Afternoon Tea Cake Buffet

Last weekend, I took my new cake buffet furniture (and my cute Easter headwear) for a spin and had a couple of friends over for an "Late Easter Afternoon Tea". I also tested some new recipes. My favorite were the salted caramel peanutbutter bars, a modification of the caramel shortbread from my book with an additional layer of peanut butter. From the lovely emails I receive, I know that some of you are asking "how can I attend these things ?". I always have to say that "unfortunately, I am only doing this as a hobby" and it sometimes takes months until I find the time to set the next one up. This usually makes it "friends only". I promise to do better, maybe towards Christmas, I´ll keep you posted.

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Leftovers from Easter

From a decoration point of view, Easter definitely went by too quickly. I still have some cute 'unposted' pictures. So before the next decoration season comes along, here is everything form a very healthy Easter breakfast with fruit filled Granola shells and Easter buns to a little airwalker bunny enjoying to be in the background of a herb basket.

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Crochet Cachepots for Easter

Last week I spent on the Dutch coast for a little Easter break. Unfortunately the weather was not so great, I kept scrutinizing the area for craft stores. I was lucky, bought some wool and made these little cute crochet cachepots. I don´t have a name for them yet, but even with Easter being gone soon they will remain part of the current decoration.

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Hippity Hoppity Happy Easter

Just before Easter my friend Dani from Danroeschen got her cute little baby boy. Of course, I "volunteered" to take some pictures of him that should also turn into an Easter card. Great plan, but much easier said than done, as I had never done any baby photos before. Luckily I had some help from friends. Brigitte did the cute outfit and Farina took care of the "positioning". In the end everything turned out very nice. So Hippity Hoppity Happy Easter from one fluffy little bunny to all of you.

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Table Decoration for Easter

A quick reminder to you and myself, that it is definitely time to set up the table decoration for Easter. I started in the kitchen with these amazing flowers and the set of "Easter" stamped eggs. No, the bunny coffee set is not part of the decoration as it disappeared pretty quickly after the picture was taken. I consider the photographer to be a suspect.

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School for Easter Bunnies

Close to where I live there is a gas station that sells figurines for the garden. One morning passing by, I saw this "teacher" and thought that with Easter coming up, he should open up his school for bunnies on our front porch. A way better place for a school than at a noisy gas station.

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Spring is here

Now, it´s official, spring is here. For me it´s a good enough reason to redecorate the entire entrance area. And did you notice ? The blue door has found a home, however I am sure it will only be temporary. There is also a little bit of easter already foreshadowing.

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Easter Bunny Cookies

As a birthday present I got Bunny shaped Cookie cutters and I wanted to create something special with them. My only problem: Today being the last day of the Easter. So I had to hurry, bake the cookies and apply the fondant decoration. Time pressure and my impatience when it comes to making tiny things is usually not a good combination. But today, maybe because of the sun, it worked extraordinarily well. As a reward, because Easter is almost over, I can eat them all. Yummy.

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Happy Easter & Bunny Side Up

Start your Easter Sunday with a smile, even if it is gonna snow again (as it is around our home right now). I will show you some images of my latest Easter decoration, hope you are gonna like it!


Last friday was Good Friday in germany and so we did what all Germans are doing, when living in our area: driving to Holland, because there ain't no holiday and shops are open there! First stop was the always trusted flower shop in Roermond and she delivered the most amazing flower wreath ever. I mean: look at those colours!!! Didn't she do a great job? The wreath is now prettying up our front door, I feel a little sorry for it, because of the bad weather....but it is gonna change someday soon.


And I found this great cake plate from Rice, I decorated only with Easter stuff, not with cake. But it is so pretty, that I wanted to show it to you anyway. Next time it will come with a cake on top. Promised.


The Albert Heijn supermarket could deliver the M&M's in spring colours. So it was clear, that i had to try out some nice cookies with them. They are yummie, yummie soft and crunchy with the Peanut inside and I have now so many cookies that i don't know when I shall eat them all up. If you come by, you will get a cookie to eat right away!


Of course: what would be Easter without Verpoorten? Hm? This is a long tradition in our home and every year is tastes better, it seams. Although it is always the same recipe?! I doubled the recipe, because in the afternnon I am gonna visit my friend Anna and we are gonna try out to bake some cake with the homemade Verpoorten. I expect good results! maybe drunken results, hehe!


I didn't find nice twigs anywhere, but had some ornaments which I wanted to hang up somewhere. That's why I used some wired hangers and decorated them.


Love the story of the "haeschenschule" with the very tall teacher and the small student. I guess the story is only well known in Germany. But it is popular here, especially again around Easter time!

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