Tag: special occasions
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Christmas Cake Decorating Part 1 – Cashew Marzipan
I’ve never decorated a cake with anything more fancy than butter icing before, so I’m not sure why I’m tempting fate decorating Oscar’s Christmas Cake, but I am! The first step is the Marzipan. I’m not a fan of almond marzipan, but while researching options I came across some recipes for cashew marzipan, which seems… Read more
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Chocolate Cashew Butter Cheesecake
I made a trial of my Chocolate Cashew Butter cheesecake for Christmas last week; luckily I had a picnic to take it to, as it is far too rich for us to even consider polishing of ourselves! Oscar even told me it was too sweet. Even with low fat sour cream and cream cheese, it… Read more
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Carrot, Zucchini and Apple Loaf with Cream Cheese Icing
I published this recipe in February, but when I made it recently I also made a cream cheese icing to go with it. Which gave me a good excuse to republish it. Read more
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Christmas Blog Hop and Christmas Cake
As Christmas is fast approaching (only 2 months to go!) I thought it might be fun to host a blog hop about Christmas food. For me this is one of the most difficult times of the year to manage Oscar’s food because there are usually so many people involved and I can’t always influence the… Read more
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The Final Birthday Post
We have been eating birthday cake for 5 days now, and this is my final post on Oscar’s birthday party. As well as his party on Sunday he also took a cake into his day care centre for a another “party” there. There are strict rules about taking food into child care centres. I can… Read more
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The Birthday Party
Oscar’s 3rd Birthday Party was a great success! We had wonderful weather, so the party could go ahead in the park and Oscar and friends had a great time. The food also went down well, although we do have quite a bit left over to take to work tomorrow. The menu included: Schweppes lemonade (no… Read more
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Birthday Preparations
Oscar’s 3rd birthday party is tomorrow and I have spent the last 2 days shopping for and preparing the party food. Its a train themed party with a Thomas and Friends birthday cake. Almost all the party food has had to be home made, including the cake. Since I couldn’t use natural food colourings for… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #3
It’s fairy floss that make the cute little “Bunny Tails” on these mini cup cakes. This isn’t a recipe so much as the cup cake is a gluten-free packet I found at Maxi supermarkets. Why is that gluten-free cake mixes can be made additive free, but not regular ones? The fairy floss is from Allergy… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #2
My taste testers at work were very pleased this week – Vanilla Slice! I also let DH take some to work to share. Oscar wasn’t too keen on the custard part (liked the pastry though), but this one will definitely be on the party menu. It was delicous!. Pip from Real Mealsinspired me to try… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #1
Oscar’s birthday is coming up in August and he’s having his first “kids party”. The first 2 birthdays where just with family, but this year we will be inviting friends from day care. If there’s one occasion when no food should be off-limits to Oscar it’s his birthday party, so I have identified some party… Read more
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Nana’s Moist Chocolate Cake
Yesterday was hubby’s birthday, so of course Oscar and I had a cake to make. A few weeks ago my mum reminded me about the chocolate cake recipe that I had in my Nana’s (her Mum) recipe book. Its a hand written journal of recipes that I got when she died. I used to make… Read more
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More Hot Cross Buns
Today I made some more hot cross buns, fruit ones this time, with dried pear, paw paw and banana. I used the same base recipe as the choc-chip hot cross buns, replacing the choc-chips with dried fruit, a plain white cross and golden syrup for the glaze. The golden syrup makes a much stickier, sweeter… Read more
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Preparing for Easter
Today I made Hot Cross Buns – a trial for Easter. Oscar can’t have commercial hot cross buns as they all have preservatives and “spices” in them. Last year I tried to make a failsafe version of Swedish Semlor (Lenten Buns), a custard filled bun, but something went terribly wrong and I ended up with… Read more
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Chicken Sausage Rolls
A variation on my sausage roll recipe, to use up some more zucchini! [gmc_recipe 4421] Read more
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Golden Syrup Slice/Cake
This cake was a staple on our elimination diet, we used it for birthday cakes and whenever we had friends or family over. I’ve always made it as a cake rather than cutting it into slices. It is quite thick and moist and is best on the day it is made, although leftovers are delicious… Read more
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A Picnic
Last weekend we went to see Window in the Willows at the Botanical Gardens, and took a picnic. So what did we take? I wanted to try something new as Oscar is typically not very keen on picnic fare, so I made pin wheels, which I know he has made at day care. Chicken and… Read more
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Back to Day Care
Oscar went back to day care on Monday, so Sunday afternoon was spent putting together his supplies. He has a list of allowed foods that he can have at the centre and we provide 3 out of 4 lunches each week as well as some of his snacks.We made cupcakes (which go in the freezer… Read more
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Vanilla Spiders
Oscar and I have just had a little holiday with his Nana and Pa in Shepparton, where it was 35 degrees plus all week. After a trip to the Kids Town playground one afternoon we all needed something to cool us down. Rather than just ice cream I made Oscar a spider (also called floats or… Read more