Just getting around to posting these. These are Dungeons and Dragons 20 sided dice cookies for my friend’s wedding favors. I made 150 of these! They are delicious sugar cookies with fondant and royal icing details.
Here’s another post of all the things I’ve done lately.
1. Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry creamcheese icing and a white chocolate decoration. Man that icing gave me a fit. Not sure I’ll be making strawberry creamcheese icing again anytime soon.
2. Onesie sugar cookies covered with fondant
3. Tower of cupcakes
4. On left, Chocolate cupcake with whipped creamcheese frosting topped with a fondant ruffle flower. On right, Coconut cake filled with raspberry compote topped with white chocolate icing and a fresh raspberry.
5. Transformers cake with fondant flames. Chocolate cake filled with Oreo buttercream and covered in vanilla icing.
6. #1 cookies using royal icing
7. Camera cookies using royal icing
8. Chocolate cake with coconut/pecan frosting and chocolate buttercream.
These are random items I’ve baked, but never made it to this Tumblr site. I am posting them all at once to have them here for my reference.
My 1st fondant cake! I made this in the Wilton course 3 class. This was the final project. I certainly had some issues, but I’m quite happy with my first fondant cake :)
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! These cupcakes went to my daughter’s pre-school teacher this morning. They’re vanilla cake with a fluffy buttercream on top. If you can’t tell (let’s hope you can), they’re apples! These were a lot of fun to make. Of course I made an extra for myself because I needed to make sure they tasted good……right?? :)
Once again, chocolate cake with nutella filling and topped with a peanut butter ganache. I swirled on a peanut butter Swiss Meringue Buttercream and drizzled more peanut butter ganache. These were for a friend’s office mates.
Strawberry buttercream on vanilla cake.
These are Chocolate Italian Cream Cupcakes that I made for mi madré. The cupcake has chopped pecans and coconut mixed in, and they’re topped with a chocolate cream cheese icing. I decorated them with toasted coconut on the sides and one dainty pecan from my mom and dad’s trees.
I set out to find an exact recipe to use, however, I only came across chocolate Italian cream CAKE, not cupcakes. Now, I used to think that any cake recipe could be turned into a cupcake, but I’ve heard through the grapevine that it’s not true. I guess I’ve been getting lucky. So, I decided to tweak a regular recipe and make it chocolate. I think the cupcakes taste GREAT! They are a bit heavy and I’m not sure if it’s because of the chopped pecans and coconut inside the cupcake. I have decided that I am not a fan of cream cheese icing. Yeah, it tastes good and all, but you just can’t do any decorating with it without adding a ton of powdered sugar or maybe even shortening.
Coming up: More chocolate! More peanut butter! Even peanut butter ganache!
Lemon Cupcakes! This is my first time making lemon cupcakes and I must say they are delish! I really wanted the pure lemon flavor to come out, but not make a very heavy and overly sweet frosted cupcake. I think I did just that! I made a lemon cucpake and filled it with homemade lemon curd…mmm.mmm. Then I topped it off with some lemon whipped cream and a tiny dot of lemon curd. Look closely and you can see the specks of lemon zest. These are dangerous for me since they’re so light and refreshing I can’t stop eating them! I’ve had two already!
-Emily
I’ve been wanting to bake now for a few weeks and decided today was the day! Today I made chocolate cupcakes filled with Nutella and then a heeping scoop of peanut butter buttercream to top them off. I left a few without Nutella, but I personally think the Nutella adds something wonderful to the chocolate cake. Why wouldn’t it? It’s Nutella! I also sprinkled a few cupcakes with chocolate jimmies, but decided I like the look of the cupcake without them. They do look a bit plain, but I kinda like it :)
Next….lemon cupcakes filled with lemon curd and topped with a lemony frosting. Spring here we come! (wait..it’s already here).
-Emily
