My cakes in 2011

 

2011 in cakes. A lot of smaller projects but it still amounts to aprox. one project for this blog pr. week wich was, and is the goal :-)

A few small anekdotes from the past year:

My easter-bunny-dummy hit cakewrecks. I have to brag just a wee bit, it IS the 2. time one of my cakes are featured there. -In Sunday Sweets mind you, not amongst the wrecks. (Allthough i might have a couple of candidates, but please don´t tell)...!

Maileg saw the bunny-dummy and got permission to use it for their newsletter wich reaches aprox. 3500 Maileg fans!

I´d tried out the Lambeth-method with no luck, so i attended a course with the great Sif wich was indeed very interesting and instructive.

I also wanted to learn more about painting on cakes, so the course with Marlene at Sofisticake was just what i needed. 

Someone submitted one of my Ferrari cakes on this page - it sure looks a bit funny amongst all that expensive metal!

Cakeryblog has been pinned. I better find out what this pinterest-thing is, it seems to be very popular!

It was great fun having Roskilde dagblad visiting last month. They wanted to write an article on cupcakes and why it seems so important to decorate away like the trends are these days - after all "it´s just cake". So i told them. :)  I haven´t seen the article yet, even though the paper was published last week.

Top 10 posts:

Naughty cake!

The Lambeth

Maileg bunnies

Carousel rocking-horse cookies

Out of rocking-horse cookies

Cake for Sofie

1000-ideas *Ended*

Tutorial: Black and white cuteness

Candy-cake

I still love my little sugar-hobby, and I´m glad to see many people click by here daily. - Most of you are from abroad, so I´ll continue posting in english.
I also really enjoy meeting replicas of my work here and there - thank you guys, for linking back! :)

All in all this year has mostly been about wishing to create interesting cakes on several occasions, but having to settle with un-decorated cakes or none at all. I will love to fulfill others, but especially my own expectations in 2012, so here´s to hoping that my full-time work will get back to "normal" any time soon, and will stop taking up so much time and energy as it has most of this year.

Thank you all so much for participating and following.

 I wish everybody even more fun in a world of sugar 2012!

2012 is at the door

Whishing you all a fabulous new year with these clever words;

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. 
 ~Oprah Winfrey

Christmas Sweets

Licorice toffees, definately my favorite this year!

Recipe here (Danish)

 

In english: Licorice tofees, approx. 50 pcs:

½ l heavy cream - 250 g sugar - 125 g glucose - 2 tsp licorice powder

approx. 50 g of licorice powder to roll the pieces in

 

Boil all ingredients (except liquorice powder) into a caramel, golden and viscous. Stir in it periodically, but mostly in the end. The caramel is fully cooked when it has a good tan and begins to release from the pot base, approx. 20-35 minutes at even, good heat. Remove from the heat, add the licorice powder and stir well. Pour the caramel into a container, approximately. 18x 18 cm, which is lined with oiled cookie sheets on both the bottom and sides. Add an oiled cookie sheet on top.

Let the caramel cool at room temperature, preferably until the next day - alternatively five hours. Cut into 7x7 (or smaller), a total of 49-50 pieces. and roll in licorice powder.

Lime Vodka-soaked Cranberry marzipan bombs

Dark chocolate bark with salted almonds, also definately my favorite this year!

Recipe for salted almonds here (in danish)

Variation - paprikamandler: Tilsæt 1½ spsk delikatessepaprika sammen med saltet.

 

 

In english: A Snack for 6 persons:

3½ tblsp coarse salt - 2 dl boiling vand - 200 g almonds (3½ dl) - 10 g butter cut into pieces.

 

Dissolve the salt in the boiling water and add the almonds. Leave them covered for 15 minutes. Let the almonds drain in a sieve. Spread them on a plate lined with baking paper with butter. Bake the almonds in the middle of the oven - turn them over a few times when the butter is melted. Serve the salted almonds warm - or cold. - 20 min. in the oven at 150°.

- in addition, melt chocolate and pour over the cooled almonds, leave to set in a baking tin lined with bakingpaper and cool night over. Cut with a sharp knife.

Merry Christmas

No Christmas-stress here this year! 

-The gifts are placed in the oven, the roast and the goose is lying under the tree and the children are all wrapped up - now Christmas can come on with all it´s got!

Have a very merry christmas you all :)

Fast, sweet cookies

I love this recipe for being so suitable for many different purposes, i added cocoa and the taste surprised me pleasantly. With a generous dot of melted chocolate and freeze-dried fruits they also look delicious. Unfortunately these small treats are all now members of the group that didn´t make it through to christmas :-/