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Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles
Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles ...when xmas chocolate spice cake loaded with fruit mince and fresh, crisp, sweet walnuts from @californiawalnutsindia meet a softly whipped vanilla orange spice cream, magic happens. Top the trifles with some more walnut halves roasted in ghee, then caramelised, and dig in! Dessert just right for this season!
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Garam Masala Fruit Cake … a twist to the traditional, my recipe from scratch!
A Christmas Fruit Cake with a twist. Have you ever added garam masala to your fruit cake? You really should try it. It doesn't add curry flavours to your cake, I promise. It adds deep warm winter flavours that mingle with the fruit ever so deliciously, you'll wonder what kept you away so long.
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A Traditional Cake Mixing Ceremony…can you hear the bells ringing?
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” Hamilton Wright Mabie Time flies and how. Seems like the year is on a gallop. I missed the walk, the trot and the canter completely. Every day is whizzing by; it’s October already! That winter is almost here struck me when some of my girlfriends like Barbara began the ’12 weeks to Christmas Cookies’ countdown.Then a few days ago I got an invite to a ‘traditional cake mixing ceremony‘, and I was like “Whoa? Is it the time of the year already?“ Traditional Cake Mixing Ceremony The age old ceremony of cake mixing starts a few…
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C is for Christmas , C is for CAKE… always room for cake
“Nutty as a fruitcake” Always room for cake in our little home, and winter screams fruit cake, a cake we love to enjoy from December to February. This is the time for an annual tradition at our place. As long as I can remember, my mother always baked this cake over the Christmas holidays, year after year. It became part of our life, something we looked forward to every winter. Gradually it became a holiday favourite, and with vacation madness came to be known as New Year Cake as it never got made in time! Then I got married, and slowly baking passion took over my life. Gradually Mom stopped…
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Fresh Peach Ginger Peasant Cakes … a vegetarian twist to Julie & Julia’s clafoutis!
“I think the inner person is the most important. . . . I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That’s what is important.”Julia Child The release of Julie & Julia has led to a Julia Child wave among blogs, food blogs in particular. Elle’s New England Kitchen & Food Blogga featured some beautiful blog posts on the film. Do head for their blogs as Elle & Susan have some sweet sound bites on the film. The film’s official blog, Julie & Julia also is well worth a visit. The other day I saw a beautiful Cherry clafoutis that Val posted @ More Than Burnt Toast.…
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QUICK CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE…Last bastion accomplished! PHEW!!
“For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.” Loring A. Schuler QUICK CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE…got there just in the nick of time! This is the cake that we bake every year around this time & always under pressure! My mother usually gets there only by new year, so hers’ is now more or less a ‘New Year Fruit Cake’. It’s from an old recipe of hers from a baking course she did many many moons ago when my Dad was still in the Air Force. I’ve adapted it, made a few more changes this year…& we’ll get to know how it tastes tonight. Its sitting there, smelling…