Chinese Takeout Cupcakes

Chinese Takeout Cupcakes Won!

Thank you to every on who voted on which cupcake I should do next. It was exciting to see what the winner would be.

I saw these in the book What's New, Cupcake? and I knew I just had to do them!!!

Lo Mein Noodles, Fried Rice, and a Fortune Cookie.

Lo Mein:

green and pink tootsie rolls, green twizzlers, green sprinkles and, butter cream frosting.

Fried Rice:

Rice Krispies with marshmallow, green M&M's, orange twizzlers, yellow tootsie rolls and, butter cream.

Fortune Cookie:

Tootsie Roll and, butter cream.

Macaron test run

To be honest when I first looked over the Macaron recipe I was very intimidated by it. It seemed to be very temperamental.... and IT WAS!!! As soon as I pipped them out on the cookie sheet I knew I had over mixed! But that's why this was a test run.

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The first were pipped on to parchment paper

These were pipped onto a silicon mat

Fresh out of the oven!

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I baked the Macaron's on different surfaces (silicon mat and parchment paper) to see which one would give the best end result. The Macaron on the left side of the picture were baked on a silicon mat, they held a good shape and had a gooey center. The Macaron on the right was baked on parchment paper, most of these (not all) became hollow and lopsided.

The texture around the sides of the macaron should be smooth in appearance, and not have an overflowing rough appearance like the macaron above.

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Well all Macaron recipes are tricky, but they didn't come out so bad for my first attempt. I will try again to see if I can prefect it!

Love, Mommy & Rhi

Princess and the frog Cakes

This years for the Twins birthday I decided to go simple on the cakes, making one simple sheet cake and two mini tier cakes.

I had they're invite picture printed out on edible paper. Made Flowers from fruit slice candies.

To make flowers, roll out candy's with a rolling pin and sugar to create the shape of the flower.

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I started the sheet cake with white cake, frosted with white butter cream. Placed the Edible Picture in the middle of the sheet cake. Gave it a purple butter cream border. Then I covered the white with Wilton blue sparkle gel, to give the cake a wavy water look. Then pipped ivy around the border of the cake, in green butter cream. Then placed on the flowers I made and the toys. Very simple and easy.

Each girl had her own mini 3 tier cake. Frosted in butter cream and decorated with edible gold beads and sprinkles. I tried to give the cakes a mardi gras look from the movie.