Rhubarb pie

This is the simplest recipe ever. Only takes a split-second and tastes delicious. I´ve had the recipe for about 15 years and tend to forget about it now and then, only to get pleasantly surprised when i bake it again :)  Any sort of fruit goes, and if you´re not fond of sour creme on it´s own, stir it up with vanilla.

- or even better, serve with icecream. This time i added a couple of tablespoons almond-flour just because i had it, and it made it just a wee more delicat. I´m sure it would go well with chopped nuts too.. or grated marzipan...Maybe a pinch of lime/ginger spice? The variations are endless! :)

Now for the recipe:

2 eggs - 200g melted butter - 500g sugar - 3 dl milk - 350g flour - 2 teaspoons baking powder - fruit of any kind.

Mix together, pour into a greased pie-dish (30cm in diam. or in small ramekins) and bake for 30 minutes on 180 degrees. Decorate with what you have.

Told you it was easy :)

Naughty Cake

A chocolate cake with strawberries and bourbon vanilla creme. The zebra print is black fondant pieces placed on thin white fondant and then rolled very thin. Loved doing this, i will definately have to make both cakes and cupcakes with zebra-print!

This cake is for a young man who celebrates his confirmation today - we discussed what he would really like - and there´s no way getting around this, this is the thing these days! :) I hope it´s not too naughty though.

Congrats cousin -We´re looking forward to the party!

Eddie Spence...

I have been struggling with Royal icing all day, and i think it´ll take a whole lot more practice yet....

But it´s great fun, and I will probably give it another go...one day. -Maybe.

The result... Ambitions scaled down quite a bit, according to the original plans with this cake, but it was just really really hard to get the right Eddie Spence-curves all in all...

The patterns are taken from this wonderful book.

Work in progress - and a great bargain!

Update:

I´m thinking of painting the accents i put on the scrolls with gold, and making large roses on top. But that´s not why i´m showing a half-done cake - i found a telescopic camera tripod on sale this week at Liddl and had to try it out:

I´ve been wanting one of these guys forever. Now i just need the rest to make my little hobby-studio complete! I feel so professional! Maybe i shoul some day soon learn how to take great photos without shadows and poor light :)

I´m currently working on this dummy, trying to make it fit a 1935 bourdeaux oldsmobile and a small airplane... My search on google for wedding cakes from the 30´s didn´t come up with anything useful:

I think a cake like this would break into pieces on the runway and it would probably not show at all on the photos.. (found at ruffled.com).

so i´m going for a cake that fits the car instead. I like it so far, but this is only the first step. I need flowers - i try to fight the urge of making large soft pink roses as toppers cause they wouldn´t fit the car. On the other hand i know i possibly can´t reach the bourdeaux colour the car has anyway. What to do, what to do... I´m thinking deep red roses and gold-accents?

Cake for Sofie

Our daughters confirmation is well over,

we had the greatest party and she looked so beautiful our little girl :) 

The cake, a chocolate mud-cake with strawberry mousse, fresh strawberries and tiny

mint-leaves tasted delicious and was all eaten up - 

I was told several people went for second´s - way to go! :)

I meant to create a design especially for her, but she wanted the

white tiger i´ve made once before, so that´s what she got :)

I cut a stencil that´s quite useless, but it gives a good hint of the dimensions of the tiger to paint after.

 To every single one who helped make our daughter´s day one of her best ever,

thank you right from the bottom of our hearts! :)