I can't wait for a slice tonight.
Don's Diplomat Cake
After a morning session in the kitchen, a batch of Rum buttercream and puff pastries, I finally finished the Diplomat cake and it feels great! I could not help myself tasting the buttercream, one of the best I ever tasted! It's not the easy buttercream made of butter and powder sugar, it requires more but it's worth the extra effort.
I live in the Kitchen
3 Cakes in 2 weeks plus 60 Easter eggs equals kitchen chaos. I am making a SURPRISE cake for my brother-in-law. I hope he doesnot see this post until after tomorrow. He wanted to know where to get a Diplomat cake aside from Bon Ton's. A light bulb moment... his birthday is coming up and "I" could make him a Diplomat cake. I found a recipe by Drew and I thought I could give it a try. Here is step one: Make a Genoise cake and Rum syrup! Tomorrow, I will be making the Rum Buttercream and Puff pastry to layer the cake together. I will let you all know how it turns out.
Easter Egg-travaganza
I have been working on Easter cookies for my kids' friends... I made 60 eggs and now I am down to 55. I don't know what happened to the five but apparently I have an egg thief or thieves (maybe little ones)!
Vanilla Sugar Cookies and Lemon Royal Icing
Cupcakes, Engagement and a Wedding
Dutch chocolate cupcakes with Vanilla buttercream.
My sis just got Engaged! Another excuse to bake a cake. Coincidentally, I am in the midst of a wedding cake project. I will be posting pictures of the sketch. The bride, my cousin, emailed me a picture of a cake she wanted me to replicate. I find it more challenging to copy a cake design because you don't have artistic interpretation but I aim to please the bride!
SpongeBob Cake in Butter Cream
This is the biggest project by far. My kids are sharing a birthday party and they wanted a SpongeBob cake. Hence, the dilema. I could do the usual square pan covered with yellow fondant and cut the face and limbs. Or, do something different. I found a beautiful cake idea from Decopac and here it is...
Cupcakes and Fondant
One of my sins... laziness! The last two Valentines, I baked over 250 standard cupcakes. But, do I have pictures to show? Nope! Why? Laziness! I need to take pictures to document it and I need to start!
Anyways, my daughter, Cait turned 6 a few weeks ago and she wanted a pink present cake. She wanted to help and we made a cake out of Marshmallow Fondant by Peggy W. The best tasting fondant ever!!! If you have not tried it or tried to make it- do! Cait did all the pearl borders and the letters and helped with the ribbon. Not bad eh?
Cait's 6th Birthday
I have been always intrigued by anything creative. I am easily inspired by the things and people around me. My first introduction to the culinary arts was when I am 7 years old. I remembered wanting a snack and my grandma, Lola, told me to make it myself. I chop a potato, sprinkle it with salt (I thought it was salt but it was MSG, Yuck!) and I fried it on her wok. I learned that hot oil hurts and that I can cook! I spent countless hours watching my grandma cook. But, my eyes opened to bigger and better things when I saw my mom make Coconut Macaroons. When she made a Taro (Ube) Cake, I fell in love with baking!
Below is the first fondant cake I made. I took the "fondant" class at my local Michaels and I never looked back.
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