Easiest Way to Make Number Cakes – No Special Pans & No Cake Waste
Number cakes are a popular choice for celebrations, and you don’t need a special pan or to waste any cake to make a beautiful, personalized number cake. Here’s the simplest method that saves you time and cake scraps—without compromising on style or taste! With this method there’s no cake waste or extra cutting needed!
Read MoreLamb Haggis / Terrine (Drob de Miel)
Romanian Lamb Haggis is one of the most popular dishes cooked around Easter. It’s made of minced lamb innards (heart, liver, lungs, kidneys), green onions, eggs, fresh dill and parsley. All these wrapped in a caul (or pasta sheet) and roasted like a meatloaf. We serve it as an appetizer with green … Read More
Funny Tomato (Frog) Stuffed With Eggplant Salad
Today I’m going to show you how to make an easy and funny vegetarian appetizer which I hope will bring a smile to your face :) . Time: 15 min, Prep: 15 min. Servings: 4 Ingredients: 4 tomatoes … Read More
First Communion Open Book Cake (Chocolate Ganache & Mascarpone Filling)
My cake baking challenge for this weekend was to make a first communion cake for our friends’ sweet little girl. I decided to bake an open book cake with two layers of filling – first layer with chocolate ganache & sour pitted cherries and the second one with a mascarpone cheese filling. It was … Read More
Romanian Easter Cake with Cheese (Pasca cu Branza)
Pasca cu Branza is a traditional Easter dessert that is specific to the north-eastern part of the country (in Moldavia). It can be simple, with jagged margins, or it can have dough braided edges. Sometimes a cross-shaped braid is placed in the middle, representing the crucifixion of Jesus. People … Read More
Roasted Lamb with Rosemary and Lots of Garlic
This is a dish for lamb and garlic lovers! The only time of the year when we eat lamb is at Easter. It’s the second year I cooked lamb since we moved to Canada but the first time it actually tasted delicious. This is mainly because we found a very good place to buy fresh Ontario lamb (thanks Alina … Read More
Easter Cake with Bunnies and Eggs
This is the funniest cake I’ve ever made for Easter so far. It’s an easy-to-make cake with a delicious and refreshing yogurt filling and decorated with a basket weave pattern made of vanilla buttercream icing. I filled the Easter basked with green coconut grass, added some Smarties mini eggs and 2 … Read More
How to Make Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
I got this recipe from Baking with the Cake Boss book. It’s a pretty basic vanilla frosting recipe, easy to make and great for icing your cakes. Makes about 4 cups, enough to fill and ice one 9-inch cake Ingredients: 2 ½ cups (5 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 5 cups powdered sugar 1 Tbsp … Read More
How to Dye Easter Eggs with Leaf Imprints
If it’s Easter, it’s time to decorate some eggs! Dyeing eggs with plants is fun and easy and the nice part about this is that every egg will be wildly different :). You will need: white eggs Egg dye Cups for dyes Old pantyhose thread Leaves … Read More
Chocolate Ganache with Sour Cherries Filling
Ingredients: 300 g semi-sweet chocolate 300 ml whipping cream 250 g red sour pitted cherries in syrup, drained The standard ratio for chocolate ganache is 1:1 (1 part semi-sweet chocolate, 1 part cream). However, I find that with the type of chocolate that I am using it's better if I add … Read More