Making champagne icing is easy to do. Just cut your liquid in half and replace it with champagne. So if your recipe calls for 2 cups milk, add 1 cup milk and 1 cup champagne.
Champagne Icing
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Pink Champagne Cake Recipe
If you want to try something a little different from your usual boxed cake mixes why not try a champagne cake? Making a champagne cake is easy to do from just about any recipe. All that need to be done is for the liquids in the recipe to be replaced with champagne. So if your recipe calls for 1 cup water just replace it with 1 cup champagne. You can use whatever kind of champagne you prefer, you can even use wine. If you want to add a bit more of a pink color to your cake just add a drop of food coloring to your batter before you bake it.
Traditional Pound Cake
This is a traditional recipe for pound cake. It’s just a pound of everything! Now you can add to this recipe or even take away if you like. Some people like to add flavoring or fillings such as nuts or chocolate chips for their pound cake. Whereas others want to make their cake healthier so they cut the butter by half and add oil to replace it and cut the sugar in half and add splenda. No matter how you do your recipe this is the one you always start with.
1 Lb Flour
1 Lb Butter
1 Lb Eggs
1Lb Sugar
Poured Fondant
Poured Fondant Recipe
6 Cups 10x sugar
4 oz water
2 Tbsp corn syrup
1 Tbsp flavor
Sift the 10x so there are no lumps in your fondant. Place the 10x into a bowl than gradually add your water, corn syrup, and flavoring; mix well. Once fully mixed store your fondant in a sealed container. When you are ready to use your fondant heat it up in a metal pot, when it is at your desired consistency it is ready for you to use it.
Marbling Fondant
Marbling fondant is a great way to add extra color to your cake. I would choose either two color from the same color palette for a subtle effect or two totally different colors for a bold effect. Rolls your two colors of fondant separately into long ropes, than twist them together like a candy cane, from here roll your fondant into a smooth ball; now your fondant is ready to be rolled out to icing your cake. If you want a more marbled look just repeat the steps again. I prefer just to use two colors of fondant, some people use three or more. The look will be different each and every time you marbled fondant.
Irish Potato Candy Recipe
Irish Potato Candy Recipe
Melt the butter, than add the corn syrup, vanilla, and salt to a bowl; than add your dry ingredients except for the cinnamon and mix well. The candy will be soft once mixed so I recommend to refrigerate it for an hour or two till it firms up. Once firm roll the candy into potato shaped balls and roll in cinnamon. ENJOY!
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1/3 cup corn syrup
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1/ tsp salt
- 1 cup coconut
- 1lb 10x sugar
- cinnamon
Ultimate Cake Off
Does anyone notice on this show how after the second challenge the winner of the taste test is never announced? The show just comes back from commercial break and you see the competitor choosing who is gonna sit out for a half hour. I thought the editors of the show just screwed up once but the more I watch the show I realized it’s the same way each show!
Snow Ice Cream
Making snow ice cream is easy and fun to do. Kids love playing with snow and they love to eat it, so why not add some sugar to it! This recipe can also use lactose free milk for those of you who are lactose intolerant. You can add broken candy, cookies, or chopped fruit for a different spin on this vanilla ice cream.
SNOW ICE CREAM
12 oz milk
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ cup sugar
1 gallon clean snow
Add the milk, vanilla, and sugar in a bowl and mix until smooth; than add clean snow until you get the consistency you desire; add any additional flavors and enjoy!
Fondant Curls
- Roll fondant out to your desired thickness.
- Lightly dust fondant with cornstarch, cut into thin strips
- Wrap fondant loosely around dowel rods and let dry over night
Marzipan Recipe
Marzipan is a great medium to work with. It is usually used to make shaped fruits and animals. Whether tinted or airbrushed the marzipan holds color very well. It is also used to fill chocolates, as an ingredient in pastries, and to cover cakes. Some bakeries even add a layer of it underneath fondant so your cake taste even better! You can also flavor marzipan which is also a favorite of mine.
Here is my marzipan recipe
5 lbs Almond Paste
2 1/2 lbs 10x
2 1/2 lbs Poured Fondant
Substitute for Fat in Baking
When you want to change your recipe to make it healthier, why don’t you try cutting some of the fat. By cutting some of the fat in the recipe and adding fruits such as bananas or applesauce in its place, you will make it healthier. However be carefully when adding fruits, it may change the taste of the finished product and the time it needs to bake.
Cake Airbrushing Instructions
Using an airbrush machine to decorate cakes will save you a lot of time. It is a quick way to add color to your cakes. While the airbrush machine is a bit pricey, you may find it worthwhile for the time it saves, allowing you to decorate more cake.
Cake Airbrushing Instructions
- Add a smooth layer of white icing to your cake
- Pick out what colors and patterns you will be working with
- Draw the pattern on your cake with edible black gel or just free hand airbrush it
- When airbrushing spray color on a paper towel first to make sure you are spraying at the right pressure
- I suggest airbrushing at a 45 degree angle a few inches away from the cake
- When filling the airbrush with color make sure not to over fill the color so it doesn’t spill out
- Make sure to clean your airbrush equipment with water or alcohol between each color
Now that you finished airbrushing your cake, you can add additional decorations as desired…
Fastnaucht
Fastnacht Day means “fast night”. Fastnachts are donuts typically square with a slit in the top. They are sold on Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday. They originated from the Pennsylvania Dutch as a way to use up the remaining fats and sugars forbidden during Lent. Fastnachts are yeast raised donuts made from potatoes and fried in lard. They are square to represent the 4 gospels.