This is a lego chiffon cake I made for my cutest son-in-law who just turned 3 years old! Erm.. as for why I have such a young sil.. that's another long story altogether! Haha :p
This is an updated and improved version from my 4-flavour Lego Chiffon Blocks, mostly in terms of the natural food colouring. Over the past months, I have discovered Bunga Telang flowers that makes wonderful blue colouring (top row in collage below) as well as blueberry powder (second row in collage) and beet (together with red yeast powder, bottom row) for intense purple and red natural colouring. For the green colour, I used a combination of home-made (from blended pandan leaves' juice allowed to settle overnight) as well as store-bought pandan paste for the colour. The different sectors are hence different flavoured to make use of the natural food colouring like the original post. I was also able to borrow my lovely friend Evon's square chiffon tin, so I was able to bake a taller chiffon cake. Like the previous post, I used aluminium foil as separators and removed them before baking.
Top to bottow: Blue, purple, green and red.
The picture below shows the colour of the batter from the natural food colouring alone. Really not bad at all! Mainly the blue colour needed adjustment from blue colouring.
The yellow block above was made from orange chiffon cake, coloured with orange juice and orange paste, and then adjusted with yellow colouring (cake batter is already yellow so not a lot is required).
It is actually quite a challenge to get the different sectors straight, looking like blocks! I had to bake twice in order to get a chiffon I felt was good enough ^_^". I also had a little bit of browning for the purple chiffon at the corner so I ended up painting a bit with blueberry powder in water. But thank God it turned out well. Happy birthday to Joash!!
Thanksgiving:
Thank God that the chiffon cake was very well-received! This message below was taken from my friend's whatsapp. I am really so thankful for the message!
With lots of love,
Susanne
30/8/2014
This is another Lego chiffon cake I made with a different colour scheme inspired by Lego Legends of Chima. I just wanted to share this cake because I find black much better for natural food colouring than purple (which may possibly have some browning). 2 tsp of charcoal powder is all that is needed to do the trick :).
With lots of love,
Susanne
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