Fall Treats

Fall is my favorite time of year and what I consider to be the beginning of an intense baking season! I love fruit in general, but apples are one of my all-round favorites and caramel apples one of my favorite fall treats. I didn’t have fancy sticks this time around, but used forks! I also helped my best friend and her mom press apple cider 🙂

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Beautiful homegrown flowers from my Mom’s garden

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in my hometown

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apple love

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apples for cider pressing!

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My caramel apples could use some work… but they sure were tasty

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juicy bite

Good Fortune

I had a lot of fun experimenting with homemade fortune cookies.

fortune 2 I can’t say I have quite perfected the balance between a pliable form to work with while ensuring a crispy end product, but I’m getting there. Creating my own fortunes and planting them inside for others to find is so fun!fortune 1

Sending letters across seas…

I got carried away and decided to make cookie names for family members over in South Korea. I had fun decorating these individually and packaging them up in little baggies with labels.

Unfortunately, I think the box must have gotten opened in customs, because it arrived much much later than I expected it to. The cookies must have been so stale by then 🙁

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Love the Lettery shadows

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3-Tier Wedding Cake

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I never realized how much work goes into a simple tiered cake like this! But I made this white cake with passion fruit filling and vanilla buttercream frosting for my brother’s wedding. I baked each layer and froze them separately (few days a head of time), then assembled each tier, chilled it, crumb coated it, chilled it again, and frosted it with its final layers. Day of the wedding, I brought each tier separately along with my wooden support dowels and assembled on the spot – I didn’t have any cake carriers tall enough for the whole thing! My Mom supplied fresh flowers and my sister helped me arrange them. There were a few rough spots on the frosting, but the flowers were great to cover those areas up. We only had an hour at the site before the event started, so it was quite a rush, but we did it 🙂

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This cake required a test run… i made these cakes, froze them, crumb-coated them, and froze again until I had time to test assemble… here they are thawing out… cakes everywhere!

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Cake!

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Good consistency

Next time, I would put more passion into the filling and give myself a little more time for assembling and adding finishing touches.

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Assembling the tiers on site

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Final icing piping

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awaiting cupcakes from another vendor…

Heart Engagement Cake

This cake falls within one of the first handfuls that I made, and my friend Suzie and I made it together! I remember the summer was a very very hot one, and we slaved away on this cake for hours into the night so that we could take it with us the next day to our friend’s engagement party.

We baked enough chocolate cakes for a double-tier freehand heart-shape cake…

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The newly-engaged couple practicing cutting cake together 🙂

 

Happy 41

I baked a decadent chocolate cake for my brother’s 41st birthday… I wish I remembered what recipe I used!

I cut out letters in thin chip board, placed them on top, dusted with powdered sugar, and then carefully removed them. I think I put tape tabs on top of the letters (sticking straight up) for easy removal…

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