Oh, just put a cupcake in it....: 2013

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

New Cupcake

New cupcake flavor - chocolate banana with peanut butter pretzel frosting, drizzled with caramel and chocolate chunks.

This was a cupcake I did for the Renaissance Festivals 1st Annual Cupcake Battle. It came in second place. It was a chocolate cake with Lift Bridges Silouhette (Russian Imperial Bourbon Barrel) stout, apple bourbon compote filling, honey and apple mead flavored buttercream dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with chopped bacon and pecans.

This was an Anne Geddes inspired baby shower cake.

Little Drunken Caramel cake made with Tallgrass Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat and 2 GINGERS caramel. below is a 2 foot barrel cake I made for the Lift Bridge brewery's 5th anniversary.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Not your mama's cookies....

Cherry lime, Margarita and Brown sugar peach and bourbon....

Mojito...a lime and mint cookie with a rum and lime glaze.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Ombre Wedding Cake

Topless Cupcakes

Some new frosting-less cupcakes that I will be featuring at the local Farmers Market. This one is a peanut butter streusel brownie cupcake

This is a rocky road brownie cupcake with homemade marshmallows and toasted pecans.

This one is a Topless Dirty Elvis. Its a banana bread beer cake with mini chocolate chips, topped with a peanut butter chocolate ganache, sprinkled with crushed pretzels and drizzled with caramel.

Baby Shower..

Based off the wall decal in the nursery....

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Sandi Oh's Black Forest Cake

Fresh cherries soaked overnight in Kirsch, then the kirsch is infused in chocolate cake and the cherries are made into a compote and used as a filling. Frosted and filled as well with a cream cheese whipped cream frosting, and coated with shaved dark chocolate and fresh cherries.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Berry Mojito cake

This cake started off as an assembly of my leftovers, but it's absolutely delicious and so I'll keep it on the menu. It's a 3 layer mojito cake filled with a thin layer of blackberry buttercream, fresh fruit, blackberry sauce and whipped cream...

Mini Cupcakes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup - chocolate cake topped with a peanut butter frosting, dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with some chopped peanut butter cups.

Strawberry Mojito - lime, mint and rum infused cake topped with strawberry buttercream and topped with a piece of lime candy.

Bourbon Adversary - Fulton's "Worthy Adversary" is used in the chocolate cake, topped with a bourbon/caramel buttercream, dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with pink himalayan salt.

Dirty Elvis - Well's "banana bread beer" cake studded with mini chocolate chips, frosted with a peanut butter pretzel frosting and topped with a chocolate covered pretzel and drizzled with caramel.

Blackberry Cabernet- Cabernet Sauvignon infused chocolate cake with chopped Ghiradelli "Midnight Cabernet" chocolate, topped with a blackberry buttercream made with fresh blackberry sauce and drizzled with the same...

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Happy Easter...

Recent wedding cakes...

Hot Irish Mess....

Cupcake made with Fullers London Porter (yes I know, that's not Irish) and apples poached in cinnamon and Two Gingers Irish Whiskey. Its filled with a chocolate ganache thats infused with the same apples and whiskey. Topped with a Two Gingers whiskey, apple and cinnamon caramel buttercream. dipped in a ganache infused with the Fullers Porter, Drizzled with more caramel and topped with crispy, candied BACON.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Holiday Party Cakes...

Excuse the pictures, but these cakes were from my work Holiday party. I did the bake cakes, and a coworker did the cheesecakes.

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....