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| It's official! |
| 2010-03-16 21:29:00 |
As you can probably tell by now, I am not able to keep posting regularly on this blog. Buuuuu. This truly kills me, but as I mentioned in my previous post my life has been turned completely upside down, it is so hectic that it has just been impossible! I will try to post as often as I can but I just can't do it with the same regularity as I used to.Hopefully one day I will be able to share with you great new recipes and photos every day, because I love this blog and the people who take the time to read it!!!For now, I will leave you with this Pucca cake that I think came out absolutely divine! Not the best picture but I was in a terrible hurry, as usual! This was a marbled red velvet and chocolate cake with ... wait for it ... Nutella filling! OMG, it was so good!!! And I think Pucca...
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| Life changing brownies |
| 2010-02-11 17:08:00 |
Last year, right around this time, my life was being turned upside down. One of those awful gut wrenching you-feel-like-the-world-is-going-to-end upside downs. My life was officially going to change forever.As it turns out, these moments of what we could call crisis are usually a blessing in disguise and as these things usually go, this was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.Of course I didn't see it that way at first, but shortly after, I realized that I was completely miserable and had been for quite some time. Little by little things started falling into place better than if I had carefully arranged them myself and I can truly say that now I am the happiest I have been in a long time, years really. I honestly cannot see myself if nothing had changed, I would probably be ...
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| Ladybugs and flowers |
| 2010-01-23 23:10:00 |
This has been a really hectic week for me. I have been overworked, under slept, ill, and just plain old tired! Right now as I am writing this post (finally a post!) I find myself wishing I were under the covers and sleeping for at least a week. I hope the coming week is not as hectic, but I highly doubt it.When I was asked to make a cake with ladybugs I was thrilled! All I could think about for 2 days was ladybugs and flowers. Enter the cake! I love making ladybugs, they're so cute and chubby. They're popping right out of the cake!Look at this top mama ladybug, how cute is that?? Seeing as how this cake was kind of short notice and I was really busy, I had to recur to the help of my dear mother. She came up with the bottom border, of which she is extremely proud, might I add. Good jo...
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| Disastrous Meringues! |
| 2010-01-17 20:54:00 |
Meringues or Suspiros as they are called here in Costa Rica were a staple at my house growing up. My mother used to make them all the time and I think it was one of the first things I ever learned to bake. They're so easy right??? Well, I have come to learn that these puffy treats can be quite temperamental when they want to. Making these meringues was a total disaster! First off I was dead tired, hmmm, could that have been the problem? Nah! You're never to tired to make these, they are quick and easy...As I separated the eggs, some broken yolk went into the whites, aaarggggghhhhh Charlie Brown! Don't you just hate that? You know you're not going to get it all, so why even try and scoop it out with the empty shell or a spoon!Then, as I was turning on the faucet so I could clean my yo...
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| A beautiful giveaway! |
| 2010-01-14 11:36:00 |
Seeing as how I have not been able to post thanks to my lack of organization and terrible memory.( I have forgotten the cable that connects my camera to my computer twice already! ) I am going to steer you towards the lovely blog of Bell'alimento so you can have a chance to win this fantastic apron! Isn't it absolutely adorable? She's giving one away, that's right giving one to a lucky winner! It's Bell'alimento's anniversary this month and if you haven't heard of the The Hip Hostess you're just missing out. To tell you the truth I hadn't seen the aprons before either, but I was just swooning over everything this morning. They have some of the hottest aprons I have ever seen! So check out their site to be amazed and don't forget to hurry on over to Bell'alimento and enter this incredible g...
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| Cinnamon Twists |
| 2010-01-10 16:58:00 |
They may not be pretty, but they are tasty!Big, chunky twisted bread sticks filled with cinnamon and sugar, drizzled with a sugar glaze. Yum! These are more commonly known as cinnamon rolls, sweet rolls or even sticky buns, but I chose to make these cinnamon twists.Who doesn't love cinnamon rolls, right? They're sweet and gooey and simply delicious. These twists are just as sweet, maybe not as gooey, but equally delicious and they smell sooooo good when they're baking, they are irresistible. To make these tasty twists, you will need:4 to 4 1/3 cups all purpose flour1 package active dry yeast1 cup milk1/3 cup butter or margarine1/3 cup sugar1/2 teaspoon salt2 eggsDirections: Combine 2 cups flour with yeast.Heat and stir milk, butter or margarine, sugar and salt until warm and bu...
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| Tasty Quiche |
| 2010-01-04 10:58:00 |
It is finally a new year!!! I can't believe it's 2010, I am so happy about this upcoming year. I have a feeling that it's going to be a great one, I just know it!!! I really want to get more into my blog this year. I haven't been posting as much as I would like, I just don't have the time you know, but I guess one of my resolutions is to post more, change a few things on the blog and really be more active with it. That said, for this post I have some tasty salty pastry. That's right, salty not sweet. As you know I'm all about desserts and baking, making my cakes and cupcakes and whatnot but this time for the first post of this new year I thought I would do something different, so I would like to introduce my vegetable quiche! I decided to give up meat a few months ago and...
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| Cooks and Cookies |
| 2009-12-28 10:59:00 |
My family is filled with cooks. It starts with our grandmother, she is a wonderful cook, my mother is an excellent cook, my aunts are great cooks, my cousin's a chef, I think even my uncle is a good cook. I have one sister who doesn't really like to cook, but I'm sure that if she wanted to cook, she'd be great. So you see, we come from cooks and we are cooks which is why it doesn't surprise me that my nieces love to cook. They like to bake most of all, but what kid doesn't love to make cookies right? I'm sure when they are all grown up they are going to be marvelous cooks!I mentioned I had five nieces right, yep FIVE girls and they all want to bake cookies every single day of course! Just the other day, my third niece decided to alter the recipe for Grandma's Cornstarch Cookies and ad...
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| A Very Very Merry Christmas! |
| 2009-12-24 12:51:00 |
Hooray I have a camera again! Actually, I always had a camera I just couldn't upload pictures, so, hooray I can upload pictures again! And just in the nick of time to show you all the Christmas cookies my niece and I made.We had a great time decorating. Remember I used Martha Stewart's recipe for Cinnamon Sugar Cookies and for the icing I like to make a sugar icing which I prefer much much more than the regular royal icing. This icing does dry hard but not quite as hard and it has a nice matte finish.For the icing you will need to mix:1 cup confectioner's sugar4 teaspoons milk2 teaspoons light corn syrup1/4 teaspoon vanillaAnd that's it! Very easy and I just looooooooove the fact that it has no egg whites!On to the cookies! I had gotten some squeeze bottles earlier in the day so that...
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| Christmas and no camera! |
| 2009-12-20 20:35:00 |
Indulge DessertsI still have no camera!! Can you believe it? I know I can't! Which is why today my pictures come from some of my very talented friends at Flickr. I have linked their names to their Flickr photostream. That first picture is from Indulge Dessets, she's just amazing, here cookies are out of this world!That said, this post is about Christmas cookies. What's Christmas without Christmas cookies right? I mean come on! They are so pretty and so festive that you feel bad about eating them. But are they really good or they just there to look pretty?I love decorated cookies. I'm in awe at the things I see sometimes, and even though it is hard work to make really pretty cookies I enjoy doing it.This year I wanted Christmas cookies that weren't the regular sugar cookies or ...
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