Easter Baking - Cake forty

Easter Basket and decorations

Festivities and birthdays are the right moments we can devote more time and care to table laying and table decorations. What may seem useless on first thought is on the contrary what gives that day a special connotation. It’s what makes it different from the other days and gives our celebration further importance. It comes natural to me to spend time organizing the smallest details for the table and invent something new every time: I’m speaking of the choice of the tablecloth which matches plates, glasses and cutlery and the flower centrepiece and decorations. I personally like to kind of play with dough and make edible decorations: hanging gingerbread cookies in the shape of trees, stars, reindeers or Father Christmas at Christmas, a basket to put eggs in at Easter and bunnies, of course! 

Song: Ask me why

If you ask me why.... I’ll say I love baking!

see recipe http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2014/06/cake-forty-easter-basket-and-decorations.html

Easter baking - Cake thirty-six

Easter Gingerbread Cookies 

Easter is a happy time for baking! It’s another period of the year, like Christmas, I’m really fond of as I am kind of officially authorized to devote myself full time to cake making. I can bake from morning to evening, completely forgetting there’s life going on outside my kitchen! I may look like a robot set on the ‘baking’ mode which cannot be turned off until the whole programme has been fully and satisfactorily carried out. And it’s partly true.... My mind goes crazy and works very fast at different levels organizing all the work: one side the recipes which are a must have in my family, - Sicilian Cassata, Chocolate Eggs, Lollipops and Bunnies of all sizes, a basket with chocolate eggs, hangings for the Easter Tree, Hot Cross Buns, cakes or cookies in the shape of bunnies and breads in typical Easter shapes - and on the other side the new entries since I like to experiment something new every year - this year it was the time of some Easter Gingerbread Cookies and Bunnies Shortbread Cookies. The Cheese Panettone has only recently become part of our Easter lunch. Am I not tired in the end? Of course I am! But .....  all in all it doesn’t matter that much..... 

Song: For no one

Close your eyes and listen to this song, don’t you feel a bit better now? 

see recipe: http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2014/05/cake-thirty-six-easter-gingerbread.html

Easter baking

Easter’s another of my favourite periods of time for baking. Every year I complain I never have enough time to give form to my ideas: I wish I could forget the rest of the world and dedicate myself only to it! I’d love to  shut myself in the kitchen and ignore the natural rhythm of the day, but of course I can’t.... There are days, anyway, when I lose track of time and space and really put my family’s patience to the test; it goes without saying the good smell of chocolate and cakes play their role and partly make up for all the things I leave behind...

What I like to make is what’s not strictly necessary for the Easter lunch but it’s what, in my opinion, makes it special.  

It’s a golden time for baking: from chocolate bunnies to small and big eggs, from basket or flower shaped cakes to the traditional Sicilian Cassata, from cheese Panettone to dove shaped bread and why not a Spring House.

Song: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

We never feel lonely when sharing Easter specialties...