For her 6th birthday, J requested a Disney Frozen-themed party. A search on the internet quickly gave me links to templates for invites: you can print them from here. For the cake: I decided on a fondant covered cake for its ease in transport and also in decoration. Theme colours were purple and teal, which…
Category: Recipes – Sweet Treats
Whittakers’ 100s and 1000s Macarons
OH what fun when Whittakers released the 100s and 1000s pink coloured white chocolate slabs! I did a 100s and 1000s macaron before with a salted caramel filling and now there is an even easier way. All you do is make your shells, then make the ganache with the chocolate slab and voilà, you have…
Salted caramel chocolate cake with brandy ganache
Wow that was a mouthful, but trust me this is an easy cake, done in 2 hours. I don’t normally believe in ‘one-pan’ cakes but this turned out to be the most amazing cake I have done in a while (those who got to eat it loved it). The cake is adapted from Annabell White’s…
Vanilla Bean Macarons with buttercream
I have been making all sorts of crazy flavours lately and my colleague requested her favourite flavour – vanilla. A good vanilla dessert calls for good quality vanilla bean, not any of the imitation stuff. I’ve used seeds from vanilla bean to flavour the shells and then a Heilala vanilla paste to flavour the buttercream….
Salted Caramel Macarons
It happened to be my work’s third birthday a few weeks ago and in celebration I made these aqua blue macarons and paired them with my all time favourite – salted caramel filling. I might have to make a salted caramel cake next, such is my addition to the salty sweet caramelly flavours. Watch this…
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