Baseball Icecream Cake

This baseball cake is actually a chocolate cake shell filled with vanilla and chocolate ice cream. As frosting I made a combination of whipped cream cheese and whipped heavy cream. The frosting freezes, but thaws fairly fast and softens while the cake comes up to temperature.

Cupcakes for the summer

We lately had a lot of "year end" parties and what better to celebrate with than cupcakes. I have been experimenting with multicolored frosting and so far I like it. Kids love it, moms are suspicious of the intense color, but it is just the same old food coloring, just a lot of it. You have probably noticed, that pastel is not much of my color scheme.

Then we have my attempt of baseballs and last, but not least a version of Smores cupcakes. I put graham cracker crumbs and cinnamon in the bottom, a mild milk chocolate dough on top and the frosting is 7-minute marshmallow frosting, that I torched to give it that nice scorched flavor.

Las Vegas Cake

For our school auction which was Las Vegas themed, I made a simple vanilla pound cake with chocolate chips and covered it in dark chocolate ganache. The cake was topped with a "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign made out of chocolate.

Charlotte-Torte

This is a German "Charlotte" Torte. A bowl is lined with a jelly roll and then filled with a yogurt-creme fraiche-whipped cream and fruit mixture. The variations are endless with different jams, fruit and any combination of dairy products. The cream is held together with gelatin to make the torte stable.

Cookies-n-Cream Cake

Here we have a white chocolate cake with a cookies and cream filling. The groom really likes the Hershey's Cookies-n-Cream bars, so this cake was very fitting. The top and the bottom layer are white chocolate, the middle is a regular chocolate cake.

After I finished the cake and took the pictures, I realized I had forgotten to put on half of the flowers. So back into the kitchen we went to add more flowers. Unfortunately I forgot my camera for the Wedding. The cake looked great on the table with a quilt in purple and sage.

My Little Pony Cake

Amelia decided she wanted a "My Little Pony Cake" for her birthday (okay, there was some probing from me). The pony baking pan was made by Wilton until the early 1990s and has not been made since. So it was very lucky that a friend of mine has one and I was able to borrow it. The cake is our regular triple chocolate cake with my cream cheese frosting.

Guinness Cupcakes

In honor of St. Patricks Day I made a Guinness-chocolate cupcake with Guinness buttercream. The cupcakes contain besides Guinness and chocolate a lot of molasses and spices. The buttercream is an Italian meringue buttercream infused with Guinness.