Nazzy Bakers Diwali Diya Cake

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Exploring cultural celebrations through food is a big part of my journey as Nazzy Baker. I hope to inspire people of all backgrounds to preserve their cultures and significant celebrations in order to enrich future generations. 

This Diwali cake had me all kinds of excited! I set out with a plan to make a simple traditional terracotta coloured Diya, but once the creative juices started flowing I got a bit carried away with colour and design! I’m still stoked with the outcome ❤️

I did not save the step by step pictures, however a few of my Instagram followers were able to see the live updates in my story! *hint hint* follow me to see what I’ll be working on next 😜

Here are some pictures of the cake! A big shout out to my photographer and to my mother in law for lending me her sari’s for the photo shoot 💕



I hope you have enjoyed this post and that you are inspired to make your own special Diwali creation. Ifyou have any questions, please feel free to contact me on Facebook messenger, or by email : nazzybaker@gmail.com
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xx NaZzYbAkEr xx

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A Nazzy Baker and Henna by Maziah Collaboration 

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Two Sundays ago, I was lucky enough to do a Henna cake Collaboration with Sydney Henna artist Maziah, (aka Henna by Maziah)!

Not only was she so lovely to work with, but her work is also so amazing!

In order to prepare for her amazing work, I covered two foam cakes with white fondant, and set them on a fondant covered cake board. I love the combination of electric orange and electric pink for Henna themed events, and was inspired by my sisters henna night from a few months ago.

When Maziah arrived, I whipped up a batch of royal icing (at piping consistency) and coloured the icing orange and pink.

She started piping soon after, and seemed so at ease with the piping bag and icing 💕 I can only imagine how different it would be to piping Henna designs with a henna cone… but she did not seem phased at all!

As she was piping, I added silver balls to add a bit of bling while the icing was still wet.

To keep myself busy, I also piped some royal icing flowers, to use around the cake as fillers.

Once her design was piped, and she left, it was time for me to add a bit of ribbon, and personality, and Voila!!! Our cake was done!

Herewith the photographs of this Collaboration, of which I hope there will be many more 💕

A big thank you to Maziah, and my in-house photographer for all your hard work!


I hope you have enjoyed this post:) If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me on Facebook messenger, or by email : nazzybaker@gmail.com

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xx NaZzYbAkEr xx

Nazzy’s Date and Coconut Sugar Cookies

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With Eid coming up again soon, I was experimenting with ingredients over the weekend. With pantry staples, and a bag of pitted dates, I was able to come up with the following recipe. These cookies were so easy to make, and not too costly either 👏🏽

They could be packaged individually as a gift for your friends or family, or, you could make a quick batch to serve with tea or coffee. Give them a go 💕

Ingredients:

200g caster sugar

200g softened butter

1 beaten egg

1tsp coconut essence 

350g flour

50g desiccated coconut

1/2 a cup of pitted and chopped dates 
Method:

  • Cream the softened butter with the caster sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
  • Add to the mixture 1 beaten egg and mix well.
  • Add a tsp of coconut essence 
  • Add in the sifted plain flour, desiccated coconut and chopped dates and mix to form a cookie dough.
  • Allow the dough to rest, and heat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
  • Once rested, roll out the dough and cut into required shapes.
  • Place the cut cookie dough onto lined baking sheets and then bake until golden brown.
  • Allow the cookies to cool, and then decorate and package as required.


I hope you have enjoyed this post:) If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me on Facebook messenger, or by email : nazzybaker@gmail.com

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Nazzy Bakers Honey, Apple and Pomegranate Bundt Cake

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If you are looking for a twist  on the traditional honey cake recipe, you’ve got to try my variation with chopped apples and pomegranate! It gives off the most delicious aroma, and is one of the most scrumptious cakes I’ve ever baked!

Here’s my recipe:

Nazzy Bakers Honey, Apple and Pomegranate Cake

Ingredients

4 cups flour

1 tblsp baking powder

1tsp baking soda

1tsp ground cinnamon

1tsp ground nutmeg

1 ½ cups caster sugar

½ cup brown sugar

3 beaten eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

1 cup honey

1 cup apple juice

½ cup pomegranate juice

1 cup roughly chopped apples

Method:

  • Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees Celsius
  • Sift together the flour baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg
  • Add the caster sugar and brown sugar to the dry ingredients and mix with a whisk
  • In a separate bowl, combine the beaten eggs, oil, honey, apple juice and pomegranate juice with a whisk.
  • Combine the wet and dry ingredients with a wooden spoon until thoroughly mixed
  • Add the chopped apples to the mixture.
  • Pour the mix into a greased Bundt tin and bake the cake until cooked through.
  • Once cooked, cool the cake on a baking rack, and the decorate with icing sugar and pomegranate seeds.

Here are some pictures of the cake from a photo shoot by my talented other half ❤️



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Its A Girl – Puzzle Cookies

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Mr 2 has just become a big brother! To help him get involved in welcoming his little sister home, I decided that I would make him a gift of an edible puzzle, announcing the arrival of his sweet baby sister 💕

It turns out that Mr 2 currently likes the tv show “Hey Duggee”. I drew inspiration from the character sets and came up with the cookies you will see below!

Here’s #howididit:

1) I made a sugar cookie dough:

  • Cream 200g of softened butter with 200g of caster sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
  • Add to the mixture 1 beaten egg and mix well.
  • Add a tsp of vanilla
  • Add in 400g of sifted plain flour, and mix to form a cookie dough.
  • Allow the dough to rest, and heat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
  • Once rested, roll out the dough and cut into required shapes.
  • Place the cut cookie dough onto lined baking sheets and then bake until golden brown.
  • Allow the cookies to cool, and then package as required.

2) Once chilled, I rolled out the dough and placed the puzzle template onto the dough.

https://nazzybaker.com/puzzle-template/


3) I cut the dough to the size of the template.

4) Then I cut the individual puzzle pieces and labeled them.

5) Using each puzzle piece, I cut the dough to make the puzzle

6) Once cut, I placed the pieces onto a baking tray and baked them till golden brown.


7) I repeated steps 3,4 and 5 with fondant while the cookies were cooling.

8) Once cooled, I stuck the fondant pieces onto their matching cookie pieces using edible glue.

9) I then smoothed the fondant with a smoother and let it dry.


10) Once the fondant was dry, I painted the cookies with food colouring mixed with a couple of drops of lemon juice, and added some fondant decorations.

11) I added some sparkle in true Nazzy Baker fashion, and Voila!!! The puzzle was done!
I’m yet to see Mr 2’s reaction, by I have my fingers crossed that he likes his gift. 😬

You can make puzzle cookies for a variety of gifts… follow me to see what other uses I have for this cool puzzle template 💕


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xx NaZzYbAkEr xx

Nazzy Bakers Easy Gulab Jamun Recipe!

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This is a recipe that I fall back on time and time again. It’s such an easy recipe, and they don’t take long to make at all.

Ingredients:

(Dough)
1 cup plain flour

1 cup self raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp ground cardamom

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1 tin condensed milk
Vegetable oil to deep fry

(Sugar Syrup)
2 cups sugar + 2 cups water boiled to form sugar syrup.

Method:
1) Sift the dry ingredients together (flours, baking powder and spices)
2) Pour in the tin of condensed milk and mix until the dry ingredients are combined. The mixture should be sticky, and it does get messy.
3) Once combined, roll bits of the dough into oblong finger like shapes, and leave to rest while the oil is heating.
4) Once the oil is hot, fry the dough fingers until they are cooked through and brown.
5) When fried, place the fingers into the warm sugar syrup and allow them to soak up the syrup.
6) Roll the Gulab Jamuns into desiccated coconut (optional)
7) Serve 😊

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Nazzy’s take on the Argentinian Alfajores 

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Friday nights at my place are usually spent watching the food network, Food Safari on sbs, The Living Room’s chef Miguel, and Better Homes and Gardens fast Ed. (It’s a battle of the channels, flicking to each show during ad breaks)

Last Friday night I was inspired by an Argentinian Chef who made the traditional caramel cookie called Alfajores.

Alfajores can be described as a crumbly shortbread cookie, sandwiched with a caramel filling also known as dulce de Leche.

On Saturday morning, I set out to shop for all the ingredients I needed to make the Alfajores. I was determined to nail this recipe so that I can make it again for Eid celebrations in 3 weeks time 🙂

I happened to do just that! They were a huge success, and were demolished in no time by family and friends – which is always a good sign.

Here’s how I made them:

Ingredients:

1 2/3 cups flour

2 1/2 cups corn flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1 cup butter

3/4 cups white sugar

3 egg yolks

1tsp vanilla essence

2 cups Dulce de Leche ( thick milk caramel)

Method:

1) Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy

2) Add the vanilla essence and beat to combine

3) Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating them into the butter and sugar mixture until fully mixed in

4) Add the baking soda and baking powder and mix again

5) Add in the flour and corn flour, and gently fold through until the mixture forms a dough. This part can get messy, and it helps to use your hands to form the dough.

6) Once the dough is made, wrap it in cling wrap, and chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.

7) Roll the dough between two sheets of baking paper, and then using a round cookie cutter, cut the dough into rounds.

8) Once cut, place the dough circles onto a lined baking tray and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius until golden brown.

9) Allow the cookie rounds to cool on a cooling rack

10) Sandwich the cookie rounds together by piping onto one round, the dulce de Leche, and then top with another cookie round.

11) Serve your Alfajores with a cup of tea or coffee 🙂

These are mine:


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