Monthly Archives: August 2012

G Clef Birthday Cake

August 26, 2012 by SugaryWinzy · 4 Comments

 

To celebrate my son’s birthday the other day I thought I would once again, as I did  with last year’s cake, decorate his birthday cake with G clefs.  He plays the piano, so it crossed my mind to garnish his cake with excerpts of the pieces he currently plays, but I reconsidered, realizing piping Mozart, Mendelssohn and Bach onto a cake may not be the easiest thing to do.  I doubt I could even write their music down on paper let alone decorate a cake with it.  So I opted for the easy way out, and G clefs it was.  Maybe I’ll be more ambitious next year and go for the music. Continue reading →

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Ruffle Cupcakes

August 25, 2012 by SugaryWinzy · Leave a comment

 

These ruffle cupcakes don’t take a lot of time to decorate once you have your frosting made and piping bags filled.  I couldn’t quite make up my mind if I should go with uniformity or variety, and, being as fickle minded as I am, opted for the latter.  The flavors weren’t exceptional; it was a standard yellow cake recipe and buttercream frosting.  Actually, the yellow cake recipe I used here wasn’t my favorite, as it bordered on the dry side.  It was a recipe that was printed on a label that you peel off of a baking pan.  But if there was anything positive I gleaned out of this project, it was that tip 104 is very versatile and does more than piping roses it is typically used for. Continue reading →

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Stars and Stripes – American Flag Cake

August 24, 2012 by SugaryWinzy · Leave a comment

Stars and Stripes - American Flag Cake

Here’s a little bit of a flashback to July this year when I baked this stars and stripes themed American flag cake.  It’s very similar to the flag cake I baked last year, only this time I wanted to include all 50 stars and 13 bars, so if it looks unusually tall, that’s because it was. Continue reading →

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Retro Vanilla Cake

August 23, 2012 by SugaryWinzy · 4 Comments

 

I call this a retro vanilla cake because I love anything vintage, anything from the past.  Add to that watching old movies, shopping in antique stores and poring through old magazines.  My grandmother once kept a huge stack of magazines she subscribed to back in the 1930’s through the 1950’s, such as McCall’s, Good Housekeeping and many others. Continue reading →

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“If music be the food of love, play on.” Cake

August 22, 2012 by SugaryWinzy · Leave a comment

 

“If music be the food of love, play on.”  This quote from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night couldn’t be more fitting to write on a cake made last year for my son who plays the piano.  I used a 9 x 13 pan to bake this cake using Barefoot Contessa’s chocolate cake recipe, only I used 1 ½ times the original recipe to make a double layer.  The frosting is also from the same chocolate recipe x 2.  Both the cake and frosting recipes are what I used for the 2012 Cake, just make sure to increase the proportions of the ingredients, which for the cake is x 1.5 and the frosting is x 2. Continue reading →

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