My CREATION . . . . . . .

Ellyza's 7th Birthday.....

2013-07-02T19:23:00.000-07:00

My first Fondant Cake.....a two tier Chocolate Cake and cupcakes for give aways.....Barbie Silhouette motiff.....

Zebra Barbie Doll Cake

2013-03-03T01:37:00.000-08:00

The Birthday Celebrant

Second order of cake for 2013...a Barbie Doll cake. This time not improvise of skirt, a true molder for barbie doll cake.

A Chocolate Cake with butter cream frosting in color black, white and pink with an 8 inches round chocolate cake serve as a base cake. Inclusive with eight cupcakes with two tone swirl frosting and candle is the topper. Design, the same as the gown of the celebrant.

More post soon... :-)

Yellow Tinker Bell Cake

2013-02-19T19:19:00.001-08:00

My First ever order cake for 2013.......

A Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting and Sugar Flower for Accessories with silver dragees and a figurine of Tinker Bell on the center.......

Lemon Cake

2013-01-18T01:36:00.000-08:00

Mother and Daughter

My SOLID College Barkada

My Chocolate Cake in Lemonade Party.............. Chocolate inside, Lemon color in frosting.....

Reunion of my College Friends..........

Blueberry Cheese Cake

2012-10-25T04:57:00.000-07:00

My new recipe "Blueberry Cheese Cake", I got this recipe from the back of the label of cream cheese I used, I tried this recipe because of the "No Bake" procedure and a friendly recipe :-)

Here's how to:

Ingredients:

Crust:

1 1/4 Cups    Graham Cracker Crumbs
1    tsp.    Cinamon (optional)
1/3 Cup    Melted Butter
1     tsp.            Lemon Grind
2                  Tbsp.        Sugar

Filling:

1                 Pkg.           Cream Cheese, Softened
1/4            Cup           Sugar
1                 Tbsp.          Unflavored Gelatin Dissolved in
3                 Tbsp.          Fresh Milk
1                 Cup             All Purpose Cream, Chilled
1                 Cup             BlueBerries in Syrup

Procedure:

          To make crust, mix crumbs with cinnamon, sugar, melted butter and lemon rind. Press on a 9 inches pie plate or spring form pan. Chill.

For the filling, beat cream cheese and sugar until light and well blended. Meanwhile, dissolved unflavored gelatin in milk over low heat and add to cream cheese while still hot. Continue beating to blend well. In a separate bowl, whip cream until stiff and fold into cream cheese mixture.

Pour onto crumbs, lined pan. Top with blueberries in syrup. Chill for 4 to 6 hours.

You can serve it plain

For me, I top blueberries in syrup when I serve

The finished product of this recipe is very thin cheese cake, if you want to be more thick, just double the recipe but if you want as is the recipe, place it in small container like plastic cup for single serving. I used blueberries in light syrup, next time I try the heavy syrup to taste it better.

Lil Cake Pop Maker

2012-10-09T20:39:00.000-07:00

I connection of my posting of Cake Pop Trial she is the one eager to try a cake pop, she's also the one who make a ball for the cake pop....hmmmm....I guess someday she wants like me...hehehehehe!....a baker to be....

Daughter like Mother! :D

Cake Pop Trial

2012-09-30T22:43:00.000-07:00

A Chocolate Cake Pop Trial......just to try how to make it.....

Here's how to:

First bake a cake what flavor do you want, for me I choose Chocolate cake that I always baked. Then destroy the cake or crumpled it and add the frosting you like, for me I add frosting that is also a trial.

Second, after combining the cake and frosting, form a ball with your bear hands, be sure to wash your hands :-)

After making a ball, melt a chocolate you desired to dip of..... first, dip half inch of the stick to the melted chocolate then into cake pop. This seems to help the pop stay on the stick better, which helps a lot when you are dipping them in the chocolate.

Then, dip the cake pop to the melted chocolate then dry it for a minute and sprinkle it.

Sad to say....the cake pop I made was not good, actually the chocolate I melted was not good, it doesn't melt, so, what I did was putting two Tablespoon of kind a hot all purpose cream to melt the chocolate, I think my chocolate is old stock that's why not perfectly melted. Then when I dip into a chocolate I made it, slowly dripping of the chocolate from the cake pop and I decided to pull it of the stick. And that's it! a cake pop without a stick and it can be :-)

In my consolation, even it is not perfect, my daughter and my nieces especially my nephew love it, because it is a CHOCOLATE Forever.....

Wait my second trial of a cake pop and I did not stop till I made it perfect.

Marshmallow Cake

2012-09-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

Marshmallow Frosting

for the design in applying frosting just use spatula and touch the frosting and slowly pull up to make thorn like.

For my Mother Retirement Birthday...... an eight (8) inches round chocolate cake with my new recipe marshmallow icing, decorated with colorful sprinkle and dark chocolate chip.

Marshmallow frosting is simple and cheaper, I keep searching for less expenses icing or frosting and easy to do.... and that's it! I found it! :-).

Here's How to:

For the Cake: any flavor cake what you want it can be, for me I choose Chocolate Cake.

For Frosting: Marshmallow Frosting

Ingredients:

2 Large Egg Whites

1/2 C Sugar

1/4 C *Corn Syrup

2 Tbsp. Water

1 1/2 tsp. Pure Vanilla Extract

Procedure:

Combine frosting ingredients with a pinch of salt in a metal bowl set over a sauce pan of simmering water and beat with handled electric mixer at high speed until frosting is thick and fluffy, 6 to 7 minutes. Remove bowl from heat and continue to beat until slightly cooled. Use frosting the day it is made.

*Note: I don't have a corn syrup at home, I'd search for the substitute of it. And the substitute for corn syrup is 1:4 ratio for every 1 cup of sugar 1/4 cup of water, in this recipe we need 1/4 cup corn syrup, so we need 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 Tablespoon of water.

Don't hesitate to experiment in baking, it's exciting and overwhelmed if the output is good.

Happy Baking Always!

Purple Cupcake

2012-09-18T01:19:00.000-07:00

A gift for a Debutant with her favorite color "Purple".

A 3 oz. chocolate cupcake in a silver cupcake liner with swirl butter cream icing, and a rose sugar flower on top with small silver dragees for accent.

Arranged in three cupcake tier in gold color with purple feathery ribbon design and dome packaging for individual pack, served as souvenir.

Beaded Cupcake

2012-08-30T01:16:00.000-07:00

Ellyza made for me a beaded cupcake...Love it so much!

Thanks Ellyza! I Love You!

Angry Bird Cupcake

2012-07-23T01:16:00.001-07:00

A 3 oz. chocolate Cupcake in a blue foil cupcake liner with butter cream icing in a grass tip with edible angry bird cupcake topper.

The Birthday Celebrant

" Jurix Adam C. Amata"

He loved my chocolate cupcakes. :-)

Angry Bird Cake

2012-07-16T06:09:00.000-07:00

An Eight inches (8") round Chocolate Cake

Things needed in Angry Bird Design

make an outline of the design

Angry Bird is all time favorite of the children now a days...... as I promised to my nephew "Adam Jurix Amata" (BOK) turns 3 years old last June 3, 2012 and that promise happens only today, the reason why is lack of ingredients and time :-)

A round eight inches chocolate cake in butter cream icing in color red and white piping with medium open flower tip and a little bit color yellow for beak, chocolate ganache for outlining the design and for eyebrows.

What I did is.... Crumb coat first on a very thin layer of frosting, then draw a design with a skewer, but for me, I drew first in parchment paper for practice purposes and outline it in chocolate ganache then start piping.

That's it!... Agry Bird with a smile :-)

Hello Kitty CupCake

2012-06-29T01:56:00.000-07:00

A two dozens of 3 0z. chocolate cupcake with butter cream frosting and pink small dragees and a whole body hello kitty on top in a red foil cupcake liner.

Hello Kitty Topper is available at Chocolate Lover Philippines. I don't have any time to make this topper that's why I always bought a ready made. Dragees is given by my Best Friend from Australia, I loved very much the dragees simply because it is not easily melt regardless of how many days you sprinkle it in the cupcake unlike the ordinary sprinkle, only an overnight it melt so fast, like the Reunion Cake I made.

A friend of my sister ask me a favor to bake a cupcake for his daughter turns seven years old. Not business as usual :-)...hahahahah!....... In return for the favor and disturbing him for a scheduled check up of my brother, and he always escorting my brother in the hospital, I decided to bake as a gift to his daughter but he provided the hello kitty topper. Luckily, his daughter loved the hello kitty cupcake.

Volley Ball Cake

2012-06-22T02:30:00.001-07:00

A smile was my reaction after I finished piping this cake :-) ......It is a Volley Ball Cake but I doubt if it is...... hehehehe!....but the color is the same as real volleyball, what ever it looks like, I know it is a volleyball :-).

As of now, I'm playing volleyball for Inter Batch of my Alma mater in High School as a representative of our batch....... one of my co player, her husband is our coach, with no professional fee :-) in return for his patience to teach us and guide us, I was the one who planned for a surprise greetings on Father's Day. So I baked a cake.

A two tier nine inches round chocolate cake with butter cream icing in volleyball design....... just piped it out with two different colors, a blue and a yellow color in a medium open flower tip.

Some of our Team Members with our kids

Coach Jess and his wife (my co player)


*His Family*


The whole Team ....... AWESOME VOLLEYBALL TEAM

Our Team

Beer in a Bucket Cake

2012-06-17T18:43:00.001-07:00

An eight inches round Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

A beer in can on top (not edible) and marshmallow

Back View

For a man who always love drinking beer......that's why the motif of the cake....for my husband on Father's Day, a cake and a beer :-) ......."Beer in a Bucket".....

An eight inches two tier chocolate cake with chocolate ganache frosting and a real beer in can on top and a marshmallow serve as ice.......

I did search in net for that design with the help of my daughter, she choose that design for her papa, because she knew he loved beer...and I was did is the alternative that available in my place, most of the design I look for are made of fondant, but in my case whose never experience make a fondant I used the real one...

Happy Father's Day!

We Love You!

Baking Company

2012-05-18T05:41:00.000-07:00

At Day Time

At Night Time

Image taken at Enchanted Kingdom, Philippines, one of the most memorable celebration of my daughter, Ellyza's 6th Birthday. I saw this building, immediately pull my husband to take a picture for souvenir. Honestly, in relation to baking, cakes, cupcakes and anything made of flour and oven, I feel addicted to take a picture and to post here in my blog. Some friends telling me that "basta cake, your favorite," and my answer is, "yes of course," because, I'm addicted to the designs of the cake and recipe's how to prepare all of them... and I am eager to do it at my own risk, mistakes and to discover how can I bake or make it perfect when it done unsuccessful......... That's why I am always longing to the cakes.

Chocolate Cake with Sugar Flower

2012-05-13T01:56:00.001-07:00

Happy Mother's Day!

In celebration on this day, of course without a cake is not complete the celebration ....... A Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache and Sugar Flower, Butter Cream Icing in leaves and vines and Silver Small Dragees for accent.

Decorations: a medium and small size of sugar flower for this occasion are bought in bakery supply, I had no time to make these and it takes time to do this. Silver Dragees is a gift from my best friend from Australia (to follow my post in all about toppings and sprinkles). Leaves and Vines, a Butter Cream frosting with color green and tip #3 for lettering and a medium open flower tip for leaves (it was already in pastry bag with tip, that's why I'm lazy to change the tip into leaf tip ^_^).

My Mama

Me, my Twin Sister and Mama

Reason why I made this Cake

Gift from Ellyza

Reason why I became a mother.......

Butterfly Cupcake

2012-05-05T00:31:00.002-07:00

Connecting to my previous post at Tinker Bell Cake these are the cupcakes that surrounds in the cake.... A Chocolate flavor cupcake with Butter Cream Icing in flower design I use large Flower Tip and a sugar candy butterfly (i bought in bakery supply) on top to match up the cake, and Butter Cream frosting in letters.

Tinker Bell Cake is cake dream come true to my daughter Ellyza and also for me is a dream come true that I bake a Cake that she really wanted and she really love the cake..... in return she gave me a lot of "kiss" a never ending kiss :-) I LOVE YOU ELLYZA.

Tinker Bell Cake

2012-04-30T02:38:00.000-07:00

A cake dream come true for a birthday girl who's turned six last April 28, 2012. A Tinker Bell Cake for my daughter Ellyza. First try for a Doll Cake, Chocolate Cake flavor with Butter Cream Icing.

Let me share you how to do this:

These are the things needed.... a three chocolate flavor mini cake around 3 or 4 inches in size with a hole in the center and a buttercream icing (sorry not in the picture) and a barbie doll (Ellyza's doll) with a butterfly wing to look like a tinker bell.

Cover with a foil or clear wrap the half body of a barbie doll to protect from cake crumbs and icing and no hassle to clean after using it.

Layer the cake with Butter Cream filling and frost it in a very thin layer of icing and called that "Crumb Coat", it's okay if you can see a dark part of a chocolate cake because it cover up with the dress of a doll.

Insert the Barbie doll to the center of the cake, in my case my cake is short for the waist line of a doll, I add too much frosting and I curve to make it skirt like, because my cake is flat.

Start layer the dress of a doll, I use large leaf tip for the dress of Tinker Bell and I started at the bottom to estimate how long to make it leaf. Take note, we usually use the tip leaf is pointed out, this time start half inch of the leaf where you started then going down.

Continue doing it till reach the waist line of the doll.

Start for the upper dress, start also to the bottom same as the skirt and follow the shape of the breast to make it a tube top.

In a hair dress, style and design any what you want, for me I used large drop flower tip with color yellow butter cream icing and top it with also a medium drop flower tip in color green. I fix first the hair with scotch tape to make it neat and place for the icing.

Left Side View

Back View


Right Side View


Front View

Surrounded by a Cupcake (wait for the post of cupcake)


a piece of cake eaten


with the birthday celebrant

My Family

Banana Cake

2012-04-17T06:05:00.000-07:00

Banana Cake Mixture

Freshly Baked from the Oven

At last, I found a better recipe of a Banana Cake from net. For the second time I think this recipe I always use in baking a Banana Cake unlike my first recipe I got and posted as Banana Cup Cake because it is dry, lack of liquid but this time it is almost perfect, I"m not saying perfect simply because I'm using an 8 x 12" baking pan and supposedly a loaf pan to make it perfect :-)

A cake without frosting, just added a slice of a banana on top to cover the black portion on the center , the reason why is over baked :-)

Next time, I try to become a 100% perfect.

Easter Egg

2012-04-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

An Easter cupcake, A Red Velvet Cupcake for the second time, this time it's not foamy unlike the first time I bake on Valentine's Day that's why it doesn't have frosting, cream cheese is very expensive here in the Philippines, if I put on frosting I doubt it's taste good. I'd rather make it plain red velvet cupcake.

The Design, Peanut M&M chocolate candies on top to look like an egg and a drawing of my daughter, an Easter Bunny (base on her :-) ...) and Egg...... and the background, Easter Egg got her from Egg Hunting after she role as one of an Angel in "Salubong".


My Angel

Happy Easter!......... sorry for late posting! :-)

Ingredients

2012-04-03T05:22:00.001-07:00

BASIC INGREDIENTS IN BAKING AND ITS FUNCTIONS

1. FLOUR - The major ingredient in making bread.

- It provides the structural framework of the bread because it contains gluten which gives the bread strength to keep its shape when baked.

KINDS OF FLOUR

a. Cake Flour – weak flour and

Gluten – elasticity, strength

b. All Purpose Flour – gluten content to make bread

c. Pastry Flour

2. SUGARS - add sweetness and flavor and give crust color

3. COCOA POWDER - An unsweetened powder produced by grinding cacao beans and pressing out the cocoa butter (fat). This powder gives an intense chocolate taste to baked goods. It is commonly available in “Dutch-processed” (alkalized) or natural varieties. The alkalized version is lighter in color and has a less assertive chocolate taste.

Without this I can't bake anything.....as of now I don't have this at home because out of my budget I can not buy any ingredients.......sad to say, almost two months without baking....... :-(

Butter Cookies

2012-03-20T06:12:00.000-07:00

BUTTER COOKIES

INGREDIENTS:

1 C Butter

1 C Sugar

3 ½ C All Purpose Flour, Sifted

¼ C Powdered Milk

4 Eggs

2 tsp. Baking powder

2 tsp. Vanilla

PROCEDURE:

Sift flour and baking powder
Cream the butter and add sugar
Add egg one at a time
Drop in greased pan
Bake until golden brown.

Oatmeal, Dried Mango and Cashew Cookies

2012-03-13T20:58:00.002-07:00

Oatmeal, Dried Mango and Cashew Mixture

Freshly baked from oven

Finished Product

Packaging Sample

INGREDIENTS:

½ C Butter, softened

¾ C Sugar

¼ C Packed Brown Sugar

1 pc. Egg

½ tsp. Vanilla Extract

¾ C All Purpose Flour, sifted

½ tsp. Baking Soda

¼ tsp. Salt

½ tsp. Cinnamon

1 ½ C Quick-Cooking Oatmeal

½ C Dried Mangoes, Chopped into quarter-inch pieces

½ C Roasted Cashew Nuts, coarsely chopped

PROCEDURE:

Preheat oven to 375°F. In a large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and Vanilla: beat well.
Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add flour mixture at low speed. Stir in oatmeal, dried mangoes, and cashews.
Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto un greased cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until edges are lightly browned. Cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes: transfer cookies to cooling racks.

Replica Of A Cupcake

2012-02-20T20:10:00.000-08:00

A gift from my Twin sister (Lanie Amata) last Christmas. She knows I love cupcake and anything that it can be bake :-) that's why she gave me a CUP that a cupcake like, when you reverse it, is it a cup. How I wish I could create like that. :-)