Some REALLY YUMMY Cupcakes!

My sister, being the super awesome co-worker/employee that she is at AC Label...wanted to bring some cupcakes to work.

Normally, AC Label is on the receiving end of practice baked goods or leftovers from orders but this order was just for them.

She wanted variety and deliciousness...Done!

Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes with Cookies n' Cream Frosting (so good, I saved the leftover and will eat it with a spoon later) topped with Oreo Cookie Crumbs

Each cupcake has an Oreo Cookie bottom :)

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chip Cupcakes with Creamy Peanut Butter Buttercream (my sister's personal favorite) topped with Chopped Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chips

Vanilla Caramel Cupcakes with Caramel Swiss Meringue Buttercream (my personal favorite) and a Caramel Drizzle

Three variety packs made their way to AC Label this morning!

Chocolate Ice Cream Cone Cake Pops

Remember these?
Well, I've been itching to make more but in a different flavor and design. Bakerella, being the super cake pop genius that she is - has soooo many ideas to choose from.

Feel free to buy me her new book that just came out, I haven't gotten it yet.
Thanks :)

Anyways, I decided on CHOCOLATE...because I love it!
I baked a 9x13 devils food cake then smooshed it all together with some chocolate frosting.

I rolled a tray of large balls for the cones and a tray of small balls for the pops.


I had to trim down the sugar cones, which was harder than I thought it would be but it worked out okay since the chocolate drizzled over my jagged edges.


I like the idea of using some strawberry flavored melting chocolate with the chocolate cake, then I figured I might as well do regular chocolate and white chocolate too for the whole ice cream effect.


I wanted to make a 3 scoop cone but totally forgot, bummer.


I had a tough time dipping the regular cake pops in the strawberry melting chocolate because it was a little thicker than the others, but I managed to create a few decent ones.


My next cake pop adventure will be these, I already bought the candies which were on sale :)

Mini Doughnuts....I guess.

I bought this mini doughnut maker about a year ago and last night I decided I was going to use it.


It was a hot weekend and I didn't want to deal with using hot oil and frying doughnuts so I researched some cake recipes that could be baked.

I found two, a plain recipe and also a chocolate recipe.


This thing works great, each batch only took about 3-4 minutes to bake and the shapes came out perfectly. (I used a piping bag to fill each ring evenly and avoid a huge mess)


The taste...not horrible but also not was I was hoping for.
They are lacking the right texture and could have been sweeter.

Maybe some glaze and sprinkles will help?


Or maybe just some more sugar?


They look pretty at least.

Lakers & Leftovers

I received an order for a LARGE Lakers jersey cake for a surprise birthday party this weekend. The customer wanted my (now famous) dark & white chocolate cake filled with dark chocolate ganache and fresh raspberry filling, covered in raspberry swiss meringue buttercream. She asked that the cake serve at least 40 people and have her daughter's name and age on the jersey.

I baked four 11x15 cakes, 2 of each and then put it all together.
I decided to alternate the cakes so it wasn't too boring when they cut into it and I spread the ganache directly over the raspberry filling.


Oh fondant...I am still learning how to make you do what I want.
Although I think I did a decent job covering this huge cake, getting the side panels on and managing to fit such a long name...It could have been better.


Note: For whatever reason, my camera did not like the purple fondant. I took many pictures in different lighting and they all came out blue.

I currently have three letter cut-out sizes: small, medium and large. I used the medium ones because the small are REALLY small but the mediums were still a bit too large. I do not have the skills or confidence yet to cut my own letters by hand, I still need some more practice.


In the future I will try some new techniques that will decrease/eliminate the powdered sugar that gets left on the fondant when you roll it out, that's something I wish I would have researched before this cake.

I saved some scraps from the cakes I made this week and decided when I was done with all my orders I would use my leftover cake scraps, fillings, buttercream and chocolate shavings to make myself and my lucky sister some small mini cakes.

I mean, I can't just let good stuff go to waste!

I used a cookie cutter to cut out some small square and circle shaped cakes.


I filled the squares with leftover apple filling and covered them in vanilla buttercream then added some sprinkles and a blob of apple filling just for fun.


I filled the circles with leftover raspberry filling and covered them in raspberry buttercream and decorated them with chocolate shavings.


It was late, I was tired and I just wanted to get these things done...so please forgive my frosting job - I was just going to eat them and didn't care if the corners were straight or level, as you can see.

I often don't get to eat my own cakes unless I'm lucky enough to be invited to whatever party they are going to...so this was a special treat and made the perfect midnight snack.