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I found this 'old' video (almost 3 years ago) of Arantxa making more sugar roses, this time tiny rose buds! They are so simple yet they look great!

From  Party Food for Girls , eggs colored with natural vegetable dyes, recipe by Alessandra Zecchini (in the  April Dante Newsletter ), photo by Shaun Cato-Symonds Alessi-mania, a  serious talk  about eggs, and breadsticks  instead of soldiers Iced  animal biscuits  for Ester Bunnies?  Fondant and marzipan , or  sushi ? Natural: quail and chicken eggs are beautiful enough as they are, and for an interesting touch, eggs decorated by the children with  Italian prehistoric patterns Wow, a full Easter page without Chocolate! What do you think? Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini  ©

butterflies A pot of love Farm animals This is very easy and gives you a perfect and professional finish: just use the same cookie cutter for the biscuits and for the icing! After baking your biscuits roll out your fondant icing and cut it with the same shapes. You can secure the fondant onto the biscuits by brushing them with a little jam or marmalade first.  Also we tried out a little Japanese cookie stamp set that Arantxa got for Xmas from Yosuke. This is great, you just need to place in the  hiragana  symbols and compose the word/sentence that you like. We started easy, with arigatou (thank you). Actually, the set instructions were for using the stamps before baking the biscuits, so we tried, but after baking the biscuits it was a little hard to read the words. Maybe next time we will need to press the stamp harder, or bake the biscuits a bit more, so that the words are legible, but it works fine on icing, since you do...

And this is my first video entry for Sweet New Zealand , this month hosted by Emma of My Darling Lemon Thyme . 

My daughter is making sugar roses. This was videoed by the Western Leader newspaper when they came over to our kitchen for an interview about our book, Party Food for Girls . I think that we need to make a better video where you can actually see the fingers 'working' and shaping the rose petals! And just the fingers (I wasn't even supposed to be in the video myself, I would have smiled more, if I knew!!); what do you think?

Next year will be the year of the Rabbit: a very important year for our family as my daughter is a rabbit! I made some little bunnies, the white one is made with fondant, and the cream bunny is made with marzipan. To show you the sizes I put a cherry next to them :-). I thought I did a pretty good job, and them my daughter showed me the rabbit she had made... What do you think? Isn't it cute!!! Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Here how I made a fondant frog on a lily pad, with natural colours (spirulina for green and berries for red). No words, just images, but feel free to ask questions :-) Photos (et all) by Alessandra Zecchini © Fin More flowers, tutorial with royal icing