Hot Chocolate Meringue Cake

Whipped Cream sandwiched between to spicy chocolate meringues, then dusted with cocoa powder.

Season of Chocolate

It's that season again!. Time for hot chocolate, cookies and holiday weight gain!

Chocolate moulding experiments

This is my work station while attempting to make white chocolate, with hazelnut cream filling.

Earl Grey Chocolate Mousse Cake

The mousse is made with cream of earl grey tea. with a middle layer of white chocolate cream and cashews.

A dark chocolate brownie on the bottom.

This cake is very creamy and extremely decadent, and tastes sort of like a latte.

The whole cake is finished  off with dark chocolate medallions and white chocolate flowers.

The Yeti Farm Creative Cupcake

Inspired by The Yeti Farm Creative

 

The cupcake has a chocolate caramel cake, and is topped with coconut butter cream frosting.

 Just getting ready for some winter baking!

Somthing a little different 3

Red Velvet Macarons

Durian Cake and Matcha Green Tea Cupcakes

 Durian Cream Cake with creamy whipped icing.

Not being a fan of durian myself I would have never attempted this cake unless someone ordered it specifically. The fruit itself has a such a strong odor that every time I opened the refrigerator, I could smell the cake through its container. But it seems like those who love it, really love it, and don't mind subjecting their friends to its pungent smell.

However the cake did turn out stunningly tall and sturdy, and the cream went on smoothly. I even started thinking I wanted to try a slice.

Along with the cake was an order for half a dozen chocolate, green tea cupcakes. These turned out pretty tasty. I made my regular chocolate cupcake recipe and put in a tablespoon of matcha powder into the batter. Then made a matcha  butter cream, by heating up the milk, sugar and matcha powder and  letting cool, before stirring in the butter. ( And a little food dye because it was sort of, "off brown")

 

I love the look of this cake. I'll defiantly have to try it again with a flavour I'm fond of.

Double Layer Chocolate Cake

This for week 2 of the decorating class. 

Our homework for this week was to bring a double layered, filled, but un-iced cake. I made two cakes - one chocolate and one vanilla, filled with a white chocolate centre. 

My mum, who is taking the class with me ended up frosting the chocolate cake and putting the little ink stars on top out of buttercream. I decorated the vanilla cake the same way as shown.

Double Layer Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Icing

Double Chocolate Tarts

My friend Michelle was craving chocolate tarts from Second Cup, so I decided to take on the challenge to make some myself! But healthier ;)

We ran to the store and bought chocolate cookies, scraped off the frosting and crushed them in a food processor to make the tart crust. We carefully moulded each cup in a muffin tray.

We topped it with whipped cream and melted a sheet of chocolate to break it up into leaves to decorate the tarts. We topped each with a chocolate covered blueberry.

They turned out delicious but VERY decadent and I hope to do it again sometime!

Cupcakes!

 Here are some cupcakes I've made in the past few months!

Halloween Red Velvet cupcakes decorated by my boyfriend, Mike

Chocolate Coffee cupcake with Avocado Lime icing

Red Velvet cupcake with Cream Cheese frosting for Amy's birthday!

Vanilla cupcake with Vanilla frosting with help from Michelle!

Chocolate Coffee Cupcakes

Entering week three of a Wilton Decorating course at Golda's Kitchen in Missisauga, ON!

So far it's been an amazingly fun experience, for more info please visit them online!

 This week we were asked to bring in six un-iced cupcakes to decorate in class.

I chose to make a rich chocolate coffee cake batter, with some cayenne pepper thrown in for a kick.

 

The decorating portion was done in the class.

We made the leaves and flowers from butter cream frosting. It was a lot of fun to do, and overall I think it was successful and I would definitely do this recipe again.