Tasty Pastries Shop: January 2015

Friday, January 30, 2015

Giant Cupcake

We had a dip day at work for one of my co-workers, and of course, I did what I know how to do best...bake. Well I can cook regular food very well, but my passion is baking! I decided to do a giant cupcake because it's simple and just the right size.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

2015 Valentine's Day Tasty Treats

Well I finally completed all of my baking and decorating for my 2015 Valentine's Day Sale. I'm so excite because this will be the first v-day sale for me (and I pray that I have many more to come). Decorating cakes can be so soothing and relaxing, it allows me to show my creativity and passion for the art. The pics below are 6" heart shaped cakes with mini cupcakes (Red Velvet w/cream cheese icing and Yellow w/vanilla buttercream tinted pink). Had the cake been larger I would have added roses, but I could no longer find the 9" heart shaped pans :-( . Well without further adieu, here's some tasty eye treats just for you! :-)

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Red Velvet Cupcakes

I had a request for.....you guessed correctly, Red Velvet cupcakes! I think that pastries should be tasty and cute, so I decided to garnish the cream cheese frosting with crumbs from the cake, sugar pearls, and candy melt accents!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Valentine's Day Sweets For Your Sweet

I'm so excite about my Valentine's Day promotion!

The promotion is for one 6" heart shaped cake and 12 mini cupcakes. The flavors are red velvet, chocolate, and yellow.

I will be posting pics this weekend for a visual, along with pricing and delivery/pickup instructions.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Valentine's Day

I'm so excited for Valentine's Day! I Don't celebrate the day other than giving my 2 kids cards and candy, but since I'm baking and decorating more I get to bake AND decorate V-day desserts! YAY! I'm not sure what yet, but stay tuned for my V-day treats and sweets!

I Made Buttermilk

Yesterday I was speaking with a good friend of mine and told her how excited I was to make buttermilk when I came up short while baking a couple of cakes.

Basically it's just a cup of milk (8 ozs.), I used whole milk (I normally do when I bake), and 1 tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice (I used Real Lemon, lemon juice). Let it stand for approx. 10 minutes, and then another 10 minutes at room temperature.

After 20 minutes everything about the mixture said buttermilk, and yes, it even had curdled pieces! That was sooooo awesome! I know, I'm such a baking geek :-)

Saturday, January 10, 2015

This Week's Cakes

I had a request for two yellow cakes, one with pink and purple vanilla BC and the other with caramel.

The caramel was easy breezy, however, I haven't quiet perfected my free hand BC skills but I did pretty good. However she loved both cakes! I'm my worse critic, but I also know I can perfect my free hand BC skills. Well here are the pics!

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Scotch-Whiskey Cupcakes

Well I finally had the strength to finish the Scotch-Whiskey Cupcake inspired by Dewer's 12 Year Blended Scotch Whiskey

Chocolate cupcake spiked w/Dewer's 12, filled w/scotch-whiskey chocolate ganache, topped w/chocolate buttercream, scotch-whiskey dulce de leche caramel sauce drizzle & brown sugar glazed almonds infused w/Dewer's 12

Saturday, January 3, 2015

A Day of Baking

I decided to spend the day baking and testing recipes! I've been on winter break from school for 3 weeks and with school starting back on Monday, today was the last possible day to play in the kitchen.

Although my creations aren't the first out there, I consider them to be original because they all have my flare that I added to it. However, I took my usual recipes and tweaked them to my liking. I didn't want to use recipes that already exsisted because I like what I have and I'm satisfied and confident with them. I made S'mores, Rocky Road, Keylime, Margarita, and Scotch Whiskey cupcakes! 😊

I have a lot of pics so bare with me...