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No cakes without eggs!

This summer we decided that we wanted to start raising our own chickens. We have the French breed: Marans, also known as the “chocolate egg layers”. I have four young hens and one young rooster at the moment. I have to wait about 2 months before I can go out to the coop and collect my own “chocolate eggs”. The first cake made with my own eggs, will sure be something special!

Photo from Wikipedia

Squeeze bottles:

The squeeze bottles are the greatest helper when it comes to flooding cookies. When I first started decorating cookies, I used a piping bag. With these bottles, I can flood lots of cookies at a time and I can store any leftover icing in the squeeze bottles. If you love to decorate cookies and don’t have one of these squeezing bottles, I can only highly recommend that you get some.

I have listed a few shops where you can get them:
CopperGifts
Karens Cookies
Cakes, Cookies & Crafts

Happy Caking!

Louise

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Calico Child says:

Aug 25, 2011

oooh what a great idea )

Iuliana Corca says:

Aug 19, 2011

Have you tried the “chocolate eggs”? Are they any different from the regular one? I’ve never seen anything like that before. They sure look like Easter Eggs.

Anonymous says:

Oct 11, 2011

My first hen started laying her first “chocolate eggs” in August. They are not as dark as the ones in the photo. But they sure have a nice color and they simply just taste better. Our pancakes are very yellow in color.

Akshaips says:

Aug 13, 2011

thanks yar and check out the new model of cakes in http://www.akshaips.blogspot.com

Carmen says:

Aug 12, 2011

Louise: Todo es hermoso y muy bien elaborado absolutamente adorable

Lizmel says:

Aug 3, 2011

…to flooding cookies… would it work to outline the cookies as well?????

Aug 4, 2011

No, I only use them for the flooding. I don’t think that you can get the same control that you can with a piping bag.

Elkinshirley says:

Loved this!

Shirley Elkin

Madhulika Dev says:

Aug 2, 2011

“No cakes without eggs!”
You just gave me a heart attack.
Hi my name is Madhu and i am a baker in process, I am from India and i have lots of vegetarian friends who don’t have eggs and they keep requesting “Egg less Cakes”.

I love your website, appreciate your work very very much.
Keep up the good work.

Tinkerbeth says:

Aug 1, 2011

What a great blog=D You seem really talented=D (I stumbled on here and have been just snooping around for half an hourXP)
I don’t know if you do requests, or maybe you have already done a post like this, but I just can’t seem to get my cream cheese frosting right, it keeps getting lumpy. (You know, like the frosting that goes on carrot cake.) It doesn’t matter how much I beat it, it just has all these butter lumps in it. It tastes fine, it just doesn’t look that good. Could you do a tutorial on that maybe, please?
Anyway, I am gonna stalk you now<3 (on this blog that is^^,)