Santa and Polar Bears

Christmas Cupcakes

Christmas Day came by, we stuffed ourselves silly with all the yummy food then groaned about how our tummies have expanded. And that was just the mains. Dessert - there will always be space for that one wee bit of sweetness. I'm glad I packed my expandable pants in my luggage - I definitely needed it.

My bit for the Christmas lunch was to bake & dress up some cupcakes!

I was supposed to have halved the recipes so I would only yield 24 cupcakes in total but in my daze I made 48. 24 red velvet cupcakes and 24 honey cupcakes. All decorated in Christmas themes. Some cupcakes were dressed up as Santa, some as polar bears and I threw in snowflake, candy cane & mistletoe as I had run out of time to do Rudolph & Santa's elves.

I couldn't pack a cake stand into our luggage, so I just used a cake board instead. Looks rather good if I must say so myself.

What shall I bake for New Year's??

Enjoy!

 

Christmas Tree Cake Pop

Christmas Tree Cake Pops

I finally made my first ever cake pop. I was always lead to believe that it was very messy and time consuming to create these little cuties but they did not take me too long to make. The part which was most time consuming was colouring the chocolate green and my kitchen did not turn out as messy as I originally thought it would be.

There is only 1 left in the kitchen now - first in first served. I really shouldn't be greedy as I was given a reindeer cake pop at work by a colleague but I'm so tempted to have the tree too!

Have a safe holiday and I hope you enjoy your Christmas break!

Enjoy!

A weekend of birthdays...

Chocolate Mud Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Tiramisu

It has been a busy weekend with 3 birthdays!

I made a simple tiramisu for my sister - nothing fancy here as you can see. For my brother, I made him a chocolate mud cake coated in a rich layer of silky smooth chocolate ganache before I finished it off by making it into a present for him. I'm trying to practice getting the sharp edges on a square cake...I think i'm getting better with each cake.

The first cake of the weekend was supposed to be an iPad 2 cake. I have everything done except the edible image of the iPad screen has gone missing. I've been looking for it everywhere around the kitchen and I can't find it! I hope it didn't accidentally get thrown out with the recycling pile. :(  I'm feeling really disappointed I can't find the image to finish the cake off. So now, I have an unfinished cake which needs to eaten by Tuesday.

To make up for the disappointment, I think I should bake some gingerbread and shortbread cookies then decorate them.

Enjoy!

Tiramisu Trial

Tiramisu

I have a busy weekend coming up! A tiramisu for a 21st. Since I've never made a tiramisu before, my mission was to have a trial run of it first. I wouldn't want to ruin this for a 21st birthday.

My colleague shared her recipe with me and it was an easy recipe to follow. My problem was finding the sponge fingers - I know I can make it myself but I wanted to follow the recipe to the letter so I went in search of the elusive sponge fingers. After going through 3 supermarkets, I finally found it!

I didn't think the recipe would result in me using up 3 different containers! I took one to work, had one at home and will give the last container away.

Enjoy!