On Paratiisi aivan salainen, lumoava paikka, talon-alainen. On siellä kakkua ja marmelaatia, enemmän kuin kukaan voisi vaatia. On hunajaa ja marjamehua. Myös suklaan määrää täytyy kehua. Ei antimia liene puuttunut, vaan mihin saparo on juuttunut. ( Mansikkamäki, Helme Heine)
Welcome to my cake blog called Mansikkamäki (Strawberry Hill ). I'm a full-time mother of three children and I got excited about the cake decorating when I was on maternity leave at the beginning of 2007. On the Internet I found interesting baking blogs both in Finnish and in English and I started to practise cake decorating while taking care of my children and doing the housework. Certainly I had baked before but many materials (like sugar icing, sugarpaste, marzipan and marshmallow fondant) were total new for me. I've also had to buy many different new tools little by little.
Categories (links):
-decorated cookies
Cheese, jelly and gelatin cakes
- place settings etc.
Low fat delicacies
- for dieter
Experiments
Cake decorations
-marzipan decorations including instructions
-chocolate decorations
-sugarpaste/gumpaste decorations
- marzipan or sugarpaste flowers
- not for eating
Childrens cakes
My daughters cakes
Painted cake pictures
- (mostly) on marzipan surface with food colour paints painted cake pictures. My friends ask me to make the picture and they make the cake themselves.
Other pastries
Candies
- stryrox cakes
Marzipan characters, instructions
Little sweets (cake pops...)
Pies
Cookies
How to decorate cookies
Gingerbread cookies and houses for Christmas
Baby shower and christening decorations
Royal icing
SLY - secret group of baking friends
My sisters' cakes
Salty pastries
Materials and shopping
- not everything, only some interesting things
Cakes with decorations and fillings
MMF
General
I hope you enjoy yourself with my blog although I write in Finnish.
Yours, Ebe
