Purple Sweet Potato Namelaka with Ruby Kiwi Curd

I will be honest in that this dessert was my attempt to pair some ingredients together that felt like they would go together, but the plating was clunky to put it lightly. I had purple sweet potato namelaka, which is a white chocolate-based whipped mousse, kinako-almond crunch, which is smoky, nutty, and buttery, purple sweet…

Purple Sweet Potato Tart

When I was making this dessert, I was reminiscing of a time before the pandemic, when there was a popular dessert chain in L.A. called Cafe Bora. They were best known for serving these aesthetically pleasing purple sweet potato desserts that were dusted in vibrant lilac purple sweet potato powder, and they were all the…

Sweet snow: a layer cake

This cake was a labor of love. In that it took me two days just because of how much setting and dehydrating that needed to go into it. We have layers of fluffy strawberry chiffon cake(using some rice flour in it for an even lighter texture), strawberry leaf tea soak so the cake doesn’t go…