21st Birthday Cake

Category: Cakes > Butter Cakes > 21st Birthday Cake

The Halloween birthday cake was such a hit that I was requested to make another birthday cake. This one is devil's food cake with strawberry filling. It is covered with vanilla/butter buttercream icing. The blue star are fondant.

Halloween Treats

Category: Cakes > Butter Cakes > Halloween 3D Pumpkins

These are spice cake with cream cheese frosting. Just a note that cream cheese frosting isn't good for decorating. So other than frosting a cake, it doesn't work too well. Too bad it is so yummy.

Grandma Birthday Cake

Category: Cakes > Butter Cake > Grandma Birthday Cake

This is a yellow cake with strawberry filling. I made it for my Grandmother's birthday.

Halloween Birthday Cake

Category: Cakes > Butter Cakes > Halloween Birthday Cake

Well, as you can see, it has been a while since I have posted anything. After a lot of thought, I decided I didn't want to pursue a career in baking. I see it as a bit like an alcoholic working for a brewery. I don't want to have a job where I am surrounded but unhealthy food day in and day out. You are forced to sample the food to make sure it tastes okay and I just don't want to constantly be consuming an extra 300-400 calories a day because of it.

However, I will still continue baking as a hobby. This is a dark chocolate fudge cake with chocolate mousse filling which I made for a Birthday. It is a Halloween design by request.

Fall Decorations

On a note unrelated to baking, I just wanted to show off some nice little Fall decorations I picked up at Michaels.

I really liked this wooden door wreath. It is sparkly (always a plus with me) and it works well for the whole Autumn season.



I received this light up house as a present from my father. I liked this one because it can be used for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Michaels has a large selection of different houses and figures that can be combined to build your own Halloween/Fall city.

Bake Yummy - Eat Healthy

Well, you would never know it to look at me, but I'm pretty health conscious. I'm really trying hard to eat right and lose weight. When I'm baking so much, it becomes a hard task not to over eat your treats. I also feel pretty bad posting all these recipes for people to try out without any type of warning that sweets should be eaten in moderation. They might taste yummy but they really are not that great for you.

So, I just wanted to remind people to eat sweets wisely and don't forget that eating healthy is important.

And when you are taste testing - watch how much you are really "testing". =)

Aprons

Category: Misc.

Baking and cooking can get messy. When you're washing dishes, water can splash everywhere including onto you. When you are cooking, food can splash onto you. When you are baking, food can, well, splash onto you. Especially with baking, you could be using ingredients that will stain clothes like food coloring and shortenings.

It's taken me a while to get into the habit, and still even now and then I forget, but you really should be using an apron when cooking or baking. Plus they are just so darn cute!

You can purchase aprons at cooking supply stores and you can usually find a few in the kitchen departments at stores. If you can sew, you can always find super cute apron patterns. Also, you can sometimes find aprons where you would least expect to if you keep an eye out.

My mom just purchased two Halloween aprons from Ross. Aren't they cute!





Plus, my mom, who is awesome, made me this black and white frilly apron.