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Taramosalata (Fish roe salad - meze)

  Photo taken from Athinorama Umami Taramosalata There are also the Greek classics, think something like a dip but instead of using nachos or vegetables to eat them we use bread. Taramosalata is one of those dishes.   It is roe fish blended into a creamy pink dip of pureed potatoes with parsley, lemon juice, and finely chopped onion (optional).   In meze, this is one of the first dishes that it is served.   In taverns, they always bring it along with salad, tzatziki, and tahini.   We will talk about the last two later.   Well, let’s see our recipe…   Ingredients 2 kg tarama (fish roe). 1 large potato or two small ones 450gr of Greek bread 1 tsp of shredded and dried onion 1 cup olive oil The juice of one lemon (medium size) Tarama is the hardest ingredient to find, so it is a good idea to look at groceries that import Mediterranean food. It is usually sold in larger jars, but you can store the remainder in the freezer for months. Peel the potatoes and cut t

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

This cake was made for Demetris, an adorable two year old boy!  I hope he likes it. His mother told me that he likes Mickey Mouse very much!

Here you can see the cake decoration steps.
  I used buttercream, in order to make the surface of the cake smooth.


This cake took me 3 hours to decorate it. The black part was the hardest to finish. I used wilton's black decoratcing icing.
Happy Birthday Demetri!!!

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  1. Sooooooooooooooooo cute!!!
    It's adorable

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  2. OMG so pretty!! I know I would have loved a cake like that! haha :)
    Buzzed ya!

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  3. I imagine this was some effort to make with all those stars of icing on there. Also getting around between the inital black lines would not be easy. Yet, with your expertise you sailed through with yet another lovely cake. I hope you are there when Demetri gets it, nothing says thank you better than a smile on a childs face!

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  4. This is very impressive! I once made a Christmas tree cake using the same method and that took me about an 1 and 1/2 hours. Beautiful job

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  5. The cake is beautiful! What kind of cake is it?

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  6. The cake looks good even without the icing. With the icing, perfect.

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  7. Hello Ann. Thank you for your nice comments. This cake, in Greek, is called "Doukissa" or "Kormos". The ingredients I use are: butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, vanilla sugar, brandy and plain biscuits. It does not need baking but it needs to be refrigerated over night. I found similar recipes in English called "Chocolate Salami".

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  8. This looks just like the cake my mom made for me when I was younger. I'm not sure how old I was, but I remember the cake! I'm sure the little guy will love this!

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  9. wow your cake is really beautiful!!! micky looks great :)

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  10. That cake looks awesome! I can never get my frosting to the right consistency so it looks good when I pipe it. Great job!

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  11. That doesn't look like cake too much. It looks like craft work or a toy. Amazing!

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  12. THREE HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy cow! You must have the patience of a saint!

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  13. Beautiful! Your cakes are works of art!

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  14. very impressive, i wish i could do that

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  15. hello dear!
    I need a little help from you, My hubby's b'day is on Aug 5th. I'm planning for the delicious cake. he loves vanilla flavor. I have cake flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, vanilla frost, rasins, walnuts, etc., In my home can you suggest the best cake for me? This will be very helpful for me dear!
    plz help out

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  16. Try the "Chocolate Cake with Banana" http://www.dreamofcakes.net/2008/09/chocolate-cake-with-banana.html
    You can add rasins and walnuts if you want. Forget my chocolate frosting. You can use your vanilla frost, it will be equally delicious. Vanilla, bananas and chocolate are a very good combination. Good Luck!! I hope he likes it.

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  17. Looks great! The stuffs you make are amazing! I love mickey, i would like to have one of this for my Bday ;)

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  18. Eftychia, this looks really cute and elegant. Three hours to decorate the cake, great work!

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  19. Such a cute cake! Bet that was one happy little birthday boy.

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  20. Cake decorating is art that is performed in places all over the world. That is why contests and baking show competitions are very popular, especially in the Western World. Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative elements to make plain cakes more visually interesting. Alternatively, cakes can be molded and sculpted to resemble three-dimensional persons, places and things.

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  21. Looks great. Mickey is awesome.

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  22. Being that Mickey Mouse is a popular cartoon character among kids, this serves as a spectacular birthday cake for kids, and the family overall. To make this a family activity, kids can share in the hands on experience by helping to decorate the cake, and see there favorite cartoon character come to life in front of there own eyes. This idea is wonderful, and definitely worth sharing, so thank you for doing so. Christmas is right around the corner, and I will most certainly bake this cake and have my twin nephews be apart of it. I'm sure they'll find it fun, and yummy at the same time. Thanks again!

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  23. There is definately a great deal to know about this topic.
    I really like all of the points you have made.

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    It's on a completely different topic but it has pretty much the ѕame
    layout and design. Exⅽellent cһoice of colors!

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