Step by step homemade baking recipes
Today I’m showing you how make an M&M Cookie Mountain Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cake. This is for serious cookie lovers only and has a delicious chocolate chip cookie dough buttercream to enjoy!
Subscribe to Cupcakes and Cardio to stay up to date on all of our newest videos.
Today I’m showing you how to make Shopkins inspired cake, this time it’s Rainbow Bite! Shopkins are adorably cute miniature rubber toys whose moto is “Once you shop…you can’t stop!” and they make wonderful birthday cakes for kids!
What to call a pie in a cake?? A “pake”? A “cie”? Or what about “Cherappkin”? Appcherrkin? Pumpcherple? CHERPUMPLE!
I think I’m going to stick with “Pie in a cake”. It much easier to figure out what in the world I’m talking about!
This cake is admittedly time consuming since you have to bake three pies ahead of time, as well as prepare two types of cake batter. It’s definitely an investment in your life, but it is bound to impress anyone that looks at it. And most likely they’ll have to look at it twice to figure out what in the world they are looking at!
To make the investment of time shorter, using premade pies from a grocery store bakery work excellently, as does using box mixes for the cake batter. In the recipe below I have provided the link to all of our homemade versions of the pies, and cakes, if you are so inclinded for this big project.
Since the cake was such a big project, I went with an easy, light covering. Instead of using a heavy buttercream, I thought whipping cream would be best paired with the cakes/pies. After all, there is a lot going on in this cake, so the last thing it needed was another element to confuse the taste buds.
You can choose to go with any flavour of cake batter, as well as any type of pie when you’re making your own version of this. The hardest part of that will be trying to name it!
When you’re baking your pies, make sure that they are at least an inch (2 centimeters) smaller than your cake pan. This will ensure that there is just enough room for the cake batter to completely envelop the pie. You want to make sure that you spread the cake batter on the bottom, sides and top so that the batter prevents any of the pie from escaping while baking- especially in the fruit pies! Roughly, I wanted an inch (2cm) of cake batter underneath and on top of the pie to help prevent that from happening.
This “PAKE”, “CIE”, whatever you want to call it is super fun to make. I hope you have a blast !
Hello world, it’s nice to see you again! I’ve been in the crawl space of our “basement” for the last two days, while we have been cutting cement, digging cement, carrying cement, and digging dirt out of two trenches so we can protect the house from water damage. Water has been coming in the basement every time the snow melts, which has been about 5851456 times this winter, and every time it rains. It’s looking like we have one more day to be down in the dungeon to lay gravel and pipes, and then we should be finished. For now. There are a couple more things to do, but my brain can’t handle the thought of crawling on my knees for much longer.
It is sunny and warm in LA!! We are in LA again for a week of filming and workshops at YouTube Space LA, and it has been so nice to escape the dreary winter weather we’d been having up in Canada. It feels like paradise right now . . . short sleeves, bare legs . . . American Target. Life is good! All I need now is a sprinkle covered cupcake and it would be complete. As I alluded to last post, it’s not all happiness right now, my friend on-screen and off, Beth from the YouTube channel CookingandCrafting, is going through some very challenging times with a sick family member. If you know Beth you will know how close she is with her family. They need your help. If you can donate any amount, please consider sending it to her brother Scott to help him on his road to recovery. The link to the medical fundraiser is here- http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/help-scott-get-better-/133503.
This is the first post of a series of three on how to make your own homemade Vanilla Cake, filled with Chocolate Ganache, and topped with Vanilla Buttercream. This post is one of three, the first of three, or 1/3 . . . I love when you get boxes mailed to your home with 1/3, 2/3, and 3/3 labeled. Somehow it always feels like you’re getting A LOT of stuff!
Homemade Vanilla Cake from Scratch
Learning how to make a moist, delicious vanilla cake requires one specific thing . . . the right recipe! I have tried many of them throughout my life, and this one has come in handy on many occasions! Of course it’s not THE recipe I use for my cake company (JJ’s Custom Cakery in Cranbrook B.C. Canada) but it is a close second that guarded one!
Here are a couple of pictures of the cakes that I spent last week working on. There were pretty simple, but I loved doing them! There is something about the non-fussiness of a buttercream covered cake, that calls my name. I think that as soon as you start involving fondant, your game has to be ON. With a buttercream cake, it’s just you and your piping bag, and I let mine go where it wants to take me.
I needed a refresher on some simple buttercream borders, so I went to YouTube to check some out. I will be posting my own Simple Border Video soon, so make sure you take a minute and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, here.
This was the Root Beer birthday surprise cake for “Weiny”. It is a Root Beer cake base, with a Root Beer Buttercream icing. Mmmm!
This cake was for a lady who’s colleague was leaving and wanted to wish her Good Luck. It is a Vanilla Cake, with Pink Vanilla Buttercream.
This is cake was for my Dad’s hockey team. I made it for them to enjoy after their final game of the season. Word on the street was the “guys” loved it. I love how my dad talks with hockey player speak, as if he is 20. It’s so cute! This cake is a Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream. Doesn’t get more Classic than that. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here.
Like I said, these cakes were all pretty simple, but fun to make. This week coming up we’ve got some more intense creations on the list: Monster Trucks cake for a 6 year old’s birthday, and a Truck replica cake for a client’s brother in law’s 25th birthday. How is that men like the same things st 6 and 25? Ha ha! Should be interesting! These are right up Paul’s alley.
