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Mulberry tea cake. Edible Obsession: My Fair Lady Flower Tea Cakes. Hi everyone!

Edible Obsession: My Fair Lady Flower Tea Cakes

It’s Claire Thomas here, with some sweet treats inspired by one of my all-time favorite movies. Now, I know we all love Lizzie and Darcy (Pride & Prejudice, in case you missed that one), but honestly, my favorite prideful curmudgeon and the outspoken free spirit that changes him is Henry and Eliza, from My Fair Lady. Henry is an epic chauvinist. Think next level. Elvis Presley’s Favorite Pound Cake. Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Lava Cake. Need to satisfy your sweet tooth?

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Lava Cake

Look no further…vegan chocolate lava cake! This post comes from one of our August Magalog muses, Lexie Smith! A few weeks ago, a reader requested a recipe for a vegan chocolate lava cake. This epitomizing, omnipresent indulgence is something no one ought to be denied, regardless of dietary restrictions. Chamomile Cake with Honey Frosting. This cake is up on da blog.

Chamomile Cake with Honey Frosting

Which means I’m officially out of a slump (I think). I feel like there’s been this little emoji cloud hanging above me as I walk around. I flunked at making yeasted biscuits. They were boring and bland and made me fall asleep because I hated them so much. CAKE DAY! — molly yeh. Valentine's day is not for sexy lingerie, it is for cake!

CAKE DAY! — molly yeh

Because surely, it might be contradictory to have both? Blueberry Greek yogurt cake. ByJuliaonJuly 19, 2014 Follow Julia on Pinterest and Facebook and Instagram to get more recipes and dinner ideas for your weekly meal planning!

Blueberry Greek yogurt cake

Delicious blueberry Greek yogurt cake made in a springform baking pan. I love using Greek yogurt in baking, as it gives a richer texture to the cake batter. You can use either a 9×3 springform pan (like I did) or a 9 inch round cake pan. The cake comes out just of the right height (not too short and not too tall), with the texture resembling clafoutis. Citrus mini cakes + friday links — molly yeh. We moved to the farm yesterday!

citrus mini cakes + friday links — molly yeh

CAKE WITH EDIBLE FLOWERS. This was one of the prettiest shoots i’ve worked on in a while. amy merrick & max wanger brought their talents to the studio last week and we collaborated on this gorgeous floral shoot. amy had been wanting to do a project with edible flowers and decided to adorn a white cake with them. the inspiration came from this dreamy watercolor dress shown above.

CAKE WITH EDIBLE FLOWERS

(which is on sale here) this would be such a gorgeous wedding cake, don’t you think? Edible flowers used in the post- rose petals, geranium, dianthus, carnations, calendula, violets, pansies, violas, lilac, camomile and nasturtium leaves and blossoms. Sourcing edible flowers- try to search your local farmers market, garden center or specialty grocery store for flowers and plants that have been organically grown. Since many of these flowers won’t have been grown to consume, they may have a much heavier application of pesticides which is why sourcing organic is important. To prepare your flowers- throughly wash and dry the flowers.

Recipes — molly yeh. RECIPE: PISTACHIO AND ALMOND CAKE (GLUTEN FREE & DAIRY FREE) — molly yeh. Chocolate Orange Cake (Vegan & GF) Matcha cake with black sesame buttercream — molly yeh. Clues cake: preheat oven to 350. for an 8-inch cake, grease two 8-inch round cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment. for medium or mini cakes, grease a half sheet pan (18" x 13") and line the bottom with parchment. in a large bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients. in a medium bowl, whisk together all the wet ingredients except for the boiling water. whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and then stir in the boiling water. it will be a very thin batter. pour into cake pans and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. begin checking for doneness at 20 minutes for a sheet pan and 28 minutes for round cakes. if you're making a round cake, let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes, and then turn the cakes onto a lightly greased cooling rack. make your frosting (below) and decorate as desired. frosting: use an electric mixer to beat all ingredients together until smooth.

matcha cake with black sesame buttercream — molly yeh

Chocolate chili splatter paint cake — molly yeh. A list of things that inspired this cake, which features chocolate and cayenne in a house made of tequila frosting and a splatter painted roof: 1. a few months ago, i found myself sleeping under a very large, very spectacular splatter painted portrait of beethoven when it became clear that a splatter painted cake would be extremely fun to make. i'm trying to expand my cake decorating repertoire past farting whales and sprinkles and i'm really happy with my progress. 2. last week at the honky tonk*, my new friend ashley bought me a tequila shot with the one requirement that instead of putting salt on my hand, i use tabasco sauce. brilliant!

chocolate chili splatter paint cake — molly yeh

Funfetti cake — molly yeh. The layers are, from bottom to top: store-bought sprinkles, marzipan, nonpareils, and homemade sprinkles. many of the sprinkles fell right to the bottom and still the colors didn't pop too well. also, eggboy thought that decorating the cake with sprinkles on the outside took away from the sprinkles on the inside. three points, eggboy!

funfetti cake — molly yeh

Ok so what did i learn from this step? The sprinkles need to be suspended in thicker batter and the batter needs to be whiter. how do we make a batter whiter? Eliminate egg yolks. how do we make a batter thicker? With the help of john the baker from the town bakery, i learned three ways: use a higher protein flour (cake flour has a low protein percentage, so perhaps sub some of it for all-purpose flour), use less liquid ingredients and more solid ingredients (butter instead of oil, for example), whip the egg whites to peaks before folding them in with the rest of the ingredients.

Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Italian Meringue. If you’ve never had Italian Meringue Buttercream, you are missing out on a great pleasure and should rectify the situation immediatly. Like, today. It’s sublimely smooth, rich and etherial, and not too sweet. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t love it – even the “non-frosting” people (you know who you are). I should know. Blueberry Lavender Shortcakes. When my daughter was little and we were living in Tennessee, we would celebrate the arrival of the warmer months by eating our weight in homemade, berry laden shortcakes.

As a single mom I didn’t always have a lot of money for extra ingredients and would attempt to work magic with what I had on hand in the kitchen. Buying everything I needed to make a pound cake (let alone purchasing a pre-made one) just for the sake of the two of us eating shortcake wasn’t an option. I did, however, always have the ingredients on hand to make homemade from scratch biscuits.

With the addition of a little extra sugar in the batter they were the perfect accompaniment to our sweetened berries and cream. Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake Recipe & Video. Delicious lemon birthday cake. Edible Obsession: Blueberry Boy Bait. After spotting this recipe on one of my favorite foodie blogs, Smitten Kitchen, I couldn’t resist blogging about it. It’s pretty easy to understand why… Behold: Blueberry Boy Bait.

Rumor has it, this treat was blessed with it’s great name back in 1954 when a young girl stole the show in a junior Pillsbury Bake-Off after announcing her treat was named for the effect it had on boys. Cute, right? You’d think Boy Bait would consist of a top sirloin and some seriously creamy mashed potatoes–but you would be wrong. After putting this recipe to the test, I was pleasantly surprised to find the name yielded said results. Cherry Clafoutis - Minimally Invasive. Rhubarb Cake with Honey Meringue Topping Recipe - decor8. Would you like a delicious recipe for baking a summer fresh rhubarb cake?

This is Lisa and I just arrived home from a week in sunny, dazzling Mallorca. We stayed at a beautiful hotel where we were served delicious food created by cooks who rattled pans and spoons as they laid out a twice daily buffet. It was a wonderful feeling not to have to stand in the kitchen and cook for myself, not have to clean up afterwards and to be able to choose from many different dishes and taste little bits of this and that instead. It was splendid, but to be honest, after a week of such a culinary explosion, it became a bit overkill! I caught myself looking forward to homemade food again, the kind that I make with my own hands and lots of time, with my daughter. I also was able to spend lots of quality time with my five-year-old daughter — at the beach and in the pool — which was about time, and very important for both of us.

Peach upside down cake recipe. Recipe: peach upside down cake It would seem that everyone on the flats got word of the leaves turning and came in droves to the mountains over the weekend. Either that or they were looking for their final summer jaunt before the autumnal equinox arrives this Saturday. Bluebird skies and gold stands mark the start of my favorite season. We lose our daylight hours fastest this time of year. cottonwoods gone yellow sunsets don’t linger as long We drove in the opposite direction from most of the traffic and joined my parents for dinner at our favorite sushi bar in Boulder.

Hamachili special And the farmers market was abuzz with activity. 2-Ingredient Chocolate Pudding. Three-Ingredient Flourless Peanut Butter Cake on Craftsy. Peanut butter, eggs and sugar. If you have these three foods in your pantry, then you can be eating this incredible flourless peanut butter cake in less than an hour. Really. Photos via CakeSpy. Table for 2.... or more: Avocado Milk Pound Cake - Avocado Week # 2. Today is my last day of Child Care Leave (Cuti Jaga Anak). 3 years have passed. Time flew by. And Lyanne is now in kindergarden.

But I'm not going back to school tomorrow. I applied to finish up my quota, that is another 2 more years. Lemon Rosemary Yogurt Cake. Flourless Chocolate Cake. Happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you believe in the holiday of love or not, I think there’s one thing we can all agree on… chocolate! I don’t ever need an excuse to eat chocolate, but if there’s one readily available, then I’m more than happy to take advantage of it. Lemon Cranberry Bundt Cake. This post comes from our contributor Jill of a Better Happier St. Sebastian. Mix Material : Butterscotch Spiral Coffee Cake. Old Fashioned Butter Cake. Cakeworks: Summer Single Serve#1: Angel Food Cake. Angel food cake is a great figure friendly light summer cake. It has no fat, i.e no butter , no yolks, no oil- not even a drop. It is made from the simplest of ingredients: egg whites, all purpose flour, sugar and salt. Compare these four ingredients to the 18 found in a Boxed angel food cake mix,"Sugar, Wheat Flour Bleached, Egg White, Corn Starch, Leavening (Baking Soda, Citric Acid), Modified Corn Starch, Corn Syrup, Calcium Chloride, Corn, Modified Soy Protein, Salt, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean or Cottonseed Oil, Cellulose Gum, Artificial Flavor, Dextrose, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (A Whipping Aid), Color (Yellow 5 & 6, Red 40, Blue 1), Nonfat Milk.

" When you think about it, an angel food cake is really just a souffle. Souffles are single serve all the time right? Honeycomb Crunch Chocolate Cake.