Mini-Van Cake

It is Holday time here in US currently and adding to the celebration was my nephew's First Birthday. So as always I was responsible for the cake. Now the main Q? before us was which cake would make the little guys eyes shine with excitement? His brothers shouted in one voice how about making a mini van as he isused to that and this means going out.

Kids sometimes think that their Mom is a Fairy, who can just turn things by waving the magic wand...my son maybe thought the same when he came up with this idea too...MY biggest challenge was assembling the cake and managing the small details. Not being a Auto-Freak, I do not observe the cars as much as my boys do. Beisdes the Birthdya boy likes the colour green.. so we managed this cake which looks like a Mini-Van but does need some TLC. Maybe, I need to make a couple more and start obeserving the minute details.

Till then, HO HO HO

The cake is a baisc cake and by now you must be knowing that I use only whipped cream icing for all my cakes. I like the light tatse of sugar and cream as against the heaviness and sugary tase of buttercream icing.

The link to the whipped cream icng is;

http://indulge-ashscorner.blogspot.com/2009/06/whipped-cream-icing-cake.html

Cheers;
Ash

Thomas Cake

Thomas the Engine is still a Favorite amongst kids all age. MY nephew had this toy from his last birthday cake which was a store brought cake. He loved the toy so much that this time again he wanted it on his cake.


Cake is a basic yellow cake from the box. Lately I have become a great fan of Semi home made coooking. As Sandra Lee( Host of Semi Home Made Show on Food Network) Says, make your life easy, take help when u can..this has stuck to me like honey on bee...and I used  whipped cream icing to frost the cake.


My Resolution for year 2010 is; I will try to make my cakes from scratch and hopefully eggless too.


Cheers

Ash.

Princess Cake

Which Little girl does not like a Princess cake and Princess Birthday??

My Friends daughter is a Princess herself, so We made this cake for her 5th Bday. The theme was elaborate with castle also in the design. But The clock struck 12" and this queen had to make a grand exit from my friends home; so we used the castle prop with the three cute princess cutouts instead.

Anyways.. there is always a next time for the castle and who knows maybe  a  Prince too!!!!

Inspiration behind this cake came from;

http://www.bettycrocker.com/how-to/how-to-videos/Princess-Cake-video.htm

The link to the whippe dcream icing is;

http://indulge-ashscorner.blogspot.com/2009/06/whipped-cream-icing-cake.html

Hope all the Queens would love making this cake for their little princessess or even sweet sixteen princessess..

Love
Ash.

Spaceship

Like all kids his age, my son is also intrested in the life in the outer space and its fantasies.. he imagines life on Mars and pretends to be a astronaut.....Hoefully his dream will be fulfilled when he grows up or he has some other dream to live on....Like all Mothers I adore my boys and try my best to bring their dreams to reality....

I saw this cake on bettycroker.com and  trie dit.. The link to the video is;
http://www.bettycrocker.com/how-to/how-to-videos/Spaceshuttle-video.htm

The link to the whippe dcream icng is;
http://indulge-ashscorner.blogspot.com/2009/06/whipped-cream-icing-cake.html

Now the picture of my cake...

The Cake and filing is same like the Elmo Cake which can be found at;

http://indulge-ashscorner.blogspot.com/2009/12/elmo-cake.html

Elmo cake

As promised I am back with a couple more cakes.. My Younger Son loves; absolutely adores Elmo.. so I made this cake for his 2nd Birthday. I was running out fo time, so this time I made the cakes from the boxed mix.. but added orange extract and substituted butter with Applesauce and used just one egg for the whole cake. Next time I make a cake from the boxed mix, am going to make it eggless.

The filling is Orange Marmalde jkam filling with whipped cream icing.

Whipped Cream icing rec can be found at;

http://indulge-ashscorner.blogspot.com/2009/06/whipped-cream-icing-cake.html

Now back to the Elmo cake.
I did not wnat to use a whole lott of red colour icing on the cake, yet wanted to have the Elmo on the cake, so I altered the design of the cake... Hope you enjoy it as much asThe kids at my party did.....

Hope you all love it as much as we did making it!!!!!!!!!!

Aamzing Scrabble

DILIP VENGSARKAR


When you rearrange the letters:

SPARKLING DRIVE







PRINCESS DIANA

When you rearrange the letters:

END IS A CAR SPIN









MONICA LEWINSKY

When you rearrange the letters:

NICE SILKY WOMAN







DORMITORY:

When you rearrange the letters:

DIRTY ROO M











ASTRONOMER:

When you rearrange the letters:

MOON STARER









DESPERATION

When you rearrange the letters:

A ROPE ENDS IT









THE EYES:

When you rearrange the letters:

THEY SEE













A DECIMAL POINT:

When you rearrange the letters:

IM A DOT IN PLACE









AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:





MOTHER-IN-LAW:

When you rearrange the letters:

WOMAN HITLER

Lego Cake

The months of November and December are Birthday months in my home...so here goes Lego cake for my 6 Yr odl Son who is a Lego Freak. he is building blocks, houses, garages, gas stations even when he sleeps......I found this cake on bettycroker.com and tried my version with my Fav colours.. as my son would have chosen ONLY BLUE.. Hope you enjoy making this one........

This is a simple retcangulart cake whihc i cut into smaller rectangles and iced the cake with whipped cream icicng... and placed frosted marshmallows to form the blocks... The complete video is on this link;

http://www.bettycrocker.com/how-to/how-to-videos/Building-Blocks-Video.htm

Have Fun Creating magic in your kitchen.......