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”
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3 Simple Tips on Decorating your Cakes and Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is around the corner and we know that if you like baking like we do, you have a delicious home-baking project lined up ^_^! So when you bake those cakes or cupcakes and frost them, here are some tips to help you with the garnishing and decorating. 1. Add color to your frosting:ContinueContinue reading “3 Simple Tips on Decorating your Cakes and Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day”
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe for Flavor Friday
Today is Flavor Friday so we’re going to share a recipe with Chocolate in it since it’s our flavor of the month this March. ^_^ Today we’re sharing a Chocolate butter cream frosting recipe, it can be used on cakes or cupcakes. Chocolate Butter cream Frosting Ingredients: * 11/2C Icing Sugar * 1/8 CContinueContinue reading “Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe for Flavor Friday”
Red Velvet Mini Cupcakes recipe
We are going to share a recipe for our current flavor of the month Red Velvet. Our recipe for this week is Red Velvet Mini-cupcakes with butter cream frosting. Ingredients: 11/2c All-Purpose Flour 11/2t Baking Powder 1T Cocoa Powder 1/2c Sugar 1/2c Margarine 1 Large Egg (beaten) 1t Vanilla Essence 1t White Vinegar 1/2c ButtermilkContinueContinue reading “Red Velvet Mini Cupcakes recipe”
6 Types of Icing used for Cake decoration in Kenya
Here at Amari, we have noticed some people are making inquiries on types of icings and may not be sure of the differences. We have decided to explain some of the icings that are generally used in Kenya for cakes for a better understanding of them. Of course there are many different types out there,ContinueContinue reading “6 Types of Icing used for Cake decoration in Kenya”
Baking Equipment in Kenya-Cake Decorating
This is the second post on our series of Baking Equipment Explained. If you haven’t read our previous post, you can read it here – Baking pans. This time our focus is on equipment used for cake decoration. This post is helpful for those who would like to bake cakes at home and decorate themContinueContinue reading “Baking Equipment in Kenya-Cake Decorating”
Yellow cake Frosted Cupcakes topped with strawberries
Since we’re still in the Strawberry season, I figured cupcakes topped with strawberries were in order ^_^ No food coloring was used to give the cup-cakes their yellow color, our secret is local (Kienyeji) eggs. Their yolk is very yellow. Here is the recipe: Chocolate Frosting topped with a Strawberry ^_^ Ingredients: -11/2 cups All-Purpose flourContinueContinue reading “Yellow cake Frosted Cupcakes topped with strawberries”
Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting for any occasion!
Here at Amari, we decided to celebrate this Easter season with a very delicious chocolate cake with frosting, it was truly yummy! We’re going to share the recipe, here you go: Delicious Chocolate Cake Ingredients: – 21/2 cup All-Purpose Flour – 1 cup Sugar – 1/2 cup Cocoa Powder – alkalized – 3 teaspoons Baking PowderContinueContinue reading “Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting for any occasion!”
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