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.

Shoe cake for birthday party

Half a year ago, the neighbor's daughter, Isabella, announced that: "when I turn 6 years old, I want a pink cake with a shoe on top", and this is what she got:

It was a layered cake; thin chocolate sponges, two layers of chocolate custard, and one layer of strawberry/blue berries/whipped cream (in the middle). The cake was covered in marzipan and the shoe...all sugar :-)

Simple one rose cake - engagement cake

I have been wanting to do a lovely white spring rose as a cake topper for a long time, and when we were invited to dine with some friends, who recently got engaged - I just jumped at the opportunity...

I'm afraid good old Eddie would not approve of the quality in the piping work! When the icing isn't firm enough it's almost impossible to make straight lines. I'll do better next time :-)

The cake was a four layered cake with sheets of chocolate/hazelnut-sugar cake, coffee syrup and hazelnut mousse - all covered in marzipan. It made for a lovely dessert.

Basket of flowers-cake

When I asked my little friend, Lorenzo, what he wanted for his birthday, he said: "A cake". When I asked him which cake he wanted, he said: "A purple one - with flowers". This is what I cake up with:

The boy looked well pleased with the result (and when you turn 3 years old, it's ok to want and get an unorthodox birthday cake!)

The cake is a carrot cake, the "basket" is piped creme cheese icing and the flowers are fondant.