Dream of Cakes

This doll cake was made for a little girl called Chryso.
Her mother told me that she wanted the doll to be dressed into light purple and pink colors.
I tried to create purple by combining red and bleu colors, but somehow that did not ended the way I wanted so I ran into the store and I bought a ready made Wilton color. My first thought was to make the dress purple and use pink only for the upper part of the dress, but then I thought that the doll would look a bit dull and I decided to use more pink than purple. The next time I make a doll cake I think I will try to use fondant icing. I am not sure whether this will be easier or not, but I truly believe I should give it a try too!!

On the 15th of June my kids finished pre-school. All parents got a notice from school asking us to bring some snacks so the kids could celebrate their final day at school. I decided to make cupcakes for all the kids at school, so since that was a huge project I asked from my kids to help me.
They were thrilled with the idea (as usual)!  So, I prepared the cupcake dough and the kids prepared the papers for the cupcakes.
I used a cookie spoon to fill them and I baked them for 15’ minutes at 180ºC.
1/3 of those cupcakes were decorated with melted marshmallows and Wilton sprinkles. The rest were decorated with rolled fondant. I used strawberry jam as glue, so the fondant would stick on cupcakes.









I am sure you are wondering about the cupcake recipe. Well, the sad part is that I will not give you my secret cupcake recipe, but the good part is that you can use any cake recipe that you like.
If you decide to make your own cupcakes I have a chocolate cake recipe and an orange cake recipe in my b…

This cake was made for two little sisters, Georgia and Despina.
It is a chocolate cake made with Cadbury Cocoa powder, biscuits, pure unsalted butter, icing sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla sugar and brandy.

The decoration was done with rolled fondant, buttercream and fresh cream. The mini mouse design was ready made. At the beginning I thought that a buttercream transfer would be a good option, but since now is summer in Cyprus I abandoned that idea…

In this post you will be able to see the buttercream design I made a few weeks ago, as well.

Happy Birthday to both Georgia and Despina!!!!!!!!!

One of my kids loves truffles or “troufes” as we call them in Greek. The ingredients that I normally use to make those truffles are the same as the Flower Pots Ingredients in this recipe.
Few days ago my son wanted me to make troufes for him, so I thought that I could experiment with a new dessert, and both my son and I could be happy with the results (if everything went fine, that is…).
The end result is what you can see in this post. Not only my son, but all the family was pleased with the Biscuit Flower Pots. You can try making these pots with your kids. It is an easy process that will make them creative and happy at the same time.
Good luck with your attempt… --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biscuit Flower Pots filled with Chocolate Cream Makes 16 Flower Pots
Flower Pots Ingredients
300gr Morning Coffee biscuits (or Petit Beurre biscuits)
100gr raw almonds
100gr powder sugar
100gr Cadbury Cocoa Powder
½ cup of fresh milk
25gr unsalted butter
1 ta…

Today I bought a new set of flower cutters, so as all kids do I wanted to use them immediately :-).
I made quite a few daisies and some flower leaves, which I think I will use in decorating a birthday cake.
It is easy to use gumpaste as long as you work fast. You can make it using a traditional gumpaste recipe or by incorporating gum tragacanth into your fondant.
I find Tylo powder a quick and easy way to form gumpaste. Below you can read what I used to make my flowers.


Gumpaste Flowers
You will need:
200gr fondant (different colors)
1 teaspoon Tylo powder
Flower cutters
Wilton Rolling pin
1 toothpick
1 cotton bud
Wilton colors

- For every 200gr of fondant you will need 1 teaspoon of Tylo powder.
- Tylo powder makes fondant become hard, so you have to w