Birthday Treats

The Giant Cookie

On Thursday last week it was my brothers birthday and I wanted to bake him something special and tasty, so I thought I'll make him a giant chocolate chip cookie!

I used a recipe that made 20 cookies and put all the cookie dough into a pizza pan, lined with greaseproof paper. These cookies are so easy to make yourself! Why not try it for someones birthday?

 I then made some buttercream to pipe around the outside and also for the writing in the middle.

Party Ice Creams

My parents requested I made some cupcake ice creams for them, my brother, my boyfriend and me for Sunday (when my brother was visiting). So, eager to please, I made some more of the fantastic cupcake ice creams, but this time I covered them in lovely edible glitter!

I really enjoyed baking these and I thought the cookie tasted delicious! I need to work on my writing a bit, but I am slowly getting better!

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Treats and Techniques

Mini Burgers and Chips

 

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been a while since I posted a blog, I've actually been a bit busy this week! I've been doing lots of different bakes this week, all in smaller quantities, so I thought one blog would do them all justice! 

These mini burgers and chips look a bit messy don't they! They were really interesting to make, and yes, they are 100% cupcake! I used a recipe from a magazine which uses piping gel to make mayonaise and ketchup in the burger, but I didnt have time to find any and used buttercream instead (which as you can see didnt really work out!). The 'lettuce' is buttercream and the 'burger' is chocolate ganache!

The 'chips' are actually fried!

The recipe states to cut up some of the cupcakes and fry them in a bit of butter and caster sugar. These babies burnt so quickly! Next time I would use a long tin to make the chips as they look more like wedges, being cut from cupcakes. Also, I would use less butter in the pan and turn them with tongs quickly!

I did like how the burgers turned out, but this was a practice of the recipe really, so they arent how I would present them normally!

Glamorous Ganache Cupcakes 

I wanted to make my boyfriend and I some cupcakes for treats, so I decided to use a small amount of a chocolate chip cupcake recipe and just have a bit of fun! I really loved the taste of the chocolate ganache I made for the mini burgers, so I thought, why not use it again for the cupcakes! I used to think that ganache was this impossible thing only experts made, but it is SO easy you wouldn't believe! Please try making it at home, as it is the most DELICIOUS tasting thing ever! 

So I decided to jazz these cupcakes up a little! I used edible glitter to get  lovely sparkle and edible pearly beads, placing them in the ganache so they look as though they are tumbling down it. I also used some chocolate coloured glitter, rolled it into white sugarpaste and made a butterfly to top it all off!

I am very please how these came out! Super tasty! 

Make Your Own Molds

When I went to the Cake Interational show, I bought a pack of silicone mold, which you can use to make your own molds. Everywhere I go, to buy new molds it is very expensive (around £10 for a pack of just 4) and this silicone cost me only £12 for one pack, which made all these molds! 

I was getting bored of just using that one butterfly cutter for everything! I used some of my own buttons and household objects to create some of these molds. I went to HobbyCraft the other day and bought several packs of different buttons and used these as molds too.

These made fantastic molds and I cant wait to use them! You can use molds for sugarpaste, chocolate and loads of other different things.

P.s. You really wont want to miss my next blog! You might start drooling!

 Thanks for reading!

 

 

Ice Cream Cupcakes!

Deceivingly Tasty!

These little ice creams are cupcakes! I used a recipe from Carol Deacon's book that I got at the Cake International show to create these little beauties! I am so please how they turned out!

 

The cake mixture is a plain madeira cake which has been flavoured separately with lemon, peppermint and vanilla to give different ice cream flavours. The cake mixture is then poured into the ice cream cups, which are covered in foil to stop them burning in the oven.

The pinky ones are vanilla flavoured sponge with strawberry jam buttercream. The white ones are lemon and vanilla sponges with lemon and vanilla buttercream. The mint coloured one is mint flavoured sponge and mint choc-chip buttercream! For the domed ones I just used a palette knife, but for the 'Whippy' ones I used a giant open star nozzle!

This cupcake is my favourite! Just in case you were wondering, they also taste really amazing! This is defiantly my favourite bake so far! They are quite easy to make and you can be really creative with them as you could use any sponge mix and any buttercream/topping you want.

Thanks for reading!