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Bird nest cupcake- happy Easter!

Posted on April 20, 2014 | Leave a comment

Christ is risen! Happy Easter to all of you.

May all your days be full of blessings, health and joy.

Lets celebrate with these bird nest cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.

Very easy to do, just follow me step by step:

Cupcake recipe (10 pieces)

170g butter
170g sugar
170g flour
3 eggs
1tsp vanilla

Combine the butter and sugar, then add the eggs one by one and mix well. Add vanilla and flour.

Spoon the batter in cupcake tray already prepared with the paper cases, until 2/3 full

Bake on 170ºC for 20 mns, and leave it to cool before frosting.

Cream cheese frosting:

250g mascarpone cheese
250g cream
1/2 cup icing sugar

Beat all for 5-7 minutes until you get the consistency you need.

If you like to color the cream add wilton icing gel, the quantity depends on the color hue you want to get.

Put in the fridge for half an hour before starting to frost the cupcakes

Pipe the cream using wilton 2A tip to create the nest.

Use cadbury chocolate mini eggs.

I love how fresh it looks, celebrating the spring!

Happy Easter sunday, enjoy your day 🙂

DIY classic Palm Sunday candle – olive branch

Posted on April 11, 2014 | 4 comments

Today we celebrate palm friday (instead of palm sunday) in Doha. Strange no?!

Anyways, nothing will affect our happiness, teta and jeddo (grandmother and grandfather in arabic) are here to celebrate the holiday season with Nady.

They got olive branches from Lebanon, so i wanted this year to make the classic candle like old days.

Very easy and fast, could be the last minute candle. But in my opinion the most beautiful one with the olive branch symbol of peace.

All you need is washi paper and white ribbon. Make four parallel strips:

Baby blue washi tape to go with the green of the olive branch.

Then tie a thin white ribbon as a bow in the middle between the lines.

And a thicker satin one.

Insert the olive branch between the ribbon and stick the stem under the last washi tape line.

Et Voila! a beautiful classic candle that holds lot of meanings.

We are ready to go to the church!

Happy Palm Friday/Sunday to everyone 🙂

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DIY Palm Sunday candle – flowers

Posted on April 10, 2014 | 2 comments

There are many ways to decorate the palm sunday candle at home. If your precious is a girl and you want to make something simple and girly, you will like this one.

Colors are very subjective depending on your girl cloths, her favourite colors or even yours!

In a previous post i showed you how to make these beautiful flowers. Check spring flowers for tutorials, but this time you will need ribbons and buttons for the carpel.

Start by wrapping two intertwined ribbons on the 1/3 third of the candle to keep space for the little hand to hold it.

If you noticed they are 3 sizes flowers. Glue the big and medium one on the wrapped ribbons and the small on one of the hanging ribbons as shown.

And it’s ready 🙂 Simple, easy and beautiful.

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spectacular chocolate cake with red fruits

Posted on April 9, 2014 | 14 comments

Today is a happy day! My parents are coming to doha to spend easter holiday. I am so excited! I want everything to be perfect and have a warm welcome.

What’s better than this spectacular chocolate cake with these sexy red fruits and dark chocolate ganache!

It’s a heavenly delicious cake, and i want to share with you the simple recipe and how to decorate step by step.

First to bake the cake, we need:

2 cups of flour
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3/4 cup, unsweetened cocoa powder
11/2 tsps of baking soda
1 tsp of baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 tsp of vanilla essence
1 1/2 tbsps of instant coffee powder
1 cup of hot water
2 eggs

In a large bowl, sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the sugar and mix well with the dry ingredients.

Make a well in the center and add the milk, oil, vanilla essence and beaten eggs and mix. Finally add the hot coffee melted in the cup of hot water and mix.

Pour the cake batter into the prepared cake pans and bake in the middle rack of the oven (180ºC) for 40 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. Start checking from 35 mins onwards.

Cool for 30 mins before inverting onto a wire rack.

Meantime lets prepare the ganache:

450g dark chocolate
2 cups of heavy cream

The chocolate must first be chopped into small pieces so that it will melt evenly.

Put chocolate into a large heatproof bowl. Bring 2 cups of cream just to a boil over medium-high heat or put for 3 mins in microwave; pour over chocolate. Let stand 10 minutes.

Stir the mixture very gently, incorporating the cream steadily, without overworking. The mixture should begin to appear glossy.

Make sure the cake is completely cool.

Pour ganache over cake

It already started to look fabulous!!

Wash and dry the red fruits and spread them evenly on ganache on top of the cake

Sprinkle icing sugar over

That’s what i call a pleasure for the eye!

Now my cake is ready to welcome my dearest parents. Can’t wait 🙂

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kids spring/Easter crafts, yellow flowers (DIY- step by step)

Posted on March 31, 2014 | 3 comments

The color festival is still on! Celebrate the spring and pre-easter season with your kids. Develop their fine motor skills, and teach them colors.

My boy is learning the spring season and the yellow color at the nursery. I thought of DIY yellow paper flowers. Why not? It could be the table centerpiece at Easter. Lets have fun!

First we need a vase. Empty cheese jar was an excellent idea. We decorated it with colorful japanese washi tape.

The minute I set down the material on the table, Nady showed an unbelievable excitement.

You will be surprised how much you can do with just papers; Pinwheel daffodil, marigold, daisy, tulip and geranium, for this time.

Follow me step by step on how we do the pinwheel daffodil.

Marigold:

Daisy, tulip and geranium. Click on flowers cut outs for a high resolution file.

Green straws for the stems.

Et voila!

Simply gorgeous! Nady was so happy, contemplating the beauty of the flowers.

So excited, he started to collect the flowers to make a bouquet.

Nady’s reaction to this activity was unexpected. I was extremely happy from his response. Crafting today was extremely beautiful and fun. He grabbed the vase and started to fill it with the flowers.