tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72445961932850232922024-03-05T11:34:35.572-05:00Desserts By Danielle<b><i>Custom made cupcakes, cake bites, and cake pops.</i></b>Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-81935940783864799222016-10-13T00:00:00.000-04:002019-02-10T19:53:07.436-05:00Chocolate Chip Cheesecake<span style="font-size: large;">I had a lot of fun creating this chocolate chip cheesecake for a women's group:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to go extra heavy on the chocolate chips to ensure there were enough in every slice and in every bite. The drizzle across the top is a mix of milk and semi-sweet chocolate with a touch of cinnamon. It was a delicious treat enjoyed by the women at this particular evening gathering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pink and white flowers topped each tier with silver </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">dragée</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> accents to match the silver/grey color of the bridesmaids' dresses. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Inside was the bride's favorite cake flavor, red velvet. Congratulations and much happiness to the newlywed couple!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-71994007819567139782016-07-06T21:32:00.000-04:002019-02-10T19:51:56.744-05:00Watermelon<span style="font-size: large;">I love going to fun get-togethers that have lots of great food! And what better accompaniment to great food than a delicious dessert. Although these projects share the same theme, they were delivered to two different parties. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I rarely bake cookies, but the challenge of a watermelon-themed cookie was too tempting to pass by! I was very glad with how these yummy sugar cookies turned out and the chocolate chip "seeds" gave the perfect touch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next challenge: a double layer vanilla cake with vanilla bean buttercream icing. The cake was trimmed and turned on its side, creating the perfect canvas for the 'watermelon' icing layers, and chocolate chips adorn the red colored section. The party host was delighted to receive her cake!</span></div>
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Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-16692852281528328312016-06-03T17:35:00.000-04:002016-06-04T01:05:00.000-04:00Goldfish Goodies<span style="font-size: large;">These fun, fishy treats were made for a little girl's 3rd birthday party. The theme for the party was the popular young children's cartoon "Bubble Guppies" so all of the decor matched the underwater theme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chocolate-dipped marshmallows on a convenient lollipop stick, with goldfish cracker accents and a pretzel coated bottom representing the sandy ocean floor. Rather than using the regular round marshmallows, I decided to use special square shaped ones (created to be used more easily in s'mores). The flat square shape gave the perfect canvas for the aquatic scene!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below are chocolate dipped pretzel sticks, also decorated in colorful fish crackers. The white nonpareils 'bubbles' playfully rise as the fish 'swim' around!</span><br />
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<br />Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-51651675916566704392016-01-09T18:58:00.000-05:002016-01-29T19:01:19.541-05:00Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was so much fun to make these special cupcakes for two very special boys: my nephews! They love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and were super excited to see their two favorite characters in cupcake form. Raphael wears the red mask, and Michelangelo is in the orange. On this particular visit, my nephews were teaching me the fine art of each turtle's fighting style. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was very happy to make these cupcakes as they combined two of my top favorite ingredients: ginger and orange! Made for a women's gathering, these ginger-orange cupcakes (topped with a citrus cream cheese frosting and slice of mandarin orange) were a yummy addition to their brunch meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These cake pops were requested for a beach-themed bridal shower held down at the Jersey shore. Wrapped up and tagged in golden and white ribbon, these cake pops served as the take-home favors for all guests in attendance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paw Patrol, a cute cartoon show, served as the inspiration for this next project. A cake based on this show was requested for a 3-year-old's birthday party, as he watches the show often and enjoys the characters. His mom therefore planned a party theme with all decor containing the cartoon's logo and characters. Although I generally accept projects that are cupcakes, cake pops, or cake bites (I enjoy making things in miniature!), I'll occasionally agree to do a cake here and there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cake was a double layer vanilla confetti cake covered in blue fondant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These bow-themed cake pops were made for a baby shower in which the mother-to-be wishes to be surprised at the baby's birth. Since the baby's gender is a mystery, all of the decorations at the shower were based on a "Team Pink" or "Team Blue" theme and even the guests arrived wearing one of the two colors, placing their vote on which gender they feel the baby is! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mother-to-be's sister requested desserts that also fit the pink verses blue theme. Both sets of cake pops are vanilla bean cake with white chocolate coating. The pink sets have a bow placed on top of the 'head' and the blue sets have blue bow ties placed below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking for a unique gift idea? How about a box of delicious cake bites! Customizable to your preferred flavor and color palette, cake bites are an excellent and tasty choice for a gift. These gold-sprinkled, white chocolate coated cake bites were for a birthday gift. Inside each little cake bite was moist red velvet cake mixed with a bit of vanilla buttercream. A fun surprise for the birthday recipient!</span><div>
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Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-5505112111382444862015-03-07T21:27:00.000-05:002015-05-20T01:36:20.274-04:00Wintry Cupcakes<span style="font-size: large;">It has been quite the winter here in the northeast and snow has fallen in record numbers. In keeping with the theme of the season, these snow inspired cupcakes were perfect for a recent winter party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ah, red velvet! While I love baking (and eating!) red velvet year round, it feels a bit more special during Valentine's Day. Each February, I try to do some type of red velvet treat. These little desserts (there were more, but only one is pictured above) were for a combination Valentine's Day dinner and 30th birthday party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are two layers of both red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting, making this a pseudo-trifle of sorts (no alcohol and no custard/cream). Garnishing the top is a little chocolate heart with super tiny sprinkle-confetti hearts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The serving dish is a perfect hand-held size, yet the cake is ever so slightly bigger than a standard cupcake. I feel it's such a great dessert-sized portion; not so big that it can't be eaten after a scrumptious dinner and not so small that you take two bites and it's already gone.</span></div>
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<br />Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-48455030846001396262015-01-23T14:26:00.000-05:002015-02-02T19:43:48.782-05:00Teapot Cake Pops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">These cake pops were ordered as take-home favors for a 60th birthday party. The party was held at a 100+ year old historical house that has been converted into a tea room and gift shop. Making these brought back memories of a landmark 'decade' birthday that I personally celebrated several years ago (also at a tea house), along with memories of sipping tea and munching on scones with clotted cream in the English countryside when I visited England a few years back! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the event, I was very pleased to hear back from my client that all of the guests enjoyed their edible favors, especially her mother, Joyce, who was the birthday guest of honor. The favors were a surprise treat and she greatly enjoyed them!</span></div>
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<br />Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-37393561912304579182015-01-01T21:11:00.002-05:002015-01-01T21:12:49.411-05:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This dessert table was created for a recent bridal shower. Since the wedding colors are purple, blue, and gold, all of the desserts reflected that color scheme. Adorning the dessert table were a mixture of:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I normally am not one to make pies (I prefer to stick with cupcakes, cake pops, and cake bites), but 'tis the season for a Thanksgiving treat and for my family, nothing completes our Thanksgiving dinner more than a slice of sweet potato pie. So I step outside of my baking comfort zone for this one time during the year and convince my mother to share her special recipe with me so that I could bake them. What you see pictured above is the final slice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I think of a flower that truly epitomizes summertime, the gorgeous sunflower comes to mind. And although I wilt on long, hot summer days, these beauties flourish. The sunflower was the inspiration behind these cake bites requested for a recent bridal shower celebration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cake bites I made were a classic vanilla bean cake with vanilla buttercream and coated with a mixture of milk and semi-sweet chocolate. A majority of the cake bites were topped with edible fondant sunflowers and other cake bites were sprinkled with blue and gold sanding sugar to highlight the blue accent color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spring is in the air! The weather is warming up and spring sports are in full force at the parks and inside my kitchen! Back in March, you saw a blog featuring basketball cake pops. This time around, I had fun creating baseball cake pops for a little boy's baseball-themed birthday party. Inside the white chocolate shell and red-stitched coating is chocolate buttercream cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-41947175305659302392014-03-16T10:45:00.000-04:002014-03-22T10:51:56.154-04:00March Madness<span style="font-size: large;">Normally, I have no interest in following either the NBA or college basketball (hockey is my sport of choice), but this year my <a href="http://www.udel.edu/" rel="nofollow">alma mater</a> made it into the NCAA playoffs! And then was subsequently defeated. Bummer. Contrary to my short-lived interest, my good friend (a former college basketball player herself) enthusiastically follows her chosen basketball teams throughout the season. Figures that her birthday falls in the month of March...it was meant to be! So, it was fitting to make the following b-ball themed cake and cake pops to celebrate:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The black lines on the cake pops were created with chocolate and black sanding sugar. The birthday cake is a double layer vanilla and chocolate chip cake with a vanilla buttercream filling. I added some texture to the fondant basketball to mimic the 'dimples' found on an actual ball. After all, this was going to be given to a basketball expert who spend years on the court...I had to be detailed and accurate!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-21430196865198660522014-02-22T23:27:00.000-05:002014-03-04T00:03:20.060-05:00Birthdays<span style="font-size: large;">During the month of February, I usually crank up the oven in preparation for inspired Valentine treats that I intend to bake. But this year, February was a bit of a crazy month. Instead of spending time in the warmth of my kitchen, much of my time was spent outside, digging my house and car out of the rounds and rounds of snow that the incessant storm systems kept dumping on much of the northeast. Yet even with that (and a little 'playing' in the snow via snowboarding) I also worked on a few baking orders for some birthdays. One birthday was based on a 'Strawberry Shortcake' theme, so they requested strawberry shaped cake pops:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I received an order for a birthday cake from a client who was interested in having a marble swirl cake. So after agreeing on a blue color scheme, this ocean-like swirl cake came to fruition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The wavy swirls on the outside reflect the double layer vanilla and chocolate marble swirls inside. Fondant flowers in various blue shades finish off the top. Funny how these two creations remind me a lot more of spring and summer, rather than winter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Poinsettia</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and wreath cupcakes for a New Years gathering:</span></div>
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<br />Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623568602169320574noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244596193285023292.post-89567312885701157292013-12-28T20:30:00.000-05:002013-12-29T14:38:57.365-05:00Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake<span style="font-size: large;">Cheesecake is wonderful. Chocolate is wonderful. Put both together and....there are *no words* to describe such a delectable combination! Add some fresh whipped cream and you have the makings of a fantastic dessert:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This cheesecake contains three layers: a chocolate graham cracker crust bottom, a creamy chocolate cheesecake for the middle, and a rich chocolate ganache (the 'truffle' part) on top. To cut the richness of the triple chocolate layers, I piped whipped cream around the outside border of the cake along with a few rows on top. And (because I'm convinced there can <i>never</i> be too much chocolate) I dotted each whipped cream peak with a mini-chocolate chip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An excellent dessert to share with friends and family!</span></div>
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