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Cake decorating can be a fun hobby that can also be turned into a small business.  With the right tools, skill, practice and a way to get the word out you can start making some extra money with your cake decorating skills.

You’ll need the basics like cake stands, decorating kits, cake pans of various sizes and the necessities to make plenty of colors of frosting.  But there are two more important things that can make your cakes stand out and drive business you way.  The appearance of the cake and the flavor of the cake.  These are the main things to work on if you want to make you cakes distinct and you want to get people talking about them.

If you need to hone your skills or learn a few new tricks try looking for a couple of good cake decorating books or videos.  Sometimes with the help of just a few simple tricks and tips you can start picking up and refining new skills.  You can also adapt them to give them your own style.

Finding a few really good cake recipes can be a fun but surprisingly tedious process.  You’ll need a good white, yellow and chocolate cake recipe to start so you have the basics.  Then you may want to expand into other popular flavors like mocha, or white with raspberry filling.  Ask friends, family and new clients what other cake flavors they would want.

If you have an aptitude for decorating cakes and it is something you love to do consider turning it into a part time job or even a career.

Though glamorous by association with its myriad shapes, tasty stuffings, and imaginative decorations, pastry is basically simple, consisting of a paste made from flour, water, shortening, and a dash of salt and baked in a hot oven. It is the method of mixing, the temperatures at the various stages of preparation, the careful baking, and the addition of other pastry ingredients for flavor and texture which give pastry its final festive touch. To differentiate pastry from cake, rolls and other hot breads, cookies, and torten is a delicate matter.

Essentially, it is a baked product which does not employ a chemical leavening agent. While cake uses baking powder or other combinations which produce a gas to form a light and tasty baked foam, pastry depends on the skilful manipulation of the shortening, flour, and liquid and on the manner of baking. Exceptions are the multiform Danish pastries and a few French pastries which use yeast. The flour used in pastry is almost always ordinary milled wheat. Chinese pastries use nee flour, and some of the heartier Scotch pastries add oatmeal for a chewy quality.

Pizza, an Italian pastry which is popular in a number of countries, is prepared from a yeast dough, professionally baked on hot tiles, with a filling of Mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce, and a variety of garnishes. Barring these exceptions, there are three basic types of pastry: plain, flaky, and puff.

I was browsing online for a great dessert idea that I could serve at my wedding when I came across these chocolate sea salt caramel tarts on etsy.  These looked so good and I decided I wanted to try making them myself.  All the recipes online for making caramel sauce were so complicated that I was afraid that these cute little pies were way out of my league.

I came up with a really easy idea to make these desserts that’s fool proof even for those who burn water.  First instead of making the pie crusts from scratch I used pre made pie crusts that I found at whole foods in the freezer section.  The crusts still need to be baked but they are already formed, I just have to bake them and fill them with caramel.

The only thing left to do is to fill the tarts with a caramel sauce.  I found an easy method online where all I would need to do is to cook some sweetened condensed milk over low heat for an hour.  The milk will slowly thicken and turn brown, turning into caramel.  While my quickie caramel won’t look anything like these sea salted butter caramels, they are creamy and rich enough for my pies.  After cooking the sauce all I had to do was pour it into the baked pie shells, wait a couple minutes for the sauce to harden and sprinkle some sea salt on top.

So how did it go?  I’m happy to say that these chocolate caramel tarts were a hit with all the wedding reception guests.  My mother in law even made me promise to make them this year at our Christmas dinner.

If you are on a low carb diet then more than likely one of the foods that you really crave is bread.  Bread is a staple in most meals we eat from the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches we have as kids to the hot rolls served as an appetizer at a fine dining restaurant.  Most everybody agrees that having bread as a part of the meal is highly desirable, expecially for the millions of sandwiches and burgers that are sold every day.

The problem is, if you are on a low carb diet then white bread is not going to be on the menu.  White bread is baked with highly processed flour which turns the complex carbohydrates in wheat into simple carbs.  This means the carbsohydrates are quickly digested and turned into blood sugar.  This spike in blood sugar can cause problems for diabetics and for other people on a low carb diet.

What would be heaven is if we had a no carb bread to choose from.  Well that isn’t available but there are a lot of low carb bread products that can be added to a high protein diet without blowing your daily limit of carbohydrates.  The most restrictive phase of the Atkins diet still allows 30 grams of net carbs so there is room to add some of these alternatives to your food list.

It is very common for a serving of low carb bread to have only about 4 or 5 grams of net carbs.  If you have a craving for bread then this would not be hard to work into your diet.  These breads, rolls, and biscuits are usually made from a combination of flax seed, oat bran, and whole wheat flower.  There is enough roughage available that you don’t have to worry about a spike in your sugar levels because the digestion process is slowed way down as the roughage is digested.

And the best part is the bread really does taste like bread and the low carb tortillas made with this recipe really do have the flavor you want.  So if you are limiting your carb intake don’t take that to mean that you can’t have a sandwich now or then.  Just be smart and use a low carb bread variety.  You can enjoy the taste and keep your carb count low.

If you or someone in your household is on a gluten free diet, learning how to make gluten free bread can bring back a lot of food options.  To make the process easier you may want to invest in a bread maker, if you don’t have one, and of course gluten free flours.

You can buy gluten free bread in many stores now, but these breads are pretty expensive and some of them aren’t that great unfortunately.  Learning how to make your own gluten free bread at home has many benefits.  It makes the house smell wonderful and creates a cozy feel.  Homemade bread tastes better.  You also have full control of the ingredients when you make it yourself.  This is particularly helpful if there are other food sensitivities in play.  You can also add make the bread healthier by adding fresh flax meal, higher protein gluten free flours and nuts.

Don’t get discouraged when you first try to make gluten free bread.  You may have some flops, but that’s ok; it’s part of the learning process.  To increase your chances of success find a couple of gluten free bread recipes that have good ratings and reviews.  If other people have had success with a recipe there is a better chance you’ll have success as well.

Once you find a couple of recipes you like you can start to modify them a little at a time to create your own versions of your favorite breads like cinnamon raisin or hearty, nutty breads.

A yeast free diet (also known as a Candida diet) is a recommended way to get rid of Candida yeast infections. It is generally followed by people who suffer from the re-current or chronic superficial yeast infections and who also are experiencing digestive issues such as constipation, abdominal bloating  and inflammatory bowel disorders.

The goal of yeast free diets is to reduce the overpopulation of the Candida yeast  in the intestinal tract.  See more over at www.fungusfacts.com  At its heart is a reduced sugar intake. This is because yeasts of all kinds thrive on sugar.   In high sugar environments they grow explosively (or “bloom”)  reducing the sugar in the bloodstream. This often results in an intense sugar craving and the cycle starts again.

But sugar is only one aspect of a yeast free diet. It also makes sense to reduce your intake of fermented foods such as  vinegar and soy products as well as any products containing yeast. For many people that means cutting out most kinds of bread.  This can be very challenging as bread is something many of us eat every day.

The good news is that there are  many types of bread that can be made without using yeast.  The most common are barley, rye, rice and quinoa breads.   But it’s also possible to make bread from wheat without using yeast. In fact some automatic bread makers even come with a yeast free cycle.

Of course bear in mind that on a yeast free diet you’re also going to want to reduce your intake of carbohydrates, particularly those that come from refined grains, as these convert quickly into sugars.  Stick to whole grains if you can.

If I had to sit down and think real hard about what my favorite treats might be that I buy in bakeries, it might seem at first like a pretty easy thing to do. So one day, I sat down to ponder this happy thought and it became clear to me that there was not going to be a simple answer to this. After going through a collection of great tasting confection and pastries items in my head, I realized there and then that I actually loved to eat far more than was good for me!

In fact, the though of all that sweet tasting food made me stop what I was doing and head off to the local bakery so I could buy a few things and eat them! One thing is for sure and that is just thinking about those indulgences created such a craving for them that my stomach cried out for what my brain was teasing it with! I don’t suppose I could get much further from thinking about its polar opposite in raw food and weight loss if I tried!

So let this be a lesson to anyone thinking about trying this at home. If you are going to start thinking about food that is going to make you gain weight, then you had better make sure you have some of it to hand so that you can fulfil your desires before they eat away at you and cause you to go crazy and buy every pastry treat and piece of confection in the store!

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