Cake, Decor and Cairns!

Just made some quick non gingerbread cookies with the kids. They are not my favourite recipe but they are egg free so I let the kids go silly eating the raw dough as we go! :) (they are also not a fan of ginger so I left it out and put 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract instead.) I am not sure how we will decorate this batch, I like using meringue powder to make royal icing (again with the raw egg consciousness in mind, I only use pasteurisrd powdered egg whites ) or maybe something a little bit easier and kid friendly like melted chocolate to glue on m&m's and currants, or even easier (because I have no lollies in my pantry today!) Cut out bits of coloured fondant. My plan is, over the next few days to test out a couple of different recipes for you and then have one blog post devoted to the icing methods I used. So here we go, Gingerbread Recipe #1 Preheat oven to 180°C Ingredients: 2/3 cup soft brown sugar 60g butter 4 tablespoons golden syrup 2 cups plain flou...

Coconut is one of my favourite things... Cake Decor Cairns: Sweet & Moist Coconut Cake As I mentioned yesterday I had a yearning for a sweet & moist coconut recipe to pair with my mango cream cheese frosting. I failed on my first attempt using coconut flour , it tasted nothing like coconut!  So the search began, ploughing through recipe after recipe until I gave up and decided to make up my own version. I wanted something sweet, coconutty, moist and still have a cake crumble! (Not asking too much am I?) So my mind wondered to sweetened condensed milk and coconut jam drops.  From that I just sort of experimented using similar ingredients from a different moist cakes I have in my secret recipe files.  Sweet Moist Coconut Cupcakes with a good crumb. A few tips, these won't rise as much as an egg based cake so fill your cupcake pans higher that the traditional 3/4. As you can see with mine, they sunk a little and could've been avoided if I f...