My Desserts

I love to bake, and I love to decorate unique pieces of edible art! Here are a few of my favorites from the last few years:

Cupcake Topiary

-Buy a styrofoam ball from Michaels, paint it with acrylic paint(optional)

-Stick ball onto branch in vase, etc.

-Ice cupcakes, push 3 toothpicks/cupcake into styrofoam, stick cupcakes on toothpicks!

"Sushi" Cupcakes

-Best presentation is in a reused sushi container!

-These are just vanilla mini cupcakes with frosting and shredded coconut on top to look like "rice"

-gummy candy and Swedish Fish for "raw fish"

-add chopsticks to complete the look

Rose Buttercream Cupcakes

-Buttercream frosting (put in fridge if too soft,can't be too soft when making the roses):

-3 sticks unsalted butter, softened

-1 lb powdered sugar (sifted!)

-1/2 teaspoopn quality vanilla extract

-1/2 teasoopn quality almond extract (optional-gives good flavor)

-gel food coloring (found at Michaels)

-Cream all together (add a 1/2 teaspoon of water at a time if mixture is too stiff/dry.

-to create the petals, use a pastry tip#104, There are tons of youtube tutorials on creating buttercream roses.

Pink Flower Cupcakes

-these are simple cupcakes with butter cream frosting and hardened royal icing flowers on top

Royal Icing:

-3 tbsp meringue powder (Wiltons)

-4 cups powdered sugar

6 tbsp water (warm)

-Create flowers on parchment paper using different pastry tips (many tutorials on youtube)

-let flower creations harden overnight

after royal icing flowers harden(keep in airtight dry tin), they will last years!

Lemon Cupcakes

Decorating Bag tips:

-Stem: round tip #1

-Leaf: leaf tip #65

-Flower: petal tip #104

Godfather Horse Head Cake

I made this for my 25th Birthday party! Anyone who is a Godfather fan will LOVE this!

This is a sheet cake (I bought one already made at Costco and had them leave out the frosting)

-I cut the sheet cake into a horse head shape

-I placed the cake on a satin "bed sheet" (bought yard of fabric)

-I iced it with chocolate icing, thin round tip for the "hair"

-I crushed strawberries around the cake and on the sheet for "blood"

Pretty morbid? I swear I am a vegetarian animal lover!

Dirty Dancing Cupcakes

Nobody puts these cupcakes in a corner!

-Cupcakes are Martha Stewart's recipe: Yellow Buttermilk Cupcakes

They are SO good.

-I iced cupcakes with pink tinted buttercream (like Baby's dress) and printed out mini DD movie logos on paper, attached to toothpicks to go on top.

Cincinnati Chili Cupcakes

-I LOVE Skyline Chili from Cincinnati, so I made a sweet version!

Here is my sweet three-way:

-Shredded Coconut dyed orange = "cheese"

-Thin ropes of white icing="spaghetti"

-Chocolate cake (you can add cinnamon flavor too)= "chili"

Fourth of July Berry Cheesecake

I was inspired by Kelsey's Essential Summer recipes and made this version for Fourth of July.

I was pressed for time and bought a store-bought cheesecake and dressed the top with blueberries and strawberries.