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Marshmallow Sweetie Flowers
Lots of fun, bright and breezy and no complicated bits and pieces required.
Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treats
Well once again it’s not quite baking but they are sweet treats, anyone would think my oven is broken! (Don’t worry it isn’t)
The boys love them, hey I love them too – there’s all sorts you can do with them.
Magic Microwave Meringues
Just a bit of fun with the children – these meringues will not win any prizes in the taste stakes but rate highly in amazement factor! The boys have loved doing these this holiday, they’re so quick and easy. I never knew you could do such a thing until a chance conversation with the lovely ladies at Baking Hot Celebrations (and if you’re not sure who I’m talking about head on over and have a peek).
Easter Lambs – Creme Egg Animals!
If you remember the Easter chicks from last year you’ll know I have a thing for turning a Creme Eggs into something else for Easter, this year it’s lambs!
You will need:
Creme Egg
Sugarpaste; white, peach/flesh/pink, black plus green and pink for flowers and leaves
Use ready coloured or colour your own using gel paste colours
Pink lustre dust and soft paintbrush
Triple Chocolate Cookies
Up to my eyes in it! – Managing a gaggle of boys is tricky at the best of times and right now Dylan has broken his foot. It turns out there’s interesting times to be had when one boy is attached to a pair of crutches.
A Bouquet of Biscuits
How about rustling up some of these for Mum this Mother’s Day?
Treat your someone special to a plate full of gorgeous flower biscuits – they’re much easier to do than they look and I know my Mum will love them!
Love Heart Biscuits
You know from my last post I wasn’t going to blog these, but so many of you asked how to do them so here’s the how to…!
You will need:
1 x batch of round biscuits – recipe here
1 x batch of glaze icing – recipe here
Disposable Piping Bags fitted with No.3 Piping Nozzles
(Equipment links to The Pink Whisk Shop)
The icing batch will decorate fully 20 biscuits but make sure you have some spare for practising on first before you go onto the ‘real’ ones!
Glaze Icing for Flooding and Decorating
Just recently I’ve been using glaze icing to decorate and flood biscuits instead of the usual royal icing, not only do I find it a million times easier to work with, it gives you great results and tastes fab too!
I know I’m going to be working on a fair few projects in the coming months using this glaze so here’s the recipe.
Biscuits for Decorating – Non Spreading, No Chilling Required!
This is a great biscuit recipe, one that doesn’t need chilling and barely spreads.
Perfect to make biscuits for decorating!
Ingredients:
220g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
1 egg, large
425g plain flour
Makes approx 30 biscuits.
Valentines Parfait
You know what everyone loves? Parfait! Seeing as hidden hearts are all over the place at the moment I thought I’d hide them in this lovely dessert too.
(And yes, I know its not baking but it is larking around in the kitchen so that’s good enough for me!)
