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And the Oscar Goes To...

2010-03-26T09:51:00.003-04:00

Delicious oscar shaped sugar cookies. Covered in homemade marshmallow fondant (which by the way is easy to make and delicious). Painted in edible gold paint.

Marshmallow fondant recipe

Brownie stars!

Happy Valentine's Day!

2010-03-26T09:46:00.001-04:00

Again, super late but I've been busy.

Valentine brownies. Covered in fondant with handmade sugar paste flowers. First attempt at sugar paste and I think it turned out pretty good.

GO TEAM CANADA!

2010-03-26T09:44:00.001-04:00

OK this posting is just a tad late, but as they say better late than never...

Hockey puck sized cake. Red velvet cake covered in fondant and decorated with sugar paste details.

Upcoming holidays

2010-01-27T16:14:00.006-05:00

Valentine's Day is approaching which means time to start planning out some sweets for my sweetie.

I'm thinking a Valentine's Cake for the special day so I can practice my cake design. And perhaps homemade chocolates/truffles/candy for my sexy partner in crime?

We'll see and I'll post the sickeningly sweet photos after the fact.

Also although it's not for awhile ,St.Patrick's Day! I found a great recipe for chocolate cake with a Irish spin... Guinness Beer Chocolate Cake. Can't wait to make that! Even though I hate beer I'm sure it will add a special flavour to the cake.

Which reminds me of a chocolate cake tip...

TIP: When making a chocolate cake that calls for water use brewed coffee instead. The coffee will bring out the chocolate flavour and not really taste like coffee.

BLOG RENOVATIONS CONTINUED

2010-01-22T16:00:00.001-05:00

Just cleaned up the ol' blog to only contain things about baking and cake decorating. All the other stuff needed to go.

Cupcakes

2010-01-21T15:00:00.003-05:00

So for my friend's birthday I decided to make cupcakes (since they are easier to transport on public transportation). They represent one of her favourite television shows. Any guesses?

Materials: Buttercream flavoured fondant for the smooth tops, black food colouring markers for the writing, gum paste for the objects on top (painted using food colouring gel*)

*TIP: Mix your food colour gels with vodka if you want to paint with them. This way they will dry and you will be able to touch the surface of your fondant or gum paste without leaving fingerprints.

Christmas Treats and Birthday Cake!

2009-12-15T13:04:00.007-05:00

So I made some Christmas cookies to give to my mom and grandmother. As well as a shark cake for my friend's birthday (she loves them).

Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies with white chocolate fondant icing.

Snowflake Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing and then sugared for the snow effect.

All 4 of the delicious varieties of sugar cookies.

Mint Thumbprint Cookies... so good.

The Shark Cake! Marble Cake with Vanilla frosting (marbled to look like water) make the base. The shark head is made of sculpted rice krispies and covered in fondant. Hand painted.

I also just received my Christmas present. A KitchenAid Mixer! So excited I have wanted one for so long now. I can't wait to start mixing things! heehee I'm such a baking nerd.

Gobble Gobble Gobble!

2009-10-08T19:46:00.003-04:00

Happy Turkey Day to my fellow Canadians!

In celebration here is a pic of the cute turkey pops I made (idea from another website).

Some more food for thought

2009-10-06T13:31:00.004-04:00

WHY CAN'T I FIND CANDY CORN ANYWHERE? Remember the good 'ol days when candy corn was in every store around Halloween and it haunted your dreams. Well now I can no longer find it anywhere except bulk candy stores. WTF! The same thing happened last year. I had a craving for it, because yes I am the only person in the world who would have a craving for it, and I had to go all over the map to find some. So here I am trying to make these cute little turkey desserts for my friends and I need the candy corn to make the feathery tail thing that's on a turkey, and cannot find it anywhere. I went to 4 grocery stores, Zellers, dollar stores and drugstores. No goddamn candy corn in a single one. Is this some kind of candy corn conspiracy? It all just disappeared, leaving only the bulk barn and expensive candy stores with some? Geez.

How Sweet It Is...

2009-09-23T15:21:00.005-04:00

So now that all the stress and madness is over until next year I can finally get back to doing what I love to do most: bake.

I recently made Irish Mist Brownies. They are these really dense and fudgey brownies with a creamy mint icing and just a drizzle of semi-sweet chocolate. They were so good. The icing also used cream cheese so they were like little mint chocolate cheesecakes.

Last night I made Banana Pecan Cream Cookies. These are banana pecan cookies which sandwich a creamy vanilla icing. They are also really good. I think these ones are going into my Christmas Cookie repertoire. When making them I checked out the other cookie recipes in the book and there was one for Lemonade Cookies, which use frozen lemonade in the recipe to make these refreshing cookies. Also pina colada cookies using rum, coconut and pineapple.

And the cake decorating! I am definitely getting back into that. I was thinking of signing up for a course or 2 with all my new spare time.

Just for fun I posted some pics of previous cake work from my facebook: