Step by step homemade baking recipes
Last video I showed you how to make the Italian dessert recipe for Cannoli, and today, I am showing you how to combine them with chocolate cake, cannoli filling and buttercream to turn it into a Cannoli Cake!
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Today my guest host Paityn joins me on a Backpack Baking adventure! We are hiking to a local lookout in the Canadian Rocky Mountains where we use the Bemco Backpacking oven to make three different Oreo Mug Cakes. You can make these mug cakes in the microwave, or in a regular oven at home.
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Using a knife is not the only way to level a cake . . . well, it’s arguablely the best way to level the cake AFTER the baking process, but to cut down on cake “waste”, try out these Bake Even Strips!
All you do is soak them in water for a couple of minutes, and then wrap them around your baking pan! The ones that I have fit around my 8″ and 9″ baking pans and they seriously work wonders!
Basically, and I am NOT a scientist, the strips cause the heat to be more evenly distributed throughout the pan, so the edges don’t bake so much faster than the middle. I’ll admit, I was a doubter when I first was recommended these, but after my first use of them, I was convinced. They totally work and basically eliminate the rounded middle of cakes. Pretty cool, but if you don’t believe me, check out the video and see for yourself.
Enjoy our Level Cakes with Bake Even Strips video in our Baking Quick Tip Series!
Have you ever tried bake even strips? What did you think?
Thomas the Train, or Thomas the Tank Engine as I knew him to be called, is a popular toy with the little ones these days. I know this from Kindergarten of course!
As I said in a prior post, making fun Sesame Street birthday cakes are so much FUN! A couple of months ago it was Cookie Monster, and now, I’m doing Elmo!
This cake was a vanilla cake base, with vanilla buttercream. For this cake/cupcake set, I needed red, orange, black and white buttercream to complete the details of the monster! At the end of this post, I will put our YouTube video up on how to dye buttercream.
I used a round tip to fill in Elmo on the cake, and to pipe the ball like border. I outlined Elmo with a small round tip, and I really like how it stands out with the definition that it gives the image.
For the Elmo cupcakes, I used a grass tip to pipe Elmo, and various sizes of round tips for the rest of the face. They turned out so cute and our client was really happy with her order.
Happy Birthday, Brent!
I have a video up on YouTube for dying buttercream, so if you’re interested in learning how to do that (or checking your technique!) head on over to YouTube and have a look at the video! We film our videos in Cranbrook B.C. and are so happy to be doing so!
We have spent the last year building an amazing bridal/wedding cake portfolio! We have done some amazing cakes (if I do say so myself) and I am extremely proud to show you the wedding cakes that we took with us to the St Eugene Bridal Show at the end of January. The St Eugene show is now the premier spot to showcase your wedding goods, and boy were we ever ready for the brides!
The following is an overview of the cakes that we took with us to the Bridal show . . . can you guess which one I made, and which ones Paul made??
Love Birds:
This cake is a topsy turvy cake, with a completely edible love bird topper! Paul carved and sculpted these two cute love birds out of fondant and gum paste. The topsy turvy is covered in fondant, wrapped the the ribbon and twigs were applied to give it a sparsely wooded feel to it.
Recently, we had the privilege of attending the first ever Bridal Fair at the St Eugene Golf Resort and Casino. You have heard me sing the praises of this resort in previous posts, and if you want to read a rave review on their food (and beautiful photography), check out my friend Karen’s (of Toronto Girl West) post here. St Eugene is one of the most beautiful places and venues that the East Kootenay now has to offer.
The St. Eugene has recently built a new pavilion, and it can hold 350 guests for a reception and 500 if you’re having a concert . . . maybe Bon Jovi is your uncle, and you’re treating your guests to that instead! The pavilion features “vaulted ceiling peaks, chandeliers, gable window panels, and a dance floor.” It also features “a fully insulated liner, ceiling fans, and HVAC units for heating and air conditioning will ensure a comfortable atmosphere through every season.” When we were there, it was actually warm inside . . . not uncomfortably so . . . just right!
What the eff is a Cricut?
I had NO idea when I first heard about it, but it has turned out to be one of the great things that make caking a little bit easier. Sort of. This machine can be very temperamental.
When I first heard about it, I thought it was a CRI-(rhymes with TRI)-cut. But now I have learned that it is “crick-uht“.
Like the noisy insect in the bushes when you’re camping.
You would have thought that the cricket shaped logo would have given me a heads up! Duh. Not surprising that that one got away on me if you know me.
This is a Cricut Cake. It is a pain in the a$$ but it does some pretty cool things when it wants to. A refined adjective to call this frustratingly beautiful red machine (I love red electronics) would be FINICKY.
You need to have a perfect combination of gum paste and fondant, but it can make you cool crowns, and Happy Birthday signs!
You have to have the mixture at the correct temperature . . . too warm and it won’t cut, the blade with just rip the fondant. The Cricut Cake cut this image out of the girl guides, which was perfect for a Brownies wrap up!
You have to have the blade at the correct depth (I’ve heard this is a complaint also from the Cricut Expressions for scrapbooking, but I don’t claim to know anything about paper) . . . too high and it won’t cut anything, too deep and it cuts into your cutting mat. The depth was perfect for these butterflies and yet another Happy Birthday sign!
These cake pops were topped with flowers and butterflies cut from the Cricut Cake.
For a horse lover . . . horse shoes, and a different Happy Birthday sign.
