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3D Baseball Cake

October 25, 2014 by Jenn

Plaaaaaaaay ball!

It’s World Series time in North America, and if you don’t know what that means, its Major League Baseball’s final show down of the top two teams of the season. I’ve never been much of a baseball fan, but around this time of year, something makes me what to watch the World Series. It must be the hype and excitement!

I never played baseball growing up as a kid- I was a soccer player- but I did have one exciting incident back in grade four or five where I learned to “watch the ball” the hard way. The last thing I remember is hearing “Jenn, watch the ball!” being yelled at me by my dad (he was my Gym teacher), and then WHACK. Ball right in the back of the head. Ouch.

This cake is made easy because there is no carving involved. I was shopping at the Bulk Barn (as I do pretty much everyday) and I saw this 3D ball mold. At the time, I didn’t have a specific cake in mind, but I bought it anyway. When I finally realized the baseball season was coming to an end, to celebrate the World Series, I decided to use the pan to make a 3D baseball! There are so many other sports balls that it can be used for as well. I’m looking forward to making basketball, golf balls, soccer balls and more baseballs with this pan. I also used one of the domes to make the spider body in the 3D spider web cake I made a couple of videos ago (shocker!!!).

When decorating a cake with the star tip method, it does take a lot of time . . . and pain if you have tendinitis like I do (too much cake decorating!). I love the final look of this type of cake though . . . it’s worth the pain!

For this cake, I wanted to add a second element beyond the ball for a more complete cake. That is where the idea for the field came in. The ball can stand alone if you don’t want to have the additional element (or work), but I think that it “completes” the cake.

Good luck to the final teams in the World Series this year! And to those of you who are ending your baseball seasons as well.

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Devil’s Food Cake Halloween Cupcakes

October 19, 2014 by Jenn

I usually put my blog posts up when the video goes live in the mornings, but Paul and I have been fortunate enough to have spent the last four days in Toronto hanging out (and working) at Buffer Festival! Which means the Paul end of things (the video) was scheduled and ready to go before we even left, and the Jenn end of things (the blog post) was not. I apologize to those of you who wait to hear my insightful additions to our current video in the form of the blog. Thanks for that Mom. Actually, I don’t even think she reads it! She’s really great at sharing on Facebook though 🙂

The last couple days, and months, and pretty much year have been incredible ones for Paul and I. We are incredibly fortunate to have dream jobs as creators on YouTube. Neither of us had been to Toronto before, and I love it here! I love the shopping, I love the culture and I love that there is any kind of food you could imagine here! We had the most amazing Thai food right behind our hotel our first night here. I haven’t seen a cupcake though. It’s been a nice break from them. We attended the Buffer Festival Industry day on Thursday and set up a booth to serve our Pumpkin Spice Latte cupcakes. Make sure you check us out on Facebook and Instagram for pictures of all the fun things we did that day. On Friday we attended a couple of screenings; Rhett and Link, and Epic Meal Time. Rhett and Link seem like incredibly nice guys, and their screening was great to sit through. They showed the audience the evolution of their channel(s) and we even got to watch Monday’s upload ahead of time! It’s a great one! The EMT screening was a showing of a couple of episodes of their new TV series, Epic Meal Empire. It was great to see those guys in person as well, and I even met Harley on the street . . . and totally fan girled on him. I was supposed to be professional, but that didn’t happen! I’ve watched him for so long, that I was just honored to be able to talk to him. Last night we finished the night off with a creator party at the pop-up YouTube Space TO, and had a blast. Google always treats us incredibly well. At the party, we were in the company of amazingly talented people . . . to name drop unabashedly, my friends Harley, Rhett, Link, and Shay Carl. There were soooooo many others that I knew were amazing creators, but being so busy, I don’t have a lot of time to consume my own medium! This morning, with very little sleep, we headed off to YTSTO again, for a couple of workshops. One on Creator Development, which we have had before, but it’s always good to have a recap and check in, and then another presentation from Rhett and Link. They have created themselves quite the empire and they have so many exciting things in store- including a new morning show with women!

Anyway, that’s the long winded reason why my blog post is late. “Jenn,” you ask, “can’t you schedule your blog posts like Paul schedules the videos?” Yes, I can. But I can’t figure out our server’s time zone!

I’ve been wanting to do these devil cupcakes since last October. I wanted to do them last year, but we ran out of time. I figure waiting a year to see if I really like an idea is probably a good thing. If I still really liked it, then I would definitely make it. I don’t have any regrets when it comes to cake videos we’ve uploaded, but there are some ideas that looking back, I know I could have done them better. When I’m developing an idea/recipe, I want to make it as fabulous as possible. So when thinking about what would go well with a devil cupcake, devil’s food cake was the obvious choice!

The difficulty for this recipe came when attempting to dip the cupcakes. If you do not place them in the fridge, the buttercream is likely to plop off and fall directly into your red melted chocolate. Make sure it’s solidly set on the cupcake before dipping, or you’ll ruin your red chocolate like I did while practicing!

If you’re still with me and reading, thanks again Mom, I won’t take up anymore of your time . . . so here is the super simple video for how to make your own Devil Cupcakes.

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3D Spider Cake / Halloween Cake

October 11, 2014 by Jenn

This weekend we’re celebrating Thanksgiving up here in the great white north (Canada), but Halloween is already on everyone’s minds! I can tell because I’ve received dozens of requests for new Halloween recipe requests. We’ve done a number of treats over the last couple of years, so if you’re looking for more ideas, try these: Halloween Candy Bark, Spider Chocolate Chip Cookies, Heart and Brain Cupcakes, Halloween Cake Roll, Spider Web cupcakes, and a Black Velvet Cake!

This cake is a fun one to do as the inside of the cake is bright and the outside is black and spooky! You can pile the cake batter into the cake pans however you like, and I’ve shown a number of other ways to make marbled cakes, but this time, I tried something new, and made the cake by squeezing cake batter out of a piping bag. I found this way to be slightly less messy

Making the marshmallow web is super messy, but super fun as you can get the marshmallow’s anywhere and it looks good!! Washing up from the messy is surprisingly easy, and a little hot water and scrubbing is all you need!

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3D Turkey Cake/Thanksgiving Cake

October 8, 2014 by Jenn

It’s about time I learned how to cook a turkey I say!! A turkey made out of CAKE that is!

Somehow Canadian Thanksgiving has managed to sneak up on me. While learning how to cook a turkey for a big dinner is honestly on my list of things I want to learn how to do, this year will not be the year! Paul and I will be furiously filming this weekend in order to be prepped and ready to go to Buffer Festival next weekend in Toronto! I’ll give more updates on that later.

This 3D carved turkey cake is surprisingly easy. The hardest part is having the patience to ice the turkey legs and wings. I found that freezing the cake “pops” worked well, and gave me a bit more time before the cake became soft, and was a serious problem to cover in buttercream. Carving the turkey shape is simple, and again, if you’re having difficulty with that, try freezing the cakes before starting to cut them. You will definitely want to freeze them if you are using cake mixes. The cake mixes are much softer and lighter than homemade cakes (as a rule) so carving them is super challenging.

I found the cutest “Peas and Carrots” candy from Jelly Belly on a recent trip to the States. I haven’t looked for them in Canada, but I’m sure they can be ordered online. I found that they were the perfect addition to the cake, as adding some colour seemed to be a must. If you can’t find the peas and carrots, making them yourself out of fondant, candy or modeling chocolate is also a possibility.

Another way I found to add colour to the cake was the addition of the bed of “lettuce” on the serving plate. This again is an optional step, but I think it really adds to the overall presentation of the cake. I used a simple petal tip, but you could do without a tip, and simply spread it onto the cake.

Whether you’re with or without your family near or far, I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving weekend!!

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Toffee Pecan Cake INSIDE a Pumpkin

October 1, 2014 by Jenn

Sometimes getting to be an old fashioned baker is just want I need to kick start myself again. I love making cake designs, but sometimes I miss the excitement of a new, flavourful recipe. Feeling the need to experiment with a new recipe, I went in search of a Fall way to spruce it up, after all, I can’t let down my followers on YouTube! They like exciting things!! So, with those requirements in mind, I came up with a Toffee Pecan cake INSIDE a pumpkin!

The toffee pecan cake itself is delicious. The flavour of the pecans and their crunch, combined with the crunch of the toffee bits makes for a delicious cake. You could put any kind of cake inside the pumpkin, but like I said before, I was really wanting to try out a new flavour combination.

Baking a cake inside a pumpkin takes a long time, and it can take an even longer time than “long” (haha,) depending on the size of the baking pumpkin. My pumpkins averaged between 5″-7″ and took between 1.5-3 hours to bake completely through. It will seem for the first hour or so like you didn’t put enough batter in, but the cake rises up through the top of the opening near the end. So, don’t fret like I did. I managed to refrain from adding more batter while the cake was in the oven though, and I’m glad I did. The cake ended up rising perfectly.

The cake stays incredibly moist, despite the amount of time it is in the oven. The pumpkin meat around the outside keeps the cake moist, and the foil wrapped around the outside helps with this as well. When taking the pumpkin out of the oven and off of the baking tray, be careful as it softens a bit while baking.

Finding baking pumpkins proved to be the most difficult task in this recipe. I had to travel to a nearby town, about a 30 minute drive from my home. It was to a market that specialized in local produce from nearby farms and orchards. The baking pumpkins are smaller, and therefore sweeter than a pumpkin used for a jack-o-lantern.

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Rubik’s Cube Cake – Surprise Inside Cake!

September 27, 2014 by Jenn

Rubik’s cube has been around longer than I have been alive, but it’s still a popular toy that exisits in many stores. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that, and was quite shocked to be able to find one in the store on my first try.

The point of the Rubik’s cube puzzle, is to have each side of the cube (9 squares) be one solid colour. You have to do that without taking off the stickers!! Unfortunately the new cubes don’t have the stickers, so there is no cheating by way of the 80’s!

I’ve never had the luck of being able to solve it, but in all honesty, I haven’t really tried. I made this cake because I think it looks cool!! I know there are genuis’ out there that have actually tried to solve the puzzle and CAN solve it! I applaud you! Apparently, the current World Record is held by a gentleman in the Netherlands and is attempt was completed in 5.5 SECONDS!!! I can’t even imagine how he could do that!! It takes me 5 seconds to figure out how the thing moves.

Making this cake is a little time consuming, but the WOW factor when your guests cut into it will definitely cake it worthwhile! You can prepare your cake batter ahead of time, as well as prep your fondant squares. The cake batter should be coloured in the colour theme of the Rubik’s cube- red, orange, yellow, white and green. The fondant squares work best if they are a little bit pliable, but I ended up putting on some that were rock hard, and they worked fine too. The hard ones don’t mold to the side of the cube as well, so some of the corners stick out.

When you’re lining up the rectangles to make your cube, make sure you’re paying attention to the side the will have the 9 blocks shown when the cube is cut. Otherwise, if you cut on the wrong side, you will be shown only three rectangles. Other than that, making this cake is pretty fool-proof!! Unlike the Rubik’s cube itself.

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Skittles Poke Cake with Skittles Buttercream- Collab with MyCupcakeAddiction!

September 20, 2014 by Jenn

I told you a couple of days ago that I had an awesome collab coming up . . . and to announce it properly, this is a Skittles collab with Elise from the YouTube channel My Cupcake Addiction! Whoop! She is a fellow YT baker, and creates amazing recipes for people to follow along with on her channel.

I haven’t had the fortune of getting to meet Elise in person yet, but through our email communications I can tell you that she is a very talented baker and decorator, a mom of two young boys, and is an amazingly hard worker! Her days must be SO busy! I’m so glad that she was able to take the time to work together with us, in order to put my flavoured cake into decorated form.

This cake truly tastes like Skittles. Boiling the Skittles down to a simple syrup preserves the flavour of the candy, but eliminates the chewiness that you might not be accustom to in a cake. I thought about using the syrup in the buttercream as well, but I figured that I would need so much of it to get a strong Skittles flavour that I would be stuck with a super runny icing. So, instead, I used my food processor and blended the Skittles up to a fine powder and substituted a portion of the icing sugar for the Skittles powder. It ended up working out perfectly, and tastes just like a Skittles cake should! Skittles are a fabulous addition to a plain vanilla cake.

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Rainbow Loom Cake

September 6, 2014 by Jenn

When I made my first rainbow loom bracelet, I proudly posted a picture on Instagram, showing off my ability to rainbow loom. I was quickly put in my place and was told I was not rainbow looming, but in fact was using a Cray-Z loom. I had NO idea what the comment meant. I had to research to learn that I was using a different brand from rainbow loom. How embarrassing! I was called out my a pre-teen.

In order to make this cake, I first had to research what in the world a Rainbow Loom even was. I had heard of it in passing, but in order to FULLY understand what I would be making, I went out and bought one. I was pretty much instantly addicted. Making these bracelets reminded me so much of making friendship bracelets from when I was younger. It took this old bird a while to figure out the directions and how to “pick” the elastics, but once that was out of the way, I was a bracelet making machine.

Once I had established the idea behind how to loom, I was ready to build it into a cake. Or so I thought! I tried a couple different versions of this, like a cupcake cake for example and it just wasn’t working for me. I went back to the drawing board . . . or looming board . . . and started again with a rectangle cake.

Making the elastics from ribbons of sour belts is a little bit time consuming, but easy. The most difficult part was being patient enough to not shove the candy directly into the flame of a candle to speed the process up. Trust me, it doesn’t! It just burns the candy and leaves the ends black. I tried using licorice ropes, and regular licorice to make the elastics, but I didn’t have any luck with them. What I also liked about the sour belts was the fact that they provided a number of different colours to work with.

Can you guess what kind of bracelet I was making?

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3D Baseball Cake

Devil’s Food Cake Halloween Cupcakes

3D Spider Cake / Halloween Cake

3D Turkey Cake/Thanksgiving Cake

Toffee Pecan Cake INSIDE a Pumpkin

Rubik’s Cube Cake – Surprise Inside Cake!

Skittles Poke Cake with Skittles Buttercream- Collab with MyCupcakeAddiction!

Rainbow Loom Cake

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