Easter baking - Cake thirty-nine

Chocolate eggs and lollipops - 2014

Chocolate causes addiction, no doubt! When you start eating some you’d never stop, you kind of magically feel better, the cocoa molecules cast their spell and capture your senses, they melt your heart and appease your mouth, but this state of food ecstasy doesn’t last long! A few moments after you’ve swallowed the last bite a mixed feeling of pleasure and regret pervades you and shortly afterwards you are 100% aware of the consequences of your eating chocolate. So you get crossed and console yourself with another bite and..... there you are in the trap once more! The circle has started again! 

Working with chocolate gives you the same appeasing sensation without side effects and frustrating feelings though. I love melting chocolate, I like the fact you can use it for writings, frostings and what I find most fun for chocolates of any shapes, colour and taste. At Easter eggs and rabbits of any size are a must, but egg-shaped lollipops are definitely my favourites!

Song: Across the universe

Follow your thoughts while they're tumbling free across the universe!

see recipe: http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2014/06/easter-baking-cake-twenty-nine.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