Blue Ombre Pony Birthday Cake

19 Friday Jul 2013

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Baking and Confections, birthday cake, Buttercream, Cake, chocolate frosting, ombre cake, Sour cream vanilla cake

My daughter requested a pony party for her 6th birthday and wanted a simple cake and multi-flavored mini cupcakes. I made a small 6″ round 3-layer ombre cake with horse figurines on top. (An “ombre cake” is just a layer cake with graded hues of a single color…or different colors, depending on the look you want.) Since she’s really into blue, I graduated the buttercream colors from dark blue to white. I topped it with a little “pasture” with the horses and a banner bearing her name. Perfect for my little cowgirl!

Red Velvet with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

18 Thursday Jul 2013

Posted by Laurie in Cupcakes

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Baking and Confections, Cake, Chocolate, chocolate mousse filling, Classic Red Velvet Cupcake, cream cheese, Red velvet cake, White chocolate, white chocolate frosting

The most disappointing thing to me about the ever-popular red velvet cake is that it sorely lacks in chocolate flavor. So these red velvet cuppies I filled with a rich, creamy chocolate mousse and topped with a swirl of tangy white chocolate cream cheese icing. Just enough to take this velvety red cupcake over the top!

Chocolate Turtle

05 Sunday May 2013

Posted by Laurie in Cupcakes

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Baking and Confections, chocolate turtle cupcake, Cupcake, double chocolate cake, pecan brittle, salted caramel filling, salted caramel frosting

One of my favorites…and my most requested combination. A rich double chocolate cake is filled with creamy salted caramel (with or without toasted pecans—better “with” in my opinion), topped with sweet and salty caramel buttercream and pecan brittle. And, of course, MORE caramel! So decadent! Almost like the candy!