Decadent Desserts

Okay, i found a new blog that I'm LOVING. Each time I look through the blog, I find a million new recipes I want to try. They were all piling up, so I figured I ought to test a couple of them out :) Anyway, one of the recipes was for Red Velvet Cake Balls. These things are AMAZING. And poppable...which is dangerous when something tastes this good.

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Red Velvet Cake Balls

1 box red velvet cake mix (cook as directed on box for 13x9 cake

1 can cream cheese frosting (16oz)

1 package chocolate bark (regular or white chocolate)

Directions: After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting. Roll mixture into quarter size balls and lay on cookie sheet. It should make 45-50. Chill for several hours (or speed this up by putting them in the freezer). Melt chocolate in microwave per directions on package. Roll balls in chocolate and la on wax paper until firm. 

NOTES: 

-White chocolate tastes MUCH better than regular chocolate on these...although it doesn't look quite as pretty since red velvet crumbs can be seen.

-Only melt a few squares of chocolate bark at a time. Not only does it harden quickly, but it is much easier to work with when it's hot. 

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The other recipe was for Peanut Butter Cake Cups. Basically, these are GIANT Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. These were great, too. And I mean great. We have to get these things out of the house!

Peanut Butter Cake Cups

Peanut Butter Cake Cups
1 box white cake mix
Oil, eggs, and water as called for in cake mix
1 cup peanut butter
4 (12 oz) bags milk chocolate chips
24 foil cupcake liners

Bake cake according to package instructions in a 9x13 inch cake pan. Allow to cool about 15 minutes; crumble cake with hands. Add peanut butter to cake crumbs and mix until completely blended. Form peanut butter cake mixture into 1 and 1/2 inch balls; set balls onto parchment paper. Lightly press each ball to flatten slightly. Microwave chocolate chips in microwave-safe bowl one bag at a time, about 1 minute, stirring frequently until melted and smooth. Pour about 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate into bottom of each foil cupcake liner. Use a spoon or small rubber spatula to spread and smooth chocolate. Place one peanut butter cake ball into each cup, on top of chocolate. Lightly press cake into chocolate. Pour chocolate over cake until completely covered (this should be flat). Allow cups to set about 2 hours at room temperature.

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Who knows when I'll have time to make the next recipe on my list, but I should probably go run a few hundred miles to work off all the calories from these two desserts before I make a new one :)

Racecar Cake

Here are a couple of cakes I was asked to do for a 7 year old boy's birthday party.  They're both vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, and they each have quite a few pieces of fondant decoration on them. These were both really fun to make. I love trying new things. Hope you like them!

Royalty in a Cupcake

So who else got up at 5 (or earlier) to watch the Royal Wedding? I did! Homemade Cinnamon Streusel Scones and all!

These cupcakes were an order I got for a Royal Wedding party.They're vanilla with vanilla buttercream and fondant decorations.

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I'm going to start making decorated, cut-out cookies. I was really excited about this, so I practiced on a batch yesterday. I'll post a few pictures soon.

Flavors and Pricing

Since I've never posted anything about flavors or prices, I thought I'd do that tonight. Here's a list of cupcake options. I also do cakes, chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate covered cookies, etc. that vary in price. I'll come up with a set price for those things...one day. For now, here are the cupcakes.

12 dollars per dozen
vanilla/ chocolate cupcakes with vanilla/ chocolate buttercream-- sprinkle/ simple decorations only

15 dollars per dozen 
vanilla/ chocolate cupcakes with vanilla/chocolate buttercream-- fondant/ gum paste decorations

18 dollars per dozen
specialty flavors including--
     -Cookies and Cream (cookies and cream batter with cream cheese frosting; topped with 1/2 of an Oreo cookie)
     -Peanut Butter Cup (chocolate batter with peanut butter frosting and Reeses peanut butter cup in middle; topped with 1/2 of a Reeses cup)
     -Red Velvet (red velvet batter with cream cheese frosting)
     -Pumpkin Spice (pumpkin spice batter with special cinnamon cream cheese frosting)
     -Carrot Cake (carrot cake batter with cream cheese frosting; additional cost for fondant carrot topping)
     -Milky Way (Chocolate batter with Milky Way filling and special Milky Way frosting; topped with 1/2 of a Milky Way bar)

There will be many more flavors to come as I continue to experiment with them! Cookie Dough Cupcakes and Snickers Cupcakes are next on the list to try. The recipes look AMAZING. I'm also going to be working on decorated, cut-out sugar cookies soon. I'll post some pictures once I get better at them :)

That's all for now! If you have any questions about pricing, flavors, ordering, etc., please don't hesitate to call or e-mail me!

Rain Delay

     Well, I've finally had a chance to sit down after a long evening of baking and decorating. Last night consisted of decorating these cupcakes I'm about to show a picture of, and tonight and tomorrow night are all about baking and decorating ROYAL WEDDING cupcakes. By the way, who else is getting up at 5 on Friday to watch the wedding!?
     Anyway, here's the story worthy of the creative "rain delay" title-- after baking and decorating 40 cupcakes and 50 chocolate covered pretzel rods for a meeting tonight at church, the meeting was sadly cancelled due to inclement weather. So...there was major dilemma in figuring out how to salvage the cupcakes and pretzels. Long story short, they will be used at a later date and are now safely wrapped and in the freezer! Hopefully they'll still look as colorful, pretty, and put-together when they're removed and thawed in a couple of weeks...

Up next-- Royal Wedding cupcakes. Be looking for those in the next couple of days!