Today I finally tackled “Mission Fondant”. And I failed miserably. This recipe made it sound oh so simple. And everything went well as I was microwaving the fudge out of my marshmallows. But everything went downhill with adding the powdered sugar. First, my mixer got stuck. I waved it off and decided to mix it [...]
As announced, I got up early at a reasonable time on Saturday to bake lemon curd slices. The recipe called for a rectangular baking pan, but I don’t have one of those and thought my trusted Tchibo pie pan would suffice. It did I used one of lecker’s recipes, as usual: As [...]
It’s been awhile since my last baking extravaganza in May, when I baked the infamous rainbow cake. A lot has happened since then, albeit not on the baking front. For one, I am now maid of honour to the rainbow-cake-birthdaygirl! And I was asked to bake the couple’s wedding cake to which I answered: “Challenge [...]
Today was a friend’s birthday and she deserved something nice and pretty. Since she got a pocket knife as a gift, albeit a pretty one, something special was warranted, something girly. In the last months my dreams were haunted by technicolour cupcakes like those: Oooh, pretty! When my favourite cooking magazine‘s last edition [...]
