Over the past few months I have been learning a lot and trying to take on new cake challenges.  Here are some of my latest cakes.  

Slightly different type of cake for me.  A friend of mine loves chocolate chip cookies, so what better than a chocolate chip cookie cake.

It has been a while, but I haven't stopped practicing when it comes to cakes.  Here are some of the cakes I have made.

New Equipment

I am very excited to share that I finally got an airbrush kit and thankfully there were two birthdays that allowed me to practice.  A little tricky to get the hang of it, but I practiced on some molded fondant.  The cake below was one I did for two friends who are shooters.  So what better way to celebrate then with a shooting target.  The guns are molded fondant and airbrushed.  I used butter cream fondant to cover the cake and then butter cream frosting to create the target.  Not perfect, but I was happy with it.

Happy Birthday Nana!

Today my friend's mom is 75 and I am very lucky to have been asked to make a cake for this special occasion.  Happy Birthday Nana Underwood!

Preparing for the Bake Sale!

Life seems to always be hectic, but among all the craziness I am preparing for a bake sale.  What better way to celebrate fall than with pumpkin bread.  I finally had the opportunity to clean and cook my pumpkin and all I have to say is, using fresh pumpkin is always the way to go.  No fancy recipe, I used my mom's recipe and it is my favorite.  Raisins, walnuts in this fabulous moist pumpkin bread.

My second addition for the bake sale was one of my all time favorite recipes.  Sour cream blue berry coffee cake.  This is probably very unhealthy but if you love coffee cake and blue berries this is the recipe to have.  I am not sure if it is the sour cream or the cinnamon and brown sugar bottom, but it is heavenly.

Finally I thought I would bake another round of almond biscotti.  Easy ingredients and easy to bake.  Same as one of my last blogs, I can't get enough of these. 

The Perfect Coffee Dessert

This weekend I had my kitchen again and I totally took advantage of it.  My husband's birthday is this week and if you know him you know he is not one for desserts.  I wanted to make him a birthday cake, but I knew he would not eat it so I remembered one of his favorite treats, almond biscotti.  This traditional Italian treat is simple and delicious (and even better when dunked in your coffee). 

Biscotti are twice baked and the history behind them is that they were intended to have a long shelf life.  The ingredients are simple, eggs, sugar, flour, toasted almonds, almond extract, baking powder, and salt.