Saturday, 12 April 2014

Judo figures, cake toppers made in pastillaje, ready to roll icing or gum paste

Judo contest was on in my son's club and this was my gift for the rafle

The girl has brown hair mixed from red, yellow, and blue gum paste.

 This could have been better if I took a picture of the positions when the children were practicing in the club.





Children made from icing sugar, pastillaje,

I made this lovely cake for my 2 years old girl, my olders loved, I personalized my three wonderful children.
This is lola my older girl cake topper, she was with two
legs up, but moving around so much one leg got broken, that is why we decided to make one leg up and the other down on the grass.the children had lot of fun making the flowers, the little cake, they even made a picnic basket with bananas and oranges that my son did it, that got broken because lola was so happy and she was handling too much, this icing is very easy to make at home using the right amount of water and natural powder gum, the only problem is that this paste is soft even if is mixed with egg, I think this is very cheap comparing to others paste that are glycerina or marshmallows base, also children loves using because they can eat while working with it.   

We can see it better here.
This is tasha, my 2 years old I did her more grown up, she is holding an ice cream.
And the last one is the middle one my son billy he's got a angry bird tshirt and in his hand he has a sandwich.


Ingredients for the cake :
6 onces of butter
 5 or onces of sugar
3 large eggs
1 spoon vainilla
7 or 8 onces of sift flour

Grated Lemon zest for flavour 
 spoon of baking powder 
2 table spoon of milk
For big size cake you'll need 2 cake tin and double the ingredients
Preparation:preheat the oven, beat the butter with sugar until cream, add one by one the eggs, vanilla, add the flour, baking  powder and lemon zest, pour the mix in medium size tin, take it to the oven, once ready, decorated with jam or buttercream.
Ready to roll icing sugar or pastllaje for the figures.






Saturday, 1 March 2014

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Indian te recipe

My friend Smita is from India and this s her te recipe I loved, the one she share is without the cinammon I thing this added another kind of flavour.


Ingredients for 4 people
1 Te bag 
2 mash cardamon ( optional)
1 stick of cinamon
Black pepper (optional)
Half tespoon Grated ginger



Preparation:
In a pot pour 500 ml of water add the ginger, cinammon, black pepper and cardamon bring it to cook once boiled pour 200 ml of milk and the te bag you can add 1 more if you like it strong, I enjoy with 1 let it to boil ith the milk, sift the liquid in 4 cups and add sugar, honey or nything you like.

Strawberry sponge cake with merengue pavlova


Ingredients:
Sponge cake
10 strawberry
1/2 cup sugar
300 ml of whipping cream
1 Tbs of cing sugar
merengue nest 

Preparation:
Prepared the sponge cake once cold cut in two layers, mix 2 spoon of condensed milk and 1/2 cup of any milk with a a fork wet the cake with it.
In a pan cut the strawberry in small sizes add the sugar and cook in low heat, once all the are cooked with a sauce, take them from the heat cover one layer with the sauce and the fruit.
whisk the cream add the icing, once ready cover the syrup with this and use the cream to decorated all the cake decorate the top with broken pavlova.   

 


Saturday, 15 February 2014

Pie de maracuya (passion fruit pie)

Este pie aparte del de limon es uno de mis favoritos



Ingredients:
23cm cake tin 
300gs digestives (any flavour)
2 spoons butter
1 double cream 300 ml
1/2 can of evaporated milk (410g)
3 tablespoons icing sugar(optional)
1 can of condensed milk
1 gelatin leave
8 passion fruit 

Preparation:
Mash the biscuit in other fry pan melt the butter, mixed with the biscuit and pressed in loose-bottom fluted flan tin.leaved to cool down, in a mixer put the passion fruit pulp, mixed and after sift the seeds away you'll end with a liquid, now mixed the concentrated passion fruit juice with the condensed milk until creamy, in a container beat the double cream add the icing if desire, when starting to sickness add the evaporated milk very slowly, mix for 2 minutes after add the condensed milk cream add the gelatin if needed pour into your cake.

leave to set 2 hours decorate with double cream and passion fruit juice from the pulp. Enjoy!!