Cakes by Cabnolen - gourmet and customised cakes homebaker

Happy moon festival! This year I went back to the basics and made red bean matcha pastry, taro pastry, mung bean pastry (traditional + vegetarian) and ice skinned taro and mung bean mooncakes. Also for a fun experiment, rainbow mooncakes with sesame and mochi filling. Still figuring out the sesame filling to get the right texture but the taste I'm very happy with!
#中秋節 #月餅 #綠豆椪 #芋頭酥 #抹茶紅豆酥 #彩虹芝麻麻糬酥 #冰皮月餅

I saw a chocolate mousse cake online and made some swaps and turned it into a strawberry chiffon mousse cake, which worked out very well! Topped it with jelly instead and it was extremely velvety and creamy, I used real strawberries inside and turned this into a 10 inch cake for good friend's birthday.

Simple 6" taro pudding cake, with a layer of homemade taro cream and another layer of egg custard pudding, for a special birthday!

Had been quiet with the cakes then suddenly 3 cakes needed for the same weekend! Here's galaxy themed cake, 8" rich chocolate cake with cream cheese buttercream, sprinkled with golden stars and specks!

8" taro chiffon cake with fresh creamy taro filling and Chantilly cream for Ezra's birthday! Haven't had a cake order for a while, just as well as my oven died for a few weeks and only just got replaced!

Matcha chiffon cake, haven't had an order like this for a while and must admit I added a bit too much matcha! This was a 6" cake with Chantilly creme filling.

8" Jasmine chiffon cake with Chantilly creme filling for a special birthday girl!

Haven't had an order for a while, this was a 6" taro chiffon cake with taro and custard pudding filling. Tried my new scraper for the side, so pretty!

Another wedding cake added to my CV!
The bottom was a 11" chiffon with Mango Chantilly creme filling and top was 7" passionfruit Chantilly creme filling decorated with fresh flowers.

Lol urgh what a terrible photo! These were 12 dinosaurs chocolate cupcakes *with loads of turquoise icing please* for a 2 year Old's birthday!

Taro cakes have been in haitus and hello again! 6" taro chiffon cake with hand made mashed taro filling for a special someone, happy birthday Vinh!

It's Moon festival again (29th of Sept) and this year I will be offering the following mooncakes:
A. Matcha pastry with red been filling and mochi centre $7/each (75g each, shelf life 5 days)
B. Black sesame filling and mochi centre $7/each (75g each, shelf life 5 days)
C. Taiwanese Mooncake with mung bean paste & savoury filling $7/each (75g each, shelf life 5 days)
D. Taiwanese Mooncake with mung bean paste only, $7 each (75g each, shelf life 5 days)
E. Ice Skin Mooncake with mung bean paste, $6 each (60g each, shelf life 3 days)
F. Matcha Ice Skin Mooncake with red bean paste, $6 each (60g each, shelf life 3 days)

Mung bean paste & savoury filling are all hand-made, sorry no egg yolk option.

Box Set: Choose from 3 varieties below, packaged in environmentally friendly paper box.
Pastry set: any 6 from A B C D $40 per box
Ice skin set: any 6 from E F $35 per box
Combination set: one of each A B C D E F $38 per box

Taking orders until Wednesday 27th of September, please see below for pick-up dates, comment below or pm to place your order, I will pm to confirm your order 🙂

一年一度的中秋節又要到了，今年我會做:
A. 抹茶紅豆麻糬酥 $7/each （約75克，賞味期5天）
B. 黑芝麻麻糬酥 $7/each （約75克，賞味期5天）
C. 綠豆椪 + 肉燥餡 $7/each （約75克，賞味期5天）
D. 綠豆椪 + 純綠豆蓉餡 $7/each（約75克，賞味期5天）
E. 綠豆冰皮月餅 $6/each （約60克，賞味期3天）
F. 抹茶紅豆冰皮月餅 $6/each （約60克，賞味期3天）
禮盒: 三種禮盒選擇，都是用環保的紙盒子裝：
酥皮禮盒：以上A B C D 任選6入 $40 一盒!
冰皮禮盒：以上E F 任選6入 $35 一盒!
綜合禮盒：以上A B C D E F 各一入， $38 一盒！
綠豆蓉和肉燥都是自己炒的．抱歉都沒有包鹹蛋黃。
開放訂購至9月27日週三截止，以下為提訂單日期:
pickup from Ngaio 9am-5pm Fridays 星期五
22/September
29/September
pickup from Tasting Room restaurant (Courtenay place) Saturdays 星期六 between 1pm-5pm
23/September
30/September
by prior arrangement please, 請先告知提貨日我才好準備 🙂
有興趣歡迎留言, 我會私訊確認訂單哦!

It has been a busy May full of cake orders, so thanks to all the support! Last order of the month was this gender reveal cake, 6" chiffon cake with Chantilly cream and taro filling, topped with macarons. I must admit I've made macarons before and they succeeded, but it was a long time ago. After 4 failed batches the night before, I had to call it in, defeated, and sub them with store bought macarons. Felt liked I cheated, and maybe one day I will succeed again with them, but for now, borrowed the expertise of the professionals!
The cut photo was supplied by Elisha 😁

It's cake month it seems, had an order of a 7" Asian fruit chiffon cake, filled and topped with a variety of fresh fruit (omg they are so expensive!) And decorated with Chantilly cream of course!

Taro must be the flavour of the month! 7" taro chiffon cake with custard pudding filling for a special someone, happy birthday Victoria!

It sure is a taro-ful week! 7" taro chiffon cake with custard pudding and taro filling, freshly made to order for a special Elisha's birthday, happy birthday

7" taro chiffon cake with custard pudding and taro filling, freshly made to order for a special someone's birthday, happy birthday Oliver!

Had a 6" taro and custard cake order from Elisha, tried to give them more filling and ended up with a cake that's almost touching the lid of the cake box!

This year for my students concert, I decided to splurge on the flavours, went with chocolate cake with cream cheese chocolate and vanilla duo tone buttercream, sprinkled with crushed toffee candy then drizzled with homemade caramel sauce!

NEW PRODUCT ALERT!
New flavours have been added to the menu! I wasn't going to post these until after the moon festival but then got too excited when they came out successful, so taking orders for these until end of September!
These mochi are still chewy even after refrigeration, I would recommend leaving them out to defrost a bit or microwave 10sec before eating for a better taste!
A. Matcha pastry with red been filling and mochi centre $7/each (75g each, shelf life 7 days)
B. Taro pastry with taro filling and mochi centre $7/each (75g each, shelf life 7 days)
C. Black sesame pastry with black sesame filling and mochi centre $7/each (75g each, shelf life 7 days)
Box Set: Choose any 6 from the above list, packaged in environmentally friendly paper box, at $35 per box.
Taking orders until Tuesday 27th of September, please see below for pick-up dates, comment below or pm to place your order, I will pm to confirm your order 🙂

pickup from Ngaio 9am-5pm Fridays
9/September
16/September
23/September
30/September
pickup from Outside Chow (Tory Street) Wednesdays between 12noon-1pm
7/September
14/September
21/September
28/September
by prior arrangement please so I can make them fresh for you!

11" Chocolate banana cake, I really liked this recipe and glad they agree! Thank you for your support!

10" (ended up being 11") gluten free vanilla cake with homemade blueberry compote filling between both layers, along with 24 standard vanilla cake with blueberry fillings and buttercream icing. The shells are made of white chocolate!

7" vanilla chiffon cake with chantilly cream, I think my Chinese writing isn't that ugly in this instance! This word has a complex meaning of long life, birthday, year, all that shebang 😅
Ordered from my long time customer Tony

Thanks for everyone's support so far, these are flying out of the oven every few nights! Pm if you'd like to order any mooncakes before next Tuesday 21st 😁
#中秋節 ＃月餅 #芋頭酥

Got giving new moulds so trying them out, the yellow is so far the preferred design my consensus!
#冰皮月餅 #中秋節

Level 3 day one, cake order for good friend Shirley's mother's birthday done! 7" chiffon cake with taro filling and chantilly, pretty proud of my Chinese writing! I swear my writing is usually a lot uglier!

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UPDATE: Being in Level 3 & Level 2 means Friday pick-up from CBD needs to be shortened to 30 minute window instead of 9am-5pm, please discuss this with me. Alternatively pick-up from Ngaio is available both Thursdays & Fridays, let me know where you'd like to pick-up from!
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It's Moon festival again (21st of Sept) and this year I will be offering the following mooncakes:
A. Taiwanese Mooncake with mung bean paste & savoury filling $5/each (65g each, shelf life 5 days)
B. Taiwanese Mooncake with mung bean paste only, $5 each (65g each, shelf life 5 days)
C. Ice Skin Mooncake with mung bean paste, $5 each (60g each, shelf life 5 days)
D. Ice Skin Mooncake with taro paste, $5 each (60g each, shelf life 5 days)
E. Taro Pastry with taro paste, $5 each (65g each, shelf life 5 days)
F. Traditional Mooncake with red bean paste, $4 each (60g each, shelf life 7 days)
Box Set: This year I'm also adding a box set, choose any 6 from the above list, packaged in environmentally friendly paper box, at $25 per box.
Mung bean paste, savoury filling & taro paste are all hand-made.
Taking orders until end of September, please see below for pick-up dates, comment below or pm to place your order, I will pm to confirm your order :)

一年一度的中秋節又要到了，今年我會做:
A. 綠豆椪 + 肉燥餡 $5/each （約65克，賞味期5天）
B. 綠豆椪 + 純綠豆蓉餡 $5/each（約65克，賞味期5天）
C. 綠豆口味冰皮月餅 $5/each （約60克，賞味期5天）
D. 芋泥口味冰皮月餅 $5/each （約60克，賞味期5天）
E. 芋頭酥 $5/each（約65克，賞味期5天）
F. 紅豆廣式月餅 $4/each（約60克，賞味期7天）
禮盒: 這次加推出綜合禮盒, 都是用環保的紙盒子裝, 以上任選6入 $25 一盒!
綠豆蓉，芋泥和肉燥都是自己炒的．抱歉都沒有包鹹蛋黃
開放訂購至中秋節過後一周 (9月底) 截止，以下為提訂單日期:
pickup from Ngaio after 5pm Thursdays 星期四
2nd/September
9th/September
16th/September
23rd/September
pickup from top of Tory Street Fridays 星期五 between 9am - 5pm (我公司在Tory Street warehouse 對面）
3rd/September
10th/September
17th/September
24th/September
by prior arrangement please, 請先告知提貨日我才好準備 :)
Contact-less pick-up if in Level 3 and Level 2.
有興趣歡迎留言, 我會私訊確認訂單哦!

Attempted a different decoration style this time for the

This year I made chocolate ones in the style of Shaun the sheep and the lemon ones in the combo piping style that's popular online these days. Came out not too badly!

It's that time of the year again and this year I'm making 2 types of cupcakes:
Chocolate cupcake with Shaun the sheep buttercream
Lemon cupcake with paws in floral buttercream
They are priced at $5 each, all profits go to SPCA/Wellington Rabbit Rescue (I usually do half/half) Can also cater for dietary requirements and if ordering more than 6 you can choose your own flavour, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you! Pick-up in Te Aro between 9-4pm on 2nd/Aug (Monday) with arrangement.
PM me to place your orders

Here's an example of Shaun the sheep cupcake 😁