Sweetheart Cake

In our little town we have a valentines dance! Its always a blast, at the dance they have a cake walk. I volunteered to make a cake. The day of the dance I became ill and couldn't even get out of bed. My sweet amazing husband told me not to worry about the cake he had it covered... My husband did everything!!!! 

He decided he wanted to make a sweetheart box with the hearts coming out of the box... Amazing he thought of it all on his own! I know its no cake boss but I love it! 

So what we (I am just going to say we) did was made a chocolate cake and let it cool all the way. Next we made the fondant. Super easy, marshmallows, powered sugar and cisco. Then we rolled out the fondant into two different areas one for white and one for pink/red. Just used red food coloring and work it in. Then cover the cake with lots of frosting :) Lay the white fondant over it,  cut out the heart from the pink. Make the little details. Now for the box flap to keep it open we used gram crackers.... covered them with frosting and fondant.  Then stuff with candy hearts and all done :) It was really cute and I just took a bunch of pictures cause I am so proud of my husband :)

Happy Valentines Day!!!!

Candy Cane Dust

Best Idea Ever!!!

We had a family event where we had to bring something to decorate cupcakes. 

I went outside of the box and bought a box of candy canes and threw them in the blender. 

Candy Cane Dust perfect for the christmas season!!!!

Jolly Santa Cake

Still moving posts over but this is also a favorite in our family. The cake is super moist and yummy! My oldest son asked if we were going to make another Santa cake :) This is alot easier then it looks and so much fun to make... If you have never made cake from scrach this one is super easy :)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2011

Jolly Santa Cake

Today my sister Kendra and I decided that we wanted to bake and make something amazing!!! We looked and looked throught cook books and couldn't decided what to make. Then we grabbed a book that was collecting dust on the shelf and found what we wanted to do...

Jolly Santa Cake

What you will need for this...

-1 (8inch) round cake, cooled
-1 (9inch) square cake, cooled
-Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting
-1 red gumdrop
-chocolate for the eyes
-Mini Marshmallows for the beard and fluffy stuff
-Anything you want for the belt we melted chocolate.

Step 1: Make The Cake
Your going to need a
9-inch square baking pan AND
8-inch round baking pan

Heavenly White Cake

2 1/3 cups flour
2 teaspoons
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 egg whites
1 1/2 cups sugar, divided
3/4 shortening
1 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Heat oven to 325 degrees

Mix flour baking powder and salt; set aside in different bowl
Beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add 1/2 cup of the sugar, beating until soft peaks form and set aside.

Beat shortening and remaining 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk until well blended and smooth. Mix in Vanilla. On low speed, fold in egg whites. Beat till its barley mixed, this makes it light and fluffy. Pour into greased and floured pans.

Cut wax paper to place in the bottom of the pans and spray pam and sprinkle flour (this helps it come out easier)

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes

Cool for 10 minutes; remove pans then let cool completely on wire racks.

Step 2: Cut Out

I hope these pictures explain how to cut it out, we thought it was super easy. (Kendra did the cutting due to my past)

Step 3. Make and Frost

We just made basic frosting

Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting

4 cups powdered sugar (16 ounces)

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temp

3 tablespoons milk

Beat sugar, butter, milk and vanilla on low until well blended and smooth.

We doubled it. We made the first batch and left it white, the second batch we colored red for the suit and hat.

Step 4: Decorate

This is probably the fun step for everyone. Be creative and go out of the box. Really the only thing we did the same as the book was the red gum drop nose.

For the belt we melted chocolate and placed it in tin foil to shape it.

We use marshmallows for the beard and fluffy parts on Santa's suit. Gum drops for the belt buckle and shoes (the shoes didn't turn out at all).

Step 5: Enjoy

This is what it turned out like.... I thought it was pretty cute and T loved it!

Thanks to Baker's Easy Cut-Up Party Cakes

Banana Bread

Banana Bread

We decided that we would make Banana Bread today for a couple widows in the ward...

I love Banana Bread its one of my favorites, I let Banana's go bad just so I can make it...

I love this recipe because its so easy and quick to put together.

What you will need:

Banana Bread

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

2 bananas, smashed

2 cups flour

2 eggs

1 tsp soda

add cinnamon and vanilla

Cream butter and sugar together

Add eggs one at a time and beat well

Add in your smashed Bananas

Add flour with soda

Bake in greased loaf tin for 1 hr. Start at 350 degrees when brown reduce heat to 325 degrees until toothpick comes out clean. (The reason why you turn it down is to help it so it doesn't come out dry but is still cooked all the way)

I cut my bread up and placed on plates then took them around town... It was really fun and well worth the time.