Thomas Train Cake

It was a half-sheet vanilla cake with strawberry mousse filling. I required 3 Betty Crockers vanilla cake packs for this and had got the strawberry mousse ready mix for the filling. It was  Dr. Oetker brand and the mousse came out really nice. It was very soft and creamy. I had got some thomas stickers from the party store and with the help of toothpick I just inserted 3 of them on the top of the cake and I used the remaining stickers for the cake board sides. The tracks are made up of kit-kat bars which I broke into halves. I topped the cake with some flowers and grass and placed the thomas engine on the track!!! The birthday boy loved it!!

Anniversary Piano Cake

The basic cake was a single layer chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream which I baked in a 13x9 pan. For the chocolate cake recipe follow http://dreamcakeworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/chocolate-butterfly-cake.html and for the vanilla buttercream recipe visit the Wilton cakes section of the blog. After frosting it with the buttercream I spaced the chocolate bars for them to look like the piano keys and placed the dancing couple on top of it. I piped out 2 roses at the corner along with some music notes to go with the theme. It was surely a romantic gift for my husband on our 11th anniversary!!

Tinkerbell Cake

I had made this cake for my friend's daughter's 8th birthday.It was my first attempt at the two-tier cake and I was a bit worried how it will turn out, but after completing the cake I was really happy with the outcome.. I baked two strawberry cakes in round 10" and 7" pans. After cutting the 10" cake midway and filling it up, I frosted it with the whipped cream frosting. After that I placed the smaller round cake on top of that and frosted it with the whipped cream frosting. Since I wanted to use the purple and green combination for the Tinkerbell cake, I used the Wilton purple color spray on top of the cake by just following the directions on the bottle. With the leaf tip I piped out the green leaves at the base of each cake and with the flower tip I made the pink flowers at the cake borders. Finally, I put the Tinkerbell candle at the top...The birthday girl just loved it...

Eggless Princess Cupcakes

The birthday girl was turning one and her mom wanted to make her birthday special in every way!! So we had chosen to bake these princess cupcakes..which were eggless too!! They are frosted with whipped cream but instead of going the usual way of putting a swirl on the top of each cupcake and decorating it with sprinkles, I just decorated each cupcake using star-tip to give them a floral appearance and decorated it with M&Ms and a princess crown pick..They really looked adorable just like the birthday girl did..For the recipe of eggless cupcakes please visit the post Eggless Pound Cake 

Banana-Apple Bread

INGREDIENTS:
2 large ripe bananas
2 peeled and grated apples
1 cup sugar
1 egg
4 tbsp Crisco shortening (you can use 4 tbsp unsalted butter, taste will be slightly different)
1 1/2 tsp water
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
Sliced almonds for topping

BAKING PROCEDURE:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Lightly grease a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan. In a bowl mash bananas. Beat in sugar, egg and crisco. Add flour and baking soda to the mixture and blend at medium speed just until all flour is moistened. Add apples; stir just until well mixed. Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle sliced almonds evenly over batter. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until the toothpick inserted comes out clean. The bread tastes warm better..

Barney Cake

This was a half-sheet strawberry cake for a 2-yr-old's  birthday party. It was a two layered cake with fresh strawberry and whipped cream filling in between. I needed about 3 packs of strawberry cake mix, 4 cups of whipped cream and around 1 lb fresh strawberries for this one. The birthday girl is a great fan of Barney so I wrapped a color printout of "barney and friends" in a clear plastic and placed it on the topping as we didn't have time for edible image printing. I frosted it with green and purple to go with the barney theme with two pink candles in mid of the cake!! 

Elmo Cake

This was my cake order for first birthday party of my friend's son who was turning one this year. The theme was elmo and so was the cake topped by elmo and cookie monster. It was a two-layered half-sheet vanilla cake filled with chocolate pudding. The white and red combination was a but obvious choice as red is the color of "elmo".  I used 4 yellow cake mix boxes for the two layers of cake and filled them with the chocolate pudding and iced the cake with whipped cream frosting. To make the cake more colorful as the one-year-old will be more interested in these things rather than eating it, I placed some balloons and colored stars and dots around the elmo and cookie monster. I had got the "sesame place" pole along with the two toys and I just inserted it with a toothpick into the cake....I was extremely happy that all the guests at the party liked the cake very much and kids loved it...