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yellow...............................................3  cake box mix
chocolate fudge................................1 cake box mix

Marsh mellow fondant

marsh mellows ..................................1 bag
confectioners sugar ...........................2 pounds
green icing jell....................................1
yellow icing jell....................................1

Butter cream x 2
Brown icing jell ........................1
Red icing jell ............................1

Topsy turvy Zebra cake

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Red velvet.....................................1 box cake mix
Yellow............................................2 box cake mix
Chocolate........................................3 box cake mix
Marble...........................................5 box cake mix

Marsh mellow fondant

marsh mellows..................................12 bags
Confectioners sugar........................25 pounds
black icing jell..................................3
purple icing jell................................4

Butter cream x 2

Bake time .....................................5 1/2 hrs
fondant time..................................5 hrs
decorator time.................................6 hrs
total time .......................................16 1/2 hrs

                                                                      

Frosting Butter cream, Fondant, Royal icing

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When it's time to frost the cake what is the best frosting to use. There are a lot of different option depending on what you are trying to achieve.So I'm going to explain the 3 main types of icing i use and what they work best for.

Butter cream

Butter cream is the best icing to use i use it for all my cakes. Whither it be piping borders, underneath fondant, and or as the main icing for the cake. Butter cream is the most versatile of all icing and its consistency can be changed very easily a thinner butter cream is easy for spreading  and layering cake. Stiffer butter cream will dry harder to help achieve shell boarders, leaves, and flowers plus many for things. Butter cream can easily be colored to any color you desire. When coloring butter cream its best to use icing jells from your local cake or craft store the reason for this is that traditional food coloring found in your local grocery store is very water based. When adding  water based food coloring to your butter cream an and can alter the consistency and make it very difficult to make  flowers or anything else for that matter.

Fondant

Fondant is probably the icing with the most questions. people really aren't sure just what it is. The two most common  questions regarding fondant are can you eat it and dose it tastes good. Yes you can eat it  an no its not the best tasting stuff. there are two types of fondant one being store bought from your local cake or craft store. This type of fondant is not very tasteful at all. The second type of fondant is marsh mellow fondant,because of the marsh mellows this fondant dose have a little better taste  but marsh mellow  fondant is made at home and cant be bought. I use marsh mellow fondant for any cake i make where fondant is needed. So if your wondering why if it doesn't taste good why use it.Fondant creates a very smooth surface and most fondant cakes are really just for the wow factor  as fondant cakes  can be a bit more pricey. Fondant can be very difficult  to work with.

royal icing

Royal icing is only used for decorations on cakes because it dries very stiff  which makes great  flowers  boarders.egg whites or meringue powder  is what gives  royal icing its stiffness.

All three icing types can produce very nice cakes. butter cream or royal icing or fondant can all be used  together to achieve a cake that your proud of and your customer will surely appreciate

Flip Flop Cake

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Summer is coming and there is nothing better than heading to the beach . This cake has got a real beach feel to it  and its easy to make. A few basic tools and a little time is all you need .

make your favorite cake  and use a flip flop pattern to carve out your shape. make enough butter cream for all the color you plan on using . There are a lot of different ways to go about making this cake . The one pictured was done quick using butter cream  some incing colors and a few tips. to make the sand use gram crackers crushed up  you can really take this cake a lot further than i did . This cake was done for the sole purpose of doing this blog  an to inspire you to create your own cake instead of just try to copy the pic

I hope you enjoy and have fun making this cake. Check back often as the April month is a busy cake month for the ramblin chef an as may and June  are closing in quickly so is wedding season

Peanut butter cupcakes

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If you love peanut butter as much a me then these cupcakes are for you . Easy to make no filling just cake and a peanut butter frosting.





Cupcake

1/3 cup shortening
1/3 cup  peanut butter
1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoon  baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk

 Large mixing bowl  cream together shortening, peanut butter, and brown sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs one at a time beat well after each egg

Add vanilla

Combine  flour, baking powder,and salt  add to mixture  alternating with milk.


Peanut Butter frosting

1/2 cup butter

1 cup creamy peanut butter

4 cups confectioners sugar

1/3 cup cream


beat butter and peanut butter until fluffy

Slowly beat in half of confectioners sugar

Mix in 1/4 cup of cream

Beat in reaming confectioners sugar .

If necessary  add more cream or milk  til the frost reaches an consistency that you like

Cookies and cream oreo cupcake

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This cup cake is over the top simply put. The cookies and cream frosting to the Oreo filling to the moist chocolate cake will have you coming back for more. Its easy to make  and in a cupcake competition its only second to that amazing bacon maple cupcake (see post ) so get the kids an head for the kitchen.


Cupcake

1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup boiling hot water
1 1/3 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup of butter- room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Preheat oven to 350

In a small bowl stir until smooth the cocoa powder and hot water let cool

Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs and beat one at a time and then add vanilla

Mix in flour, baking powder,and salt

stir in cooled cocoa mixture and stir until smooth

Fill into a mined muffin pan and bake 16  to 20 minutes

Filling

4 tablespoons softened butter
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 teaspoon salt dissolved in 1 teaspoon of water
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups confectionery sugar

Cream together butter and shortening

add remaining ingredients and beat until fluffy

Frosting

2 sticks of butter
1/8 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
6 Oreo crushed

Beat  butter,cream, and vanilla smooth

slowly add in powdered sugar
beat mixture for 2 min
fold in crushed Oreo

for the filling you can use a small pairing knife or use can use a cupcake corer  like the one i have

Hope you enjoy this wonderful cupcake.

Kitchen staples for every kitchen

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When it comes to baking at home it helps to have the stuff you need handy. So what do you need on hand to bake. Well it fairly simple an and a huge list of ingredients is not need. Thing you will  find the most helpful and that you will use in pretty much everything you bake are.

All-purpose flour

Granulated sugar

Confectioners sugar

Brown sugar

Baking soda

Baking powder

Cornstarch

unsweetened cocoa powder

Salt and pepper

Shortening

Vegetable oil

Dry mustard

Vanilla extract

Vinegar

Spices

Raisins

Walnuts

Active dry yeast

Eggs

Milk


With these staples handy in your kitchen. You find a wide variety of stuff you can make.You will also be glad that you do have them handy cause there is nothing worse than forgetting something at the store(usually one of these staple is forgotten in the grocery store)  

Mini Chocolate cheese cupcakes

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Mini cupcakes are just a popular or even more so than regular cupcakes and  after all why not  just as good as the regular cupcake but bite size .  If you love cheesecake and  chocolate you will love these fairly simple to make chocolate cheese cake Minnie's

Topping 

1 (8 oz) pkg of cream cheese
1 egg
1/3 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 (6oz) pkg of mini chocolate chips


Cake 

1 1/2 cups  flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
1/2 cup cooking oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla


Mix topping ingredients together set aside.


Blend all cake ingredients together.Fill cups 1/2 full with cake batter add 1/2 teaspoon topping. bake at 350 for 15 to 18 minutes

Let cool and enjoy




 

Basics tools for decorating cakes

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Everybody wants to decorate cool cakes from t.v to magazines and hey  its even here. So what do you need to decorate a cake . There are lots of stuff out there to help you and most do . You cant go wrong just picking up anything for your tool kit. you never know when something might just come in handy. But here I'm going to show you and explain a little about the basic stuff that comes in handy on every cake .


TURN TABLE

When it come to frosting cakes I cant believe i made to as long as i did . The first cake you use with one,you wont want to not use one. These have many styles and prices , but they all will work very well. You can even use a  lazy Susan and some times you can pick them up very cheap at you local department store.

CAKE BOARDS

Cake boards are all shapes sizes and can be custom cut to your likening. they make handling your cake a lot easier every cake needs something to sit on these boards can be just as decorative as the cake itself.

FROSTING COLORS

use these for any frosting that needs color there are plenty variety . these work great with coloring fondant or gum paste. Butter cream  I think is what they should be used for since they are gel and not like the one in the grocery store that are water based an could thin the butter cream, if a stiff constancy was needed.

TIPS COUPLERS AND BAGS

The most important thing you will need in your tool box is  tips, couplers, the bags .  There are a alot of different tips from star to leaf to writing tips, all sizes . if your just starting out decorating  you can pick up sets of tips. Sets usually have a variety of the most popular tips  some may even have a coupler  or two with them.

Couplers some may not even now just what this is or how it works with the tips and the bags. Using one  for the first time may seem tricking But they are very helpful when tips need to be changed for the same  frosting color,  this will help on clean up and  waste of bags ( if disposable bags are used).

Bags come in different sizes  and styles. Having reusable bags  helps on cost  but disposable bags can just be tossed when done ( don't forget to remove your tip an coupler first)


SPATULAS AND CAKE COMB

A cake can not be iced with out spatulas, again you will find a variety. Angled spatulas work great for sides and top of cakes . Flat spatulas are great  for a adding frosting to cakes but i find it hard to really frost a cake well with these types.  Cake combs are wonderful for really getting a smooth finish to your frosting most cake combs have decorative sides on them as well for cool designs  on the side of cakes


THIS AND THAT

Here are a few other things that you find very helpful in your tool box 

Redneck Mossy Oak Cake

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This was a birthday cake a friend. Its not really a cake though its brownies bake in a 12x 18 sheet pan. The cut in half frosted and stacked. A lot of ideas were passed around on just what kind of cake to make. Until my wife found a site that sells custom printed frosting sheets and they had one in mossy oak and we knew that was where we were going with it and it turned out great .

The Mossy Oak was printed on a frosting sheet , so it was like a sticker but was edible. and for the boarder we made butter cream and colored it with juniper green. Here are a few more pics .

Hope you guys enjoy

Bob Marley Airbrushed cake

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A Great way to decorate a cake is to use a airbrush. Airbrushes come in all types, but that's another story. So I thought  id go thru the steps of how i made this Bob Marley cake. Yea its not perfect but its not suppose to be its to show you an advantage of using an airbrush. So how to start  well you wi have to  do a little research and use a tried  true way  for airbrushing. Search out a Bob Marley stencil or any other stencil you looking for. I used this just printed out in back and white http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/337/e/5/Bob_Marley_Gradient_1_by_joey23ep.jpg

Once printed out  just use a xato knife to cut out the stencil. Here are a few  pics of mine thourgh the process

While you are doing that bake the cake. Pan size can be what you want it to be. I  used a 12 x 18 sheet pan. Now with the cake done and your stencil cut out its time to frost the cake use a crumb coat  first so you don't have crumbs around . With the cake all frosted and apply your stencil gently  on to the  frosting butter cream works great.  make sure all your corners are down to avoid over stray . If after removing the stencil there is over spray just use more frosting to to cover up. you will see the over spray in mine as i didn't add more frosting for this blog purpose.

At this point  put in fridge for a few to let dry and the frosting to set.Then using a tooth pick i marked the lines for the back colors and finished the cake. i added some boarders around the edges just to finish it off.

This cake was one of the best cakes I've done in awhile. if your having trouble finding a good stencil . Search  free people stencil here https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

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