Archive for September, 2007
Some very tired fingers later…
I would love creating things like this all the time, if it wasn’t so tiring… I spent way too long on coming up with different colors for the buttercream, tracing the design on the cake, outlining the trace with melted chocolate and then filling it in with the buttercream. But I do think the end product looks good [...]
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4 delectable cakes, all for one very lucky lady’s birthday. *grin* Clockwise from top left, sponge cake with almond topping, walnut-pecan fudge brownies, vegetarian maple cashew cake, vegetarian chocolate cake with white chocolate and ganache topping
I didn’t get to take a picture of this cake on its own but if you look at the picture, it’s the one on [...]
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I purchased this book a few months back and I’m truly loving its recipes. I like the unpretentious way they are written and the basic recipes have so many variations, it really gets your creative baking juices flowing. haha.
Anyway, these were the vegan chocolate cupcake recipe that I baked as a 8″ cake. It came out [...]
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Butterfly dreams
In terms of cupcakes, these must be my most decadent ones thus far. Varlhona cocoa and coffee cakes, with hidden surprises of satiny chocoalte ganache made with Varlhona Guanaja as a filling, and topped with humongous swirls of meringue buttercream, sugar pearls and a gumpaste butterfly.
Sweet dreams everyone!
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Here is the long promised buttercream frosting recipe and details. I’ve had so much to do the past couple of months that I’v ebarely had the time to log on and reply to the comments here. But I have been baking quite a bit and hopefully I can catch up on my much-neglected postings the next [...]
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