Halloween Dessert

We had friends over for Halloween last night, and this was our dessert; Baked figs with brown sugar/cinnamon syrup, a rich vanilla icecream (Carte d´or) and chocolate mud-cake bats. A collegue of mine served baked figs for us last month, and i already made them twice since. They are so my kind of dessert; Super easy and extremely tasty!

Delicious!

Recipe: Wash and halve the figs - top with 1 teaspoon brown sugar (or more :-)- sprinkle with cinnamon - bake for 25 minutes at 180degrees. The sugar will soak through the figs and transform into a thick syrup.

 

For Trick or Treater´s coming round; Witch´s dead fingers.

Recipe adapted from Cakejournal

Smurfette

Smurfette-cake for our good friends daughters birthday.

A Vanillacake with strawberrymousse and chocolatecreme.

Wouldn´t it have looked adorable, if i had remembered to put little toadstools on, like i planned!?

Of course blue inside.

 I don´t think i like these coloured cakes, but the kids sure did :)

Popcake winner is...

Bianca from Bianca's Kageverden, Congratulations! :)

I hope you'll find great inspiration in the book. I saw on your blog that you have a birthday coming up - hurry up and send me your adress at piamarianne@kageriet.net maybe it will arrive just in time! :)

About the Popcakes... I haven't found the time yet - the garden needs closure before winter comes amongst many other things, but i know the design i want to use eventually :)

Hand painted Cupcake disks

Still painting... This time on disks for Poppy seed-citrus cupcakes

(try saing that fast 3 times :) -with Wiltons ready-made frosting.

I added zest from 2 limes and 1 lemon plus 1 table spoon poppy-

seeds to a plain vanilla cupcake-recipe.

The motives i made are more simple than they look; my kind of craft! :)



Tutorial here


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Tutorial: Handpainted flower disks

Tools: Brushes no 1 or 2, white and brown edible colour,

clear alcohol for thinning the colour, a spatula to move the

disks around if necessary, plus a plate to mix the colour on.

1. step: Draw the outline with the tip of the brush in an upright position

2. step: Adjust the outline and start filling out with the white colour.

Make sure to use a very thin layer, or else it won´t dry up.

Mixing the colours. By adding a drop of clear alcohol

after mixing, the colours become more fluid.

3. step: Adding the branches. Because i don´t mix the

brown colour completely, i have several shades to use

wich makes them look more vivid. I use the tip of the

brush to "dot" lille leaves

4. step: "Dot" a half-circle center for the flower.

Best to let the white flower dry completely as the

colours tend to blend a bit.

Cupcakes with handpainted flower disks here

Note:

The fondant-disks are aprox. 4mm thick and have been drying for a couple of days on both sides.

Still they became a little soft when put on the frosting. Next time i´ll try using flowerpaste, it might be better.