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Cream/Cake tart

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If you are looking to make a celebratory 'cake' that's stunning and looks way more complicated than it actually is, this is the recipe for you. It's pretty simple to bake. You roll out the dough like you would for cookies and cut it into desired shape and bake. Then you sandwich them with Buttercream or cream cheese frosting and top them with fresh flowers, berries, chocolates etc. It's quite straightforward. My 15 year old daughter make this for my birthday 😊😊                      CREAM TART. For the dough : Flour - 3 cups Sugar-3/4cups Honey-1/4cup Eggs  - 2 Vanilla-1tsp Butter- 100gms (unsalted) Baking pow-1tsp Salt -  a pinch. Take a sauce pan, combine eggs, sugar, honey, salt and vanilla essence. Whisk with a balloon whisk or fork.  Add butter to the mix and place on the stove, over medium heat.  Keep whisking now and then, till the butter melts and the mix comes to a gentle simmer....

Lemon cake with lemon glaze

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I never quite got the point of why, "when life throws you lemons..." was supposed to have negative connotation. I mean, I LOVE lemons! 😍 Love lemon flavored anything ❤️ Even cleaning supplies in my house are always lemon scented. It's the cleanest, freshest most droolworthy flavor and scent, no arguments! 😊 We have a Kaffir Lime tree in our garden which is now laden with lemons. May I just say, I'm not quite clear on the lime- lemon difference. I thought the small ones are called lime and the biggies, lemons. But now I hear what I have in my garden is 'kaffir LIME', the leaves of which are used in Thai cooking. So yeah, I love both, so I'm good. This is my absolute favorite lemon cake 😊 Even though I'm a big fan of butter cakes, this lemon - yoghurt cake uses oil and is delish! ❤️ And it's soaked in a lemon glaze coz like coffee flavour, lemon is not easily diffused into a cake batter, so you need to add a glaze or a syrup.  So here ...