I was in the kitchen yesterday and made these mini egg cakes. I used the mini egg cake pan from Wilton. Inside is my favourite vanilla cake and I have used this petit four icing to coat them with. I decorated them very simple with only a royal icing scroll, some piped leaves and a little yellow flower. Sweet and simple but also a bit time consuming.

I wish you all a Happy Easter!

Happy Caking!

Louise

With long anticipation, here is my very special Valentine’s cake with roses. Special, because today is Valentine’s Day but also because my lovely husband and I have been together for 10 years. So I can not find a better way than to celebrate it with a gorgeous, delicious and romantic cake filled with love. I got inspired by the colors I used for the paper cone and with the small gumpaste roses that I showed you earlier it makes a perfect match.

Inside the cake is a nice chocolate cake and strawberry mousse. As I had forgot to buy more eggwhites for the Italian Meringue Buttercream that I just love to use for the crumb coat, I had to use a regular buttercream. Not the best choice, since it is so difficult for me to do a nice crumb coat with the regular buttercream. The IMBC is soo much better, but after a little struggle it did end up with a nice buttercream coat to seal the strawberry mousse well indside the cake.

As promised a photo of how the cake looked on the inside.

I wish you all a very Happy Valentine’s Day.

Happy Caking!

Louise

I just wanted to show you a little sneak peek of my next cake project. I will be using these small gum paste roses for a very special Valentine’s cake this year. But you will have to wait to see the final result.

For those who have asked about a tutorial please see this rose tutorial.

Happy Caking!

Louise

I have been lucky to receive a free copy of a new cake decorating book Cakes for Romantic Occasions by May Clee-Cadman, from the publishers: David & Charles. May is the owner of Maisie Fantaisie Wedding Cakes in the UK and it is her second cake decorating book. Her first book: Sweet and Simple Party Cakes have sold over 37,000 copies worldwide. I already have a copy of her first book, so I was very excited to see what this new book would be about and to see if it is just as simple and easy to follow like Sweet and Simple Party Cakes is.

The new book Cakes for Romantic occasions is all about special celebrations, love & romance. I was happy to see that it have the same “easy to follow instructions” and lots of beautiful inspiring photos. The book will guide you through Techniques including: Equipments, recipes, preparing and icing cakes, assembling (stacking) and finishing touches. The three chapters: Sweet Nothings, Look of Love and Young Love shows four different cake designs and styles, with each design followed by “Simply Irresistble” treats like cookies, cupcakes or mini cakes that all can be used together with the cakes or just on there own. Even a brownie treat and a delicious “naked” cake have found the way to the book.

Another great thing that I like about the book, is that she uses cutters and tools which is common and easy to get for yourself, like 5-petal flowers, mini blossoms, daisy flowers and rose petal cutters just to name a few. You can use the designs as they are or pick out the parts that you like the best to make new fantastic creations. It is a great book for beginners and intermediate, but advanced could also find inspiration and enjoy reading it aswell.

So would you like a chance to win this book? The publishers have been so kind to donate two copies of the book, but I am throwing in my free copy aswell, so there will be three lucky readers, who will have a chance of winning this book. All you have to do is leave me a comment, telling me what kind of girl you are:

A: Cake girl, B: Mini cake girl, C: Cupcake girl or D: Cookie girl.

I will use random.org integer generator to pick out the lucky numbers and the deadline will be Sunday, November 22nd 2009 at 9.00 p.m (recorded by the comment time stamp) The three lucky winners will be announced in this post.

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED, AND THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN FOUND.

Congratulations to the three lucky winners

74. Lynn
November 20th, 2009 3:31 pm | Edit
I am a cake girl

409. Peishi
November 21st, 2009 1:28 pm
hi Louise,
I love to bake and still a beginner.. I am (B) Mini cake girl who loves to eat baking stuffs esp tiramisu.

314. Mel
November 20th, 2009 11:59 pm
I love cakes, so A.
I love your site too!

Happy Caking!

Louise