Looks familiar ???

A year ago, about the same time I made this cake for a lovely 6 year old girl, this year she wanted the same cake but bigger and higher. Can you imagine how her 10th birthday cake will look like ... I can’t wait for the challenge :-)



Again, a big thank you to my good good friend Zohar who came to take these pictures and managed to capture them although very difficult light conditions. Thank you Zohar xxx

Look at these amazing collages she made for me-

Cupcake Mania...

So cup cakes are a big hit now. They come in all sizes and shapes; have a look at a few I made this week. I loved making then and enjoyed the thought of each child getting his own perfect little "cake".

It's the first time I have a good professional picture of my little creations thanks to my good good friend Zohar that came early morning before the cupcakes were collected (it was a sad goodbye but I'm ok now :-) and took so many pictures and edited them for me, so have a look…

LOL, Tali xx

ADULTS CAKE DECORATING AND COOKING LESSONS OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2010

Hi Everyone,

Following the great responses of the last adults cake decorating course and cooking sessions,
I’m happy and excited to introduce the adults cooking and cake decorating program
for October- December 2010.

Come and try new flavors, new ideas and exciting recipes in my cooking demonstration classes, and if you never thought of designing a cake because your not an artist, let me show you that you can do it, let me surprise you with my step by step cake decorating course.

Hope to see you soon,

FOR MORE DETAILS OR TO BOOK A PLACE

PLEASE CONTACT- talicooking@gmail.com

LOL, Tali



Course/Workshop Dates and Time Price More details...
Cake Decorating- beginners **

Tuesday the 12,19/10, 2,9/11
10am-12pm


Thursday the
14,21/10, 4,11/11
10am-12pm


Tuesday the
16,23,30/11, 7/12
10am-12pm


£ 140

3 places available for each course A unique and different 4 session cake decorating course that will introduce all the basics techniques and more for cake decorating using sugar dough.
What cake to use, how to Cover a cake, all about food colouring, figures and flowers making, drawing on a cake and on the last lesson a novelty cake made by you, all in a friendly and creative atmosphere

Sugar dough, colours, tools and all that is needed for the sessions will be provided and are included in the course price.

A nice dessert and tea/coffee will be served as well with a smile 

Allow a minimum 2 hours to each session; usually it takes more (time flies when you’re having fun...)


Canapé night *
Wednesday
20/10
8pm

£35

Having a dinner party or a brunch? Want to serve something different to your guests?
On this session I will show you some interesting technique and new flavors that will turn your dinner party or brunch into an event to remember…

Let the tomatoes and mozzarella skewers in fennel and cumin sauce, the Vietnamese fresh spring rolls, the Savory Puff pastry muffins, the pomegranates and quinoa salad or the Fillo pastry filled pockets... do ALL the talking for you…

Easy and friendly dishes to make, yet your friends and family will ask “who was the caterer”?...

Desserts and Pastries*

Wednesday
3/11
8pm

£35

Levels of sugar will fly high tonight! I will introduce you to some great cakes with different flavours, my version of the French Millefeuille, date/chocolate swirl yeast cake and more surprises...


Cooking class-
“Please Mum, can I have some more...?”
Cooking for children*

Wednesday
10/11
8pm

£35

Need some variety? Some new exciting recipes to introduce to your family? Allow me to offer some healthy easy homemade recipes that will make tea time yummy and interesting.
“All inside” meatballs, salmon and mash burgers, zebra cake and more...


Cooking class- meat and chicken* Wednesday
17/11
8pm

£35

A new look to our tradition chicken and beef dishes...
Pastiya (marocen dish), chicken and rice “cake”, mince beef and pine nuts on garlic pita bread “boats” served with tahini, beef with onions and pomegranet syrup.

** Tali is a qualified pastry chef that has been specializing in cake decorating and sugar dough designing techniques. This class will be held at NW11
*Location of classes will be provided by email to those participating (all sessions located in North-North West London)
 Food tasting, nice wine and great appetizers included
 All recipes given in writing so preparation is stress free and enjoyable.

Unique kids cooking parties and privet cooking/cake decorating classes are available. Please contact Tali for more details.

kids October 2010 half term cooking/cake decorating classes

Half term kids cooking classes 25-29/10/2010

Monday the 25/10- cookies day
We will make and bake cookies in different shapes; we will decorate them, make an addible cookie mobile and a GIANT chocolate chip cookie.

Tuesday the 26/10-italian day
We will make and bake smiley faces pizza with a verity of fresh vegetables and bake some fresh bread sticks.
Then we will make some fresh pasta dough and cut it with pasta machine.

Wednesday the 27/10- sweetie day
The children will be making their own sweet boxes-They will create and then decorate a sweet box and then make some chocolate hearts, marshmallow crunch, sweet sushi flowers and decorate some mini muffins, all wrapped up nicely to fill up the sweetie box…

Thursday the 28/10- cake decorating day
We will learn how to cover a cake, decorate it and make lovely figures. Every child will have an individual cake to decorate and to create their own decoration story.

Friday the 29/10- sweet Friday
We will make a sweet cholla with yummy toppings; we will make and then bake some chocolate rugalach/croissant and the kids will also get to decorate their own Pastry Chef Wooden Spoon. What a great way to start the weekend!



For more information please e-mail: talicooking@gmail.com


LOL- Tali

LIFE IS SIMPLE...

My best ideas about cooking, flavours, cake decorating ideas etc. comes from my children and from the children I teach.
I wrote about it before on one of my posts, that before children become adults like us... they have unbelievable imagination, their honesty is immaculate - the "clean" way they see things always surprises me.
Sometimes I get so confused with designs for my cakes, and then my daughter comes along and gives the best advice ever!! And I think “how come I didn’t think of that"?!?!?

Why am I telling you all that? because in the last few weeks I have been giving cooking and cake decorating classes for small groups of children. We decorated cakes, baked pastries and bread, made pasta with a pasta machine, made and baked pizza from scratch etc. and it has been great!

the kids comes to these classes so excited but without any hesitations, you might think they expect so much and then the little things is what really makes them happy...
We should all learn from them...
Life is simple- no need to complicate it...

HAVE A LOOK AT THEIR WORK-

HELLO KITTY AND JIMBO THE CLOWN CAKES

This time I’m not going to talk about the cake but about the reaction of the girls seeing the cakes for the first time...
I was helping their dad to put the cakes in the car...the 2 years old saw the "Jimbo the clown" cake and started screaming like she has just witnessed a miracle...I was over the moon!!
The 4 years old was pointing at the "Hello Kitty" cake and shouted "Kitty...Kitty...Kitty" as if she has just met a long lost friend...that was so funny...

That’s what I love about my job- the reward is immediate!

ZEBRA CAKE

I love it when children challenge me with ideas for new cakes.
I find that children have the most amazing imagination and they see things in such a different way than we do; they see the little details and have the ability to see something and appreciate its full beauty (shame they grow up and become predictable adults like us…)
Any way, in my wildest dreams I didn’t think I would ever do a Zebra cake!
But...along came Amy and she knew exactly what she wants...a Zebra cake.
So here it is...




Have a great sunny day!

BYE BYE DUMMY

At some point any toddler has to say goodbye to something precious as they grow up; the milk bottle, favourite blanket (blanky as my daughters call it), and the one and only, the thing that whoever invented it should get the peace NOBEL prize, the thing that restore quiet to any household
... The dummy!

This cake is for a very brave girl that for her 4th birthday decided to say goodbye to the dummy by asking me to make a "BYE BYE DUMMY” birthday cake.

Well done sweetie! You can do it!

So here it is:

MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP 2010

Football is not really my thing! Sorry, and I don’t mean to offend anyone but I can’t find any pleasure of 90 min (at least...) of men (some of them are very good looking indeed...) running after a ball and then...on top of it all the winner is being chosen by penalties!!! What’s the point?
A good friend of mine told me “we play football for 90 min and then Germany wins..."- I think that this sums up this world cup.

But... a lovely young boy (6 years old to be precise) is a huge football fan and for his birthday he asked me to make a cake of an official "Adidas Jabulani FIFA world cup football 2010”.
So here it is, and I think that for a non football fan like me that’s a BIG contribution to the football world cup spirit!



and a close up

LUCIE'S CONFIRMATION FLOWER CAKE

I made this cake for a lovely, very talented and bubbly 13 years old girl.

she asked for something cute and summery, classy and elegant yet not to wedding like cake...

This is what I came up with and I am very happy with the result, I hope you like it as well...

In close up...

And another one...

I loved every minute of making this cake (and a lot of "minutes" went into this cake...)

I love my job!

I know I haven’t been here for a while, and no good excuses are to be found besides the fact that between 3 children (well 4...), work and daily chores, sometimes it’s a bit difficult to stay on top of things.

So...what have I been doing lately?
some really cool cooking courses: Passover cooking demo with some really easy to make and impressive recipes (focaccia bread for example...),

"Milky way" demo that was all about dairy cooking followed by 2 short amazing talks; one about coffee by a coffee expert and another about table settings by an interior designer...great evenings with good food and great atmosphere.

In between, I made some cakes, gave cake decorating courses, beginners and advanced, kids cooking classes etc.

Here are some pictures of the stuff I have been doing lately (sorry for the poor quality of the pictures)



A fairy cake;



This is a dinosaur cake I made recently -
I call it "the friendly dinosaur", cute, ha?

And a closer look..




A bowling cake-



And a closer look...



and some pictures from the "Milky Way" demo;





Here I'm making some vegi pie with grilled veg, goats cheese, sun dried tomatoes etc...YUMMY!

And this is the AMAZING table that was set by Maya the interior designer that gave a small clever talk about table setting.




That's it for now folks....

kids cooking workshops - feb 2010

Tali cooking – kids cookery workshops - February 2010
Cooking and creating together…

Monday the 15th: “with all my heart” Valentines Day for kids
We’ll each make a lovely heart shaped cake for mum and dad, we will decorate it and each child will personalize it with edible decorating icing and colors. Mum and dad will get an edible valentines card. We will also make an edible heart shaped cookies mobile...

Tuesday the 16th: In the morning garden...
Each child will get a terracotta pot, put soil in it and plant vegetables and herb seeds. They will make small signs to put in the pot, to remember what grows where and when...
I will explain to the children about different vegetables and herbs and then we will make a savoury vegetable pie together...yummy !

Wednesday the 17th: BonBon day
The children will be making their own sweet boxes-They will make and then decorate a sweet box and then make some chocolate truffles, chocolate bugs, marshmallow crunch and coconut mice all wrapped up nicely to put into the sweetie box…

Thursday the 18th: Brrrrrrrr...It’s cold
In the spirit of never-ending winter...we will mould sugar igloos, with penguins, eskimos and a pond – all created from sugar dough!
We will make some snow cones, and then to warm thing up we will make a hot chocolate kit, with shavings of white and milk chocolate, mini marshmallows and a surprise...


Friday the 19th: Sweet Friday
Following its huge success last time, we will once again be holding a cholla workshop - making a sweet cholla with yummy toppings.
We will make and then bake some chocolate rugalach and to help mum in the kitchen and the kids will then decorate their own wooden spoon. What a great way to start the weekend!

for more information e-mail:

talicooking@gmail.com