Holiday Baking!

Oh my it's been awhile. I don't really know what I've been doing, but I have been baking like crazy. Geez, I have like a month's baking to catch up on here, although I haven't really done anything new and exciting. Just some cupcakes.

My most exciting baking lately has been for the holidays! Mainly Christmas. I got off work on Christmas Eve at 12, and started baking at like 3. I was making Christmas dessert, and my Dad's been harassing me for pound cake, and then I had extra batter so I made cupcakes. I made for Christmas dinner dessert chocolate mousse cakes, so I had to make mousse, and whipped cream, and the chocolate cake. The real piece du resistance is my cinnamon buns with cream cheese icing. I also made some super cute cupcakes for a friend's little party.

The bottom of the dessert: cake!

Pound Cake

MMMM

Cinnamon bun with ICING!

Chocolate dessert

With mousse!

And then a wreath of whipped cream

cupcakes!

More pound cake

cupcakes for my friend :D

so cute!!

I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas and all the best in the New Year!
xoxo

Carrot Cake!

I have this awful habit of baking late at night. I didn't finish this masterpiece until 12.30 am! I sadly didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to either, Tiz is failing at being my photographer while I'm baking, as I'm concentrating too hard.

I made a carrot cake, with cream cheese icing. I always have excessive amounts of icing left over, and this time I even cut the recipe in half! I'm not keen on huge amounts of icing anyways. I find it too sweet, even if I don't make it sweet. So, that's how I'm not going to turn into a fat baker, because I rarely eat anything I make. One or two here and there, but no more than that.

I really enjoyed making the icing, it was ridiculously easy and looks so cool when it's made. The carrot cake smelled divine as soon as I added in the cinnamon. Once it started baking, MM! Delish. It looked so gooood. (And I didn't have any problems with volcanic batter this time either. It was perfection.)

All in all, this was a complete success. No burnt edges or anything!! Or complete meltdowns on my part. I am known to be a complete mess in the kitchen ;)

Until next time!
xoxo