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How To Make A Tinker Bell Fairy in The Meadow Cake

February 12, 2012 By 37 Comments

This week has been way over due in sharing with you. We made two cakes for Zoe’s fifth birthday party. We invited friends over to celebrate because 5 is a big number and it was her first party so we had to go big and big we went. We made one Strawberry Pink Cake and one Grape Purple Cake and created a Tinker Bell Fairy Masterpiece.

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Cut one of your cakes diagonally and cut out a circle

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Use Bamboo sticks to hold the cake layers together.

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Place half of the cake on top of the large cake and then place one of the triangle pieces on top of the half piece. Also add the circle piece to the large piece.

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Make a green buttercream icing. It took us three batches to completely cover our meadow.

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Ice the  cake

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Gather decorations, fairies and gel icing.

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The hard part for me was decorating with the kids

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This is where I wanted to stop decorating. I thought it was perfect

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an hour later it looked like this

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With a happy girl in the background.

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We purchased everything used in this cake.

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How To Make a Pink Strawberry Cake Recipe

February 10, 2012 By 24 Comments

When our little girl was asked what kind of cake she wanted of course the response came back as a color and not a flavor. So we had to discover how to make a pink and a purple cake. Earlier this week I shared our purple cake with you now I’m sharing our pink strawberry cake. My husband went looking on the internet and found the perfect recipe on Crisco.com. He likes to bake cakes from Crisco.com they always turn out tasty and moist.

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Find the ingredients

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Measure the ingredients

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Mix the ingredients

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Pour into baking pan

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Bake the cake in the oven

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Strawberry Jelly Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

No-Stick Cooking Spray
1 (18.25 oz.) box White Cake Mix (or a homemade white cake you like to make)
1/3 cup Pure Canola Oil
4 large eggs
Food coloring (pink or red) or go natural with strawberries
3/4 cup Strawberry Jelly or preserves

Directions:

Preheat the oven at 350°F. Coat bottoms of  13 by 9 inch pan or two 8-inch round pans with no-stick cooking spray.

Mix it all up. Put in the cake mix, oil, eggs and 3/4 cup strawberry preserves, plus whatever you choose for food coloring until you are happy with the color in large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed 1 minute. Pour batter evenly in prepared pans. Bake 30 to 34 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan.

Ice as you want with whatever is your favorite icing recipe. Stay tuned for our final product.

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How to Make a Purple Grape Cake Recipe

February 8, 2012 By 11 Comments

When our little girl was asked what kind of cake she wanted of course the response came back as a color and not a flavor. So we had to discover how to make a pink and a purple cake. First we decided to make a purple cake, and my husband found the perfect recipe on Crisco.com.

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Find the ingredients

 

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Measure the ingredients

 

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Mix the ingredients

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Bake the cake in the oven

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Grape Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

No-Stick Cooking Spray
1 (18.25 oz.) box White Cake Mix (or a homemade white cake you like to make)
1/3 cup Pure Canola Oil
4 large eggs
Food coloring (purple or red and blue)
3/4 cup Grape Jelly or preserves

Directions:

Preheat oven at 350°F. Coat bottoms of two 8-inch round pans or like we did a 13 by 9 inch pan lightly with no-stick cooking spray.

Mix the cake mix, oil, eggs and 3/4 cup grape preserves, and the die until you are happy with the color in large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed 1 minute. Pour batter evenly in prepared pans. Bake 30 to 34 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans.

 

Then you can ice it with your favorite icing, we made a Tinker Bell cake and the directions to that will come soon.

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Wordless Wednesday – Chocolate Cathedral

May 31, 2011 By 14 Comments

chocolate cathedral

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The Birthday Girl’s Birthday Cake

January 2, 2011 By 11 Comments

This is a Pistachio Pudding Cake with Pistachio Frosting

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It was supposed to look like this…..

Pistachio Pudding Cake

 

The birthday girl turned 4, picked out her birthday cake, and made her own cake with her Daddy’s help. But she did quite a bit of work. She leveled the flour, poured the vanilla and scraped the bowl. It doesn’t matter what the cake looks like, what matters is that she had a blast making and yes it was DELICIOUS!

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This recipe was copied from Crisco.com but we enjoyed it so much I wanted to share it with you here. It makes a denser cake than most, and the icing is quite lite and not too sweet, it’s just right to me. The Pistachio icing is so good, I can’t stop eating it. I had a piece of cake tonight, just so I could have more icing! YuMMM!

Pistachio Pudding Cake with Pistachio Frosting

INGREDIENTS:

  • Crisco® Flour No-Stick Spray
  • 3/4 cup Crisco® Butter Shortening
  • OR 3/4 stick Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening Sticks
  • 1 1/3 cups sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cups water
  • 1 (3 3/4 oz.) package pistachio-flavored instant pudding mix
  • 2 1/4 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

 

  • FROSTING
  • 1 (3 3/4 oz.) package pistachio-flavored instant pudding mix
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 (8 oz.) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
  • 1/3 cup pistachio nuts, shelled and finely chopped

PREPARATION DIRECTIONS:

  1. HEAT oven to 350ºF. Coat two 9-inch round layer pans with flour no-stick cooking spray.

  2. COMBINE shortening, sugar, eggs and vanilla in bowl of electric mixer; beat until light and fluffy. Add water, pudding mix, flour and baking powder. Beat at low speed until blended, scraping bowl constantly. Beat at medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into prepared pans.

  3. BAKE 35 to 45 minutes, or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from pans. Cool completely.

  4. COMBINE pudding mix and milk in medium bowl. Beat at medium speed 1 minute. Fold in whipped topping. Remove 1 cup frosting; combine with chopped pistachio nuts. Spread on bottom layer. Top with other layer. Spread remaining frosting on sides and top of cake. Chill before serving.

 

Stay tuned for photos of the birthday girl tomorrow on her actual birthday!!!

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