My fondant Creations

Two lions made of fondant inspired by Aine2's puppy. The dora is fondant until the waist and the dress is a fondant cover cake. I used airbrush for two tone hair and the cakes swirls to look like ruffled dress. The carribean cake is iced with buttercream and the coconut tree and hammock is fondant. I also airbrushed ths cake, 2nd time of use. the sand is brown sugar. I tried to write in airbrush but it was harder than i thought. Hope you LIKE any question please feel free to ask!!!! Treat Ems



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Coconut Anniversary cake.avi

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Birthday Recipes

Can anyone think a Birthday without food? Cookery is an enormously indispensable element in a birthday party. Guests love to hog on food. Delectable recipes, satisfactory to the appetite of the guests invited and most significantly the birthday person lingers a smile to everyone's face till the next birthday. The cuisine should not only be faultless but also party-friendly.

To bring perfection in the party, the coordinator should be utterly sentient of preference of all and sundry. Birthday party cake, to start off with, is the centre of attraction. Available in varied flavors, this birthday cake adds a sense of delight to the ball. Essence, icing and quality are the things to be considered while buying it from a shop or personalizing at home. Carrot cake, Almond cake, Twinkie cake and Chocolate cakes are conventionally served on a Birthday party. Carrot cake comprises of cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, eggs, vanilla, vegetable oil, grated carrots and crushed pineapples.

Ingredients needed for icing are: cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, coconut and chopped nuts. Blend the key ingredients first and keep it aside. Batter eggs, vanilla and oil and then add the mixture to the former combination. Bake it for 30 minutes, cool it and spread the icing mixture. Refrigerate it and your carrot cake is ready to serve. Ingredients needed for Almond cake are chocolate cake mixed with pudding, evaporated milk, sugar, marshmallows, coconut, margarine, chocolate chips and silvered almonds. Pour a mixture of evaporated milk, sugar, marshmallows and sugar to the newly baked chocolate cake. Prepare a mixture of the remaining milk, sugar and melted margarine followed by a boiling and then add chocolate chips and later on almonds. After stirring it for sometime, pour the whole mixture on the cake and serve hot.Twinkie cake is made with white cake mix, instant vanilla pudding, oil, eggs, milk, salt, softened butter, vanilla, flour, sugar, Crisco and water. Bake the mixture of white cake mix, oil, eggs, pudding, water and vanilla at 350 degree Fahrenheit for 40-45 minutes. Heat another mixture of flour and milk and add sugar, salt, Crisco, margarine and vanilla after cooling it. Beat up the whole thing until thick and refrigerate. Your cake is ready to serve. An alluring birthday dinner not only adds fun to the party but also makes it enthrallingly pleasurable.

Italian recipes are one of the preferred forms of banquet. You can have recipes like little meatballs along with sweet and sour vegetables, classic Italian antipasto, rice timbale with stone bass, rolled roast pork stuffed with spinach and mortadella, green salads with apple and walnuts, cocoa Christmas spiced bread and seasonal fruit. To stimulate the air you can always choose the best wines. Candies, confetti, chocolate fountain and musical drinking straws also enrolled themselves in the hit list. Musical drinking straws puts a miraculous impact on the party-rockers. This is straw which plays music when you drink but it can only be used in cold drinks. A special birthday buffet conventionally comprises of some scrumptious stuffs like white bean salad with green olives, pine nuts, Boston lettuce, orange and onion salad with citrus salad dressing, lemon strawberry cake roll, chocolate cupcakes with butterscotch icing, orange-glazed flank steaks and rosemary-garlic roasted potatoes. These are some of the lip smacking recipes that will linger a smile of content in everyone's face.Smoked seafood, meat, sausages and bacon, puddings, pizzas, ham burgers and chocolates are some of the mouth-watering foods perfect to jazz up a birthday party.Coming up to drinks, it can be said that a party is incomplete without drinks.

So here are some of the most wanted drink categories that push up the party to the peak of excellence. Cocktails fall under the preferred category of drinks for all ages. Some of the eminent ones are mango champagne cocktail, cranberry bog cocktail, blue curapolitan and latinopolitan. You can always put a spark in your party by serving a bottle of champagne. Ice cream is a very special attribute of a birthday party. Some favored ones are scooping with flair, hot fudge sauce, tempting Tartuffe and fancy floats. Just can't think a birthday party without desserts. It is a perfect finale for any birthday. Pies available in wide-ranging flavors like apple, pineapple, peanut butter, chocolate cream, French silk and key lime mousse are some of the loved ones of the invitees. Some hand made pastries too rock the party.

Mandarin orange teardrops, apple strudel pastries, marzipan rolls, molten lava brownies, mini napoleons, linzer tarts, krocant rolls, ambrosia chocolates, tiramisu pastries and white carnation pastries are some of the most illustrious items that bring a shower of joy and pleasure at the end of the luncheon. Cookies and brownies too are long cherished recipes on a birthday party. So perk up your kid's birthday with all these mouth watering foods and see that lovely, sparkling and everlasting smile on everyone as well as your child's face. Food is a basic requirement for any party and if it can be prepared with correspondence to the taste your child as well as the guests invited, it will spell a rain of unending joy and contentment on your party.

Jamaican Rum Punch Recipe

Rum is considered to be the world's oldest distilled spirit and is made throughout the Caribbean. On Jamaica, Appleton Rum Estate has been distilling rum from sugar can for over 200 years and is the island's most popular drink. With a very sweet flavor rum is often used to make refreshing fruit punches and coconut cocktails. The drinks below are found anywhere in Jamaica and are a cooling treat to complement any meal and the island's year round summer temperatures.

Jamaican Rum Punch

Ingredients:

* 1 bottle Jamaican gold rum

* 1 bottle dark caruba rum

* 1 bottle Jamaican overproof rum

* ½ gallon orange juice

* ½ gallon pineapple juice

* 1 cup lime juice

* splash of grenadine for color

* splash of angostura bitters

Directions:

Shake all ingredients together in large airtight container or stir vigorously in large punch bowl. Serve over ice and garnish with orange slice, cherry and mint leaves, or pineapple slice and cinnamon stick.

Another refreshing drink in the heat is

Ginger Beer

Ginger is a favorite flavor in Jamaica and is considered a healthy ingredient in this cooling drink. Ginger beer can be boiled and stored in glass jars or bottles for a long time or simple steeped in warm water and used within days.
Ingredients:

* 9oz. Fresh ginger root

* 4 qt. Water

* sugar to taste

* 1 tsp. ground cloves

* 1 tsp. lime juice

Directions:

Grate the ginger into a saucepan and add water, cloves and juice. Stir well and bring to a boil. Boil for half an hour and sweeten to taste. Strain and bottle after cooling. Serve as hot tea or cold over ice.

Enjoy your taste of Jamaica!

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The Test Kitchen: Key Limes - Gourmet Magazine

Food editor Melissa Roberts introduces key limes and demonstrates how to juice the tiny fruits. You can substitute key limes in any recipe that calls for regular limes, or use them in desserts such as Key Lime Coconut Cake or Key Lime Cheesecake with Mango Ribbons. Get the recipes: www.gourmet.com www.gourmet.com



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Coconut Shrimp Recipes

Are you looking for coconut shrimp recipes or delicious shrimp recipes?
Here are three shrimp recipes using coconut milk:

Shrimps with Coconut Milk

1 medium onion, finely chopped

1 tablespoon oil

1 tablespoon butter

2 cloves garlic, finely minced

1 pound tomatoes, peeled, seeded and blended in blender or food processor

1 pound shrimps, peeled and deveined

1 cup unsweetened coconut milk

1/2 tablespoon crushed chili peppers

Salt to taste

In a saucepan, heat oil and butter; sauté garlic and onion for 3 minutes. Add tomatoes,
season with salt and cook under low heat for 15 minutes. Add shrimps and chili peppers. Cook
until shrimps are done (around 10 minutes) and the sauce is thickened. Add the coconut milk
and cook for 2 minutes more. Serve with rice.

Shrimp Skewer with Coconut Dip

24 large cooked shrimps, peeled and deveined

4 tablespoons light soy sauce

Juice from one orange

3 tablespoons dry Vermouth

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 small pineapple

1 bunch scallions

24 cherry tomatoes

Freshly ground black pepper

Oil to fry

For the Dip:

1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk

1 cup whipping cream

Salt, pepper, cayenne pepper

1-2 teaspoon lemon juice

In a bowl, mix the soy sauce, orange and lemon juice, and Vermouth. Add the shrimps, mix well,
cover and let marinate for 30 minutes. Peel and core pineapple. Cut into bite-size pieces.
Wash and clean scallions. cut scallions crosswise into 2-inch pieces. Wash and dry cherry
tomatoes. Take the shrimp out of the marinade. Thread the shrimps, pineapple, scallions, and
tomatoes alternately on skewers. Season with salt and pepper. In a frying pan, heat oil and
fry for 4-6 minutes per side or until until the shrimp are cooked through. Serve with coconut
dip.

Dip:
Mix the coconut milk with the whipping cream. Season with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and
lemon juice.

Coconut Shrimp Scampi

1 cup unsweetened coconut milk

1 pound medium shrimps, peeled and deveined

4 ounces cream cheese

2 cloves garlic, finely minced

3 1/2 ounces grated Parmesan cheese

1/2 cup whipping cream

1/2 cup cornstarch

2 1/2 cup milk

1 tablespoon butter

Olive oil

Salt to taste

In a saucepan, heat olive oil; sauté shrimps and garlic. In another saucepan, mix the milk,
coconut milk, butter and cornstarch. Cook, stirring constantly over medium heat until thickened.
Add whipping cream and Parmesan cheese. Stir in cream cheese and shrimps. Season with salt.
Transfer to baking dish and bake for 10 minutes. Serve immediately with rice.

Enjoy your meal !!