Birthday Cakes

Ivy on Μαΐου 26th, 2009

When my son visited us early May, just a few days before he came, it was his birthday, so we surprised him with a birthday cake. The sponge cake is the one I have been baking for years and your can see step by step instructions how to make the sponge here. I made a [...]

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Ivy on Μαρτίου 29th, 2009

How would you feel if your birthday was during Lent and you could not have a Birthday Cake?  Unfortunately this is something I had to face many times as apart from my birthday, my daughter’s birthday is a few days before mine and my son’s is exactly a month after mine, so in all three [...]

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Ivy on Νοεμβρίου 26th, 2008

It’s been exactly one month since my husband’s name day and I did not yet manage to post any of the recipes I made that day. I wanted to make something special on that day and all the recipes were of my own inspiration. The most difficult of all was the cake. I’ve never ever [...]

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Ivy on Σεπτεμβρίου 3rd, 2008

Special occasions call for special cakes. I am celebrating my 1st blogoversary and I would like to share with you one of my favourite cakes. Blackforest, Foret Noir or Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, as is the original name (literally «Black Forest cherry torte») is a cake I have been making since I was single. When I started [...]

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Ivy on Μαρτίου 29th, 2008

I won’t be writing a lot about this birthday cake as the basics are the same in most of my birthday cakes. I have made a Sponge Cake and then some Creme Patisserie and some Whipping Cream. Finally I have made a Strawberry Sauce and put the cake together as follows: Ingredients: 1 kilo strawberries [...]

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Ivy on Μαρτίου 11th, 2008

16 years ago this day was a very special day for my husband and I as our daughter Elia was born. I had already two sons a 9 1/2 year old and a 7 year old. When we found out that it would be a girl we were thrilled. During the early months of my [...]

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Ivy on Νοεμβρίου 6th, 2007

Today is my son’s birthday.   Happy Birthday Georg!! Sponge Cake:   Basic Sponge Cake Sour Cherries, for decoration Pastry Cream (Patisserie) Preparation time: 15′ Ingredients: 4 cups of fresh milk 4 heaped spoonfuls of flour and corn flour (can adjust according to your taste as follows 2 flour -2 corn flour, or 3 corn flour [...]

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Ivy on Νοεμβρίου 5th, 2007

Today is my eldest son’s birthday.     Happy Birthday George, hope to post the birthday cake soon!

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Ivy on Νοεμβρίου 2nd, 2007

Several days ago I gave you a recipe for a Birthday cake which I called Black Temptation. Today I am going to give you a similar recipe with similar ingredients but have made a few changes and the taste is completely different. Ingredients: You need a sponge cake (see recipe).   Add 1 tbsp lemon zest. [...]

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Ivy on Νοεμβρίου 2nd, 2007

Using the basic recipe for making a Spong Cake, there are so many ways to decorate it by just using your favourite ingredients. Here is one of my favourites: We shall need: Ingredients: 1 dose of sponge cake (see recipe) 1 dose of pastry cream (see recipe) 1 dose of whipping cream (see recipe) syrup [...]

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