Chocolate/Peanutbutter with Blueberries

Chocolate/peanutbutter creme holiday cake for the colleagues - I´m off to an exiting house-decorating work-holiday :)

In-laws gold weddingcake

A gold weddingcake for my in-laws - I would have liked more gold on it, but the colour was nearly impossible to paint with, not at all as I remember it. But nice to know I still have some skills, I was actually pretty nervous about this one...

It´s a layer-cake with strawberry mousse and lime syrup - nice and light because we had it after a scrumptious dessert-buffet :)

The figurine on top is the original from their wedding 50 (!) years ago, so very nice - makes me sad I didn´t save the one from our own wedding 20 (!!) years ago. But that one was terribly plastic anyway, so never mind.

Sealand Cakeshow 2013

This is my contribution to Sealand Cake Show 2013. I´ve had the image below lying in my "next project" folder for ages, and if wasn´t for Sealand Cakeshow, I never would have come to creating this little piece. -Which was fortunate, because it won first prize gold - much to my surprise! :)

Easter Bunny, Eggs and Carrots

A mini dummy - just playing around with a new type of fondant. Seems like the fondant-issues i´ve had are close to a solution. A major relief, since i have to make the most important cake ever; My daughter´s confirmation-cake a couple of months from now ;)

I´m beginning to look forward to play with fondant again. Loving this!

25.04.2011: Made it to Cakewrecks Sunday sweets-section - Yay! :) I´m so glad Jen headlined it "a perfect combination of elegance and whimsy" as it was just what i was aiming for - thanks Jen! :)

Easiest Fudge recipe ever

In just about 10 minutes you´ll have prepared a tasty chewable fudge following this easy recipe:

Ingredients: 340g dark chocolate chips - 1 can sweetened condensed milk - 1 tablespoon cream - 1 tablespoon butter - 2 tablespoons peanutbutter

Place chips and milk in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on medium power for 2-3 minutes, stirring at 1 minute intervals, until chips are melted and mixture is smooth and thick. Stir in cream, butter and peanutbutter until combined. Pour in a greased baking tin, and leave in a cold place until next day. Cut in bite-sizes.

Makes about 1 kg fudge

Additional; Add marshmellows, chopped nuts, chopped candy canes, dried fruit or try milk/mint chocolate, white chocolate or whatever you feel like :)

I found the recipe here - the reviews are worth reading, many great ideas for this recipe.

For Madeleine

This weekend I spent in the company of fondant, icing and cake tools. It surely has been a while, the last fondant cake I made was in October 2012..

I've made lots of decoration work since 2012, but no real cake projects. So it was fun to try again - I admit I'm a little out of practice, but it went anyway. 

The cakes are for my cousin's little pretty girl who had a christening today and they are plain layercakes with raspberry mousse and lemoncurd. 

-I have not missed the taste of fondant ...

My cakes in 2013

I only made af few dummies in 2013 because a break from fondant was needed. I don´t think I´ll get back to the same amount of fondant-cakes ever again, but I´ll leave the blog open, because many people still uses it for inspiration - even though there has been no uopdates for a year now.

I will, of course share if i get any interesting projects, but for now - thanks for stopping by in 2013 :)

I wish you all the best in 2014 - have fun in a world of sugar :)

Vintage Easter

The incredibly cute hare-picture is found at the Graphic fairy 

The top is stencilled - my aim was to make the colours look a

bit more patinised, but one only gets one shot at this, so...

Miss Sofie

Thanks to my beautiful daughter for posing :)

Cookies with cakeprint

Cakeprint cookies.

Peanutbutter muffins

I found this recipe online that looked interesting. It called for peanutbutter and brown sugar and the divine smell of freshly baked muffins attracted the residents of the house, gladly offering their tastebuds...

We were all quite puzzled to find out that these little wonders tasted of absolutely nothing...?
 It helped a little with a fair amount of chocolate ganache.

 

But they look great, don´t they?

 

Never mind, they´re all going to the freezer, and will add texture to the next batch of truffles..

My cakes in 2012

I made lots of dummies this year, mostly for a cosy little cake-supply shop in  Roskilde, wich i also got to tend a few times. Such fun! I also got to teach a Royal Icing course wich was a huge challenge, but went along well. 

I took a quick trip to Birmingham to visit Cake International fair, great to be back after missing out the last couple of years.

Most popular posts this year have been:

Tutorial - Gardenia

Tutorial - Lotus Flower

Tutorial - JEM Butterflies

Tutorial - Black and White Cuteness

The Lambeth

Naughty Cake!

Tutorial - Sheep

Tutorial - Patterned paste

Ninjago Cake

Galleries

My little blog has been very well visited this year - according to my standards. Twice there´s been over 1.000 visitors on one day! Plus a couple of times 5-600 visits a day. Wow..

Thanks for stopping by in 2012!

I wish you all the best in 2013 - having fun in a world of sugar! :)

Gingerbread Royal Icing house

This years gingerbread house is inspired by techniques found in Eddie Spence´s book.

I love the lightbulbs over the door - they are not from the book though...

The inside of the house is a mess, royal icing all over the "floor" so i had to shield off the windows.

Luckily My little bakery shared her beautiful gingerbread house, giving med an idea how to.

Tip; After baking, the walls dried up with a big curve, but after 8-10 seconds in the microwave I could carefully press them down so they became totally flat. After cooling on the counter with a little weight on top, they held the shape nicely.

I had this "canvas" on the backside of the house, but no idea how to decorate it,

so i played around a little. The lantern is a pattern from the book.

The reindeer and its pup :) -And the scallop piped rope/running bead,
which I´m very proud of, because it was really hard to make!
It doesn´t show very much, but its on the cookie-base along the house.

Merry, merry Christmas all :)

Christmas tree

Christmas dummy.

Once again, textures from EdibleCreators,  love these.

The tree is made by piping royal icing shells on a styrofoam cone and is "recycled" from last year 

- I´m so lazy!

Christmas cake

 

I brought this christmas cake back from Birmingham to share with my colleages come december, and it has not been easy not to take a bite or two because it smells simply divine! -And i know it tastes great, because i had more than a few tastings at the stand...

 

 

I love the texture on these cakes. I soaked the cake thoroughly with my husband´s brandy, I don´t know if that´s the way to treat it, but i bet it´s pretty tasty :) Can´t wait - I´ll have to try making these cakes myself.

 

The cover is marzipan fondant, not too easy to paint on as the wetness draws out in the marzipan.

 

Chrismas Bauble

Christmas is slowly approaching, thus a good reason for a little recycling - the topper is from last year; worlds-most-expensive-christmas-bauble.

  

I love my new textures from EdibleCreators - nice price too! -The borders are not cut though, but this can be done with a ruler or as here, with the end of a writing-tip.

Next year...

-I´ll definately bake lots of these!

I used my basic cookie recipe, rolled a ball, marked the toenails with a teaspoon, added a few wrinkles with a knife, baked - and dusted with cocoa. It took like five minutes to shape 20 toes - i like :)

They flowed out a little in the oven, but i don´t mind - it makes them look like trolls toes! :)

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Pumpkin cake

 

 

This is an orange layer cake with light green vanilla/white chocolate filling. There are three cakes inside and it should feed about 20-25 persons. It´s rather big, the plate is 30 cm and it´s about 25 cm high. It is black as the night with no blings or sugar gizmos - just a plain ol´ pumpkin.

 

I absolutely loved making this and it looks quite awesome in real life :)

I hear Licorice is the new black.......

 

 

-Or the new spice to add to almost any recipe, even rye bread!

I´ll settle for the meringues for now - and they are pretty tasty too :)

 

 

 

Especially dipped in milk chocolate....

 

 

 

 

And set in licorice sprinkles!!

Poor little things, they just had no chance. May they rest in...my tummy :)

 

 

Meringue recipe: 3 eggwhites, past. - 200 g confectioner´s sugar - 1 tsp licorice powder

 

Beat eggwhites to a thick consistency - add sugar and licorice - pour in a piping bag with a nozzle of your choice and pipe onto a baking sheet. Goes in the oven at 100dg for an hour.