My Sweet Saturday....week 90....Inspired by Spumoni Ice Cream....

It was my Dad's Birthday on Friday and I made for him a super tasty cake....it was inspired by one of my favorite ice creams....Spumoni.....I love this stuff and haven't found any in ages....so for this yummy Birthday cake I made a pistachio cake....and then created a vanilla Stroh infused pastry cream and added some maraschino cherries....not the best looking cake I ever made....but most likely the best tasting cake I ever made....I will have to make it even better and then share a recipe card with you all.....

Happy Sweet Saturday Everyone!!! Come share your link with us here.....

Sweet Saturdays Week 90....

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PPF - Painting with icing....Made a Snowman Cake for Christmas.....Vanilla Pistachio filled yumminess....

Hi Everyone....

Hope you all had some amazing celebration during Christmas Vacation with your Families and Friends....We had the greatest time this Season celebrating and laughing and eating and more eating....Christmas Eve our munchkin wanted me to bake a Birthday Cake for Jesus and he said he would like a snowman....so here is the cake I made for this Joyous Celebration.....Here is a basic Vanilla Cake Recipe you can use for your next cake! Enjoy!

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pans
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for pans
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 3 large egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup sour cream

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour two 8-by-2-inch cake pans plus one snowman dimensional pan for the top of the cake tapping out excess flour. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
2. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. With mixer on low, beat in eggs and yolks, one at a time. Beat in vanilla. Alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk and sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix just until combined.
3. Divide batter between pans; smooth tops. Do not over fill the snowman cake form...I only added batter to about 2/3 full....Bake until cakes pull away from sides of pans, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool in pans 10 minutes. Run a knife around edges of pans and invert cakes onto a wire rack. Let cool completely.

Here is the pan I was lucky enough to find at HomeSense.....

 and I found a place on-line that has it too..... Toquedechef.com

I am making a whole bunch of Turkey Pies today....so stay tuned for a super easy way to use up all those leftovers!!!

Sharing this with everyone for PPF this week....I hope that Painting with Icing counts!!!! lol and in case it doesn't here is a snowman piece too!!!

Happy PPF and Happy Creating Everyone!!!!

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Sweet Saturdays Blog Challenge.....come join the fun and share something....

Hi Everyone!!! and welcome to week # 075 of Sweet Saturdays.....I created this fun challenge to make us focus on the Sweet things around us....more focus on the good and positive equals a more positive life....

Sweet Saturdays is all about blogging about something sweet in our lives...it could be art, illustrations, food, a recipe or a sweet photo....or a sweet find in your favorite shop...so create your blog post and pop back and share your link with all of us....

Welcome and we look forward to seeing your posts.....


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My Sweet Saturdays Post  week 74....

and now for my Sweet Saturdays Blog Challenge post.....

Yesterday was my parents 44th Anniversary and we had a super amazing time celebrating with them....I surprised them with a cake that turned out to be a very yummy delight.....I made a lemoncello cake with lemon curd and a stabilized whipped cream icing and then topped it with raspberries....and a special cake topper I made....It was delish and I will be sharing the recipe right here on my blog as soon as I can whip up a super cute card.....

Here is the cake .....

Thank you for popping by!!!

Happy Sweet Saturday and Happy Creating Everyone!!!

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Cake Decorating Class week II - Decorating our first cake in class....what fun!

Hi Everyone!!! I am having such a great time at Cake Decorating School....today we learned all about technique and decorated our first cake in class....it is a very simple design ....but it was so much fun....

If you can take a cake decorating class with some friends it is a wonderful way to learn and enjoy some fun times together.....

I am a very good baker....but never focused on the decorating so this class is exactly what I need to make my cakes pretty!!!!

For today's class I baked a double chocolate cake.....from scratch and made a Chocolate Mint pudding for the middle....and then added mint to my icing....I love Chocolate and Mint....but I am not having any cake for a while.....so my boys will be enjoying all of these treats I bring home from class.....

Happy Monday Everyone!!! and Happy Creating!!!!

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My Sweet Saturday post....week 014

This was Cole's last week of School...his very first year ever....Junior Kindergarten....and we had the sweetest celebration for him.....It all started out with me going to school with some treats for all of his friends....and I took some amazing fun photos...what a blast....Then we had a wonderful celebration at home....we swam in the pool....flew kites....released balloons and made wishes.....and also shared in some sweet treats...so this week for Sweet Saturdays....I decided to share some photos from this fun time....it was as sweet as can be!!!!

When I say go fly a kite I mean it....and then we watched the sunset and released one red balloon and made a wish....

We both hope our wish comes true!!!!

Happy Sweet Saturday Everyone!!!!

oh and P.S. Every Thursday starting from last Thursday I will be posting some fun cupcake topper art that is free for you all to use at your home parties!!! so be sure to pop by ....these are the ones I created last Thursday!!!

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Crazy Amigos Challenge - "Cake" and a new addition to my wood and pyrography series....

oh what fun when I learned that the theme this week on Crazy Amigos Challenge is cake....I love cake and often find that I doodle them whenever I get a chance....so here is a piece filled with your choice of yummy treats....

I have also been busy at work with my latest series of wood and pyrography....here is one I call "New Life" more of my Transformation Body of work.....Today will be the first day I actually add colour to one of these....wish me luck!!!

hope you have a sweet Tuesday....

Hugs
Diana

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Imagine all the cool things waiting to be transformed....

Hi Everyone....

One day as we walked on the beach I spotted a wonderful rock that reminded me of a slice of cake...(as most things do lol)

so I grabbed it and carried the huge piece all the way home..

I finally painted the rock into a yummy slice of cake...and then went and found 3 more smaller rocks in the shapes of berries that I painted as delicious strawberries....for garnish...

I finished all the pieces and then placed them of a serving tray and now this yummy sculpture rests on one of the counters in our kitchen....Cole loves it....he laughs about it everyday....and always says..."Is it yummy?"

hahahaha....

What fun!

I am submitting this cake to Inspire Me Thursday ....as I think it is perfect for the best silver fork you have....

have a wonderful day...

Hugs

Diana

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