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17 Cooking Projects Ain't Nobody Got Time For. Loving Birthday Cake. Good morning, friends! Today I have to wish a big happy birthday to my little sister. She moved away for the first time earlier this year so it’s her first birthday away from home. So I figured, why not celebrate with her from afar by sharing a whole bunch of birthday cakes that had me at hello? When all else fails, a great cake makes for an instant (and totally awesome) party.

Happy birthday, ‘Lil! {Photos by Nicole Hill Gerluat for One Charming Party.} {Photo by Cindy Chae.} {Photos by Elizabeth Messina of Kiss the Groom and Elizabeth Messina.} {Photos by Jackie Wonders from Sherbet + Spice |Ana Gonzaelz for Cakewalk from Strawberry Birthday Party.} {Photo by Sweetapolita.} {Photos by Sweetapolita.} {Photos by Annie Hosfeld via Hip Hip Hooray via Kara’s Party Ideas | Mo Hines via Green Wedding Shoes.} {Photo by DeFalco Photography for Vintage Sugarcube via Hello Lucky.} {Photos by Kallie Brynn from Tova’s 2nd birthday | Ardent Photography from Emerson’s 1st birthday.} DIY | Colorful Cupcake Icing. Can you believe that every color swatch in the palette below can easily be made from a standard box of red, blue, green and yellow food coloring! Stefanie over at Anna and Blue Paperie shares this lovely icing find from The Food Network.

The numbers below each color are the amount of food coloring drops you need to add to plain white icing. Such great color combinations! The numbers below each color are the amount of food coloring drops needed. Never decorated cupcakes before? Check out this {Cupcake Basics} How to Frost Cupcakes from Glorious Treats to see some great tips and advice. How-to: Marshmallow Fondant (aka MMF) « I♥cuppycakes! July 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM | Posted in cupcakes | 106 Comments Tags: marshmallow fondant, MMF Marshmallow fondant has been on my must make list for a long time. I always knew I’d make it someday but to be honest I rarely decorate with fondant. I’m more of a Wilton 1M tip+frosting+sprinkles kind of cupcake decorator.

I tell myself it’s because I don’t want to overdecorate my cupcakes so much that my taste testers won’t eat them. But if we’re gonna be real, fondant intimidates me. Much as I think the taste of fondant is yucky phooey I can’t deny that it makes it easier to sculpt beautiful cakes. (I want to be like my favorite fondant cup/cake decorator, Anne Heap of Pink Cake Box, when I grow up.) These past few days I’ve been brainstorming (I’m even having dreams about it! Next step: Figure out what t-shirt I’m gonna choose. Recipe from Fondant 101 Makes about 3 lbs of marshmallow fondant Melt marshmallows and 2 tbsp of water in a microwave safe bowl. [NOTES: I added about 1-1/2 tbsp of water] Peggy Porschen's Glorious Victoria Cake - Food & Drink Recipes. Being the leading bespoke cake maker for the rich and famous, there is nothing Peggy Porschen doesn't know about baking. Known for creating the most incredible wedding cakes and show stopping sugary works of art, Peggy has made irresistible delicacies for Kate Moss' wedding, Elton John's White Tie & Tiara Ball and Stella McCartney's wedding.

But whether you're creating this recipe for Madonna, or for a Sunday afternoon with the in-laws - it's guaranteed to impress. Glorious victoria cake Makes one 15cm (6in) round cake, serving 8–12 slices Ingredients For the sponge: 200g unsalted butter, softened200g caster sugarPinch of saltSeeds of ½ vanilla pod4 medium eggs200g self-raising flour For the sugar syrup:150ml water150g caster sugarScraped vanilla pod For the buttercream filling:300g unsalted butter, softened300g icing sugar, siftedPinch of saltSeeds of ½ vanilla podSmall amount of pink food paste colour3 tbsp any good-quality raspberry jam Method:Bake the sponges one day ahead of serving.

Polka Dot Cake. Cupcake Recipes. A present for Christmas was a new food mixer by Dualit . It has got some useful attachments and is ideal for lots of cupcakes recipes. The photograph shows it in action on my first cupcakes of the new year 2007. I like to do things by hand but this does make things quicker. This is a selection of the different types of cupcake cases that are available for different occasions and different cupcake recipes.

I decided to make my first cupcakes to celebrate the new year. Method Cream the sugar and butter-margarine together. These cupcakes are double the depth and allow for bigger decoration. The cupcakes have been decorated with icing on the base , small sweets to show the words and then they are defined with writing icing tubes. Remember to check out all my archives for cupcake recipes and decorating ideas. I am hoping to start adding new recipes for cupcakes each week this year along with lots more decorating ideas. Crazycupcakes. Labels: Baking Equipment, Decorating. EDDIE ROSS - Pink Ombre Cake. Here's a cake sure to sweeten up the Valentines in your life.

Pick up three boxes of your favorite white cake mix—or work from scratch if you have the time—along with a bottle of Wilton's Icing Color in petal pink. Split each box into two batches for a total of six, then add increasing amounts of dye little by little until you achieve the ombre effect. For the outside of the cake, I used a piping bag fit with a basketweave tip. Happy baking, everyone! Haunted halloween cake.