Having fun baking and decorating cakes- come along for the ride.
FAQ: Do you have a 10″ Madeira cake recipe? Yes I do, but boy do people seem to be having problems with it! It got to the point where I was starting to think there was something wrong with it. Readers were having cakes with soggy middles and deep dark crusts on the outside. There were massive domes …
Darcey’s Easter Nests Last week Darcey came home from Cubs having made these really cute Easter Nests. They take literally 10 minutes to make, twenty minutes to harden up and just seconds to devour. My mini chef She’s becoming a bit of a whiz in the Kitchen of late. A few weekends ago she asked …
FAQ: How to use Sugar Syrup on Cakes? Ahhh Sugar Syrup. My new and most amazing discovery! It’s the small things that seem to make the biggest difference in my baking. I hadn’t even heard of sugar syrup until I went to the Peggy Porschen sugar roses class last year. I mean I had heard of it …
Agent Asher (aka the other little man in my life) was 7 in January. He and Darcey are mad on playing Spy games. Asher creates alarms that go off when you walk past a beam (YES! at 7!!) and Darcey has been practicing sneaking around, hiding, then jumping out on me to see if I knew …
Madeleine cakes Yep, that’s right Mr MT did the baking this weekend and it was goooood! A few weeks ago he announced that he wanted to make some Madeleine cakes but we didn’t have the right tin and let’s face it Madeleine cakes don’t taste right if they’re not the right shape do they now? So, I got …
Have you ever been to the Cake & Bake show? It’s one of the biggies. There’s tons to see, do, learn and let’s face it – what we all want to do – shop for new baking gadgets and gizmos! And this year I am really excited to be teaming up with them to …
