Oh, just put a cupcake in it....: 2010

Friday, December 10, 2010

Pumpkin Gingerbread Cupcakes.

These are a fabulous cupcake, very moist and yummy. I topped them with a limoncello cream cheese frosting and a homemade gingerbread man. The recipe for these cupcakes can be found here.

The second cupcake is my red velvet filled with whipped ganache and topped with Ermine frosting and some chopped chocolate.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

This cake will have a batman figurine attached to it when I get it delivered. I'll take another picture of it then. I like this cake (except for my crappy writing job) because of the color. The blue and yellow windows were painted on and I like the effect - reminds me of my whale cake.

Witches Cauldron.

There is a cup in the middle to hold dry ice to make the cauldron steam - will try and get a photo/video of it later.

The cake is vanilla with vanilla buttercream. The decorations are made of fondant with some candy melts mixed in for good measure.

Tractor Cake.

Happy 2nd Birthday Isaac!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Tinkerbell Cupcakes.

Very simple, cheated and used the Tinkerbell cupcake toppers from Michaels.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Cake Slice Bakers Present...

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pound Cake!

This month's cake is from Lauren Chattman's "Cake Keeper Cakes"..... I was excited to make it as pumpkin bread is a fave of my family....This cake smelled so good....I made it quick before work, and quickly sliced it to take a pic....and sadly did not eat a piece, but my kids loved it!

It's not as rich and spicy as typical pumpkin bread, but tasty and moist nonetheless (at least according to my daughter).

You can read more about the other Cake Slice Bakers cakes this month here .

Friday, October 1, 2010

Dump Truck

A replica of a cake I saw on Flickr by Becky of "Sweet Maddie Lee Cake Design". I thought it was adorable. This is my first "real" sculpted cake, as most of the time I use Rice Krispy Treats to make a design....but with the exception of the wheels, It's all cake.

Cupcakes...

A variety of cupcakes for a 40th birthday....

Red Velvet with a whipped ganache filling and cream cheese frosting,

Chocolate with either blackberry buttercream filling and ganache glaze, or just topped with blackberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream...

Lemon with Blackberry buttercream and a homemade blackberry syrup drizzle.

And one unfrosted per the reciepents request....

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Congratulations Emi!

A replica of a baby shower cake I saw on Flickr from Andrea's SweetCakes, I loved this cake.

The bottom tier is sweet tea with lemon curd filling and the top is lemon cake with blackberry frosting. Both cakes are frosted with a limoncello buttercream.

Ruffle Cake

From "My Sweet and Saucy" you tube tutorial (*sigh* - I do LOVE her)....This is a lemon cake with blackberry SMBC filling and lemon/limoncello frosting.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Gardener/Math Teacher

This cake is really alot more impressive than the photo....since I suck at photography....It's for a friend who wanted a cake for his dad's 65th birthday. Steve is a math teacher and a gardener. I took ALOT of ideas from the very talented "Icing on the Cake" from flickr and this is what I came up with.

The cake is lemon with raspberry swiss meringue filling and frosted with cream cheese frosting. The equation on the chalkboard (supposedly, per my son) equals 65.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Princess and the Frog

Wild cat cupcakes

Just a variety of wildcat toppers. I'm liking the idea of putting the fondant toppers on cookies...kinda adds a little something.

It's not hot in my area right now, but the humidity is up...I wouldn't have noticed except my fondant cats are sticky.....

Cupcake and Cake Flavors I've Done

Almond and Pear - an almond cupcake with caramelized pear folded in, topped with a salted caramel buttercream and more salted caramel drizzled over the top
Almond Joy - an almond and coconut poundcake, dipped in ganache with a coconut buttercream and sprinkled with toasted coconut and candied almond slices
Amaretto Vanilla Bean Poundcake - amaretto and vanilla bean in a dense, moist cake. Top it with a amaretto and Raspberry swiss meringue buttercream and toasted almonds
Bananas Foster - cake made with the bananas from the banana foster dessert, filled with dulce de leche and topped with a buttercream flavored from the sauce of the bananas foster dessert. topped with toasted coconut. One of my favorite cupcakes
Birthday Party Vanilla - this is more of a poundcake like cake, top it with any flavor buttercream
Blackberry Cabernet - chocolate cupcake infused with Cabernet Sauvignon and Ghiradelli blackberry cabernet chocolate. Topped with a blackberry buttercream drizzled with fresh blackberry sauce and topped with a blackberry gummy candy.
Blue Hawaiian - coconut rum cake with a Blue Hawaiian cocktail buttercream (blue curacao, rum, pineapple juice and coconut cream)
Brown Sugar Praline - brown sugar poundcake with homemade chopped pralines, topped with cream cheese frosting and a candied pecan
Brown Sugar Vanilla - this is a light and fluffy cupcake with just a hint of caramel flavor. Pair it with cream cheese frosting, chocolate buttercream or a light and fluffy caramel meringue buttercream
Chocolate - this is a rich, dense brownie like cake made with Droste cocoa and ghiradelli chocolate. Top it with my ghiradelli ganache buttercream.
Chocolate Chip Cookie - chocolate chip cookie sits on the bottom of my chocolate cake. filled with an eggless cookie dough, frosted with chocolate buttercream and topped with a homemade chocolate chip cookie.
Chocolate covered Strawberry - my chocolate cake filled with strawberry buttercream, topped with a whipped dark ganache and chocolate covered strawberry
Chocolate Menage a Trois - chocolate cake filled with a chocolate french buttercream and topped with a fudgy dark chocolate buttercream
Chocolate Mint - chocolate cake with chopped white chocolate mint kisses, topped with a white chocolate lightly minted cream cheese buttercream
Chocolate Peanut Butter - chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling, dipped in chocolate then topped with chocolate buttercream and chopped PB cups
Coconut - reduced coconut milk and vanilla bean make a dense, moist pound like cake. Top it with coconut frosting made with the same reduced coconut milk and vanilla bean, or go lighter and top it with a whipped cream-cream cheese frosting. both topped with toasted coconut and a maraschino cherry.
Cookies and Cream - chocolate or vanilla cake topped with cookies and cream buttercream
Create your own - I haven't listed everything I've done. But if its a cocktail, I can infuse it into cake and buttercream. If it's a candy bar, most likely I can make a ganache with it. Name your favorite flavor or spice and I will infuse it into a complimentary flavored cake or buttercream.
Dirty Elvis - a banana bread beer cupcake and a hint of chocolate chips topped with a peanut butter pretzel buttercream, drizzled with homemade caramel and topped with a chocolate covered pretzel
Hot Damn - chipotle and chocolate cake filled with a Hot Damn schnapps infused caramel and topped with cinnamon buttercream and more Hot Damn caramel and a piece of my favorite chocolate which has chiptole, cinnamon, salt and pop rocks in it.
Hummingbird - traditional southern cake with banana, pineapple and pecans. topped with cream cheese frosting and a candied pecan.
Irish Car Bomb - Guinness chocolate cake dipped in a Jameson infused ganache, topped with a Baileys buttercream and sprinkled with expresso chocolate
Lemon - fresh, lemony cake - top it with any berry flavored buttercream.
Mai Tai - This is a dark Meyers Rum cake topped with a Mai Tai cocktail buttercream and drizzled with grenadine
Mojito - lemon or lime cake infused with mint and rum, top it with a lemon, lime or strawberry mojito buttercream
Monkey La La - based after the popular drink - choc cake with baileys and kahlua topped with a coconut, baileys, kahlua and vodka buttercream
Pina Colada - a coconut, pineapple and rum cake, topped with a pina colada infused buttercream. I can make this one without rum.
Pumpkin Gingerbread - Gingerbread cake with pumpkin and candied ginger folded in, topped with a limoncello cream cheese buttercream and a homemade gingerbread man
Red Hot Velvet - red velvet cake with chocolate chips topped with a cinnamon ermine frosting and red hots
Red Velvet - classic red velvet with mini chocolate chips. I like to top mine with Ermine Frosting because it pairs well and really lets you taste the cake. I have and will serve it with cream cheese frosting tho if you insist ;-)
Salty Turtle - chocolate cake with a caramel buttercream, topped with a homemade salted caramel sauce, chocolate chunks and toasted pecans
Samoa - a recipe from Fields of Cake - Its a chocolate cake sitting ontop of a shortbread cookie crust, with a coconut chocolate chip caramel center. Dipped in ganache, and topped with a coconut buttercream, caramel and a samoa cookie. This one is seasonal to Girl Scout cookies.
Shocktop orange - chocolate cake made with Shocktop beer and orange zest, frosted with a Grand Marnier buttercream and topped with a slice of a chocolate orange.
Snicker Bar - chocolate cake with a snicker bar ganache center, topped with caramel buttercream, chopped chocolate, caramel and peanuts
Snickerdoodle - cinnamon cake filled with Dulce de Leche, topped with a cream cheese frosting and cinnamon sugar
White Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake - Cream cheese pound cake with white chocolate folded in (This can be done with any flavor chocolate). Pair it with a berry buttercream
Wicked Jameson - Surly Coffee Bender and Jameson infused into a chocolate cake with cayenne and cinnamon, topped with a Jameson and Maple syrup buttercream and topped with a piece of candied spicy bacon

Oh, just put a cupcake in it....