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Dinner
10 ways to enjoy vanilla in your savoury cooking
Recently New Zealand Chef, Lesley Christensen Yule worked with the Queen team to come up with a few savoury recipe ideas for using our Organic Vanilla Bean Paste. Next time you’re looking in the pantry for great new flavours to add to your dinner, keep these savoury vanilla ideas in mind:
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Cupcakes
New cupcake decorating ideas
Do your cupcakes need a makeover? There’s something about the cupcake that makes it so enduring. Is it the convenience, portion control, cake-to-icing ratio or the plethora of ways to decorate them that make them staple item for home bakers and professionals alike? Either way, we’re got a few new cupcake decorating ideas to freshen up your next batch, take a look and simply click the image to visit the website it features on!
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Cakes
Our Top 5 Cake Decorating Trend Predictions for 2016
Always on trend-watch What makes decorating trends so fun to watch is how they evolve with time. Take the ombré cake of 2009 for example. What started out as a simple sponge with graduated layers of pink colour very quickly transformed into buttercream piping effects on the outside of the cake, then into fondant ruffles, then into blues, greens and purples, and finally rainbow ombré. Being immersed in baking and decorating day and night, the team here at Queen see the very best from decorators around the world and can spot a trend before it’s even a ‘thing’. Here are our predictions for the year ahead. Click the images to see the original recipe.
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