Fondness for cute is alive and well in this Asian girl. I totally squealed with delight when I saw a set of Hello Kitty silicone baking mould at the store last night. Of course I bought them and gave them a test run immediately after dinner. So much for not playing the typecast Asian. I’ll tell you more about this pet peeve some other day. I have Hello Kitty cakes to show off!
Anyway, this is how the baking went.
The silicone moulds were appropriately in pink. They felt no different than all other silicone moulds I own. Pretty well-made.
I used a classic French yogurt cake recipe from Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table. You can find the recipe here. I know the cake would be sturdy enough to show off the details of the mould. Good thing I was right.
Here you get a closer look at the details. There are grooves for the whiskers too! Like most silicone bakeware, it doesn’t brown very much. I’m okay with it because I don’t want a tanned Hello Kitty anyway.
Once the cakes cooled, I did a bit of surgery. Homemade strawberry jam with pieces of candied strawberries was the perfect choice. You can probably guess where this is going.
I used a bit of melted chocolate and melted lemon baking chips to highlight the details. It was a little fussy to fill a miniature parchment cornet and pipe out the whiskers, eyes, and nose. But just looking at the finished cupcakes convinced me the extra work was worthwhile.
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OMG, aren’t they, like, the cutest???? I love the one with the classic bow just a little more. Alright, time to take a taste test.
Umm, that strawberry jam looked awfully red. And the pieces of strawberries made me think of innards (*cough* cat brains).
I think I picked the wrong mould for my first attempt at making jam-filled cupcakes. Oops.
The end.
