A new thing for me here, this fondant idea. It looks neat, but I had heard it wasn’t so tasty. Oh well, it’s a medium I hadn’t tried and you know how I like to experiment with this cake decorating stuff. I’m not any good at it, but I sure do have fun with it. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cake’
Marshmallow Fondant
Posted in Sweet Desires, tagged cake, fondant, marshmallow on January 22, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Chocolate Raspberry Dream Cake
Posted in Sweet Desires, tagged cake, chocolate, raspberry on January 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Yes!! Another chocolate cake. And Yes!! This time with raspberries.
Hello? Could it be more perfect?
It’s like my favorite candy bar.
Only, not crunchy.
Yum!
Ingredients:
3/4 cup unbleached flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
8 eggs, separated
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup seedless, all-natural raspberry jam/fruit spread
Chocolate frosting from my Chocolate Madness recipe.
Preheat [...]
BMX track cake
Posted in Sweet Desires, tagged buttercream frosting, cake on June 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
One of Yogurt’s 3 choices for a cake this year was a BMX track. It sounded the most appealing to me and hey..we’re total BMXicans now anywho, so, it *was* the most logical choice.
So here’s what I did:
2 boxes of cake mix (Yogurt chose Funfetti and Strawberry)
1 1/2 recipes buttercream frosting
brown icing color
green icing color
vanilla [...]
Sinfulicious Ooey Gooey Chocolate Madness
Posted in Sweet Desires, tagged cake, chocolate, Hershey's on March 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
adapted from Hershey’s “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Cake recipe
2 cups pure cane sugar
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup Hershey’s baking cocoa powder
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder (aluminum free)
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup olive oil
2 ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2/3 cup boiling water
Heat oven to 350* F and prepare two 9″ [...]
Butterfly Cake
Posted in Sweet Desires, tagged buttercream frosting, cake on December 9, 2006 | 1 Comment »
For my daughter’s 3rd birthday I made a butterfly cake. Twas her first choice
1 box cake mix (we used strawberry, pink you know)
Mix and bake according to directions in 2 round cake pans. Cool slightly in pans, then remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Next, I stacked the cakes, dry, cut in half, [...]
Our Traditional “Jesus’ Birthday Cake” (aka Jell-o Poke Cake)
Posted in Sweet Desires, tagged cake, Cool Whip, Jell-o on November 30, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Jell-o Poke Cake
Several years ago I heard about doing a “Jesus’ birthday cake” for Christmas. I thought that was a cool idea, ran it by the hubby who agreed to go along with it and well, here we are, 6 years later. It’s a tradition. Not only the birthday cake idea itself, but *this* cake. [...]
