Double Doughnut Cakes

One for the inlaws, one for us! You can never have enough cake.

This is a 6 inch Yellow cake with bavarian cream filling, whipped cream and chocolate ganache icing.


This is a 10 inch devil's food cake with bavarian cream filling, whipped cream and chocolate ganache icing.

Happy Birthday Gwen!

Our friend Gwen loves Cinnabons!
Yellow cake with cinnamon cream cheese filling and whipped cream icing.

Chinese New Year Pagoda, Year of the Tiger

I'm so busy with a 3.5 year old and a 7 month old that I often don't have time for fun. I think I've found something I can work on when they are sleeping, or for the other times that I may have to myself. This is my first large (and small) sugar cookie sculpture, probably the first of many. Inspired by my first construction and this cake, as long as I have a theme, getting the job done is fun and easy. I used Martha Stewart's cookie cutout recipe and a basic royal icing recipe with egg whites, cream of tartar (optional), powdered sugar and decorating gel colors. I like this cookie recipe for this project because it bakes hard and crunchy and retains it's shape pretty well.

I love my new Ateco turntable.
Little royal icing tigers.
Side mural.
Menacing huh!

I had so much fun making these little tiger statues. Their heads are about the size of a green pea.

5 minute candy mountain cake

My husband was about to leave to go to his bi-monthly D&D game when he got a call, "Were you going to bring food to the game?" I over heard this and quickly I thought - hey I have something in the freezer he could bring. I just happened to have some failed chocolate cakes in the freezer. I figured it would taste like really dense cake or like a brownie so I saved them. I am so Chinese, can't seem to throw anything away sometimes. Anyway, a quick icing and a cookie - voila, I have a dessert for him.
My husband came up with the theme.

House warming cookies

I have friends who recently moved away and bought their first house. They were throwing a housewarming party and I decided to make cookies for them. Since I had never seen their house, I Google mapped their address and found a picture, hoped it was their house anyway. I shrank it, printed it and cut it out. I used a knife to cut out the cookies, baked them and used royal icing to decorate. They were so excited about them that 2 of them are being shellacked and made into Xmas ornaments.

D&D birthday cake

My husband planned a surprise party for a friend who loves D&D. This is the cake he requested for the party.

Whipped cream in the shadows