Silly me for starting up a cake for the danish table at 5.30 this very late afternoon! It looks nice though, no show-stopper, that´ll be up to the other incredibly talented cake creators who participates in the competition :)
I can´t wait to let my self be intertained with beautiful cakes and great company this weekend!

Scandinavian Cakeshow

Champagne Corks...

...paper airplanes and peppernuts from 2010, that's what our highly esteemed colleague throws with when he feels too bullied by us girls. Therefore, his 60th birthday cake of course had to look exactly like this. 

 

Chocolate mudcake with cognac-soaked cranberries and chocolate creme.

 

 

I tried to achieve cork-effect by sponging, dusting and painting.

 

 In addition to the cake, we celebrated by replacing his office-chair with an old rocking chair, birthday flags everywhere, a homemade Mayor chain and a birthday song when he least expected it.

 

I think he had a great day at work - i know we did! ;)

Practicing the art of Royal Icing

 

This would be my 2. attempt of Eddie Spence-ish cake decorating... Or what´s left of it.

 

Lots and lots of Royal Icing has been scraped off again, including a lower Lambeth-method-piping border that made my eyes go sore...

 

...It´s all just because i´m missing the right sized tips!

The art of Royal Icing

My latest book purchase.

Now there´s no excuse...

Oreo Cheese(cup)cakes

Today - one of the hottest days in Dk i decided to make not one, but 36 small cheesecakes. It sure would have been a lot less time consuming to make 1 or 2 large round ones, but when inspiration hits, you have to obey...

So theese - and their other friends - are going with Miss Sofie to school tomorrow.

I hope the young ones like them :)

I love these cupcake cases, they would be great for icecream too..

 

For english recipe go to Bakers Royale

 

 

In danish:

Til ca. 16 cupcakes

 

200 g digestives - 50 g lys brun sukker - 100 g smeltet smør

 

100 g knuste Oreo´s - 1 bøtte mini Oreo´s - 1/2 liter fløde - 450g philadelphia ost (ikke light) - 85 g suger - 1/2 tsk salt - 1 spsk citron saft - 2 tsk vanille sukker

 

Digestives, sukker og smeltet smør blendes godt sammen og presses godt ned i muffinsforme eller lignende. Til mine små forme er brugt 20 g pr. form.

 

Fløden piskes stiv og sættes til side.  Herefter hældes blødgjort ost, sukker, salt, vanillesukker og citron saft i en skål og piskes til det er godt blandet sammen, cirka 3-5 minutter. Fløden blandes i, (gem lidt til pynt) og der piskes til blandingen er blød. De knuste Oreo´s foldes i til sidst.

 

Herefter fyldes blandingen i formene og de sættes i køleskab 6 timer eller bedre endnu, natten over.

 

De serveres kølige f.eks. som her, med en dut flødeskum på toppen og en mini Oreo.