Today I show you how to make Lemon Cream Puffs with fresh fruit! These are a perfect light dessert to accompany a heavy meal- or for dessert when you don’t want cake!
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Periscope- Live Broadcasting!
September 8, 2015 by
I’ve found a new app that I absolutely love, and I have to tell you about it, and then make you come and join me on it! This new app is called Periscope and allows people to live stream anything and everything they’re doing throughout their lives, all around the world. I’ve done a few periscope’s so far, and I’m totally in love. I do not lead an exciting life by any means, so I keep my Periscoping to baking related events. I don’t need to show you what my rose bush looks like after I’ve finished pruning it for the season. Of course when I first heard about this app, all I thought was, “I can’t even keep up with the old apps/social media!” I tried SnapChat, but I just couldn’t get into it. Well, that’s not entirely honest. I didn’t devote enough time to trying to learn how to get into it. Periscope though, I adopted right away as I could see how beneficial it would be for me and my fans. Thanks to all of you who have joined me there already.
Peacock Cupcakes
July 18, 2015 by
These peacock cupcakes are stunningly beautiful! Follow my super simple step-by-step procedure, and you are going to blow the socks off anyone who gets to try one! I promise. The cupcakes are so bright on the inside and outside, that people are going to love them. Can’t you just see them arranged for a wedding reception? They would look so beautiful!
Toffee Pecan Cake INSIDE a Pumpkin
October 1, 2014 by
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.
