The Bisou Bake Blog
Ideas for Chinese New Year 2024
We love Chinese New Year and all the flavours that reminds us these special days spent with family and loved ones. We have been experimenting with some of these flavours in our baking kits, the results were excellent. Perhaps you may want to try these little tweaks to our baking kits to change them up a bit. Mandarin Oranges are abundant this time of year. What to do with them all? Grate the zest of a mandarin orange (or two) into your Vanilla Snap Cookie dough. The flavour of the Vanilla Snap changes completely to a fragrant almost Yuzu like...
Halloween and Refill Kits - 16th OCtober 2022
This time last year we launched our first ever Halloween Baking Kits in Singapore. It was exciting and we were so full of gratitude when so many of you bought these. This got us thinking about the cookie cutters and how many of you already have these. I thought it would be a good idea to make refill kits. Everything you need to bake a batch of decorated Halloween Cookies but without the cookie cutter. So, I am extremely pleased to have not just Halloween Themed refill packs but also Heart, Cupcake and Unicorn themed ones too. In each...
5th September - Magical Unicorns and Cupcakes!
Magical Unicorns and Cupcakes Why Unicorns and Cupcakes? Very simply it was a dear friend that made a request for a unicorn baking kit. Her daughter loved everything unicorn and it would make for a fun activity for a playdate. And so I started looking for the cookie cutters and sprinkles. Such fun we had in creating this baking kit. We found little gold unicorn horns and star sprinkles and the cookie cutters are adorable! Cookie cutters in the shape of a unicorn, a rainbow and a shooting star. Just gorgeous. While looking for the unicorn cookie cutters, I...
17th August 2022 - Where has the time gone?
My planned 10 day trip ended up being extended many times, and my stay was lengthened to close to three months. There were many things to catch up on in terms of work and I was kept extremely busy trying to sort out the issues and problems that had arisen through the last couple of years of the pandemic.
13th January 2022 - The year of the Tiger and the Pineapple White Chocolate Chunk cookies
One of my favourite Chinese New Year treats is the Pineapple Tart which is more like a tiny biscuit. Pineapple Jam and a sort of shortbread pastry. There are many versions and as far as I know everyone has their favourite and have an opinion on which is “the best”.
Inspired by these festive flavours, we invented through many trials and tweaks our cookie version. A soft chewy cookie with white chocolate chunks and a pineapple jam filled centre. While it is not traditional and certainly not competing with the traditional, these are a lot easier to make. Wonderful served warm with vanilla ice cream, these cookies also are a fun modern dessert to serve during the festive season.