Archive for July, 2009
I did a baby shower cake this weekend. I am SOOOO happy with how it came out! The mom to be originally wanted a pink monkey cake but I think this option came out so much prettier!! Everyone loved it and part of me wanted to keep it on my kitchen counter forever!! Alas, I had to bring it to the shower and share….
The cake is a plain white cake with fudge filling. Not my most exciting creation but still super yummy! Its covered in buttercream and then in marshmallow fondant. Can I just tell you how much of a pain it was to get white fondant brown?!? Yikes. I had to add cocoa powder and some of the fudge filling to get it right because it kept coming out the color of something in a baby’s diaper with just the brown food coloring… But it tasted yummy! How can you go wrong with MMF and fudge?!?!
This is my fifth fondant cake and my skills are greatly improving! So excited to do some more! Yay!!!
Close up of the rolled fondant roses
the insides of the cake
Tuesdays with Dorie-Tribute to Katharine Hepburn Brownies
Posted by: Liss
I have never found a brownie recipe I absolutely LOVE. Even the best of my recipes were just OK for me. So when I saw brownies as the TWD pick, I sighed a little bit and decided to give it another try, even though I expected the worst.
Boy, was I surprised!! These were awesome. Very thin but oh so fudgy! I was nervous about adding cinnamon to a brownie but it makes it amazing!! My taste testers picked up on the subtle difference that the cinnamon added but they liked them a lot. I served them warm with homemade vanilla ice cream.Yum!! I did tweak the recipe by only adding half the coffee granules. Coffee and I do not get along but I appreciate the fact that it heightens the taste of chocolate. I also did half bittersweet chocolate, half semi-sweet. I am not a dark chocolate girl so I had to sweeten it up a bit! I also left out the nuts because I really don’t like nuts and my family has some severe nut allergies so I pretty much keep them out of my kitchen all the time. I baked mine in a 9″ square pan and it took about 35 minutes. I know some people reported problems with the gooey-ness of theirs. Mine came out just right!
If you want the recipe, you can buy Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan or you can check it out on with Lisa of Surviving Oz (who chose this week’s recipe). Check out how others did on the TWD Blogroll!
