Lamington Angels

I jut love these cute lamington angels.  They are always a hit with the whole family! 

These look great at any birthday party and celebrations like baby Christenings.What I love best is the fact you can quickly and easily make them and they look so great!   No icing techniques to do, but can make them look different by making them “angel wings”, “top hats” or Sponges.   mmm YUMMY.  The kids love to help with this one…   why not grab one of the amazing kids aprons from La Toriana ~ online baby/kids shopping boutique.

 INGREDIENTS

Vanilla buttercake:
90g butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar
2 eggs
1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
2 tablespoons milk

Chocolate icing:
10g butter
1/3 cup (80ml) milk
2 cups (320g) icing sugar
1/4 cup (25g) cocoa powder

Decorations:
1 cup (80g) desiccated coconut
1/4 cup (100g) raspberry jam
1/2 cup (125ml) thickened cream, whipped

 METHOD

1. Preheat oven to moderate (180°
C/160°
C fan-forced). Line 6-hole  or 12-hole standard muffin pan with paper cases.

2. Beat butter, extract, sugar, eggs, flour and milk in small bowl with electric mixer on low speed until ingredients are just combined. Increase speed to medium, beat until mixture is changed to a paler colour.

3. Divide mixture among cases; smooth surface.

4. Bake large cakes about 25 minutes, small cakes about 20 minutes. Turn cakes onto wire rack to cool.

5. Make chocolate icing.

6. Remove cases from cakes. Dip cakes in icing; drain off excess, toss cakes in coconut. Place cakes on wire rack to set.

7. Cut cakes as desired; fill with jam and cream.

Chocolate icing
Melt butter in medium heatproof bowl over medium saucepan of simmering water. Stir in milk and sifted icing sugar and cocoa until icing is a coating consistency.

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Some ideas for your next special occassion… especially if its a Christening.

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CHRISTENING FEATURE

A BIG THANK YOU to LEESA for sharing these gorgeous pics and a little about Molly’s Christening

Words by Leesa

These photos are of my little girl Molly in my all time favourite photo of her (so far) at her Christening.

We had a great day, it was my husband’s 40th birthday on the same day and his family who had never met Molly came over from Tasmania. I made white choc mud cupcakes for her cake and while you can tell they are definitely not professional cakes they still looked kinda pretty LOL xxx

When I first saw this top photo… I was “ahhh and ooohing”,  what a glorious…gorgeous photo!   Hope you have this up and enlarged!!

The cakes also look professional to me, and I can tell a labour of love and dedication went into making each one.   It looks amazing… and special!

Thanks so much for sharing!!

We sent out a CALL OUT to our facebook friends and have lots of amazing and inspirational blog posts coming up to share with you.  Christenings, naming days and baby showers… wow… there is so many great ideas during March…. hope you have a great time reading about them all.

Why not get some inspiration from ollys special Christening Day.  Below are some Christening gifts and ideas to get you started.

 A baby Christening or naming day is so so special and one that will be remembered for a very long time, so make it special.  From  the invites and food, to photo’s and clothing… there is so much to help make it special, and at La Toriana we are here to help.  Maybe a special invitation, baby card?  Or a designer baby outfit for the special day…  check our designer collections of baby gifts, baby clothing and baby designer wear.  Give us a call or email too as we know some people prefer not to buy online.  We have lots of options available.  We look forward to catching up with you soon.

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Honeycomb creams Cupcakes.

mmm this is a YUMMO cupcake. 

 I dont know about you… but I can never get an even top on my cupcakes… always get a lump in the middle when I get them out of the oven no matter how hard I try to pop a small dent in the middle before popping them in !  (how do they do it?

I like this as I can disguise my uneven cakes with this topping… and looks AWESOM!! Impress your guests when they pop over for Arvo tea.   The kids will love taking one to kinda and school too! (the teachers will think you are amazing… send one along for them too!)  For more great recipes like this see HERE

Decorations:
300ml thickened cream
3 x 50g violet crumble bars, chopped coarsely

 METHOD

1. Preheat oven to moderately slow (170°C/150°C fan-forced). Line 6-hole texas or 12-hole standard muffin pan with paper cases.

2. Sift dry ingredients into small bowl, add butter, egg, buttermilk and syrup; beat mixture with electric mixer on low speed until ingredients are combined. Increase speed to medium, beat until mixture is changed to a paler colour. Stir in chocolate. Divide mixture among cases; smooth surface.

3. Bake large cakes about 40 minutes, small cakes about 30 minutes. Turn cakes onto wire rack to cool.

4. Spread cakes with whipped cream; top with violet crumble.

Warmly Elizabeth xx 

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Anyone who knows me, knows I am not the greatest in cooking…  ( I can hear you Christie yelling “thats so true!  She failed the No fail Banana cake!”).  Yep  I did!!

When Tiana asked if we could make some little Christmas cakes and some Christmas chocolates, I immediately said yes!  (though after 2 seconds… thought gee… what did I say!!!)

I had a recent Donna Hay magazine so I got some inspiration from her and decided to look in the pantry.  Now I know I should have got a recipe from my countless number of cook books, but I really didnt want to throw another batch of failed cooking out.   When I spied a no name labelled fruit cake, I got inspired.  Yep, above is a combination of no name labelled fruit cake, and the end result actually suprised Tiana… let alone myself.   With a little decoration, they dont look half bad!

Step 1

Yep… this is a great project the kids can help with in the kitchen ready for Christmas!  I can almost hear their sqeals of delight and see the look of satisfaction on their faces!   Doesnt this look FANTASTIC!!

so… after you have gone shopping online at La Toriana for all your baby clothing, designer kids outfits and baby gifts for Christmas, print out this recipe and start maing your own wonderful truffle cake for when guests arrive. 

They will be so impressed.  Its something the kids and you can do together… make sure you take a photo too…. and soon you will well known in your circle of family and friends for wonderful recipes!!

I cannot take the credit for making this, though my 7 yr old and I made one and was so easy!  here is the place to get gorgeous recipes like this from.

1 large sheet of firm white cardboard
375g packet white chocolate Melts, melted
150-170 white chocolate Lindt Lindor balls, paper removed
flowers to decorate  (or any decoration you choose)

  METHOD

diameter on the cardboard and cut a large wedge out of the cardboard slightly less than 1/3 of the size of the circle. Make a cone from the cardboard. (The cone should be about 35cm high.)

Staple ends together and tape over the staples. The wider the wedge of cardboard the wider the finished cone will be. Cut a smaller wedge for a thinner cone.

Brush the cone all over with some of the melted chocolate. Secure to a board or serving plate with a little more chocolate. Dip each ball in a little of the chocolate and place around the base of the cardboard, ensuring a little of the chocolate is between each ball so they will stick together when dry.

Continue ‘glueing’ the balls to the cone in layers until you reach the top. There will be some gaps in each layer so you will need to trim the sides of some balls to fit.

Decorate with flowers. If using fresh flowers, decorate close to serving.

Great recipes like this can be found here

mmm yummy… ENJOY!

warmly

elizabeth xx

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