Rubber Ducky Cake

I was asked to make a rubber ducky cake for a baby shower. For the first time I actually carved a cake and then covered it in marzipan. Thanks Janet for challenging me!

Summer Cupcakes

I love decorating cupcakes, because you can give each a different motive and still follow a theme. With the butterflies and the black- and raspberries I wanted to celebrate the end of summer. The berry cupcakes are already pumpkin, but the butterfly ones are the good old chocolate.

Big New Cake

It was Barbara and Randy's big End-of-Summer-Party and I was trying new recipes and working on a new frosting. So here it is: a hazelnut cake with an espresso mouse filling and my new "lighter" German butterbream. I think I have been able to reduce the calories by half without using anything artificial. It is all just butter and milk, but much less sugar.

Littlest PetShop Cake

One of my daughters classmates had a birthday and she is very much into Littlest Petshop right now. So I made a two-layer chocolate cake with cookies and cream filling. Her favorite puppy sits on top of an Oreo-style cookie.

Summer Babyshower

This week I made cupcakes for a baby shower. We have Vanilla cupcakes with flowers and butterflies and Carrot cupcakes with cute baby girl chocolates.

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.