I can't believe it is almost here! Thanks to some fabulous girls at work, I will also have awesome crochet cupcakes to add to my display on Sunday.
Tonight I am tackling the sewing machine again. It beat me last night. It's all starting to come back to me though as it has been too many years to count since I last sewed something. I just need to get the needle to pick up the thread from the bobbin... I don't know what I was doing wrong last night. But I will prevail and will also have my own hemmed table cloth for the display as well.
Okay... enough blogging time to tell the sewing machine who the boss is!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Back to the classic Betty Crocker recipe for this one.
pre-frosting
add some vanilla butter cream
dripping with tastiness
Monday, July 12, 2010
Chocolate Salted-Caramel Minis
caramel
fill chocolate cupcakes with caramel
swirl some dark chocolate frosting
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Kion's cake...
The cake has now been frosted and I actually put it in the fridge... I looked up the recipe online and some say to refrigerate and some don't. I wasn't sure and it's a few hours before I need to take it to work....
cake mix goes into the bundt pan
whahoo - it didn't stick to the pan!
frosting
Introducing Pistachio Cake
with Pistachio Pudding Frosting
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
This one is for Kion!
I'm baking a special request for Kion. According to Kion, this Pistachio Cake recipe is the best in the world. It smells delicious. The thing is, I know that between me and my brother one of us is allergic to pistachios. I am 99% sure it is him...
Well, the cake is baking for another 30 minutes or so and will frost in the morning...
Well, the cake is baking for another 30 minutes or so and will frost in the morning...
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Happy Birthday America!
Today is the 4th of July, one of my favorite holidays ... mostly because my birthday is exactly 1 month from today!! Meanwhile....
Looked at a fabric store yesterday to get an idea for making a table cloth for the Cupcake Camp Santa Barbara table display. We found a great light green square check pattern. Right now, that is the front runner. Still want to check some other fabric stores for more ideas.
I decided to practice the strawberry cupcakes with some new frosting tests. I was planning on the strawberry cupcakes for the Cupcake Camp Santa Barbara but I am a little nervous that the strawberries won't be very good. Even this weeks options for berries were pretty picked over and not as sweet and juicy as a couple of weeks ago. I'm starting to come up with some backup ideas for the cupcake event.
The strawberry cupcake was still good, but you definitely need the large sweet berries for best cake taste. Scott requested the chocolate ganache for one of the frostings. While the ganache is good, the cake is good but together the ganache was just a little too heavy. Maybe if the strawberry had been a little sweeter it would've worked better.
The other frosting was a champagne butter cream. For this I just did a google search and read a couple of different recipes and then sort of came up with my own measurements. The champagne taste was very light and I added just a dash of vanilla. This frosting matched the cake much better.
This time we remembered to take pictures during all the stages....
Looked at a fabric store yesterday to get an idea for making a table cloth for the Cupcake Camp Santa Barbara table display. We found a great light green square check pattern. Right now, that is the front runner. Still want to check some other fabric stores for more ideas.
I decided to practice the strawberry cupcakes with some new frosting tests. I was planning on the strawberry cupcakes for the Cupcake Camp Santa Barbara but I am a little nervous that the strawberries won't be very good. Even this weeks options for berries were pretty picked over and not as sweet and juicy as a couple of weeks ago. I'm starting to come up with some backup ideas for the cupcake event.
The strawberry cupcake was still good, but you definitely need the large sweet berries for best cake taste. Scott requested the chocolate ganache for one of the frostings. While the ganache is good, the cake is good but together the ganache was just a little too heavy. Maybe if the strawberry had been a little sweeter it would've worked better.
The other frosting was a champagne butter cream. For this I just did a google search and read a couple of different recipes and then sort of came up with my own measurements. The champagne taste was very light and I added just a dash of vanilla. This frosting matched the cake much better.
This time we remembered to take pictures during all the stages....
Happy 4th of July Strawberry delights!
mixing the cake batter
in go the strawberries
strawberries gently folded in
fresh out of the oven
chopping the chocolate
cream & light corn syrup simmered mixture
slowly poured onto chopped chocolate
mixing the chocolate and cream mixture
chocolate ganache
introducing strawberry delights with
chocolate ganache
mmmmm......mmmmmm.....
presenting strawberry delights
with champagne buttercream frosting
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Santa Barbara here we come!
Ammie's Sweet Treats has just entered the CupcakeCamp Santa Barbara's tasting and competition for the tastiest cupcake on July 25!
For more information on the event, go to: www.cupcakecampsantabarbara.com
It looks like the Strawberry Delights are the early favorite, but we have a few weeks for other contenders to emerge.
For more information on the event, go to: www.cupcakecampsantabarbara.com
It looks like the Strawberry Delights are the early favorite, but we have a few weeks for other contenders to emerge.
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