This morning I woke up from a strong sound of rain hitting the windows....I love this weather when you don't have to go work...it's Saturday, thanks God it's Saturday! This rain has changed our plans a bit today as we wanted to do some shopping for our guinea pigs and also search for the food paints. So far I have only red and green :) I was hoping for a better weather till about 2 pm when it stopped raining for a little while,but I had already lost my shopping mood. I told myself that it might be a good chance to try a new recipe with some decoration :)
I love one book called "Grandma's best recipes" which I bought in Canada. It has so many old traditional recipes you can always rely on. I must admit that I tried just few recipes from the book, but it always inspires me with its colourful pictures. I thought "Christmas is coming in about a month...more than a month actually" . But they start all this X-mas euphoria so early here in Denmark so I couldn't help but find something nice and warm... RICH FRUIT CAKE. It's known to be an ideal Christmas celebration cake. NICE! I had to do extra shopping as I didn't have all the fruit I needed. The recipe is quite simple, but you need about a cup of each of the following dried sugary fruit: dates, prunes, dark and golden raisins, currants (I couldn't find these ones) and, finally, cranberries. The cake turned out nice according to the top that I cut off to make it horizontal before putting an icing. My husband has already tried it and was satisfied. I used an icing as a base for the marzipan roses which, as you can see, required just 2 of those food colours that I had.
Ah, another thing. I have already found my dream decorating set with all the tools from Wilton (http://www.wilton.com/store/site/details.cfm?image=2109-0200_l.jpg ). The price is $199, plus I need to buy also a rotating cake stand, colours and some other things...but this set has almost everything needed to start up my decoration adventure :) I hope to please myself next month and buy it...it's a bit tight now with all the Christmas expenses. In any case, I will have my "Marzipan and wedding cake decoration" 2-days course in December!!!
To finish this post up, I also keep practicing with my newly bought bread-baking machine. I've tried 2 recipes so far and today I tried a "Wholewheat beer bread with sesame seeds" recipe from the manual which came with the machine. It's a very nice recipe with a crispy crust...Too bad that I tried it alone, when my husband was working....I hope he'll forgive me :P It was just a slice!
It's 9 pm now and it's still raining. . It turned out to be a nice weather for creativity. So glad that I am staying home though!
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