are some of my favourite cherry blossom treats from the previous years:

🌸 sakura cookie box
🍡 dango shortbread with matcha buttercream
🌸 hanami dango, warabi mochi, rose mochi
🍡 cherry blossom jelly cheesecake
🌸 window cookies
🍡 cherry blossom milk jellies
🌸 sakura sables

#bakefromscratch #mochi #dango #cookiebox #cherryblossoms
five easter cookies, one dough! made with @william five easter cookies, one dough!
made with @williamssonomacanada’s set of easter cookie cutters 🌷🌷🌷(ad)

marbled sugar cookies 
lemon sandwich cookies 
sparkly butterfly cookies
coconut sheep cookies
matcha vanilla carrot cookie

on the blog today im sharing all the details of how to make these five springtime cookies with my go-to shortbread dough and a set of easter cookie cutters. one batch of the dough creates all the cookies shown here.

link is in the bio!
#williamssonomacanada #williamssonoma #bakefromscratch #cookiedecorating #eastercookies
strawberry matcha cheesecake éclairs 🌷 these strawberry matcha cheesecake éclairs 🌷

these eclairs are a celebration of spring — crisp, golden brown choux pastry is filled with an intensely fruity whipped strawberry ganache and matcha cheesecake whipped cream, before being topped with it’s little hat glazed with a simple royal icing. i served these with edible flowers and edible gold flakes because we might as well go all the way. recipe is on the blog!

#bakefromscratch #choux #chouxpastry #eclair #matcha
happy first day of spring!! 🌷🌷🌷 spring i happy first day of spring!! 🌷🌷🌷

spring is one of my favourite seasons for baking because of all the delicate flavours that start blossoming this time of year. i can’t wait to make all the cherry blossom mochi, fruity pies, and floral shortbread.

#bakefromscratch #cakedecorating #cookiedecorating #sugarcookies #bombesquad

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