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This is a modern twist on the more traditional Easter simnel cake. It’s traditional to add 11/12 decorations to Easter cakes; representing Christ and the 11 loyal apostles. Use 6 cherries and 6 marzipan balls on this cake. Once made the cake will last 4-5 days in an air-tight tin. Before decorating the cake can […]
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Carrot cake is one of the classic Easter bakes. Here it’s combined with a cheesecake topping to make an even more spectacular centrepiece. Prep time 45 minutes/Cook time 60 minutes/Serves 16 Ingredients: For the carrot cake 150g (1 ¼ cups) plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1⁄2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp ground cinnamon
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If you want to make a special Easter Sunday dessert from a variety of Easter eggs. A large, hollow, chocolate egg half is filled with cheesecake and then topped with a variety of smaller eggs. This recipe is enough for two large and four small egg halves and will serve up to 12. The filling
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Lamb and Easter go together and a lamb-based meal is a classic one for an Easter Sunday get together. Orzo pasta is also a particular favourite of mine. Orzo is a style of pasta, common in Greek cookery that looks like over-sized grains of rice. So, when I saw this recipe, I had to cook
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Polish Poppy Seed Roll This is a classic Polish Easter cake, that’s really too good to reserve for just Easter. It’s a pastry consisting of a roll of sweet yeast bread with a dense, rich, bittersweet filling of poppy seed (an alternative filling is a paste of minced walnuts, or minced chestnuts). The ‘lucky’ poppy
Italian Easter Bread This is traditional Italian Easter bread, often served for breakfast on Easter morning. This is made bright and colourful by colouring the eggs before their inclusion. A rich and sweet bread dough, rather like brioche, is traditionally used. Prep time 40 minutes/Cook time 25 minutes/Serves 12 Ingredients: 200ml (4/5 cup) milk 50g
This hollow cake is filled with Easter eggs and is great if you have children (young or old) around for Easter festivities. Even better, this is a no-bake treat. Prep time 20 minutes/Cook time 15 minutes/Serves 10-12 Ingredients: For the piñata cake flavourless oil, to grease 25g (1 oz) salted butter 100g (3 ½ oz)
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In both South Africa and the UK, hot cross buns are being sold year-round now… so how do you make them special for Easter in that case? This recipe ups the stakes by making darker, richer breads with the inclusion of dates and chocolate. Prep time 30 minutes/Cook time 30 minutes/Makes 12 (plus rising time)
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Who could resist these honey-flavoured Easter bunny biscuits? They’re good with a cup of tea and make wonderful Easter gifts for children. Prep time 80 minutes/Cook time 10 minutes/Makes 12 Ingredients: For the biscuits (cookies): 75g (3 oz) butter, softened 3 tbsp clear honey 25g (1 oz) caster sugar 125g (1 cup) plain flour, plus
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Lychnarakia are Cretan sweet pastries shaped in the form of old-fashioned oil lamps. They are typically made with myzithra (anthotyro) cheese which is flavoured with cinnamon, vanilla or lemon zest. This is set within a filo pastry shell. This Easter variant is made with a blend of mascarpone, ricotta and feta cheese flavoured with herbs and
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Spiritual uses of aidan fruit Negative energies can come to you anywhere most especially when you are not in peace with your spiritual forces If you are not doing well in business Or you are having dream attacks Or people just hate you for no reason Or you are hardly get favour from people Or
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A 92-year-old billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to new girlfriend Ann Lesley Smith, less than a year after his divorce from his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, was finalized. He revealed the news in an interview with one of his own publications, the New York Post, on Monday morning, revealing that he
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Governor Babagana Zulum has been re-elected governor of Borno State. Zulum who contested in the Saturday, March 18 election on the platform of APC, polled 545,542 to defeat his closest contender, Mohammed Jajari of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 82,147. The result was announced by INEC Returning Officer, Jude Rabo.
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My first mission, as I promised my leader was to register IPOB legally and officially. I registered IPOB at the Israeli justice ministry. Meaning at the Israeli government official office! Not only registered, but also I wrote the goals of this movement. The main 3 goals are even written on front for everyone to see:
IPOB GETS GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION AS A BIAFRAN WOMAN REGISTERS IPOB IN ISREAL. Read More »
Popular Nigerian musician and actor, Folarin Falana popularly known as Falz has said the Governor of Lagos State, Sanwo-Olu was not elected but selected himself. The singer made this known in a response to an appreciation tweet by the re-elected governor. “You were not re-elected. You selected yourself. Everybody saw it unfold. You are only
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An air passenger, Samuel Onyemenam, was arrested in the act of attempting to smuggle more than 83,000 cigarettes into Newcastle International Airport on a flight from Nigeria via Germany. According to Mail Online on Monday, Onyemenam was stopped while carrying luggage as he entered the country last November on a flight from Nigeria via Germany.
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Actress Funker Akindele who was the running mate of PDP governorship candidate in Lagos state, Abdulazeez Adediran, has deleted all posts relating to politics and the PDP on her Instagram page. A check by LIB showed that all photos from her campaign rallies as well as other political engagements during the electioneering process are no
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Do you know there is an abandoned seaport in Enugu ? This is an abandoned seaport in Uzouwuani Enugu state called Ogurugu seaport built and commissioned in 1978. This abandoned seaport, after some work had been done there was built for cargo ships that were loading and offloading agricultural produce there. This abandoned seaport was
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has described the 2023 elections as the one of the most transparent and credible ever held in the country. The minister said this on Saturday, March 18 in his home town, Oro, near Ilorin Kwara while speaking with newsmen after casting his vote in the Governorship and
These are the major types of OGBANJE groups, they are a lot I can’t explain all. So when u are going for Afa consultation always ask which OGBANJE group are u, some people are sacrificing at the wrong place and giving wrong sacrifice items. As an OGBANJE know that you have a family back at
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