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Cookie recipe to decorate: Butter Cookies

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When we enter the world of confectionery, as in any other, we become more and more perfectionists and what happened before in any way, now we want it to be totally perfect. And in the case of cookies, even more so, because each cookie is a small ...

Decorated cookies: 10 basic mistakes to avoid

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When it comes to making decorated cookies, especially for those who don't have much practice, there are endless tricks and details to take into account. So many that sometimes we get stuck and make mistakes that would actually be very easy to avoid. To shorten your curve of ...

Decorated cookies: royal icing

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The cookies decorated with royal icing are a real beauty, and if you really know how to master this ingredient, the decoration possibilities are endless. Decorating with royal icing can be a most entertaining and pleasant hobby, it has a relaxing point that makes you lose track of time ... But like everything else in ...

Oreo Cookies Recipe to decorate

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I could not prevent a mischievous smile from escaping me when writing the title of this post ... And when we eat a decorated cookie, who expects to find another flavor in it beyond the classic vanilla and chocolate? If you're a bit daring, you may have tried adding ...

The best pastry books

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Today is book day, one of my favorite days of the year. It is also San Jorge or Sant Jordi, it depends on where you live, and in our area one of the most beautiful festivals of the year, with hundreds of cultural activities in the street and stalls full of books and ...

Interactive cakes: a delight to play with

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Far have been the typical cakes that seem to come out of the same pattern. In this area, innovation has been making its way by leaps and bounds. Surely you have already seen, or even tried, cakes that look like works of art, so much so that you have even been able to wonder if it is something ...

Baking pans: the ultimate guide

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Baking molds are a world to discover, and it grows more and more every day. Every season the brands surprise us with their novelties, presenting new molds with more attractive designs, more efficient materials, more sumptuous shapes ... But do you really know which are the basic molds you need ...

10 essential pastry tools

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When I started in the world of sweets and saw the amount of pastry tools that exist and everything that could be done with them, my first thought was the same that surely you had too: "I want it allooo !!" That was the first ... and even today ...

Did you know…

… Most of the brown sugar on the market is not really brown sugar?

Formerly, brown sugar was obtained from sugar cane, refining it much less than to make white sugar. But today, to lower production costs and facilitate processes, it is done by adding molasses to refined white sugar.

That is why you should always buy reliable and good quality sugars.

Decorated letter cakes: the trend of 2018

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In the last few days, our social networks have been filled (literally) with photographs with the beautiful decorated letter cakes, the trend of 2018, and that were originally created by Adi Klinghofer (@ adikosh123). I'm sure you already know his style, you've seen a multitude of versions in various profiles and ...

UltraViolet, the color of 2018 in your sweets

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The Pantone Color Institute announced at the beginning of the year which is the color chosen for next 2018. We left behind the Greenery green of 2017, to make way for UltraViolet, the color of 2018, a provocative, intense and reflective purple color. Purple 18-3838 is a bold color full of symbolism that is sure ...

Roscón de Reyes: Step by step recipe

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Now that you have studied all the tips and tricks to have a perfect Roscón de Reyes, and you have all the materials and ingredients ready, it is time to finally get down to work. First we prepare the mise en place: we weigh and prepare all the ingredients we need to ...