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Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter!
Date: Apr. 12th 2009
Category: Cakes, Cheesecakes, Cupcakes and Muffins
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Happy Easter, my friends!
The cold and snow of earlier this week has passed and Toronto has now been embraced by the sun.
Finally.
On this day of new beginnings, I hope it’s a new beginning for all of you in so many ways. I hope it’s a beginning to a season of new ideas, lovely food, the best baking and many warm moments.
For me, Easter is always a beginning. For starters, soon I shall put away my socks and let my feet live freely in sandals (have I ever mentioned my hatred of socks … no? … a post for another day …). I’m also hopeful that it’s the beginning of some better baking. As you know from this post, I’ve been struggling of late, but it seems that with the Chocolate Coffee Dacquoise pictured here, things are beginning to get back on track. Mostly I’m hopeful, that it’s the beginning of many joyful days for all of us!
A new beginning. That sounds very nice.
Happy Easter! Buona Pasqua from Cream Puff and family to you!
Ciao!
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04/12/09 at 8:24 am
From one mojo-challenged Italian to another, Buona Pasqua! I hope this truly is the beginning of better times.
04/12/09 at 8:52 am
HAPPY EASTER, glad to hear the baking fairies have come back! Hopefully we can wear our sandles soon, I have been shopping for them already!
04/12/09 at 8:53 am
Happy Easter to you and yours, too, Ivonne!
04/12/09 at 8:54 am
Happy Easter! Eager to see more delicious recipes. The cake in the photos looks so nice. If its made by you, really well done looks awesome
04/12/09 at 9:49 am
Happy Easter to you my friend!
04/12/09 at 10:26 am
Happy Mojo! And Easter too.
Cake looks lovely, but then I didn’t think the coffee cakes looked too bad either. Hand the pan to my kids with a spoon.
04/12/09 at 11:08 am
Happy Easter to you as well. If there is warmth in Toronto it won’t be long before it hits us in Burlington . . . one can only hope! *smile*
Glad to hear that the mojo is back.
04/12/09 at 11:34 am
Yay, you have your baking mojo back!
Happy Easter to you too!
04/12/09 at 11:59 am
Auguri di Buona Pasqua. I hate socks too, and can’t wait to get rid of them. The cake looks fabulous!
04/12/09 at 12:48 pm
From the look of that cake, I think your mojo is coming back quickly!
04/12/09 at 12:53 pm
Happy Easter to you and your family too! Hope it’s the beginning of all good things!
You cake looks beautiful!
04/12/09 at 1:06 pm
Happy Easter!
That cake looks beautiful!
cheers,
Rosa
04/12/09 at 1:53 pm
These photos are just lovely! Buona Pasqua!
04/12/09 at 3:18 pm
A kindred spirit! I hate socks too. Truly, madly, deeply.
Beautiful Easter confection, and lovely flowers (flours?).
A new beginning indeed, happy holidays.
04/12/09 at 4:16 pm
Happy Easter! I’ve had the same issues with baking lately. Maybe I’m trying to challenge myself, maybe I can blame it on pregnancy brain, either way, my fingers don’t feel quite as nimble as they used to. Either way, you’re right, spring and Easter are a new beginning!
All the best…
04/12/09 at 6:03 pm
happy easter to you and your family!
04/12/09 at 6:08 pm
YAY to see the RETURN OF THE MOJO!! Socks off, free toes, warm days, more baking & fresh ideas=FUN!! Happy Easter to you & your loved ones!
04/12/09 at 6:49 pm
Feliz Pascoa to you as well!
04/13/09 at 1:03 am
Happy Easter! If this cake is any sign, you baking mojo is back with a vengeance! It looks terrific!!!
04/13/09 at 2:36 am
Hey! you got your mojo back! The cake look gorgeous
HAPPY EASTER!
04/13/09 at 5:24 am
HAPPY BELATED EASTER, DEAR IVONNE!!
04/13/09 at 3:10 pm
[…] was followed by fruit and then dessert (I made dessert), which I posted about on Easter Sunday. We also had store-bought pastries courtesy one of my aunts and another aunt made little chocolate […]
04/13/09 at 8:14 pm
Hope you and your family had a Buona Pasqua! Your dessert looks amazing! Great photos!
04/14/09 at 3:16 pm
Indeed Ivonne that is a most wonderous Chocolate Coffee Dacquoise!!
04/15/09 at 3:34 pm
Where is the receipe?
04/16/09 at 6:51 am
Happy Easter!
The cake looks beautiful!