Tried my hand at making cookies for  Thanksgiving, they came out pretty good, made them swirled to look like fall leaves.

Ok, Baking fans this is my first Ironcupcake challenge !  the ingredient for this challenge was Apple , I had to use that ingrdient to come up with a recipe for a cupcake.  I chose to make a carmel apple cupcake, it is a basic cupcake made with a few of my fasvortie ingredients like brown sugar and apple pie spice ( love the smell ) and of course apples ! The apples were coated them with flour , so they would not sink to the bottom, and folded them into the batter last.  I was very happy with the result .  I coated the top of my cupcakes with warm carmal made from brown sugar Yummy.  !!!!  they taste like a a carmel apple from childhood.

 Vote for me starting Friday  at ironcupcakechallenge

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Cupcake Stackers by Gourmac  Beautiful Baking Liner by Vestli

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Below are pictures of the process.........

thsi weekend Imade a Grover cake , it took me back to my childhood and Sesame Street.  Speaking of Seasame Street  Happy 40th to them.!

I also made a cally lilly cake for a 70th Birthday !!! 

I am off to bake for the MS Cupcke Club and I think I have come up with a cupcke for Ironcupckes which will be posted by 11/30.

Happy Baking Everyone off to mess up the kitchen :)


Julieecakes

Hi everyone !

I made this gumpaste fiqures on Sunday for a cake due this week.  I love doing the figures they are so much fun !

Hi Everyone

My friend Christina and I started a Cake Decorating Club ..Come join the fun ..You can find out more information on our facebook page just search J& C Cake Decorating Club or email me at julieswmclasses@aol.com

Happy Baking

Julieecakes !

I was   off from work today and it was raining and yuckie out, so I decided to do my favorite things bake !  I made Dark Chocolate Cream filled cupcakes yummy !!!!!!!   I made them in the Giant Cupcke Pan for a differnt size.

Below is pictures I took of them .


 

I have been so busy that I  have not posted , I even missed this month's MS Cupckae post.  I have been teaching classes, making cakes like crazy and starting a cake decorating club .  However, I did post a new cupcake , well my version . I found it on the web, I can't recall the site or I would defintly give it a plug.  It is a candy corn cupcake I made these for a raffle recently .  check out the picture below. 

I am off to Wilton training this week ,I will post again soon.

Julieecakes

This month there was an extra submission to the MS Cupcake Club. It was the Banana Pecan Cupcake.


The recipe called for Cake Flour, this was the firs time that I ever used the same. The cupcakes came out nice and light and fluffy you can tell by the pictures below.

As I was reading the recipe I noticed that it indicated that these cupcakes would be good at anytime of day without frosting. That is the approach that I took after tasting the batter, it reminded me of my banana bread that I make on a regular basis, except lighter and fluffier but tasted just as good. So I decided that I would skip the frosting and after they came out of the oven, I would sprinkle them with cinnamon sugar. You can eat them anytime of day and I have gotten rave reviews from my family and co-workers.

My take on these delicious cupcakes is make them and call them muffins, then you can eat them anytime of the day!!!!

Happy Baking !!


Julieecakes

Last night I came across 2 new websites , one was thanks to one of my favorite blogs cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com, they introduced Reynolds new website called cupcakecentral.com check out the site it will be a great reference and they are coming out with great products.

The second website I found was one by the authors of the Hello Cupcake Book, I did not realize they had a website and a cupcake club their site is  hellocupcakebook.com.    I sent an email to join the cupcake club it is almost like the MS cupcake club I belong to.

I also know that the authors of Hello Cupcake will be coming out with a new book very soon !  I can't wait to purchase it !

Happy Baking !!!!

Julieecakes :)

This weekend I picked apples Yum!  I am thinking of baking a nice apple cupcake at some point this week.  But for Saturday I made a special little boy his baseball birthday cake , it was a spice cake with cream cheese frosting .  I had to use cream cheese decorator frosting( courtesy of cakecentral.com) because regualr cream cheese frosting is too soft.  It worked out rather well but by the time I was piping the border on the cake it had soften too much and it didn't stand up well.  Next time I use this frosting I will refrigerate one color while I am using another.  I also tred to make the "blechers" look like wood grain but again I was using frosting , I am pretty happy with they way they turned out.  I would change the M&M size I used for the poeple in the stands to mini M&M's . However, I did but smiley faces on the M&M's  :)  the best part is that the child loved the cake and it made his birthday !  So Happy Birthday Ryan !   Below is a pciture of his cake.......

Ok, baking fans this weeks cupcake is  zucchini YUN ! No need to drag out your mixer this one is done with a wisk and a spoon.  As I wisked the dry ingredidents I noticed the smell of the spices and the flour come together almost like a fall day . Then the wet ingrdidents what a smell as well.  I used a fresh zuchani from my garden I think it added a punch of flavor from a store bought one.  I cut this recipe in 1/2 and only made 12 cupckaes insterad of 24. I did not encounter any problems with this and the flavors all came through as though it was a whole batch of cupcakes. 

The cream cheese frosting was easy , quick and satifiying , the non baker would have never know this creamy frosting took no time to whip up.  Althought soft I found that it piped well enought ot make swrls on top of the cupcakes, but this is defnitely not a frosting for regualr piping.

I have posted some pictures of the whole process. I also included a picture of the wisk for proof how easy they are .  If you look closly at the picture of the cupcake you can see tiny green speaks of zucchiniHappy Baking Everyone !




Julieecakes

I was searching for the new Wilton Cookie Exchange exchange book and I found this blog/ website entitled mommygoggles.com  It is full of all intesting stuff and tons of giveaway.  Go check out the site and if you have not checked out the new book check out wilton.com for more information.  Oh I almost forgot mommygoggles s giving away a copy !

Ok, have to go and make the cooke dough !

Happy Baking

Julie

Hope you all saw the Ultimate Cake Challenge on TLC last night at 10:00 p.m., it featured one of my favorite cake desingers Courtney Clark from Cake Nouveau Cakenouveau.com She won !!! Courtney made an awesome 5 foot cake.  Check out her site to see the pictures!

Congratulations Courtney From one of your biggest fans!

Hi

This weekend I sent my submission for the MS Cupcake Club see the banner on my site , along with the first post in August .) logo contest so wish me luck !  I will post a couple of the picture let me know what you think .

The next posting of the MS Cupcake club will be on September 15th , the club is making Zuchani Spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting should be awesome.

Happy Baking 

Julie


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I did  2 new things this week, the first I made mexican paste slightly different from gumpaste, however it seems more fragile to me ,then gumpasteis .  i had a lot of breakage with respect to the butterflies that I made with mynew patch work cutters.  You can find them athttp://www.globalsugarart.com/  I would however like to purchase a how to book for the patchwork cutters I thnk I might be doing somethng wrong.. 

I also attmepted to paint with on these butterflies although the loook rather large in the pictures they are really quite small.  The first one I will post is just a red butterfly which  did with pearl dust you can tell form the picture but it gave a nice pearlized finish.  The second I used foodcoloring and lemon extract, it came out ok , put I need to work on my painting skill a bit.  My mother had great painting skills so hopefully some have rubbed off on to me.  The third on it a mix of painting and pearl dust this came out the best out of all 3 Ithink although it is only one wing , they are fragile.

That is all for today

Have a great long weekend I intend to .

Julieecakes.

Hi everyone

Today  decided to try Mexican Paste a try, I had been told it would be better to use in a 3-D mold which I purchased a few weeks back.  I finally got around to making it , I got the recipe from globalsuagrart.com  which is a site I visit often.  The only thing I changed was that I used gum text instead of Gum Tragacanth , I read good and bad reviews about subsuituing it for gum tex so we will see what happens, you are suppose to let it "cure" overnght . 

We will have to see what happens. Below is the recipe

Happy Baking !

Julie


Mexican Paste Recipe


This it the paste that Marion Frost of Patchwork Cutters recommends to use with all her Patchwork Cutters. We do not recommend gumpaste for use with Patchwork cutters.

8 ounces (2 cups) 10x powdered sugar

3 teaspoons Gum Tragacanth -Buy Here

6 teaspoons cold water (plus or minus a teaspoon depending on your sugar)

Blend together 10x sugar and gum tragacanth in a bowl. Add water and mix with a heavy spoon until most of the sugar is absorbed. Pour onto a clean work surface and knead, picking up the extra bits of moist sugar as you knead, until the dough is smooth and pliable. Place in a sealed plastic bag and place that bag into another sealed bag. Leave overnight on the counter to cure. DO NOT REFRIGERATE! The paste will be very hard the next day. Break off a small piece and knead until soft before using.

You can keep Mexican Paste for up to 10 days as long as you knead it every 2-3 days. If you want to keep it longer, it freezes very well. Do not refrigerate Mexican paste

This weekend was full of sweets. I attempted my first cookes bouquet thanks to the memebers of cake central cakecentral.comfor answering a few of my question regarding packaging. I made footballs, jerseys, penants and hements for my son football team fundraiser. check out my cakes page or the above post for pictures Iam nto sure how to put them in this post. also made a sunflower basket cake for a friends birthday I am happy with the results love to use oreo cookies for the centers and used red M&M's for ladybugs!


That is all for this post.

Happy Baking !

Julie
 

Chocolate Salted Carmel Mini Cupckes


Well I started making Martha Stewarts Chocolate Salted Carmel Mini Cupcakes on Wednesday made some mini's but they did nto come out weel, so off to the garbage they went . I started over today and decided that I would make regular cupcakes, I followed the recipe and got 20 out of it. Then I made the carmel, the only trick I used was to use my Wilton choclate melting pot then I did not have to wait for the choclate to cool to add it to the frosting. All and all my cupcakes came out great !