Happy Birthday to Me

I was teaching my cake class on my birthday and had to make a cake for that anyway. So, I told everyone NOT to make me a cake since I'd have one from my class. I got to make my own birthday cake. It's a coconut cake with coconut flavored frosting. YUM! Happy birthday to me!

Colette Peters

On March 8, 2007 I had an opportunity to meet my cake decorating idol. I love Colette Peter's cakes. I was so excited to get to meet her. I got to talk with her for 10-15 minutes and get some good tips from her. I even got to show her the cakes that I had made. She seemed impressed. My son, Alex, is also in the picture.

Chocolate Caramel Cake

My favorite chocolate cake to make. This is a homemade chocolate cake with penuche frosting. My family loves it and it's simple to make.

Chocolate Cake

stir together:

2 c. sugar

2 c. flour

Boil:

1 stick butter or margarine

1/4 c. cocoa

1 c. water

Add cocoa mixture to dry ingredients then add:

2 eggs

1/2 c. milk

1 t. vanilla

1 t. baking soda

Mix until well blended. Bake at 375 in a greased bundt pan for 30 minutes.

Penuche Frosting (from the Cake Mix Doctor Cookbook)

1 c. brown sugar

1 stick butter or margarine

cook over medium heat until well blended (2 mins), then add

1/4 c. whole milk

Bring to a boil and set it aside to cool slightly.

Pour over

2 c. powdered sugar

mix with an electric hand mixer until smooth and pour over cake while still warm. (If it hardens too much while working with it, you can heat it up again on the stove.)

Happy Valentine's Day

This is the big sugar cookie I made for my husband. He loved it. The Valentine M&M's are on top of rosettes.

Golden Anniversary Cake

Happy 50th wedding anniversary Delbert and LoRetta Holt! They were married Feb 14th, 1957, and had their anniversary celebration yesterday. Congratulations and I hope you liked the cake.

This is a 6", 10", and 14" cake covered in white buttercream frosting and decorated with cream buttercream frosting and white royal icing petunias.

BLASTOFF!

Blastoff to Jon's 30th birthday! Hope you like your astronaut cake.

Happy Birthday Alex-Gator

This is the birthday cake I made for Alex's 1st birthday and he wanted it again for his 6th birthday.

Cookies for Santa

These are the cookies we made to give to Santa tonight. I made these using a technique that I had never tried before. I colored the dough green (for the trees), then thinned down some dough and colored it yellow and red. I decorated the cookies with decorator tips using the thinned dough and then baked them. The decorations are baked right into the cookies. I thought it was a great way to make cute cookies without having to make frosting!

Fruit Cake

This recipe can make even the fruit-cake-haters come back for more! It's made with a buttermilk cake base with candy oranges, coconut, dates and walnuts. To top it all off it has an orange juice glaze that soaks into the warm fruit cake so it's nice and moist.

Oh, fudge!

Christmas time reminds me of fudge. My grandma would make us fudge every year for Christmas. I made 25 lbs of fudge this year from her recipe. The fudge that is pictured is milk chocolate fudge and peanut butter fudge. I also made semi-sweet fudge with almonds. It's SO yummy!