Mon Gateau

Cupcake Stand

Mrs.Viking — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:16:01 +0000

I’ve been in search of one for awhile and finally found one I liked and bought it! This stand came to me from London it was worth the shipping price! Can’t wait to use it!! The beauty of it is I can use as many or as few tiers at a time.

7 tier cupcake stand

Ice Cream Cone Cupcake

Mrs.Viking — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:30:21 +0000

I went over to see my God sister and family, so to entertain the boys (9 and 6) I brought over cones. I let them decorate their own. They sure did put a lot of icing on it!!

For the rest of them I made a fluffy white frosting and brought them to work.

YUMMY

Ice Cream + Cupcake!

Mrs.Viking — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:12:51 +0000

Who doesn’t love a good ice cream sandwich especially those Toll House cookie with ice cream in between? To shake things up a bit I baked some jumbo chocolate cupcakes in silicone cupcake liners. Once they were cooled I sliced them in half and scooped in some vanilla bean ice cream. Put the top back on and bam there you go an cupcake ice cream sandwich. My live in taste tester said that it was very good. Of course he’s bias. Although he’s not afraid to toss my baking if he really doesn’t like it. However this time he ate the entire cupcake!

Just a few changes I want to make but this is for sure my new fave treat to make!

A great combination

A view from above

Banana Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Mrs.Viking — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:22:37 +0000

With the leftover peanut butter frosting, I made some chocolate cupcakes to toss the frosting on and topped them with a banana which I covered with sugar and torched.

Chomp Chomp

Mrs.Viking — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:58:57 +0000

For a co worker’s birthday and a fellow Sharks fan I made a hockey puck cake. Not just any hockey puck it was a chocolate cake filled with a peanut butter frosting. This was only my second full fondant cake. I need more practice on judging just how much fondant to separate out. The verdict was the cake was loved.

Go Sharks!

Is your mouth watering yet?

Ship Wreck!

Mrs.Viking — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:54:14 +0000

Part of they joy of baking is looking at other cakes on flickr or CakeCentral. I get new ideas in my head after scrolling through pictures. Recently my live in taste tester found me a blog about wrecked cakes. It couldn’t have been a better laugh! Do take some time to enjoy the lovely cakes!

Cake Wrecks

A few of my noted faves

Baby Shower

Wedding Cake Copy

Cupcake, cupcake, & more cupcakes

Mrs.Viking — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:39:46 +0000

Every month my company celebrates birthdays at the end of the month. My decorating mentor usually makes the cake for every month. So she came to me and asked me to make the cake. I was so flattered when she asked I immediately said yes. Then reality set in, “I have to live up to her cakes!!!” While driving me home from work, my brother and I chatted over what I should make. He said go for creativity and something different. That was a great idea. Went in to my creative bank and thought what could I do??

It hit me like lighting, I should break out my giant cupcake pan with matching cuppies. As I brainstormed I knew I wanted to use fondant in the giant cupcake. My idea was to fondant the bottom of the giant cupcake so it looked like a cupcake liner and then buttercream the top. Everything was executed, until I saw the top slide down. Fortunately the top was salvageable, but the bottom didn’t quite make it.

Baked the bottom over again this time though no time to cover in fondant, but there was no time to save it. In the end it turned quite good. Everyone’s reaction was whoa that’s a huge cupcake! The reviews were great too! Horray!

Before the fall

Cupcake and cuppies

Finally Fondant

Mrs.Viking — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:54:40 +0000

I have been waiting and waiting to take the fondant class. It intrigues me what you can do with the magic of fondant. Wanting to play with cutters and liking the cupcakes I did I went for a sunflower-esque design. I have lots of ideas for cakes now!! Love fondant!!!

Sunflower

Mrs.Viking — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:50:25 +0000

A special surprise for the Director of JOD. I thought she could enjoy some cupcakes backstage! Her fave flowers are sunflowers!

Sunflowers in a box

Finding Nemo

Mrs.Viking — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:42:53 +0000

For our nephew’s first birthday a Finding Nemo themed birthday. It was the same weekend as my dance recital so we weren’t in attendance. My cake was there to represent!

Where's Nemo?

Side View

Up Close

Another side view

Top

About this cake: It was a chocolate cake with raspberry filling covered with a thin top layer of chocolate buttercream. This was to give it a crumb coat that tasted good. On to the decorations. The writing, coral and sea leafs where all buttercream frosting. The blue is Pastry Pride with Wilton blue coloring and the sides are sprayed with Wilton color mist. I wanted the effect of deep under the ocean. The pink and white seashells are made of chocolate. Melted and placed in a seashell mold the tough part was marbleizing the chocolates. It was my first time doing it and definitely took a test run before selecting a few I was happy with. The island is made of crushed graham crackers and some butter, molded it in saran warp and tossed in the freezer to firm. In case you can’t see the little palm tree is a candle! All in all I’m happy with this cake I wish I had more time to work on it…