A Bowling Birthday

A bowling cake made from homemade fondant for a 6th Birthday.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Our Double Trouble Cupcake
Peanut butter and chocolate= perfect combination

Peanut butter frosting recipe:
1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
1 cup creamy peanut butter
4 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
Reeses' peanut butter cups (optional)

1. Beat butter and peanut butter in large bowl, until it is light and fluffy.
2. Beat in 2 cups of the powdered sugar.
3. Mix in half of the whipping cream.
4. Beat in the remaining 2 cups of powdered sugar.
5. Add more cream if necessary to reach the right consistency.

Note: Be careful not to over-beat the peanut butter and butter mixture.  It's tempting to keep beating to achieve a smooth consistency, but you will need to add some powdered sugar to reach the consistency that you're looking for. It is important that the butter is at room temperature.

This recipe is good for 1 dozen cupcakes, or a double layer 9-inch cake.
We doubled the recipe for 2 dozen cupcakes and it was really creamy and delicious!

Happy Halloween!

Spice Cupcakes and Pumpkin Cupcakes with a white creamy frosting.  The figures were made from homemade fondant. They were scary good.

Boozy Mini Cupcakes

Make work a little more interesting and delicious!

Chocolate cupcake with whiskey buttercream (on left)

Lemon cupcake with Raspberry Chambord frosting (on right)

Moccachino cupcake for people who cannot hold their liquor (behind)

World Series 2012- SF Giants

We made it to the World Series, so let's eat cake! The Baseball Hat replica cake is an 8-inch four layer Spice cake. We found that making two cakes, splitting both, and frosting the four layers makes a good sized cake for a hat. We wanted the cake to be a realistic size.  Covering an 8-inch cake is not too difficult, however, covering a larger cake such as the jersey cake is a little more tricky and requires two people. For the Jersey replica cake, we made a double layer 13x9 Chocolate cake. We made an extra cake so we could cut out the sleeves. We made fondant and rolled it out smooth. We always make our fondant; store-bought fondant does not taste very good and making your own is more cost-effective. To see our fondant recipe, check out our Cat Cake post on October 15th. We placed one large piece of fondant to cover half of the cake, and another to cover the other half. This made it easier working with two pieces rather than one large piece that can easily rip. Also, we think it made a cool look as though it is a button-up jersey. Let's Go Giants!!

Pumpkin Patch Birthday

We made pumpkin cupcakes for a 1st Birthday.  Two flavors: chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate ganache and pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes. The grass was made with a white creamy buttercream and the pumpkins were made from homemade fondant. Happy Pumpkin Picking!

Halloween Candy Cake

What could be better than loading chocolate cake with an awesome variety of candy bars? Ana and I cannot think of anything better. Chocolate cake with a chocolate buttercream and topped off with Kit Kat bars, Reese's cups, and Reese's Pieces.