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Lemon Cake with Butter Cream Filling Recipe

This time round wanted to know the difference between the quality of a cake when whisked with a balloon whisk instead of an electric mixer. Slice of lemon cake with butter cream filling It was very delicious, lemony and moist – there was a slight difference in texture; it wasn’t as soft as cake mixedContinueContinue reading “Lemon Cake with Butter Cream Filling Recipe”

7 Easy Steps to Torte and Decorate a Mini-Cake with Royal Icing

Today’s recipe will be Royal Icing and how to torte a cake and decorate with it. You may be wondering what ‘torting’ is – if you don’t already know; torting a cake is taking a layer of cake you have baked and slicing it into many layers. Lemon Mini-cake with Royal icing This is aContinueContinue reading “7 Easy Steps to Torte and Decorate a Mini-Cake with Royal Icing”

Lavender Mini-Cookies Recipe

Today’s recipe is a favorite – it has Lavender in it and we ‘heart’ lavender ^_^ Lavender Flower This cookie recipe uses fresh lavender herbs (leaves & flowers), however if you can get dried lavender leaves and flowers as well, you can use them. Make sure you use half of the stated ingredients below sinceContinueContinue reading “Lavender Mini-Cookies Recipe”

Delicious Green Cherry Fruit Cake Recipe baked with a charcoal oven

It has been a while since a recipe was posted so we’re definitely making sure we remedy that ^_^ Today’s recipe is a fruit cake with dried fruits and green cherries. The green cherries were left over from a previous order, so wanted to put them to good use. They are the glace kind, justContinueContinue reading “Delicious Green Cherry Fruit Cake Recipe baked with a charcoal oven”

BAKING WITH A CHARCOAL OVEN: 4 Tips on Maintaining Your Charcoal Oven

In this post on our BAKING WITH A CHARCOAL OVEN Series, we’ll focus on a few ways to maintain your charcoal oven. If you have just gotten your charcoal oven, read this post on how to get started with it. If you’re not sure how to maintain your charcoal oven, here are a four easy,ContinueContinue reading “BAKING WITH A CHARCOAL OVEN: 4 Tips on Maintaining Your Charcoal Oven”

Chocolate Cookies Recipe

For today’s Flavor Friday feature, we’re going to share a chocolate cookie recipe! Very delicious, hope you like it. We sure did ^_^ Chocolate Cookies Ingredients: * 11/2C  All-Purpose Flour * 1/4t   Baking Powder * 1/4C   Cocoa Powder * 1  Large Egg * 1t        Vanilla Essence * 1/2C    Margarine (or Butter) * 1/2 C     ContinueContinue reading “Chocolate Cookies Recipe”

Vanilla Cookies Recipe

Today’s recipe is a simple, delicious vanilla cookie. These were great with milk, they’re really easy to make! Yummy Vanilla Cookies Ingredients: All-Purpose Flour – 2 cups Baking Powder     – 1 tspn Margarine            – 1 c Sugar                   – 1 c Vanilla Essence    – 2 tspn Egg                  ContinueContinue reading “Vanilla Cookies Recipe”

3 Tips on dealing with differences between Electric or Gas ovens and Charcoal Ovens

 In this post on our Baking with A Charcoal Oven Series, we want to give you a few tips on getting past the differences between charcoal ovens and gas or electric ovens. Charcoal Oven We hope this helps you in getting used to baking with your charcoal oven. Lighting your oven While lighting a gasContinueContinue reading “3 Tips on dealing with differences between Electric or Gas ovens and Charcoal Ovens”

Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

This week’s recipe is a pastry recipe. A personal favorite – Cinnamon Rolls ^_^! Delicious Cinnamon Rolls! You can also add raisins in this recipe to make it truly delicious and if you would like, add some royal icing on it. Hope you have fun baking these as much as we did! Ingredients: All-Purpose Flour -ContinueContinue reading “Cinnamon Rolls Recipe”