Cake five

Red Heart Birthday Cupcakes

Tired of the traditional birthday cake? 
Why don’t you celebrate your birthday with a number of nicely decorated cupcakes? They’re easy to carry along and don’t need to be cut... 

Red and crystal clear candy hearts will remind you it’s your day, the day everybody sends their love to you.

Song: With Love from me to you
Let this song make your day!

for the recipe follow me on:

http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-five-red-heart-birthday-cupcakes.html

Cake four

Black and White Twist

Have you ever been on a Tea Cup Ride in a theme park where you just keep spinning and spinning? You get extremely twisted and when it’s over you still feel dizzy. Imagine making a two colour choc cake in one of these swirling cups .....  It’d look like this:

It’s a delicious mousse cake which tastes good any time of the year.. Especially recommended as a birthday cake (see photo..). 

Undoubtedly a must for choc lovers..

Song: Twist and Shout

Let yourself go, enjoy the music and best of all sing along

for the recipe follow me on:
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-four-black-and-white-twist.html

Cake three

Tiny Sunshine Tarts

Breakfast is my favourite meal, especially in Summer when I like to sit in my balcony and enjoy the early morning silence and fresh air. 

These small cakes are the right start for the day: sunshine rays trapped in buttery baskets.

Homemade marmelade matches well with buttery shortbread and they taste better with a hot frothy cappuccino. 

Song: Good day, Sunshine

Forget everything and get lost in the sun

for the recipe follow me on:

http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-three-tiny-sunshine-tarts.html

Cake two

Sicilian Mountain

Very good for breakfast or tea time.
If you had to paint a picture of Sicily after eating this cake I'm sure you'd draw orange tree gardens and sheep grazing in rather rocky fields. 
Ricotta cheese and marmelade are the hidden treasures of this cake

Song: Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Picture yourself in a Sicilian orange grove with tangerine trees and marmelade skies

for the recipe follow me on:
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-two-sicilian-mountain.html

Cake one

Rocky Flowers

This week’s cake is not a cake but cookies

Cookies which look like big flowers, with a yellow heart and red petals.. Baking and flowers are a perfect match for this time of the year. It’s springtime and you can feel it in the air.

Song: Mother Nature’s Son  
Forget everything and get lost in endless fields of flowers 

for the recipe follow me on: 
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-one-rocky-flowers.html

Baking to the sound of music, a Beatles song for each cake

I was undecided what language to write my blog, whether Italian, my mother tongue or English, the language of my soul or simply the key to a boundary free community and still I am! 

But since Italian is the language of my reality and English is the one of my dreams, I’ll use English as baking is part of my happy fancy world.

No recipe today but just a song to start with. A song which has been my life’s leitmotiv and which I dedicate to my family and all the ones I’ve really loved. 
A touching song which takes you to your dream world, an inspiring theme tune for the day:

Here there and everywhere - The Beatles

One cake a week is not enough to show I care .... for baking

When baking and music meet 

'With a little help from my'... children

Song: With a little help from my friends
"No man is an island, Entire of itself" - John Donne