Onesie Cake Tutorial: Easy Baby Shower Cake

Onesie Cake Tutorial: Easy Baby Shower Cake:
Learn how to make a simple, beginner-friendly onesie cake for your next baby shower or gender reveal party. No special pans, no carving, no problem!

I hope I get to make this gorgeous fun cake for my daughters baby showers... until then I will practice by making these for friends baby showers.   

A method for piping the icing if you don't have a proper icing piping bag is to use a fairly good quality sandwich bag and nip a tiny hole in the corner and twist up as a bag would and use this to pipe on your words and decoration to this or any cake.

A rectangle cake is always a great shaped cake to create a party cake from using shapes for in character cakes that will be remembered for years.

I recall making an insane soccer field on a slab sponge I ordered from the bakery because it was so large I could not bake one that size.  I took the slab home and decorated this myself.  It was a huge hit and it was so life like (and large enough for the entire team).

Rainbow Milo Balls

Jedi Skittles- image Flickr

1 can condensed milk
3 tablespoons milo
1 pkt arrowroot biscuits
1. Crush biscuits add milo & mix
2. Add condensed milk
3. Roll mixture into balls
4. Roll into hundreds & thousands.
5. Put in fridge for an hour.

YOGHURT MAKING

Fresh Homemade Yoghurt is easy to make these days.  I came across a Facebook post that showed this so I decided to blog it here at Mary's Recipe Book.

Happy Yoghurt Making....

Link to SIMPLE SAVERS POST 

Someone posted about runny skim yoghurt a few days ago, so I thought I'd show how I make thick nonfat, skim and full cream yoghurt from scratch for about $1.30/kg.

Use skim or full fat if you prefer. I've made 100's of kilos over the years. -
1 L of UHT milk (why? Fresh milk needs heating and cooling to activate proteins for yoghurt making. UHT is already heat treated and cheap) -
25g milk powder (equivalent to make 1 cup of milk) -
A few grains of frozen live culture (that's what's on the knife, other pix show packet)

Quick mix while cold and put in electric yoghurt maker for 12 - 24 hours.

This makes Greek Yoghurt - You can sweeten it, add flavours, but fruit is best added after brewing.  I make 3/4 of this recipe in a 200g Moconna jar.

I prefer to use glass as its non porous, easy to clean and conducts heat better than plastic.

Mild Yoghurt Culture - 100 litres

 $16.95 plus post from the following website. Lasts a very long time (100 batches). Check their recipes too.

http://greenlivingaustralia.com.au/yoghurt-kefir

Images from Flickr 

Sweet Potato, Zucchini & Feta Savory Muffins

Makes about 30 depending on the size of your muffin

INGREDIENTS

1 medium sweet potato, grated
1 medium zucchini, grated
1 medium red onion, grated
1/2 cup cheese, grated
100g feta, crumbled
1/3 cup spelt or wholemeal flour
4 eggs
Salt and Pepper to taste.

METHOD

Combine all ingredients and spoon into  muffin trays (use silicon trays to avert sticking).
Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes and turn out to cool.