Icing Smiles

While browsing around on Facebook yesterday, I found out about an organization called Icing Smiles, and I instantly knew that I was meant to find out about them!!!

This is PERFECT for me!!!

People can make cakes, cookies, etc. for children who are going through some kind of serious illness, and need/want something special in their life. It can be for their birthday, last day of treatments, whatever they want to celebrate.

I am a HUGE baker freak, so I will definitely do this sometime. Check it out and see what you think. I believe this is worth the time and effort involved.

Easter Bunny Cake

The day before Easter, I decided to try and make an Easter Bunny cake for the first time. It's not the greatest, but it came out better than expected.

I used a simple vanilla cake and frosting recipe I found on Pinterest, then cut and arranged the cakes on a sheet pan, frosted the cakes, and decorated it with chocolate chip cookies.

It is pretty good! Here are some pictures of the process:

The dry ingredients

The dry and the wet ingredients combined

All mixed together

Ready to be baked

Baked and cooling

 

 

The finished product

 

 

I do plan on making another bunny cake next Easter, as it was fun to make this one. Hope everyone who celebrated Easter, had a wonderful day!



Birthday Cake

My dad's birthday was on Thursday, so I decided to make a simple white cake, the recipe for which I got on allrecipes.com.

My dad doesn't really care for chocolate, so it was a given to make a white cake. He also doesn't like frosting/icing on cake (which I think is crazy!), so I left the cake unfrosted.

But, I did make frosting, and kept it in a medium bowl, for those of us who do like frosting.

Here are a few photos of the cake.

Ready to bake

Finished baking, and cooling down

My piece of the cake (WITH icing!)

White Sheet Cake

The other day, I decided to try this recipe, but instead of making it as a regular sheet cake, I decided to make cupcakes.

I think I found this recipe on Allrecipes.com, and had saved it. I've been meaning to try it for some time now, but didn't actually make it until now. It turned out well, and I hope to make it many more times in the future.

Here are some pictures of the process.

 

The recipe

 

All the ingredients ready to go

                            The butter and sugar being mixed together

 

After the eggs are incorporated

 

After the dry ingredients are incorporated

 

All ready to be cooked

 

Finished cooking, and cooling down

 

The finished product

 

Yummy!