A 21st Birthday Cake

Pre Decorated Cake

Tiffany's has had its first birthday event.  At my day job (yes, I actually do have one of those, just like the rest of you out there), my incredible employers have a daughter who turned 21 on the 30th of December.  As everyone is away during the Festive Season, I was asked if I would mind supplying the cake for the party.  Naturally, since Husband and I didn't go away this year, I had no problem in doing that as I figured it would be brilliant advertising.  And it was a challenge as it was to be an ombre cake, which I had never had the courage to try.

Canneloni - The Pasta Tube

Welcome to the new year everyone.  I hope we all had a wonderful festive season.  I actually prepped this blog back in October, but November and December completely flew by us, and I never got around to posting it.

Back in 2004 when I began studying as a chef, my first big kitchen tool that I bought myself was a pasta roller.  I've always found homemade pasta very elegant, even though kneading the dough can be difficult.  My pasta roller has probably only been used 5 times or so.  When I bough it, I never considered that the counter in the kitchen would make it impossible to mount.  Ideally one needs a kitchen island to mount it, as counters with doors beneath prevents the roller from being mounted.