LOVE Cookies

Last night I felt so good and that made me bake some cookies. Not ordinary cookies, but ones filled with hearts and lots of love.

Today I shared them all around my neighbors and they really loved them. It's such a great thing so spread love to the people around you <3

I found the inspiration on www.munchkinmunchies.com (design and recipe) and I must tell that it's a keeper.

A few more days to go and February ( the month of celebrating love )is here and everyone should bake these cookies and share them with the loved ones and friends.

Here is the recipe that I tried. It's really easy to make and the result is delicious!

INGREDIENTS:

• 6 cups flour
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 2 cups butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. salt
• pink dye

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1.  Cream butter and sugar. 
2.  Add eggs and vanilla.
3.  Mix dry ingredients and add to butter mixture. Mix well.
4.  Divide dough into two equal parts and add pink dye to one of them ( add as much pink dye as you want until you reach the color that you like). Mix well.

It's not mandatory to chill the dough before using.

Roll to desired thickness and cut into desired shapes. 

Here is a small tutorial on how to make them. as in the pictures.

1. Cut your cookies using a round cutter.
2. Use a small heart shaped cutter right in the middle.
3. Add the pink small heart to a white cookie and the white one to the pink cookie.
4. Press the heart a little bit to fill out the space.
5. Use a small rolling pin at the end to smooth the cookies.

Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or just until beginning to turn brown around the edges.

Here are my cookies before going in the oven

And out of the oven

Stylish Cupcakes - Caramel and Rum

Hello everyone!
This month my dear friend Andreea celebrated  her great blog www.stylishdreams.com for making 3 years and I thought to bake for her something nice and to decorate it in her style ;)

I choose my Vanilla Cupcakes  flavored  with rum essence and inside I made a caramel pudding flavored with real rum for an extra kick :D

I covered them with white fondant and stenciled some beautiful butterflies on top. 
A pink wrap added to the cupcakes gave them a more stylish look and I was really pleased with the result.

I hope you like them to and I'll wait for your stylish version of cupcakes.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

 

 Photos by Emi Trasnitu

French Macaroons

It's my first making decent looking french macaroons.  I tried a couple of times before, but the result wasn't that good. I don't find making macaroons an easy thing. It's actually hard, you have to carefully respect every single step.
I found various methods of making macaroons and I chose the french one , using fresh egg whites.

The recipe I found it on www.weddingchicks.com . They have a great post with plenty explanations on how to make macaroons and they give us 3 delicious recipes for creams to fill the macaroons. Read the post a few times before starting to prepare your macaroons. The more attention you'll pay the better results you'll have  ;)

These macaroons, in pink or red can be the perfect desert to make for you loved one for Valentine's day. 

 Photos by Emi Trasnitu

Ombre & Ruffle Cake - Mint and Cream

First post on 2014 :) Welcome 2014!
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fantastic party! We sure did!

This year my hubby and I hosted the New Year's party at our place so that our toddler can stay and celebrate with us as long as possible ( if I remember well he went to sleep around 2 o'clock). We had our friends with us so we had a great time together eating, drinking, chatting and laughing.

For this special occasion I made a gorgeous  cake with the help of my one of my best friends, Raluca who was in Zurich and we celebrated together the night between years.
We made a 3 layers cake ( one vanilla and two chocolate) filled with a fluffy vanilla sugar frosting( find the recipe Here )

All photos were made by my good friend Traian Belc.