Adyson's Birthday Cake for Her Friends Party

Ady seen the pictures of the cup cake baque I made Jan and she wanted one for her friends part. Ady turned 8! i really had a hard time with this. I wanted to find a Pink vase. You can't really tell but this is a bowl that has pick poke a dots. I couldn't find any pink rafiel. I used Wilson's Whipped Icing on this. i had few problems with the icing dropping off.

I took a white cake mix and added 1 package of strawberry jello.

I helped Aleisa make one for the family party. Adyson picked it out of a cake magazine that I have. We googled the name and actually found a video that showed how to make it. i hope I get a picture of that one to add to our blog.

Happy Birth Day Adyson.

Raspberry Bunt Cake

Raspberry Bunt Cake- This is made from a vanilla cake mix. Instead of water use white cranberry juice and follow the cake directions as normal.

After cake is mixed together take one cup of the cake mix and set aside. Take half of the remaining cake batter and put in a greased bunt pan. The 1 c of batter that was set aside add 5 T of Raspberry jam and a drop of red cake coloring to the batter. Stir it up and add the raspberry mixture as your second layer. Take the rest of the batter and put on top of raspberry mixture. Bake in the over at 350 for 45 mn. Whitle baking take half of the raspberry jam from the bottle and put in a sauce pan. Add 1 T white cranberry juice and 1/16 T of raspberry extra and bring to a low boil and turn off.

Now take 1 c powder sugar and 5 T heavy cream 1/8 T raspberry extract and whip up.

When bunt cake is done and as cooled trissle the raspberry sauce over the bunt cake. After that take the Icing and drizzle over the bunt cake.

Can you believe my oldest is 34 years old? It jut seems like yesterday that I was 34... I can't believe it. When it comes to cake Daison can be a little boring. He likes white cake with Chocolate icing. Going three layers and putting a little decoration for him might be a bit too much. We will see? This is a white cake made from scratch.

1/3 c butter softened

1/2 c shortening

2 c sugar

3 cups flour

4 tsp powder

1/2 tsp salt

2/3 c cake flour

4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2/3 c milk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

3/4 tsp almond extract

6 egg whites (the chickens better lay a lot this week)

Milk Chocolate Frosting

Decorating icing chocolate better cream icing

Preheat oven to 325. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with milk and 2/3 c water, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts.

Beat egg whites at high speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form; fold about one third of egg whites into batter. Gradually fold in remaining egg whites. pour batter into 3 greased and floured 8 inch round cake pans.

Bake at 325 for 25-30 min cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks, and let cool 15 min. Wrap in plastic wrap. Freeze

Unwrap frozen cake layers. Spread Milk Chocolate frosting between layers and on up top and sides of cake. Let set a couple of hours before decorating.

Milk Chocolate Frosting

1 C butter, softened

6 C powdered sugar

1/3 C unsweetened cocoa

1/2 c milk

Beat butter at med speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add remaining ingredients beat in until smooth.

Chocolate Better Cream Icing

1/2 c shortening

1/2 c butter

1 t white clear vanilla extra

4 c sifted confectioners sugar

2 T milk

3/4 C cocoa powder for baking

4 T Milk

Cream butter and shortening with electric mixer. Add vanilla gradually add sugar, one cup at a time., beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl of often. When all sugar has been added add 3/4 c cocoa. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep icing cover with a damp cloth until ready to use. Refrigerate leftover icing in an airtight container up to 2 weeks.

Thank You Jan

This was a lot of fun to make. I work with a lady who is just so fantastic, I wanted to tell her thank you. I made this cup cake bouquet. I found a vase and put raffia on a Styrofoam ball.

I took one white cake mix and baked making 24 cup cakes. After the cup cakes were cooled a couple of hours I poked a whole in the center of the cup cakes and added strawberry jello just before it was set up. I used a better cream icing with strawberry flavoring.

I used a #128 icing tip. I started with my icing in the center of the cup cake and worked my way around the cup cake until I got to the edge. To get the cup cakes attached I used sucker sticks and poked in the Styrofoam ball and set the cup cake on them. It took 14 cup cakes.

Now if I can just get this to work and it well stay together for her?