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Happy Mother's Day!
Mother's Day is the day when we get to celebrate the woman(or mom figure) who has cared for us our whole lives, the woman who kissed our boo boos, cried in the audience of our school plays, and showed us love in so very many ways. Mother's Day is one of my favorite days of the year, and it's not just because I look forward to gifts and cards from my own child. I love pampering the moms in my life too. I have a fabulous mom, but I am lucky enough to have a wonderful mother-in-law as well!
My mom is my biggest fan, and I'm pretty
sure I am hers as well. She is a
raging cookieholic, yup, she is powerless over cookies. So, when I was
trying to come up with a sweet treat to send her this Mother's Day, it had to be
shortbread cookies from the Polka Dot and Striped Cookies Tutorial.
It's made from Sarah's Vanilla Shortbread, which is tender, foolproof and absolutely scrumptious. It can be colored, textured, rolled and re-rolled without getting tough, and the buttery goodness cannot be beat. If your mom has a penchant for cookies, this recipe is a winner!
Do you usually send your mom flowers for
Mother's Day? This year why not change it up and send her an edible
bouquet made from Sarah's Creative Cut-Out Sugar Cookies Recipe? 
If your mom prefers cake, we have many
wonderful recipes to choose from here at baking911.com
One of my faves is our Mother's Day Coconut Cake Recipe, moist and delish, and all dressed up for Mother's Day.
Our new Decorated Cake Rolls are another
great choice. The Cherry Blossom Cake Roll and the Decorated Sponge Cake Roll Recipes are light and fluffy....filled with billowy whipped cream and
fresh berries.
Whatever recipe you choose, we wish you all a very Happy Mother's Day.
~Kelly and the Baking 911 TeamCopyright © 2012 Sarah Phillips Sarah Phillips, Inc. All rights reserved.
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In Mexico, Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") held on May 5, celebrates Mexico's victory over French forces in 1862. Here in the United States, it's an excuse to celebrate the food and drink introduced by our neighbors to the South.
Baking recipes are always popular! There's only one way to end a Cinco de Mayo fiesta and that's with flan. Our Flan Clasico de Vanilla Recipeis an oven-baked caramel custard dessert that is a very popular in Spain and in Mexico. It is commonly used as a term to describe the Spanish or Mexican version of Crème caramel
Mexican food is known for its spicy flavors, but these dessert recipes prove there's a sweet side south of the border. Our Cuatro Leches Vanilla Mantecado Cake Recipe shouldn't be missed. Ours is a layered Mantecada Vanilla Sponge Cake, soaked in Cuatro Leches Sauce, topped with Swiss Meringue and dotted with Arequipe Caramel Reduction. We serve it with extra Tres Leches Sauce and Arequipe Caramel.
Dulce de Leche is a Cinco de Mayo standout. It is made from boiling milk and results from an intense and thick caramelization of it. You can make your own or buy it, ready made from the grocery store.
Swirl it in brownies, to enjoy my Dulce de Leche Swirled Brownie Recipe. I especially love it in myDulce de Leche Swirled Cheesecake Recipe - bet you can't just eat one piece.
And, chocolate paired with cinnamon and spices, also known as Mexican chocolate, is a unique flavor-treat! Mexican chocolate refers to either the round, flat disks of cinnamon-scented chocolate(Ibarra Brand), or the foamy drink made from them. But, we add in our own combination of spices to our Chocolate Angel Food Cake for something different! You could add the same spice combination to any chocolate cookie recipe, such as the Brownie Cookies Recipe.Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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For the past month, Kelly and I have been making these sensational
decorated fluffy sponge cake rolls filled with whipped cream and fresh
strawberries. The outside of the roll is decorated with colorful flower
imagery...all done with batter, and then baked. There is no frosting or
fondant involved. The whole cake tastes quite refreshing - it is not too
sweet because it is not loaded down with sugary icing or fondant.
So far we have created two tutorials for you - Our Flower Power Decorated Sponge Cake Roll and the Cherry Bossom Cake Recipes. Either one is perfect for Easter or for any celebration. With the recipe, we have included a design template with each you can print out, place in your pan, and follow the piping design to make your perfect cake design. We will be creating new template designs in the future as well.
For months now, Sarah and I have been seeing darling decorated sponge cake rolls all over the internet. Unfortunately, most of the recipes we found, were in Japanese o
r Chinese, and we couldn't quite figure out the
technique. It took lots of cake rolls, frustration and angst to perfect
it. In the end, it was worth it!
These decorated roll cakes have been popularized in Asian countries, by a Japanese baker named Junko. You can see her blog: http://ameblo.jp/chottono-kufu/ We asked our dear member "kake" to help us with recipe and instruction translation so we could come up with a rif on this technique, Baking911 style.
We have more cake roll, also know as cake roulade recipes on the website, plus additonal cake baking and what we call, crafty baker or cake decorating information.Copyright © 2012 Sarah Phillips Sarah Phillips, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Who doesn't love a buttery homemade cookie? And when asked to pick a favorite one, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin or old fashioned sugar cookies are the ones most often mentioned here on baking911.com. When asked about a favorite cookie to decorate, Sarah's Creative Cut-out Sugar Cookie Recipe is mentioned most.
We have several cookie decorating tutorials on this site.Bake and decorate Creative Sugar Cookie Pops for Easter, with our recipe and tutorial. Put together all sorts of styles and shapes, guided by over 50 color photos and detailed, step-by-step instructions.
Tired of the same old boring Cadbury Eggs and hollow chocolate bunnies? Jazz up your child's Easter basket with some iced decorated sugar cookies instead! Learn how to make Easter Bunnies, the quintessential symbol for rebirth, the Butterfly, and, the ever-popular Easter Egg with sugar decorations and with feathering designs!
Check out one of our favorite cookie designer's cookbook and my friend, Julia M. Usher's Ultimate Cookies, providing endless inspiration. She has contributed cookie tutorials here in the past: Easy 3-D and 2-D Gingerbread Projects with Recipes. I just
saw her at the recent IACP New York City Meeting. I took a quick
photo of her decorated sugar cookies on display.Copyright © 2012 Sarah Phillips Sarah Phillips, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Easter falls on Sunday, April 8. and is celebrated all over the world. Easter is for baking, and there are so many traditional and nontraditional recipes. In England and Ireland, hot cross buns are typical of the Easter season, and remain popular in America, too.Our Lemon Glazed Hot Cross Buns, traditionally served on Good Friday and Easter, is a yeasted sweet bread dough. It is scented with spices such as ground cinnamon and nutmeg and fresh lemon peel. We have glazed ours with a vibrant real lemon glaze, with tasty currants peaking from the baked buns.
Don't pass-up baking our Chocolate Hot Cross Buns, made from our Wild Yeast Sourdough Starter Recipe. It's bursting with a rich chocolate flavor spiked with a hint of cinnamon. We've decorated ours with chocolate dough. 
Italy has some of the richest and most varied baking traditions. Celebrate with out with Italian Dove Sweet Bread Recipe. Symbolizing both peace and the Holy Spirit, the Dove, has become the shape of the famous traditional Easter Bread, Colomba di Pasqua(Colomba Pasquale) or Easter Dove in English, a classic dessert at any Easter meal in Italy. It lies somewhere between Brioche and Panettone. It is cakelike and tender, slightly sweet, and almond scented, often accompanied by an espresso or a cappuccino. Since we love to bake, we have included a couple of Easter baking ideas that could
become traditions in your household. OurEaster Bunny Cake Pops Recipe made with our luscious and popular Red Velvet Layer Cake Recipe. 
Decorated cake rolls captured our eyes, and with much testing., we created our Spring Sponge Cake Roll Recipe. The cake is exceedingly fluffy and filled with fruit and whipped cream. It is quite refreshing. It is not too sweet, because it is not loaded down with icing or fondant. Choose either our Mojito Roulade or Jelly Roll Cake Recipe or the Strawberries and Cream Roulade Cake Recipe to grace your table with. We even have a gluten-free recipe variation.Enjoy, and Happy Easter from all of us at baking911.com
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