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This cake has made me so proud! It has put a smile on my face every time I passed it by and people have commented so kindly on it that all the effort and backache that went into it were worth it. Not least of all it was declared by Maya, the birthday girl (7), her new favourite cake, because she loved the taste of it too. This cake is both incredibly pretty and delicious. Rainbow cake slice Now, for details. I made the white cake recipe called Parfect Party Cake by Dorie Greenspan in Baking : From My Home to Yours . Because I do not like to waste, I used the leftover egg yolks to make a half recipe of yellow cake from The Joy of Cooking for the yellow and orange layers. Pastel rainbow cake, unadorned White and yellow cake concepts are American. White cake using only egg whites and yellow cake, well, you've guessed by now. I added a hint of vanilla to everything, the icing is similar to Billy's vanilla buttercream , which I have used successfully before on cupc...

Maya turned two last week. Last year, on her first birthday, I made her some eggless banana muffins, which she didn't eat, quite understandably. Later, we celebrated at my brother's, since we have many birthdays in September in our family, and my nephew Lucas was born five years before Maya, on the same date (what are the odds?) She enjoyed my sister-in-law's pear charlotte more than my vanilla bean loaf. Mrmph. This year, since she has taken a strong liking for her Hello Kitty T-shirts, I decided to bake her a HK cake. That seemed easier than baking a Teletubbies cake, although I'm pretty sure Laa-Laa outranks the Kitty in the favourites list. My first idea was to search the internet for a HK cake tin/pan. Well, they don't exist, not really. Go figure. HK is a very widely marketed icon (a while ago they said the singer with Radiohead, Thom Yorke, was a fan), but there are no cake tins to be bought. So one of my forum friends gave me a link to this website where h...

Crédit photo: fancyflours.com Scroll down for English Eh bien, figurez-vous que j'avais oublié l'anniversaire de mon blog à cause de différentes choses (et personnes)....cet anniversaire du 12 novembre. Enfin, pas vraiment, puisque j'ai créé ce blog en avril 2005, mais j'étais trop timide pour poster correctement, et puis je me disais qu'avec un bébé bientôt, je n'aurais pas le temps, mais je n'avais pas d'appareil numérique non plus, ce qui compliquait les choses. J'ai attendu d'avoir mon bébé. C'est là que j'ai réalisé que je trouvais quand même le temps de cuisiner et de bloguer. Donc, nous y voici, un an après avoir ressuscité ce blog. Je peux donc désormais proposer une très chic rubrique "il y a un an...." en bas de mes billets. Je suis toujours accro aux livres de cuisine, mais pas autant que d'autres (spéciale dédicace à Anna!) Ma collection tourne désormais autour des 100, et je n'ai *que* trente ans (et demi, ...