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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 🙂

Creative easter eggs – the Farm – DIY

Posted on April 19, 2014 | 6 comments

Today is the saturday of light! the day we prepare the eggs for Easter sunday.

As promised before, this is a step by step to this year eggs.

Nady loves the song “old macdonald had a farm”, this where the idea came from, Cows farm.

With a black marker, draw the cow’s pattern on white hard boiled eggs.

After all is done, stick the cow’s face.

Click here to download a high resolution file of the cow’s head.

To decorate the farm with couple of flowers, you need to dye with some colors. I always recommend wilton gel color.

Wrap the egg with a green ribbon and stick a flower, very quick and easy.

Nady is extremely happy and excited about the farm, yes it’s Nady’s farm with cows! The cows give us milk, les vaches nous donnent du lait…. Singing 🙂

La ferme de Nady 🙂

Happy Easter to all of you!

المسيح قام، حقاً قام

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buttons made Easter bunny – DIY door hanger

Posted on April 17, 2014 | 2 comments

Easter fun is still on! Crafting with jeddo (grandfather) Maurice! A bunny made with colorful buttons to decorate the front door. We are enjoying every minute with my parents.

Very easy DIY door hanger for easter. All you need is a bunny cut out and buttons. Click here to download a high resolution file.

All you need to do is to fill the bunny tummy with buttons of different sizes and colors. Stick two eyes and a ribbon behind the ears for hanging.

Isn’t it attractive? Nady was fascinated with the colors. I love Easter, a happy and colorful holiday always coinciding with the spring season.

If your baby is still discovering with his mouth, avoid small buttons. Nady tasted all of them 🙂

It’s a fun way to teach the colors to your kid.

Guess who was more happy?!

The door hanger is ready! Easter decoration is almost done, we still have to decorate the eggs on saturday. Don’t miss this year’s special eggs. Wait for the post 🙂

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my mom’s mega simple brioche recipe

Posted on April 16, 2014 | 10 comments

“Only your grandchild is dearer to you than your child” is an arabic proverb to express the love of the grandparents to the grandchildren.

Brioche is Nady’s favorite dessert. who’s better than teta (grandmother) to bake it for him?

Baked with love brioche:

500 g flour
80 g melted butter
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
250 ml warm milk
1 tbsp icing sugar
1 tbsp yeast
1 egg for glaze

Mix yeast, icing sugar and warm milk and keep it aside for 10 mns.

Then add eggs, butter and salt and mix well, then the flour.

Leave it to rest for 1 hour until it doubles in size than divide it into 8 parts.

The dough is really sticky, so better grease your fingers with a bit of oil before rolling the dough.

Place it on parchment paper and again leave it for an hour to double in size.

Glaze the top with egg and bake for 16 to18 mns on 180ºC until risen and golden brown.

Allow to cool before offering to your child.

So delicious! Thank you teta Ado.

He wanted to bite all of them 🙂

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syadye (fish with rice) – how to do- step by step

Posted on April 15, 2014 | 5 comments

As mentioned before, my parents are here for the holidays. There was no way not to savour my mom’s cooking!

Today, i am having the chance to be her sous-chef 🙂

She is making syadyeh (rice with fish), a tasty lebanese dish with deep flavours and lots of yumms and mmmms!

How does she make it:

Use one kilo of deboned fish (she is using hamour), seasoned with 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp caraway, 1/2 tsp cumin, and then fry it with oil. Keep aside and don’t throw the oil you will use it later.

Cut 5 medium onions a la julienne and fry until dark gold brown. Add 8 cups of water, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp caraway and 1/2 tsp cumin and bring to boil and simmer for 10 mns then take out the onions aside.

Meanwhile in a medium casserole add 3 cups of rice (washed and drained) and half of the oil that we put aside from frying the fish and fry it for 3 minutes. Add 5 cups of the onion water and let it simmer until the rice is cooked for almost 15 minutes on a low flame.

Use 1 tbsp of butter, the remaining fish oil and 3 tbsp of flour and , mix on medium heat until light gold then add the remaining 3 cups of the onion water and keep stirring on low heat until the mix is thick, to obtain the gravy.