Archive for February, 2009
The Secret to GREAT Butter-cream Frosting is…
11 Comments Published by amberlicious February 28th, 2009 in Cake Tutorials, Stuff about cakes, What I'm making my kids eatThat’s right. Salt.
Salt cuts the sticky sweet and makes it a more pleasant sweet. Several of you guessed almond flavoring- my butter-cream does contain almond flavoring- and while that’s the secret ingredient to a GREAT chocolate chip cookie (right Brenda?) it’s not a secret in butter-cream (at least I don’t think it is…)
Ingredients:
Cream together:
1/2 cup […]
Random thoughts for the moment.
I feel like crap today. My head hurts, I was nauseous all morning. There was some other fun intestinal stuff happening that I won’t detail… it’s exactly what has been going around my family for a couple weeks (including extended family since we all hung out for a weekend together). I […]
Tutorial: Ice cream cake
11 Comments Published by amberlicious February 25th, 2009 in Cake Tutorials, Stuff about cakes, What I'm making my kids eatIce cream cakes are easy. PROMISE. Plus you can make a better tasting cake then they do elsewhere… at least IMO. If you still think you need to pay someone to make one at least order it from me so it can be a cute ice cream cake. (yes I’m humble)
Okay- Bake a cake. Any […]
Tutorial: Psychedelic (or rainbow) cake
14 Comments Published by amberlicious February 25th, 2009 in Cake Tutorials, How we celebrate, Stuff about cakes, What I'm making my kids eatOkay- I knew their would be questions so I took pictures along the way so I could do this post. I’m awesome like that. Your welcome. First of all it’s totally easy- anyone can do it. Probably the easiest cake ever to make and decorate.
First of all you make a cake with white batter. I […]
Book club, birthday party, birthday dinner
13 Comments Published by amberlicious February 24th, 2009 in How we celebrate, my kids are funSo I’ve been having some calendaring issues. I’m not loving my current calendar so I’ve not fully committed to it, mostly because my calendar last year was a fabulous Christmas gift that had pictures of all my mom’s grandkids throughout the year and the one I currently have was a freebie from the power company. […]
