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Showing posts with label biscuits. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2013

"Baci di Cioccolato" {Chocolate Kisses biscuits}

The other day we celebrated a small Christmas party in the office and, as per tradition, all the teams have to bring something to eat typical from their Country.

I prepared some chocolate biscuits called : "Baci di Cioccolato" - they didn't come out as I wished but they were delicious {they ended in less than 10 minutes, it means something right?}







The original recipes comes (apparently) from Genova, Nord Italy and the biscuits name means "Chocolate kisses"..

The biscuit should be slightly rounder,this means I have added too much butter (meh :/) -- so, always trust the original recipe!!

The original recipe is {click on the image and print}:










































This is part of my team at the CS gathering :
Italian & Scandinavian teams 
Since my dear colleague Sandra is on maternity leave, I'm taking care of the Scandinavian team - our cultures are so different but we are getting on very well and this was a nice way to share some love with typical food ;)

Until next time,
Daniela

Friday, September 27, 2013

Halloween Biscuits {for beginners}

Hello world!

I made my very first halloween biscuits!

I am a beginner in the cake decoration area, but I really enjoyed decorating these biscuits and creating the different colours I needed :)

I must do it again and practice{ahem...perhaps, I should bake them again when it actually is Halloween....}




I was expecting terrible results on the icing, I could already see myself covered in orange icing trying to make a pumpkin out of a round(ish) biscuit!

I didn't have any cutters but that didn't discourage me!!I took a knife and started making a mess cutting bats, pumpkins and ghosts......that's why I ended up with a whole family of crooked bats...

After everything was done, I was told that I could have draw the bat on a piece of paper, put it on the biscuit and THEN started cutting -- I think it would have spared me a lot of  "#$%&!" during the process.


I am proud of the final result :) It was the first time but the icing was good, the biscuits were delicious and they looked like ghosts, pumpkin and bats right? That was the goal! :)


Below you can find the printable recipe - Click on the image and print it out:


::FEW TIPS:: {Thank you Paola for your help!}:

- Before decorating the whole biscuit, make the borders with the icing using a toothstick - this way the icing won't slip down the biscuit when you cover the remaining part;
- In order to make the black icing look really black add some cocoa powder and then, when the icing is brownish, add the black colour (you might need to add a tea spoon of water here, in case it gets too thick);
- Sieve the sugar before adding the water : this way you won't create lumps or bubbles (as you can see, I didn't do that on the orange icing for the pumkins..*sigh*)

Don't hesitate to give it a try and Have Fun!

Until next time,
Daniela

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