I have been playing with the cookie dough lately and made a lot of cute cupcake cookie lollies? or simply just cookies on a sticks. These cupcake cookies have been on my “to do list” for a very long time and I finally had a go making them. I dont have a speciel cupcake cookie cutter so I sat down and draw a template myself. I am very satisfied how they turned out and I have more cake inspired cookies on the way because I had a great time decorating them.

It is sugar cookies decorated with royal icing and you can see more cupcake cookie lollies at my gallery.

Happy Caking

Louise

A whole year has gone by and a lot has happend since I started writing on CakeJournal.

A new fantastic design for the site and loads of emails in my mail box every day with all kinds of cake decorating questions and great comments on my gallery pages. I have also been so lucky to have found so many new and sweet friends online who are all as passionate about cakes as I am.

Thank you all so much for your support and feedback whenever I write a new post or a tutorial it really means a lot to me. Happy Birthday CakeJournal!

Happy Caking

Louise

This gift box cake was made for the annual danish cake competition held by a danish cake craft store. It is quite small and cosy but it is always nice as I meet many of my danish cake friends for a nice “cake chat”.

I was so lucky to win 1. prize with my cake and it is now my turn to have the challenge trophy at home.

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I have used pink food color for the top tier and a mix of blue and green food color for the second tier. The Petunia cutter and petal veiner and my sugarcraft gun have also been used on the cake.

You can also find a tutorial on how to make a sugar bow here.

You can see more details of the cake in my cake gallery here and other cakes decorated with sugar bows here and here.

Happy Caking

Louise

I was busy last week with the preperation of this beautiful wedding cake. I made this wedding cake as a favour for a sweet friend of mine.

I started making the sugar flowers and leaves. I made lots of 5-petals, petunias and small blossoms i various sizes. The colors was from white to three different shades of peach.

I used my favourite silicon veiner for the sugar flowers. I dusted the flowers with peach and cream lustre dust and I gave the leaves some green petal dust dissovled in clear alcohol so they got a bit shiny.

Then it was time to bake the three chocolate cakes. I must say that my new oven is now officially tested We had a wonderful smell of chocolate in the house the rest of the day.

The next day when the cakes was cold and ready to level the fun started. Since I got my wonderful Agbay Cake Leveler it has been a joy to level my cakes. Before I knew it all three cakes was torted and ready to be filled.

I filled the cakes with raspberry and chocolate mouse and crumb coated them with vanilla buttercream. The cakes was covered with white rolled fondant and piped snail trails in royal icing. I stacked two of the cakes and used plastic dowels for extra support. The small tier was placed on cake pillars.

Then the only thing left was to attache the sugar flowers and leaves with royal icing. I must say that I was very satisfied with the cake and so was the happy couple

Happy Caking

Louise

Ok, so its been a while since my last post. The reason is that we have been moving to a new place. It has taken a lot of my time and the good part is that I will get a brand new kitchen but it will not be ready until 2 weeks or so.So there is no baking for me yet

Also if you are one of those who have sent me an email or comment please forgive me for not replying to you. The reply list is long but all the renovation of the home takes all my time at the moment so I will do it when time permits.

So what other news do I have to you? Well I am a member of a nordic cake forum where we have just ended the poll for the cake of the year 2007. I was so happy to see that it was my cake that won the title ” Cake of the year” as that cake was one of the best I made last year. So for now until my kitchen is ready, be patience and I will soon post more about my baked goodies

Happy Caking

Louise

I have recently found a new sweet blog called: Bakerella with sweet cupcakes and other mouthwatering goodies. Bakerella is the proud creator of these cute snowman cupcakes. I really love this photo so I just had to show you.

The sparkling sugar on the blue frosting looks really good and I think she have done a great job with the snow couple aswell. I will look forward to read and see more of the sweet things she makes together with her pink KitchenAid (lucky girl!). Thank you Bakerella!

But I have found one more sweet thing to write about. On my weekly search on web to see if I can find new interesting cake books. A new book cover caught my eyes. The owner behind Maisie Fantaisie May Clee-Cadman have a book out in June 2008. It is called “Sweet & simple party cakes” and here is what the product description says:

“Create over 40 simple yet incredibly stylish cakes for every occasion, from weddings and anniversaries, to birthdays, christenings and Christmas. Discover a variety of irresistible cake designs in all colors, shapes and sizes. Includes a wide selection of sweet cupcakes and gorgeous minicakes to make when time is short.

Sounds good right? I have already made my pre-order ;-).

Sweet & Simple Party Cakes UK
Sweet & Simple Party Cakes US

Happy Caking

Louise

It is a scandinavian tradition to have “kransekage” and champagne at midnight New Years eve.

“Kransekage” is made of almond paste, icing sugar and eggwhites. I always make my own instead of buying one from my local baker, it also taste much better. This is the one I have made for our New Year celebration tonight.

I wish you all a happy New Year

Happy caking
Louise

This is what I had time to do for this years gingerbread house. I just wanted to share it with all of you lovely people who have been so supporting since I started CakeJournal.

I hope that you all will have a wonderful Christmas and get lots of cake stuff under the tree

Merry Christmas

Louise

I finished these beautiful Christmas basket cookies today. Now they only need to be packed into celophane bags. Then they are ready for this year small Christmas gifts to my friends. It is my favourite vanilla sugar cookies decorated with rolled fondant. At first I was planing to make them all white but then I thought a brown basket was nicer.

I have used a basket embosser from Patchwork Cutters to make the basket look and painted them with brown petal dust dissolved in clear alcohol. The flowers are made with the Petunia cutter from Tinkertech Two with the flower veiner. Some Holly leaves and loads of gold sparkle dust. I am really satisfied with the result. Now I just hope my friends thinks the same.

Happy Caking

Louise

My favorite cupcake combo at the moment is chocolate cupcakes with loads of marshmallow frosting on top. So here are some of my latest cupcake treats. To the left, cupcakes decorated with candy canes and home colored sprinkles and on the right some “Hi-Hats” or should we call them “Low-Hats” Well for a first time, they are more than ok and the nice red sparkle gives them a Christmas touch. Loads of chocolate and loads of marshmallow frosting can it get any better?

Happy Caking

Louise