Haniela's | Recipes, Cookie & Cake Decorating Tutorials

I’m a cookie cutter collector, still expanding my collection of cutters, but there are times when I just can’t find a cutter I need or I want to make a special cookie design and a custom cookie cutter doesn’t come exactly cheap. A really easy and quick way is to make a cookie template. IRead More

Bread Pudding brings back some precious childhood memories, for me it never gets old, I love it warm but even better at room temperature as an afternoon snack.Yum. My favorite part is baked meringue on the top, especially when it cools and tiny golden drops form on the top of it.   Here I preparedRead More

  Vanilla Sugar is wildly popular in Europe, we use it in baked goods, or we sprinkle it on the top of  baked bundt cakes, crepes, etc. It has a wonderful aroma. I learned to substitute vanilla sugar for vanilla extract in recipes, but when it comes to using vanilla sugar as a part ofRead More

  I love desserts with fruit and one of my all time favorites is a Kiwifruit Cake. My mom’s recipe has served me many times and it never disappoints my taste buds. Refreshing, with an airy filling topped with fresh kiwifruit and fruit  jelly glaze. It takes two days to make but is really worthRead More

    If you love peanut butter and chocolate then these are just for you. They need to spent a bit of time in the fridge  or freezer before they are baked but are really worth of waiting.:-) Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies   Yield: 15 to 20 sandwich cookies Prep Time: 30 minutes Cooking Time:Read More

                  To make sugar diamonds you need : Small heat resistant glass bowl Pretreated Isomalt pearls   Silicone Gem Mold by First Impressions    Pearl Luster dust Brush Toothpick   Ice water /just in case, this stuff is pretty hot, you can easily burn yourself/    Read More

You need: plain wood clothespins scrapbooking papers scissors super Glue ruler pencil ribbon, glitter etc. use your imagination.     I used metric system to draw the rectangles, pins I bought were 1cm wide and 7.3 cm long. So I just cut out strips like that and used super glue to adhere decorative paper stripsRead More

     I know it may sound like something that is not important, but IT IS, well not if you are willing to spend hundreds of dollars for repairs that didn’t have to occur in the first place.   I learned the hard way that how you store your camera really pays off.  Several yearsRead More

  HONEY COOKIES – Perniky (pronounced: per-neeky) My Honey Cookies Gallery What is a Honey cookie? It is a form of art, a tasteful decoration. It is the oldest and most popular cookie in Central Europe. It is very well known by Slovak, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian and Croatian people.    The History of MedovníkRead More

Today the gracious Sun came out and it felt like Spring is just around the corner. Well let’s hope, keeping my fingers crossed. With all this extra energy I decided to test a new recipe for Lemon Cupcakes.   Freshly grated lemon zest  Freshly squeezed lemon juice I used Fat free yogurt that has beenRead More