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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Talk Like a Pirate Chest, AARRGGHH!

20 Wednesday Mar 2013

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birthday party, candy, chest, pirate

DSC_1223I made this Pirate Treasure Chest for my son’s 4-yr birthday party.  It was 4-layers made by halving two 9×13 cakes (chocolate and vanilla w/ chocolate chips).  I propped up one side of the top layer with marshmallows and hid them with decadent chocolate frosting and candy.  The straps and handles are made from yellow fondant painted with watered-down brown food coloring to make them look weathered. The fasteners were gold dragees.   The kids loved the candy, the adults savored the cake…delish!

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Cookies and Cream

20 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Baking and Confections, cookies and cream, Cookies and Cream Cupcake, Cupcake, double chocolate cake, Oreo Cookie filling, vanilla-bean frosting

With an abundance of Oreo cookies in our house at the moment, I’ve been looking for a good cupcake recipe to use them up.  I think I found one!  I mixed up a batch of  decadent double-chocolate cupcakes with an Oreo cookie baked right in.

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I managed to find a little more room inside for rich chocolate mousse and frosted them with vanilla-bean buttercream frosting mixed with crushed cookies.  An extra cookie on top makes them my kids’ favorite so far.  So much chocolate, so little time…Where’s the milk?!Y11_6242

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Strawberries (or Raspberries) and Cream

17 Sunday Mar 2013

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Raspberry, Raspberry Frosting, raspberry mousse filling, raspberry puree filling, sour cream almond cake, Strawberries Raspberries and Cream Cupcake, Strawberry, strawberry frosting, strawberry mousse filling, strawberry puree filling, Swiss Meringue Buttercream

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I got inspired to try this cake after watching a video on making fresh strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream (SMBC).  The cake is a moist sour cream almond cake with a filling of fresh strawberries.  I took the same filling and folded it into the SMBC to make a creamy, light frosting with a hint of strawberry.  If you’re not familiar with SMBC, it’s much lighter and less sweet than traditional buttercream.  It gets  structure from beating egg whites into a meringue, then mixing in the butter.  Very tasty!  Strawberries or raspberries are equally delicious in this cupcake and the filling can be a fresh fruit puree or made into a creamy mousse.

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Minecraft Cake

16 Saturday Mar 2013

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Baking and Confections, Cake, chocolate frosting, double chocolate cake, fondant, Green, Home, Minecraft, Oreo, Sour cream vanilla cake, Vanilla

My kids are in the midst of a Minecraft craze (Minecraft is a game on the computer), so I created this cake for a Cub Scout fundraiser.

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The cake is a 3-layer 8″ square cake (vanilla and chocolate) covered with chocolate buttercream and crushed Oreo cookies (to look like dirt).  I put a layer of green fondant on top and piped green grass with a grass tip.

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The figures are crafted from colored fondant (with the help of my kids) and the name plate is made from pearler beads.   The cake was a HUGE hit with all of the elementary-aged boys and eventually sold for $120 at the event!  If your kid hasn’t discover Minecraft yet, just you wait!

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Pink Princess Delight!

15 Friday Mar 2013

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Birthday, Buttercream, Cake, castle, Cupcake, fondant, Pink, princess

I made this cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday.  She wanted a pink princess cake (of course), but we had the party at the pool and I didn’t want to worry about cutting/serving cake.  Cupcakes were the perfect solution.  The topper is a castle made from a 6″ square fondant-covered cake with turrets of frosted ice cream cones (the lower parts are fondant covered toilet paper tubes).  She loved it and the ease of serving made me happy ;0)

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The princess cupcakes were adorned with fondant stars and streamers.  I threw in some green and blue so the boys wouldn’t feel left out.

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Life is crazy and I love to bake. I'm a wife, mother of 3 nutty kids, and an admitted sugar-holic. Ten years ago I left my job as a senior consulting engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to get out of the rat race and raise kids. We up and moved to a quiet, small town in NE Ohio to be near family and bought a 180-yr-old historic home, always a dream of mine. Along the way, I discovered my joy of baking, which allows both my engineering side and my oft-suppressed creative side to emerge. It began with the desire to bake birthday cakes for my kids (I hated to buy them) and has blossomed into a cupcake-baking business for a local bakery. Over the years, many people have asked if I take orders. So, here they are. Check out the site, we'll be adding new cupcake flavors weekly as well as the occasional cake. And in case you're wondering about the name, it's an homage to the big, old gray barn in my back yard. What a bonus, it came with the house! Put on a smile and BAKE!

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