Technically, cake pops are made by mashing frosting into cake and shaping into balls before poking sticks in the ends and dipping in melted chocolate. Lately, I have been using my Babycakes Cake Pop Maker and then poking a stick in and dipping in chocolate. This time around though, I felt that it called for 'traditional' cake pops and I went with mashing frosting into cake for the right texture. (read)
After posting all of our Easter fun this week, it occurred to me that some people may like to make actual Easter bread for their families this weekend, not sweet bread stuffed with cheese and made to look like bunnies and not Greek Easter bread, but you know, standard old school straight up Easter bread. Like your granny probably made, in a braid, with dyed eggs on top. (read)
These little bunny buns are the cutest food I've made in a very long time. So so cute. I will admit right now - some of them look like cats. But you can tell they're all at least trying to be bunnies. It's actually a very basic and entirely painless process. Essentially, you mix it all together, leave it alone for a bit, then roll it around, a couple of snips and pokes later, and you're done! Easy! (read)
I love, love, love Greek Easter bread (technically it's called Tsoureki). My mother is Greek so any time we celebrated something a second time because of the Eastern Orthodox calendar we just called it Greek Christmas or Greek Easter or whatever food we were eating that was slightly different because of the Mediterranean influence we'd toss the word Greek in front of it and my sister and I would happily partake in whatever it was. Now that I'm older and have been ribbed by my friends for years that it's actually Eastern Orthodox Christmas and Eastern Orthodox Easter we were celebrating two weeks after the western version and that it's more like Mediterranean chicken and pilaf - not just for Greeks - but I don't care. I still use 'Greek' instead of 'Eastern Orthodox' and I can't help it. ;) (read)
I know this is a week late for a lot of people, but the Eastern Orthodox Easter Bunny (aka the Greek Easter Bunny in our house) is hopping around this weekend for a lot of us. I've mentioned about a zillion times before that I'm from a mixed heritage family, lovingly described as half painfully Canadian and half hardcore Greek. I love this family makeup and as I've married into a painfully Canadian family (a painfully Canadian family that I adore) I choose to be the hardcore Greek half, even though I'm hardly Greek enough for the role. It just means I'm a stern mama (most of the time), I insist on celebrating both Easters, both Christmases and the occasional name day - oh and I totally support the desire for two kitchens or at the very least two fridges. If you know any Greeks, that'll make sense to you. If you don't, too bad. :) (read).
This parade of frosted Easter love is especially dear to me because I used my Granny's vintage cookie cutters to make them! It's always a little sweet but sad to bake with her kitchen gear - she's the only person who spent as much time in her kitchen as I do!
Today will be spent exploring a beach we haven't checked out yet and general family fun on the wholesome end of the spectrum because today we spent the day in Hollywood and while we met Spiderman and the Green Lantern and Wee One #3 got a hug from Diego, we also saw a whole lotta Hollywood, you know? Yoda totally tried to cop a feel! I mean, hello! (read).
and then poking a stick in and dipping in chocolate. This time around though, I felt that it called for 'traditional' cake pops and I went with mashing frosting into cake for the right texture. (
