In my video on how to make The Best Cheesecake I showed a few pictures of the decorated cheesecake. It’s about time I explain how to do this. While I have no video on this, I hope you can follow my instructions and you too can enjoy The Best Cheesecake. read more
If you love a Snicker’s Bar® you will love this cake. Chocolate sponge cake moistened with rum flavored simple syrup, filled with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and Snicker’s Bar pieces topped with more Swiss Meringue Buttercream, Chocolate ganache, chocolate curls and more Snicker’s Bar pieces. This has to be the best cake out there. read more
I have made a No-bake Jell-o Cheesecake Dessert. You surely have heard of the classic Philadelphia Cheesecake (with or without the sour cream topping) and its sister the New York Cheesecake. How can we forget an Italian Ricotta Cheesecake. And then there is the light and airy Japanese Cotton Cheesecake. Now that you have tried the rest, it’s time to try The Best Cheesecake from Joseph (here on Desserts-101.com). This is similar to a Japanese Cotton Cheesecake style only better. read more
My finished Easy Decorated Cake for beginners. I used a water color technique and a rainbow stars.
Everyone asks me how to decorate a beautiful cake for a beginner. Well, this cake is for you. It looks fancy and people will think you spent a lot of time decorating when, with just a few tricks, you easily did it in a flash. That’s right you can do it too. Follow along and I will show you how it is done.
Learn how to make buttercream rose using a pastry bag fitted with a petal tip and a flower nail. The completed buttercream roses and then placed on parchment paper so they can be frozen prior to placing on a cake and the additional of leaves.
Decorating a cake is not super hard. Break it down into small steps and you can create your master piece everyone will envy. Here are some steps on how to do a simple cake. Ice the cake, add sprinkles to the sides, add flowers to the top, a border around to top edge, finish it off with some leaves and an inscription. Once you read through and give this a try you can see how it will be easy to apply the same technique to any cake produce. Now get decorating! read more
For my first product review I have decided to review Yankee Candles. Yankee candles are available world wide. In the US, they are available through Amazon.com and Yankeecandle.com and in Europe at YankeeCandle.com.uk.
I have reviewed 7 Yankee candles. Yankee Candles is a premium candle production company which produces a number of scented candles which are constantly changing with the season. I want to share my opinions of them. As with anything there are some I like better than others.
French Baguettes are traditionally made fresh daily. I have developed what I believe is an easy version. It used five basic ingredients. Do not be alarmed if the dough is very sticky and wet. This is a high hydration dough and it is supposed to be this way.
Baguettes make great toasted garlic bread to be served with pasta. Another great idea is to them them into French bread pizzas by slicing the loaf in half, spreading sauce, cheese and topping and baking in an oven. Use day old bread for French toast, bread puddings, croutons or bread crumbs.
