Banana Pudding Cake

For Christmas I was suppose to give my brother a Banana Pudding cake, but him and his family couldn't make it to my moms until the weekend. So I kept the cakes wrapped on my counter until yesterday. 

The cake it's self was banana flavored and the filling was villa pudding, bananas, and crumbled Nilla Wafers followed by a Cool Whip frosting with Nilla Wafers layered on the sides and crumbles on the top. 

I'm not a fan of bananas but everyone that tried the cake loves it, even my 10 year old. So I guess the majority rules and it's a winner! Without further adieu here's a couple of pics to a huge twist of the basic Banana Pudding. 

Holiday Baking Frenzy!

I love baking and pastry decorating, a few months ago I volunteered to make my nieces birthday cake. However, her birthday is on Christmas and I normally do all the holiday baking. 

I saw a princess cake that I thought she would love but I didn't consider all of the other baking I had to do!!!

But after 8 cakes and 2 Sweet Potato pies, I pulled off my very first Princess Birthday Cake! I'm not the best at laying fondant, but I made it work. In addition, she loves Frozen so I decided to make the Frozen Snow Globe Cake inspired by the lady from "My Cupcake Addiction" (she's on YouTube). 

In addition to those two cakes I made a German Chocolate Cake, 7-up Cake with Pineapple and Coconut frosting, Cream Cheese Pound Cake, a mini Chocolate Cake (for my niece, originally we were expecting more guests and I wanted her to be able to enjoy her Princess Cake as long as possible), basic Yellow Cake, and a Banana Pudding Cake for my brother. All pics are below except the Banana Pudding Cake and basic Yellow Cake. 

Christmas Tree Cake

Had I not been super sleepy and rushing to get the Christmas Tree cake decorated, it would have looked way better. 

But anyway, when it comes to buttercream it's hard to fix it, especially when the design is laying on top of buttercream. 

I baked this cake merely because I had left over batter from my cream cheese pound cake. And since we'll have more than enough desserts for Christmas, this one is going to work. 

Christmas Tree Cupcakes

We're having a Christmas themed week at work this week and I decided to make chocolate and yellow cupcakes and pipe buttercream (BC) onto them in the shape of a Christmas Tree. It was an easy, but fun project for myself. It's nice to be able to share my baking and pastry artwork with others, I don't get an opportunity to bakes for others a lot. Believe it or not I actually dislike buttercream and although I like cakes and so forth, it's definitely something I can do without (but I love, love, love to bake and decorate!). My daughter only likes box cake mixes, and my son will devour almost anything (except for veggies) so I refuse to bake so he can eat it all!

This was a great opportunity to and I took advantage!!!

I made a basic vanilla BC and colored it with the Kelly Green Wilton icing color. For the tree I used a Wilton tip 21 (aka star tip), and used various sprinkles to achieve the decorated look. I found tooth pick decorations while grocery shopping so I decided to insert those an the very top for the finishing look!

 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I decided to make Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies because silly me not only purchased the incorrect oatmeal once, but twice! The first time I purchased Steel Cut Oats and to my surprised I had no idea that it would look similar to Flax Seed! I did try them before giving the box away. Second attempt, Quaker Quick Oats! Yuck, they turn into a pile of mush when microwaved. And finally, the third times a charm! Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, my fav! I have no clue how I kept purchasing the incorrect oats, I think I was moving too fast and not paying attention as I'm always on the go!

So long story short, I took the extra oats and made cookies! Yummy, yummy, yummy!