New Year's Eve Cake 2014

A festive end to fantastic New Year's Eve dinner and a fantastic year!

400 gram marzipan and icing sugar kneaded into a homogene pulp (the pulp should have been heated to approx. 50 degrees - but we forgot this step). Roll into a "sausage-shaped" of approx. 1,5-2 cm width, cut in smaller pieces and form rings and make a top. Bake the rings at 200 degrees until they look right :-). Pipe them with white royal icing and place on top of each other to form a tower. Eat with a glass of champagne :-)

Strawberry cake with pink icing cake

My daughter got to choose which dessert she wanted for her birthday, and she opted for a strawberry layered cake with gluten free cake cut in to 4 thin sponges, whole strawberries, whipped creme and chocolate custard. Not the pretties of cakes, but it was really yummy!

Snowman (monster) cupcakes

Caroline had told me that she wanted snowman cake to hand out to her friends at the kindergarten, so I thought 30 cupcake snowman would be just the thing.....

The base was chocolate Victoria sponge with vanilla syrup and the heads were so called Oatmeal balls (Danish "havregrynkugler", which is a traditional and very popular Christmas sweet in Denmark and then drizzled with desiccated coconut. The whole thing was covered in Italian meringue butter creme (which had become way too soft).

I had hoped for a less messy look, but the kids clearly recognized that the snowman look and none of the snowmen survived the day, but that's the fate of snowmen :-)

 

Christmas tree cake 2014 with candy

No December without a Christmas tree.... and this year, I had decided to try a more simple version that in previous years - namely using candy for ornament on the tree, rather than making it my self out of fondant. It's cheating of course, but the young Caroline who helped me seemed to prefer the candy version (could have something to do with the fact that she got to eat most of it.....)

And the cake.... well, yes, it's P's brown Christmas cake: 100 grams of butter, 100 grams of sucker and 100 grams of syrup is melted. Once cooled down a bit, mixed with 1 tea spoon of natron dissolved in 1 dl of buttermilk + 2 tea spoons of cinnamon, 1 tea spoon of clove and 1 tea spoon of cardamom + 250 grams of flour. Placed in a pan. Baked for approx. 20 min at 180 degrees.

Pretty simple Christmas cake

Johan had promised his colleagues to bring a cake to work,,, and it is December... so the cake baking kitchen is open......

The cake... well, it was the standard Christmas cake: P's brown Christmas cake :-)

100 grams of butter, 100 grams of sucker and 100 grams of syrup is melted. Once cooled down a bit, mixed with 1 tea spoon of natron dissolved in 1 dl of buttermilk + 2 tea spoons of cinnamon, 1 tea spoon of clove and 1 tea spoon of cardamom + 250 grams of flour. Placed in a pan. Baked for approx. 20 min at 180 degrees.

Christmas wreath cake

It's finally, finally, finally December...... I have been longing for this, since sometime in March and 1st Sunday of advent was celebrated making this christmas wreath cake for my colleagues:

The cake was "P"'s brown christmas cake: 100 grams of butter, 100 grams of sucker and 100 grams of syrup is melted. Once cooled down a bit, mixed with 1 tea spoon of natron dissolved in 1 dl of buttermilk + 2 tea spoons of cinnamon, 1 tea spoon of clove and 1 tea spoon of cardamom + 250 grams of flour. Placed in a pan. Baked for approx. 20 min at 180 degrees.

The cake was covered in butter cream with cocoa and the covered in marzipan and decorate with small sucker pearls.