Cake, Decor and Cairns!

Mother's Day Edible Gifts : Raspberry Buttercream I always love an opportunity to home bake gifts for my lovely friends and family,  and what better excuse is there to try Nutrafresh  Raspberry fruit powder than on Mother's Day? I made a normal batch of butter cream and at the end added a packet of Raspberry fruit powder and omg what can I say except YUM! The raspberry flavour was an explosion of yumminess in my mouth!  In true fresh raspberry fashion it had that distinct flavour and tang you would expect when eating fresh off the bush. Pair it with a moist chocolate cake and they marry perfectly on your palate!   Go on, order some and try it yourself. Keep in mind that it is a dry powder so once you add it to your icing it may need a little warm water added to it to bring it back to a silky consistency.  Here's a few photos of how I put it all together... 

Welcome to my very first Cake Decor Cairns Blog entry!  Many of you have found my new blog because you're already connected with me on facebook.com/cairnscakedecor    thank you so much for your continued support. The aim of Cake Decor Cairns is to support and encourage home-bakers in the Cairns, Far North Queensland (Australia) region with tips, tricks and access to bargain cake decorating supplies. If I spot a special locally I will always post an alert on facebook. Not from far North Queensland? You are still very welcome!!! Most of the site will still be relevant! But Mum! My son's school celebrated St Patricks Day on Friday - but let's rewind to the day before... Thursday afternoon I collected my son from school. "Mummy it's St Patricks Day tomorrow you have to bring in food to share" I though oh great, but how about something easy and healthy like green grapes, kiwi fruit, honey dew melon - it's all green it will do. No, ...