This One-Pot Meat & Potato Dinner meal is easy to make and uses just five main ingredients. It’s a one-pot dish so you don’t have to worry about a pile of dirty dishes to wash after. You can make it with either pork of beef. I love its simplicity and taste!
Wedding Anniversary Cake – Chocolate Cake with Wild Berries Mousse & Chocolate Mousse
This is our 13th wedding anniversary cake – a delicious chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache, chocolate mousse and wild berry mousse. The frosting is the chocolate ganache buttercream I shared with you before. Also, I sprayed the cake with a thin layer of tempered chocolate. I fell in love with the velvet texture I […]
How to Make Chocolate Balls / Spheres
If you’re trying to learn how to make chocolate balls / spheres to decorate your cakes, I’ve got the easiest way to show you. I have both half-sphere silicone molds and full sphere ones and, in my opinion, using the full sphere molds below plus the method I’m presenting is the easiest way to make […]
Ninja Birthday Party – Dessert Ideas + Activities & Games
In this post, I will show you how to organize a Ninja Birthday Party and give you ideas for desserts (with full tutorials on how to make them) as well as for activities and games you can organize for your kids. Our kids went through a Ninja phase two years ago. They would literally wear […]
Egg Bears
These egg bears are super cute and even easier to make that my very popular egg snowmen. They are fun to make with the kids and a great addition to your appetizer platters this holiday season!
Jungle Safari Cake
I made this Jungle Safari Cake a while ago for Daniel’s 1st birthday party. This post ends my series of posts about a Safari / Jungle Themed birthday party. Here are all the other posts in case you missed them: Part I – Dessert Ideas Part II – Appetizers, Finger Foods & Snack Ideas Part […]
Canned Pears
You can enjoy canned pears straight from the jar or in cobblers, pies or sauces for ice cream or pancakes. They can be canned in simple sugar syrup or you can add in some spices like vanilla, cinnamon and cloves for an extra kick in flavour. When you pick your pears, make sure they are […]
Spider Cake
While the Ghost Cake was the kids’ favourite one, this Spider Cake was my favourite. I loved creating a cute 3D cake without having to use fondant for the details (which I almost always use for my custom 3D cakes). Also, I enjoyed covering the Spider Cake with the velvet texture made out of chocolate. […]
Ghost Cake
Out of the three Halloween cakes I made this year, this Ghost Cake received the highest number of votes from the kids – for both flavour and looks. I used a chocolate cake. However, if you don’t like this, you can use a vanilla cake or have a look at this section of my blog […]