Coffee éclairs Recipe

Ingredients :

For the choux pastry:

150g flour

100g butter

5 eggs

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

250ml water

For the filling:

250ml milk

150g sugar

5 egg yolks

50g flour

½ a vanilla pod, or a few drops vanilla essence

1 tablespoon coffee essence

Icing:

250g block icing/icing sugar

1 tablepsoon coffee essence

Recipe :

Make choux pastry.
Using a n°7 nozzle for the small eclairs and a 13 for the large, pipe sausage of pastry onto a greased baking tray.

Make the filling, by combining all ingredients and adding coffee essence to taste.
Open eclairs lengthways, and pipe in filling.

If using block icing, melt and add coffee essence. If using icing sugar, prepare icing, adding water little by little, and add coffee essence to taste.

Cover eclairs with icing and serve.

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Birthday cake toppers are defining elements today in a celebration. Cake toppers speak a lot about the couple. They identify the personalities of the person(s) whose special day it is. It could be a representation of the attributes or job description even just a favorite caricatures what about a photo cake topper .

There is a wide array of personalised cake toppers for birthday cakes. The most common personalised cake toppers are affordable to most individuals.

A personalised cake topper normally has the names of the person(s) whose special day it is. The date of birth is sometimes inscribed but more than likely just the age of the person(s). But there are no definite rules. The people designing can be as unique and creative as they want. They can choose to veer away from the norm if it makes them happier.

Birthdays today are peeling out of the traditional parties, and so are birthday cakes. The trend is to hold birthday partys that are as unique and unforgettable as possible. Thus personalised cake toppers grow to be more popular.

The cake toppers catch attention of guests of the birthday. These are usually indicative of the person’s wishes, attributes, attitude or dreams. The most personalised cake toppers on the top of the birthday cake is the likeness of the person(s) who’s special day it is. But then again, the designs are endless.

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Photos could be added in photo cake toppers. These toppers with photos of the person(s) would not be mistaken for another birthday. Photos would make them more personalised rather using caricatures whose appearance is similar others.

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Children’s Birthday Party Planning

Child birthday party ideas including birthday party supplies, party games, activities, & entertainment that your kid will love are all here to help you plan a memorable kid birthday party. Children love birthday parties. Planning your kid birthday party can be a fun & memorable experience for both you & your kid. With planning & some creativity, you can make your child's party a special occasion they will cherish for years.

Do you require some creative ideas for your child's next birthday party? Have you decided on the perfect birthday party theme? What activities and games will your child and guests love? This site was designed because so lots of friends and family seemed to make two comments to me when attending my daughter's birthday parties: "You're so organized!", "There's more!", "Are you available to do my child's party?", and "My child gets so excited about attending your yearly parties!". I find such comments amusing, because I'm typically not organized and often like to put little effort forward to accomplish a set aim. So, I'm going to share with you my ideas for planning a memorable, children's birthday party!

When planning a party, I always visualize the simple basics of a party and then I build from there. I keep focused on childhood memories of parties including guests, cake, games, and balloons. I do not like extra work, having to make back up designs. I start planning three to two months ahead to take every precaution from the beginning. If you're already well within 2 months of your child's birthday party date, don't panic, but do consider a number of the shortcuts and ideas suggested here for planning a memorable and entertaining children birthday party.

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personalised cakes can be in the shape of your favorite hobby, hero, interests and job. personalized cake toppers for weddings, corporate birthdays and many other special occasions. Often a circular or square cake is created as the base, the type and flavor of the cake is chosen by the customer after trying samples of various cake textures and flavors. For birthdays cakes it is popular to have the name of the birthday boy/girl enscribed onto the top of the cake accompanied by various other decorations. Alternativly, handmade sugar models can be created in the shape of people, cars and hobbies etc.
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fairy cakes recipes

Kids love to ice and decorate fairy cakes. Invite the grandparents over so the kids can show off (and eat!) their creations.

Makes: 12
Prep time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 15-20 mins
110g (4oz) softened butter
110g (4oz)
caster sugar
2 medium eggs, lightly beaten
75g (3oz) self-raising flour, sieved
½tsp natural vanilla extract

Baking cases
To decorate: 454g ready-to-roll white icing Selection of food colourings, cartoon fairy cake personalised cake topper fairy cake toppers picture cake toppers

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºC/gas mark 4). Place the baking cases in a fairy cake tin.
2. Cream the butter with the sugar until it's light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs and vanilla extract, alternating with spoonfuls of flour. Fold in the remaining flour.
3. Divide the mixture between the baking cases. Bake for 15-20 mins until well risen and firm to the touch. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a cooling rack.
4. To decorate, divide the icing into balls and add food colouring a drop at a time to create different colours. Using a rolling pin, roll out the coloured icing into thin sheets - if they're sticky, dust with icing sugar. Use a cookie cutter or a knife to create flower shapes then lay different sized flowers to create your own individual designs - star and heart shapes also work well.

Cook's tip: Give the kids free rein to decorate the cakes. Mix together 2tbsp of orange juice with sieved icing sugar and make a thick but easily spreadable icing. Divide into two bowls, colour each one with a few drops of food colouring and place a selection of 100s and 1000s, jelly diamonds and chocolate strands cake toppers in bowls. Gather the kids around and set them to work!

GLUTEN-FREE CHOCOLATE CAKE

GLUTEN-FREE CHOCOLATE CAKE
1& 1/2 cups gluten-free self-raising flour (I use Orgran)
1/2 cup gluten-free cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup caster sugar
125 gm melted butter or margarine, cooled
1 cup milk (dairy, rice or soy)
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs

1. Turn oven on to 180degrees C.
2. Prepare a 20 cm round cake tin or a large loaf tin or two to three smaller cake tins.
3. Sift together dry ingredients and stir through sugar. Make a well in the centre.
4. Whisk in cooled, melted butter or margarine, milk and vanilla essence.
5. Whisk in eggs, one at a time.
6. Pour mixture into prepared cake tin. Bake in oven for 55 minutes, then check that cake is cooked.
7. Place cake, in tin, on a cooler for 5 minutes, then turn out.
8. Leave the cake to cool for 5-10 minutes, then wrap in plastic wrap to continue cooling. When cake is cool, ice with chocolate icing.

Just fixed up recipes - some of the amounts of ingredients showed up as little squares instead of numbers.

Chocolate Icing
2 tbl butter or margarine
1 tbl hot water
1 cup pure icing sugar cocoa to taste

1. To the butter and hot water, sift the icing sugar.
2. Stir through to ensure all the icing sugar is incorporated.
3. Sift in and beat through sufficient cocoa to achieve the desired colour and taste.
4. Ice cake, using a palette knife dipped in boiling water to smooth out icing.

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How To Apply An Edible Cake Topper

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A Sponge Cake Recipe

If you don't wish to buy a cheap cake from a supermarket and wish to make your own, well here is a basic recipe....

It is always more satisfying to bake your own cake and use one of our caketoppers to produce a fantastic looking homemade cake. Well, a lot more satisfying than buying a cheaply made tiny cake from a supermarket or paying more than £50 for a cake shop to make your custom cake. Our cake toppers will make you feel really proud that you made a fantastic looking cake yourself.

This will make enough batter for a 12" square pan (or any rectangular pan that adds up to similar dimensions).

You can either bake in 2 halves, to reduce baking time and help stop cracking and the cake crowning, or you can bake all at once.

Prepare and line your cake pan.

1 lb SR Flour

8oz Plain flour

1lb Caster sugar

1lb Butter or margarine (I use half of each).

8 large eggs

Vanilla essence

Finally.. Warm water added to mixture to get a dropping consistency.

Bake at 160 degrees c until sponge springs back and a cocktail stick comes out clean.

I cover the top of the cake with silicone paper, part way through the baking. It stops it browning too early and so helps stop cracking.

This is basically a Victoria sponge recipe with plain flour added (up to 50 percent extra flour). The extra flour makes the sponge firmer, which helps when you need to cut it and sandwich it back together! Because it's a little denser it also keeps well if stored correctly.

When I remove from the oven I always press the crown back down, while it's still hot (I use a clean tea towel). Once it's cold and it's been allowed to rest you can cut any remaining crown away to level it. Then turn it over, so the bottom becomes the top of the cake.

Slice the cake in half, then sandwich it back together with raspberry seedless jam and butter cream. Cover the entire cake with butter cream - Optional decorate with rolled fondant icing.

Now you can add one of our cake toppers

Hope this has been some help.

Good luck with the cake.

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