Cake Pops, 3rd attempt...

So, this morning's experiment : classy cakepops. Well, those are the ones I am showing you anyway...'cause I think they turned out rather well, considering the new problems I encountered trying to make them. This time, the chocolate melted all right-you can even see that I used some to pipe right on to the pops, but I had to double dip pretty much all the pops because they all cracked. I don't know why, it didn't happen to me before! But, in an attempt to make much smoother balls, I put too much icing I think. So maybe that didn't help. Second problem was, since I always leave the balls overnight in the fridge to set, they all had a very flat bottom which I really don't like, so I will have to start making everything fresh in the morning and putting them in the freezer for a half hour...Third problem : lack of proper decorations .What you don't see in these pictures is that I made some bear cakepops. But they look completely retarded because I can't find all the nice candy to decorate (to make the eyes or colour the mouth...I chose to keep these to myself, since the others look, I think, so spectacular...And last but not least, going back to the icing problem, when there is too much, the pops fall apart when trying to eat them. So it's back to the books! But then, I don't have any more cake pop supplies anyway... Hope you liked the ones that came out right!!

Enfin...finally!

Ok, I said this morning it would take much longer for me to put these up, but they were pretty dry and I went ahead and decorated... I made these for my friend Martine who is Enfin (finally) moving in to her brand new home this weekend. They waited a long time, and it was very nerve racking...so there you go. I wanted to try a bunch of things here, so here  : first, the chocolate cookie cutout recipe. Worked fantastically. Super nice to eat, much better than sugar cookies. Secondly, the cat was made on an acetate and transferred. Made 3 in case I would break them, but they all survived. 2 still went in the garbage as I needed only 1. Thirdly, the wet on wet icing look, with a few different techniques, including my favorite, the ones with the flower branches. For it to work better though, would have to go for stronger colours. And lastly, the fancy finishing around the cookies. The dots went well, the flourishes, a bit less, I got the consistency a bit wrong again, and to be honest, I don't know how to make a nice finish on a circle. On the squares, you can always finish on a corner, but the circles come right back to the start and you sort of mess up the first one to finish the last. All in all, I think I now know more about consistency-I have to make it more runny than my autumn cookies, but less than these. And otherwise, I just hope they will be liked! What do you guys think? Oh yeah, the cat is because they have a cat...I didn't just want to make a cat...!!!

Bear with, bear with...

I only know one person who will get the title reference, but who knows, maybe someone else has seen the funniest show in history! Am I exaggerating? Point is, I am not just lounging around...I am making cookies! But they take 1-2 days to make 'cause the layers have to dry before I can add the next effect. So bear with, I am in creative mode...you will get the pictures by tonight, or tomorrow morning! I really hope they come out well!!!

1 month of blogging

1 month on the baking dreamer....and 1020 clicks! Ok, ok, other, you know, POPULAR blogs get that in a day or less, but I am not a gifted writer, nor do my pictures fulfill the great expectations of either being masterpieces or total wrecks (I find wrecks to be the most interesting!!) . But all in all, I am not unhappy. In this last month, I have forced myself to experiment ALOT, and continue, even when I fail. That's not me usually. I give up when I fail. I am a big giver-upper. And this blog has made me realize once and for all what I want to do with my life, which is, push my sugary goodies to the public and have them pay for it!! Muahahahahaha! Little do they know,  I would hand them out for free, I love doing them so much! So I imagine within a few months, my own website will be up and running. I can't  believe it, even as I  write those words down...my own website..., there is still so much to think of...but I already know what I will do with my first 1420.- earned. I won't tell unless I get a few comments though...I have been writing away, and I see you guys are looking, so please say something! Anything! Even if it's to say I HATE YOUR BLOG!!!! At least I will know...1 month and so much has changed!! Thanks for looking in...I appreciate all your com...no clicks!!!

My second Cakepop attempt...

Ok, so these are the results of my second attempt at making cakepops. All in all, I think they came out WAY better than the other ones (smaller picture, which I so wanted to put underneath this caption but it didn't work...still figuring out how this blog thing works...)
Anyway, you'll admit, quite the leap in results. That's because the chocolate actually MELTED!
BUT, there is still a but in this one, my edible ink pen didn't work on the pops. So I tried to mix some black edible powder with water, but it came out so so (ghost and pumpkins) I could barely control where it was going, and it was too clumpy and watery. So, still massive problems with failing equipement. But, the glittery cakepops are the "making lemonade out of lemons" part. After trying to do eyes with the black and it didn't work at all, I, out of frustration, wiped the whole thing off, it looked like the 3rd picture, and I think it looks pretty cool! So I took other colours and finished them off in disco look! Not bad! The only thing I have to get better at, is shaping the balls to look flawless. I have seen some cakepops on the internet, they are so smooth! Beautiful, but these were still too rough. Not let cakepops fall over would also be a good thing to try and do next time around...!! So I will continue trying, buying the right equipement and we'll see what comes of it! Nancy, I do believe hobbywrecks is a go...!!! Ou est-ce que ces cakepops sont encore trop poches pour toi?

Red Velvet Halloween cupcakes

So I took the very little money I had left on my account, and went out to buy the things I needed to make this recipe. Indeed, it was worth it-but just for the lessons I've learned in making them. Lesson number one : just because it's a Martha Stewart recipe, doesn't mean it tastes good (cupcakes), lesson number two : just because a recipe has 5 stars on an internet site, doesn't mean it tastes good (cream cheese frosting), and last but not least, lesson number 3 : watch cat at all times...he broke my big spiders...and those were the ones I liked the most. You will find it in the picture, with an angle at which only the non-broken area is to be seen. Still, I enjoyed making the little figures out of royal icing, on transparent paper (you know the ones they use on projectors?) And now I know they are fragile and they have to dry for a very long time. I also now know that black shiny powder isn't super cute, making lines on a cupcake is something I could definitely get better at and would look really cool and in the end, I just can't go for more than 2 days without baking! Thank God the husband is a sweet tooth, and we both have pretty good metabolisms!! Anyone out there with a really tasty red velvet cupcake recipe? I desperately need one!!

Waiting game starts again

Hello friendly readers...I feel I must write something to keep the blog going, even if I have nothing to bake today...I am awaiting 2 deliveries : my new candy melt accompanied by the very important paramount crystals, that will enable me to retry my cakepops and kick Nancy's ass, and just a general order of couloured fondant, dyes and I forgot what else...Pay day is tomorrow, so I will finally be able to go buy some eggs and sugar, so we'll see. If everything comes at the same time tomorrow, perfect! In the meantime, all I can do is plan my next move...!