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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

Flip Flops for Lien (Birthday Cake)

On Saturday, the 27th of August 2011, Lien Dong will celebrate her 23rd birthday.  As I promised in an earlier post, this year I was going to choose a summer theme for her birthday. Well, this is one of the two birthday cakes, Lien is going to have this year. The other one is a Mermaid birthday cake.

She helped me to make and decorate the 2nd cake, without knowing that this cake was for her too. She was asking me how old is the girl and she was saying that the girl will be thrilled when she will see it. She only found out that it was for her when I wrote her name on the cake. 

Actually, she was right, the girl was thrilled... :-)!!!
Below you will be able to find the recipe for the cake.  I am so sorry I forgot to take photos of the making process.  I only took a photo from the cake just before I baked it.

Vanilla and Strawberry Cake

Ingredients
100gr unsalted butter
170gr caster sugar
2 medium eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
150ml evaporated milk
80gr Greek yogurt
2 tablespoon water
8 teaspoons strawberry jam

Preparation Method
1) Beat all ingredients in an electric mixer. Do not over mix.
2) Spray Wilton's Non Stick-Spray to a rectangular pan (15cm x 20cm); then pour mixture.
2) With the help of two teaspoons trop the strawberry jam on top of the batter just before baking.
3) Bake in a preheated oven, at 170ºC, for 35’ minutes. Then reduce oven temperature to 150ºC and continue baking for another 10’ minutes.
4) Allow to cool for 10’ minutes before you remove the cake from the pan to a wire rack to cool.
5) Then improvise :-)!!!!


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I promise that I will give you more details about the Mermaid Birthday Cake in the near future.
Lien Dong with her two birthday cakes.
Happy Birthday Lien!!

Comments

  1. I dont know were you come up with the idea for all thes cakes. They are just fabulous! Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Ssooo precious and just buzzed you!

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  3. Wow! Those are adorable. I will keep the flip flops in mind for my daughter's birthday.

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  4. Brilliant and unaccepted idea!
    The performance is beautiful1
    I'm sharing the photo on my facebook

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  5. Yummy and creative looking cakes. I know that your cakes brought big smiles to everyone's face! The vanilla and strawberry cake looks doable for me. :)

    Cheers,
    Alaiyo
    (Your Foodbuzz Friend)

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  6. Those flip flop cakes are SO cute!! Great work!! And the vanilla and strawberry cake sounds delicious!

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  7. Oh my God they are both gorgeous but I know I will just have to make the flip flops for my daughter.

    Beautiful, what a lucky girl, two birthday cakes.

    BUZZED you and bookmarked this site!

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  8. Happy Birthday to Lien! And you are always soooo creative. But these flip flops cakes have to be my all time favorite so far! Wonderful! : )

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  9. I will take a pair-have any in size 7 1/2? Amazing job on those cute flip flops-buzz! I will be looking forward to more on the mermaid cake.

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  10. sooo damn cute! I have never seen such cute looking cute and those flip flops .. aawww

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  11. That is one amazing cake! Love how creative you are with cakes!

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  12. Awesome cakes! I love that you used a brown sugar for sand...they are lovely!

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  13. These look really nice! And I bet they taste great,too. I love strawberry anything!

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  14. How darling! The styling is so pretty and so girlish :-)

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  15. Both cakes look amazing! And Lien looks very happy with them =)

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  16. So pretty and a wonderful birthday gift!

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  17. thanks for visiting my blog...you are a very creative blogger..happy to have found u

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  18. How on earth do you do it? Those are sooo cute!! Haha, never seen anything like it. Lucky birthday girl!

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  19. Lien looks like one happy girl!!! Impressive and beautiful cakes as always~

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  20. Very cute! I'm envious of your cake talent

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  21. While the cakes are adorable (so cute!) it's a vanilla strawberry cake with real strawberries?

    That sounds amazing! I'm totally going to make it soon although it probably won't be in flip flop shape - that's a bit beyond my skills :)

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  22. I love the Ariel cake! Great job.

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  23. simple n easy recipe to prepare at home.in next month my son's birthday is coming,we will try this,thanks for sharing a nice recipe.

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  24. What brilliant idea for a summer theme for your girl! She sure is blessed to have talented baker mum! The two cakes are just WOW!!

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  25. What an awesome cake! And thank you for the recipe, I love strawberry and vanilla.

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  26. This is SOOOOO cool! You are so freaking creative!

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  27. Spectacular cakes! This 'little girl' would be thrilled to get either of them too :)

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  28. Thanks for visiting my blog..You have an amazing blog...Such a lovely and easy cake ..will definitely give it a try...

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  29. What cute cakes! Very nice work.

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  30. Una torta che ha il sapore del ... mare!!!!!!
    Giulia

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  31. Adorable! Love what you did with these.

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  32. Haha, don't know how you thought of this concept. Would like to see what you will think of in the future.

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  33. Haha, this was a creative concept. Would like to see what you will come up with in the future. :)

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  34. how awesome is this cake! it's quite lovely and i wish i knew how to bake. i'm hoping to learn along the way. really though it's awesome and i love that your surprised her :)

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  35. That's a very beautiful cake!!

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  36. E!! These are simply gorgeous and adorable!! Superb talent lady. Oh my and Lien is just a beauty.

    What love you put into these cakes for her. Amazing!

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  37. These cakes are absolutely adorable. I just love them. You are so talented! I hope the birthday was wonderful and I'm sure it was. Thanks for coming by, too.

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  38. Have not seen such a tasty flip flop and sand in my life! LOL

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  39. oh, this is too cute. I love it.

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  40. These look great! I would love to have your kind of talent with cakes!

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  41. Adorable cakes! I admire your talent.

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  42. Both cakes look so cute! I love the colors! Your vanilla strawberry cake sounds incredible, going to have to try it :)

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  43. These are sooo cute!!! I love the flip flops!! You are very talented!

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