Cake Holiday New Years

Good Luck New Year Cake

Actually, On different years, we may or may not get to her house for the New Year dinner. Holiday around the Chinese New Year. My mother in law Lily has prepared the New Year Cake for many years, and occasionally, we get one, depending on if there is a U.S. Lately, I had just decided to forget about the cakes. For years, it has been hit or miss getting those delicious cakes. Most of the time, we returned empty handed because the people living in that area got them before we did. and I used to drive to China Town in Flushing Queens, New York to find these cakes.

My husband T.C. since 1988, and finding these cakes is very challenging. I've been living in the U.S. Those items were eaten on New Year's Day, and included Good Luck New Year Cake and Abundance Cake.

Cake New Year Celebration

There were also many items not included in the 12 course meal, to be presented outside the meal in worship of our ancestors as well as God, showing our appreciation of what they had provided for us. Each dish had a significant meaning for bringing good luck in many areas. When I was growing up, I was always in and out of the kitchen, helping my mother to prepare her 12 course New Year's Eve dinner. There are many things a Chinese family will prepare for their New Year's Eve, as well as New Year's Day.

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Mothers Day Cakes Ideas

Mothers Day Cake Designs

A fabulous gathering of tips, techniques, and recipes that only Here's what one reader had to say about them: Well worth the investment. The Hat Cake instructions are adapted from Volume 2 of our Cake Decorating Made Easy Video Books. Remember to leave room for piping your Happy Mother's Day message.

The hat may be elegant, whimsical, silly, fancy, or whatever best matches the guest of honor's tastes and style. You could even create a straw hat pattern by pressing a fork into the buttercream. You may want to decorate the hat with flowers, such as buttercream roses, or with a combination of flowers and figures perhaps daisies and a bumblebee! If using fruit roll ribbon, wrap around the hat, and then tie a bow in the back, allowing ends to gracefully trail down. If using fondant for the ribbon and bow, create these separately and then attach to the hat, using icing as glue.

Mothers Day Decorated Cakes

Then set the 6 inch layer on top, smoothing buttercream over the entire hat. If adding filling, pipe a dam with the buttercream so filling doesn't ooze out after the top layer is added. Smooth on buttercream or filling. Place the 9-inch layer on a cake plate.

Do level the 9 inch layer, which will form the brim. Don't level because the mound on the layer will give the hat a nice curve. Set aside. Trim the edges of the 8 inch layer until it is 6 inches in diameter or smaller if you want the brim to be wider in relation to the top.

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Disney Princess Cake Includes a Castle Carrying Case

From enchanted castles to children's favourite cartoon characters

The memory Castle cakes are more than just cakes, they are centerpieces to the party. They can be as simple as a sheet cake with a couple castle shaped toppers or as extravagant as piled loaf cakes cut into a castle, complete with moat. Castle cakes come in all shapes and sizes.

This standing cake looks just like the princess herself, and is memorable for the birthday girl to have a cake that looks just like her girls dress up costumes. Decorate the cake as the dolls dress, using the princess Disney costumes as a guide. Strip the doll, wash her quickly, and gently press her into the center of the cake. Bake a cake in a round bundt or bell shaped pan. You'll need a Barbie sized plastic doll for this cake of a Cinderella princess or Snow white princess or other princess of your choice.

Knight Birthday Party Ideas For Kids

The most extravagant cake idea is the standing princess doll cake. Whatever your style, there is a princess cake option that will, quite literally, put the icing on the cake for your princess party. There are a lot of great options for the perfect princess birthday cake, from a Snow White princess standing cake to simple cupcake holders. Well don't get your Cinderella princess dress all in a ruffle. except the cake.

Everything is lined up for the perfect princess birthday party. You've even made a selection from the princess costumes adult for you to wear to the birthday party.  You've got the princess Disney costumes set aside from the girls dress up costumes.

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Christmas Cakes Designs

Pictures of Christmas Cakes

Pipe a few rows of leaf borders using Create a poinsettia wreath around the top of the cake. Pipe a large poinsettia in the center. Use the Christmas star in lieu of a bow on a cake decorated as a gift where icing ribbons run horizontally and vertically over the top and down the sides like on a package.

Frosty's hat. For example, on a cake decorated with snowmen, pipe a poinsettia on Mrs. Poinsettias can be part of the design. A border of small poinsettias will provide a pretty frame for many Christmas cake designs. Before we go on to the piping how to's for this incredibly easy to make flower, here are some striking ways you can use the scarlet red hands down, the most popular variety poinsettia on your Christmas cakes.

Christmas Cakes For Kids

Decorating with buttercream poinsettias is a beautiful and with the following instructions easy way, to bring Christmas cheer to your cakes whether as a featured decoration or as part of a Christmas scene you create. So it stands to reason, your cakes decorated with the perennial popular poinsettia will be a big hit! This Christmas plant is favored so much in the United States that its holiday season purchases total more than the annual sales of any other potted plant here with 80 percent of these plants coming from a California grower.  The poinsettia, known as the Christmas Star in its native Mexico because of its star like shape, blooms profusely in the wild at Christmas time in Hawaii, the Caribbean islands and its native Mexico.

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Chocolate Cake Birthday

Take advantage of this fun and easy to prepare Chocolate Birthday Cake! All of the information to make this delicious treat are outlined below: Here are the basics for the chocolate birthday cake:
Prepare Fudge Cake and cool thoroughly, Prepare Cherry Filling and chill well, Prepare Chocolate Butter Frosting.

Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Using 1 cup of frosting, make a border around the edge of the layer 1/2 inch wide and 1 inch high. Using 1/2 cup more of the frosting make a solid circle in the center of the cake layer about 2 1/2 inches in diameter and 1 inch high. Spread the chilled filling between the frosting border and the circle.

Place second layer on top. Frost with the remaining frosting. If desired, garnish with dollops of whipped cream and chocolate shavings. You can even top it of with a cherry on top! Chill. Let stand at room temperature for 20 minutes before serving.

Makes 12 servings.
Chocolate birthday cake ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 ¾ cups sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ¾ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 1/3 cups water, ½ cup shortening, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 eggs, 3 squares (3 ounces) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled

Chocolate birthday cake preparation: 1.Grease and flour two 8 x 1 ½ inch or 9 x 1 ½ inch round baking pans. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In a bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add water, shortening, and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on low to medium till combined. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes. Add eggs and melted chocolate; beat 2 minutes more.
3. Pour into baking pans and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or till a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
4. Cool on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove cakes from pans. Cool thoroughly on wire racks. Makes 12 servings.

Cherry Filling for Chocolate Birthday Cake; 1 15 to 17 ounce can pitted dark sweet cherries,1 tablespoon cornstarch, 2 tablespoons cherry liqueur. Drain fruit, reserving 2/3-cup liquid. In a medium saucepan combine reserved liquid and cornstarch; add fruit. Cook and stir till thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Stir in liqueur. Cool. Cover; chill thoroughly without stirring. Makes enough to spread between two 8-9 inch cake layers (about 1 ¼ cups).

Butter Frosting for Chocolate Birthday Cake: 1/3 cup butter or margarine, ½ cups unsweetened cocoa powder, 4 ½ cups sifted powdered sugar, ¼ cup milk, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla, Milk. In a bowl beat butter or margarine till fluffy. Beat in ½ cup of sugarless cocoa powder. Steadily add 1 ½-cups of the powdered sugar, beating well. Slowly beat in the ¼ cup milk and vanilla.

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