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CakeJournals July favourites

July 29, 2011 by CJ [email protected] 24 Comments

Here are another round of favourites…

No cakes without eggs!
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:
Squeeze bottle
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:
Scrapcooking
Karens Cookies
Cakes, Cookies & Crafts

Happy Caking!

Louise

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Comments

  1. Calico Child

    August 25, 2011 at 8:10 AM

    oooh what a great idea :))

    Reply
  2. Iuliana Corca

    August 19, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    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. 

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      October 11, 2011 at 10:52 PM

      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. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Akshaips

    August 13, 2011 at 10:32 AM

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

    Reply
  4. Carmen

    August 12, 2011 at 11:56 PM

    Louise: Todo es hermoso y muy bien elaborado absolutamente adorable 

    Reply
  5. Lizmel

    August 3, 2011 at 9:16 PM

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

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      August 4, 2011 at 5:39 AM

      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.

      Reply
  6. Elkinshirley

    August 3, 2011 at 4:02 AM

    Loved this!

    Shirley Elkin

    Reply
  7. Madhulika Dev

    August 2, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    “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.

    Reply
  8. Tinkerbeth

    August 1, 2011 at 6:24 AM

    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^^,)

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      September 25, 2011 at 10:12 PM

      Try this recipe from the fabulous Glorious Treats https://glorioustreats.blogspot.com/2010/02/cream-cheese-frosting-recipe.html

      Reply
  9. Anonymous

    July 31, 2011 at 2:38 PM

    LOL!! I think that would take me lots and lots of practice…. I would be great if they could 😉

    Reply
  10. Samantha Wright

    July 29, 2011 at 6:24 PM

    Wow id love my own chickens but i lived in a built up area and not allowed anything like that 🙁 these eggs are a fabulous colour tho very strange never saw anything like it!

    Reply
  11. Lexy

    July 29, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    I haven’t bought any of these little containers but will as soon as I get to my local decorating store.

    I’ve read the hint to fill them by putting your icing in a plastic bag, cut the tip, and squeeze into the container.  Hope thats one you might try.

    Reply
  12. R Armstrong-Koelma

    July 29, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    Congratulations on your Chickens! I hope to get this type of chicken soon. We have 6 chickens already, 2 lay blue coloured eggs. Fresh eggs are the BEST.

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      July 29, 2011 at 11:58 PM

      Thank you 🙂 Are they Araucanas? I never thought that it would be so much fun to have chickens. I can’t wait for my eggs.

      Reply
  13. Gloria

    July 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM

    I thought they really were chocolate eggs when I first looked. I do envy you Louise – but couldn’t keep chickens here – too many foxes which I also love.

    BTW did you also pipe around cookie with squeezy? I have these so will definitely be trying them out. Thanks Louise.

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      July 29, 2011 at 11:53 PM

      I only use the bottles for the flooding part. I still use a piping bag for the outline 😉

      Reply
  14. Carolinacook

    July 29, 2011 at 1:43 PM

    Bravo to you and your chickens.  I have my own chickens (Buff Orpington s…the quintessential farm chicken).  As a scratch (no, not chicken scratch) baker, I love gathering fresh eggs each day.  The difference between a fresh egg and a store bought one is obvious.  The yolks stand higher and are  richer yellow.  The only down side is that when you make a French buttercream frosting with whole eggs, the finished product is definitely YELLOW such that it affects efforts to add food colouring….but it is such a pretty yellow that you really won’t mind.  
    I can’t wait to see your first “fresh egg” cake!  Welcome to the wonderful world of “grow your own”.

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      July 29, 2011 at 11:43 PM

      I love the Orpington breed too. They are just a big pile of fluffy feathers 🙂 Yes, I can’t wait for those rich yellow yolks.

      Reply
  15. Spring

    July 29, 2011 at 1:30 PM

    Dear Marian,
    Please tell me an easy way to fill those bottles!  imanaged it with a paper cone, but it was so hard!

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      July 29, 2011 at 11:39 PM

      I place a plastic piping bag in the squeeze bottle and pour in my thinned RI. Then I can slowly squeeze it into the bottle.

      Reply
  16. Franchesca Baker

    July 29, 2011 at 1:17 PM

    would this work well with making royal icing characters, such as penguins?  I am making royal icing penguins for a cake in 2 weeks

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      July 29, 2011 at 11:36 PM

      Not if you are using stiff or soft royal icing. This is only for thinned RI.

      Reply

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