Baby Shower Cakes – How to Make a Diaper Cake Centerpiece

To make a diaper cake centerpiece your going to need the following materials.

2 packages of size 2 diapers.
Tiny rubber bands, the ones you find with hair supplies.
a few baby items such as small stuffed animal, passy, rattle and anyting else you want to put in there.
You will need some type of wide ribbon-Dollar stores carry it if you catch it when it comes in. You will probably need about 4 rolls.
Shrink wrap bag, can be found at the dollar stores as well.
Cardboard bottom to be cut into a circle.
3 packs gift bag filler.
Fabric if you want to cover cake layers. A yard for each layer should be good.
Curly ribbon.

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A Rich History of the Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is a confectionery conundrum: it seems you either love it, or you hate it. But either way, theres no denying the appeal of this rich dessert throughout history. Food historians tell us that the origins of carrot cake were likely a type of carrot pudding enjoyed during medieval times. Later, during the Middle Ages, sweetening agents were hard to come by in Britain and quite expensive, so as a result, carrots were often used in place of sweeteners. Interestingly, despite being such a longstanding mainstay in Europe, American cookbooks didnt start listing carrot cake recipes until the early 1900s. And, it was actually in the 1960s before carrot cake began becoming a more common cake in the United States, soon becoming the dessert of choice at summer family reunions picnics and Mothers Day celebrations.

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It Really Is the Icing on the Cake – How to Make Great Cake Icing

You have just taken your homemade cake out of the oven, and it is cooling on the counter. Maybe this is the first time you have made a cake from scratch, and you have relatives or friends you want to impress. I can help you with an easy to make frosting recipe that is extremely delicious and versatile.

This recipe is easy to follow, and can be flavored many different ways to customize your frosting to your cake flavor. You can substitute other flavored powder creamers, and substitute the whipping cream for other flavored liquid creamers. There are also different concentrated flavoring options on the market that can be used in place of the vanilla extract in this recipe.

White Buttercream Frosting

8 cups confectioner’s sugar
3/4 cup powdered coffee creamer
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups unsalted butter, softened
1-1/2 cups Crisco shortening
3/4 – 1 cup heavy whipping cream
3 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/4 cup Creme Bouquet flavor (or whatever flavor you choose)

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Homemade Chocolate Frosting – The Perfect Finishing Touch For a Cake

Chocolate frosting is the perfect finishing touch on your baked cake. It can easily be made at home using easy to find ingredients. A heavy duty mixer is required for this recipe because you will need to blend it for seven to ten minutes on medium speed to allow the ingredients to mix together and give you a lighter texture. This will make it easy for you to spread the frosting over your cake and ensure that all of the ingredients have had a change to blend together.

This is my favorite chocolate frosting recipe. You can substitute the powdered coffee creamer for another flavored powder creamer, and you can substitute the heavy whipping cream for a liquid coffee creamer flavor as well. The options are endless when you look at the number of liquid coffee creamers that are on the market. Continue reading “Homemade Chocolate Frosting – The Perfect Finishing Touch For a Cake”

Baby Shower Cake or Cupcakes? You Decide

Cakes are a very important part of a baby shower. Not only is it tradition, but it’s a nice treat to offer your guests. There are many different ways you can choose to approach the cake design, and this page will hopefully give you some ideas and really get your wheels turning on the endless ways you can do it. Whether you make it yourself or buy it, the ideas are endless.

First, let’s start off by saying you don’t actually have to have a CAKE. No one says it has to actually be the traditional sheet cake with chocolate or vanilla icing. Why not try cupcakes? They seem to be trending lately.

There are a lot of different things you could do with cupcakes. Decorating them individually could be a lot of fun (and very cute), or you could stack them to resemble a center piece tower.

One idea I really like in particular is making a cupcake pull-apart cake. It’s simple to do – just put cupcake liners into a shaped cake pan (that’s the key – the cake pan has to have a shape to it, otherwise they’ll just look like a bunch of smooshed together cupcakes) and pour the batter directly into the liners. The cupcakes will bake and naturally form the shape of the pan. Icing and decorations make this type of baby shower “cake” really stand out. Serving is a piece of cake (ha, no pun intended!) because your guests only have to “pull apart” their piece. Continue reading “Baby Shower Cake or Cupcakes? You Decide”

Four Cake Mixers You Should Check Out This Year

So it’s the new year and you have decided to polish up your baking skills this year by baking more often. Then you remember the one thing that discouraged you from baking last year; having to mix every thing from the batter to the icing by hand with a wisk. Then you begin to rethink your decision. Well, there’s no need to give up on your dream. Below is a review of four good cake and pastry mixers all of different prices that you can choose from and invest in. Mixers generally are are godsend. They not only make your baking experience stress free, but your cooking too. They can save you a ton of time, allow you to bake more, and you don’t have to fall asleep on your feet because you are so tired after a day of baking and decorating. The stand mixers I am reviewing here are; Master Chef 250W Electric Cake Mixer, Ambiano classic stand mixer, Pyramid ES-351 250W Electric Cake Mixer and the Eurosonic cake mixer.

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The History of the Chocolate Cake

The chocolate cake is one of the mostly eaten cakes of today with hundreds of different varieties, shapes and sizes it amazing how far cookery has come. This sort of cake has been around for hundreds of years have been improved on many times.

This kind of cake has a history that dates right back to 1764. This is when Dr. James Baker made the discovery on how to make chocolate by grinding cocoa beans between two massive circular stones.

A few years after that in 1828 a method were developed by Conrad Van Houten. This made use of a mechanical extraction which extracted the fat from cacao liquor resulting cacao butter and partly defatted cacao, a compacted mass of solids that could be sold as it was “rock cacao” or ground into powder. Continue reading “The History of the Chocolate Cake”

5 Steps On How To Make A Chocolate Cake

The chocolate cake is one of the most common types of cakes that you can easily make at home. The cool thing is that you can make the cake for almost any type of event.

Things that you need

For you to prepare the cake, you need the right ingredients. The ones that you need include:

· 2 saucepans

· 3 egg yolks

· Heat-safe bowl

· 2/3 cup butter, room temperature

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Ancient Roman Recipe – Mulsum and Frittata

To get started, this recipe is really easy and so tasty!

Honey was one of the basic ingredients of the Romans and other ancient civilizations. Honey was the sweetener and has healthy benefits, therefore it was used widely in many different dishes and drinks.

Ingredients for four persons:

-Pepper

-Cup of milk

-Four eggs

-Three tablespoons of honey

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Why Royal Jelly is So Good

Unlike honey, Royal Jelly is not collected by the honey bees from flowers. It is a creamy white substance specially created by worker bees to feed the queen bee throughout her larval and adult life. The worker bees mix honey and bee pollen with enzymes in the glands of their throats to produce the jelly, an extraordinary and only food source for the queen bees and also often called “milk of bees” by many people.

Royal Jelly, an expensive item on the shelf, is increasingly becoming more and more popular as a beauty bee product. Precious and rare, and treasured as a beauty secret of royalty, Royal Jelly nourishes the body on the inside and revitalizes it on the outside as well. More and more girls are coming to understand what this stuff is as its benefits are extensively associated with healthier skin and hair and more youthful appearance. It is not only used in dietary supplements, but also as additions to skin lotions, creams and cosmetics. European women also have used it for its beauty benefits for centuries. Rich in estradiol, a major estrogen functioning as the primary female sex hormone, this natural substance is commonly known to be effective in treating women who have problems with their menstruation such as abnormal cycle, pain, discomfort, and fatigue. Continue reading “Why Royal Jelly is So Good”