Baby shower treats

My best friends baby shower was approaching, and I unfortunately was not going to be able to make it. But, that didn’t stop me from making her a little something. As I was walking around the isles of Joanns fabric store I came across these cute pretzel, and cookie molds. I thought,”Mh how hard can these be to use?” I read some comments online before testing them out since I had no experience with any type of pretzel or cookie mold. A lot of people wrote to mix a tad bit of vegetable shortening to Wilton’s candy melts to get a smoother consistency. So, I did just that and this is what happened.  What a hot mess I know! The chocolate cracked, and some pieces got stuck to the mold. I was feeling annoyed, upset, and discouraged. But, like my mom likes to say,”Hechando a perder es como se aprende.” Which translates to ruining things is how you learn. 

For round two I decided to just melt the candy melts without adding anything to them, and guess what? It worked out so much better!       These molds were a lot of fun to work with once I got the hang of them. I highly recommend them. 

http://www.joann.com/wilton-cookie-candy-mold-baby/10819209.html?green=51B6762F-94A3-59B7-09B9-A8E383E6A166

http://www.joann.com/wilton-pretzel-mold-baby/1611896.html?green=51B6762F-94A3-59B7-09B9-A8E383E6A166

*If you plan on making a big batch you should consider buying more than one mold. I only had one of each, and it was very time consuming to make them. 

I’m backkkk

Hey everyone! I hope you guys are doing well. I know I’ve been gone for a very long time, and I will explain where I have been very soon I promise. In the past months I’ve been baking the usual cupcakes, cookies, and cakes but, nothing extraordinary.  

Here are some frozen themed cupcakes that I made for my cousins birthday.  Here is a triple chocolate cake I made using Betty Crockers boxed cake mix. Excuse the lumps on the sides I didn’t mix my ganache thoroughly.  Cookies using this recipe  http://www.quakeroats.com/cooking-and-recipe/vanishing-oatmeal-raisin-cookies.aspx I omitted the raisins, and added chocolate chips on some, and vanilla icing on the other ones.    My bestfriends baby shower is coming up, and I’m in charge of the dessert table so, I will be posting everything that I made for her special day soon. Until then take care you guys!(: 

 

 

Not typical

My grandparents are flying into town to visit my family and I. So, I decided to make a cake. My grandpa has such a great a sense of humor so, I thought I would make him a chocolate cake, with chocolate buttercream, and topped with a girl wearing a bikini lol.  

  
I had a few issues with my buttercream(what’s new) but, overall I liked how it came out. 

 

Baking update/new supplies

I haven’t baked anything new, which is why I haven’t created a baking blog post in a while. I have been looking at a few new recipes off of Pintrest(of course) which I do plan to share with you guys my recreation very soon. The only new thing I have to share are some dinosaur cupcakes that I recently made, as well as some new baking supplies that I’ve picked up. I simply piped the cupcakes with a Wilton 1M then, I placed a dinosaur gummy in the center. They’re pretty simple but, I like the contrast of the gummies with the frosting.     

I stumbled upon Wilton’s Instagram and I saw that they were advertising this new product called treatology. I’m excited to use this to change up the flavor of my frostings.

This cupcake corer was on sale so, I decided to purchase it although a melon baller scooper works just as well.

I thought I would give this a try since I always frost my cakes smooth.

Birthday cake

I hadn’t decoarated a cake in a while so, when my moms friends son asked if I could make his birthday cake I was a bit hesitant. I ended up saying yes and he requested a chocolate Dodgers cake. Once I got home I began googling a few images of Dodgers cakes to get inspiration, and I finally decided on how I wanted the cake to look like.

I did a frozen buttercream transfer of a Dodgers shirt.

  

Then I added a border, pipped grass, imperfectly piped the bases(lol), and lastly I placed the fbt shirt. Here is the final result.

Have a goodnight everyone!(:

 

Buttercream problems

Today was one of those days that no matter what I did, I couldn’t get my buttercream to the right consitency. I attempted to conceal my imperfect buttercream with sprinkles, happy birthday candles, and a few cake toppers.

Sidenote I can’t believe that it’s March already! These months are flying by. Have a good Sunday night everyone.

Chocolate three milks cake

My dad was on a chocolate kick this afternoon. I had made a tres leches (three milks) cake the night before so, I thought hey why not make a chocolate tres leches cake.

This is how it turned out

Here is the recipe link  http://www.sweetysalado.com/2014/04/chocolate-tres-leches-cake.html

Final thoughts

The cake is sweet but, not an overbearing sweet. It resembles a chocolate milk kind of taste(I think). Between a regular tres leches cake and a chocolate one my family prefers the regular version.

In case your wondering how I taste test desserts that I make that have milk or any other ingredients that I don’t tolerate, I take a small bite, I chew it, then spit it out lol.

Valentine’s Day dessert ideas

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner here are some quick, and easy dessert ideas.

Strawberry pie
I used this recipe that I found on Pinterest http://www.twotwentyone.net/2012/06/strawberry-pie/

I bought my crust pre made.

Chocolate covered strawberries
I melted bakers semi sweet baking chocolate then, I dipped the strawberries in it. Before the chocolate dried up I decorated the strawberries with different things; sprinkles, heart candy, and red m&m’s.

Chocolate cupcakes with a Kahlua simple syrup

Cake Mix

I like to use, triple chocolate fudge by Betty Crocker but, I change the ingredients it calls for using this Pinterest method

For the simple syrup
Bring to a simmer equal parts of sugar and water. I used 1/4 cup of each. After it has simmered let it cool. Once cooled add one shot glass of Kahlua, and mix. Grab your pastry brush and start brushing the simple syrup onto your cooled cupcakes. I brushed each cupcake twice.

Chocolate buttercream
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup butter softened
Three 1 oz. semi sweet chocolate squares, melted
1 tsp clear vanilla extract
4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
3-4 tablespoons milk (or more depending on the consistency you want)
You can skip this step but, I always add Hershey’s unsweetened cocoa to give it a more chocolatey flavor. I never measure how much I add; I just add to taste on how sweet I want it that day.
I decorated them with a wilton 1m tip and the liners are from Walmart.