December Baking Mash-Up!

Giant birthday cupcakes, decorated sugar cookies, individual cakes,
peppermint, peanut butter, chocolate, pistachio....
this is just a sampling of my recent baking excursions.

















More to come!

Always,
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VEGAN BAKES!

My newest creation!

Chocolate-spice cupcakes
with a vegan chocolate center &
red raspberry whipped vegan buttercream frosting :)





Next to come,
Christmas Red Velvet Cupcakes with Candy Cane Frosting.
Stay tuned!

Love always,
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Nautical Cupcakes

Phew!
I just had my largest order to date-
120 cupcakes!

They were made up for the wonderful Hart family
in honor of a very special surprise birthday.
I think they came out great! :)










I must say, I'm very proud of this order.

12 o'clock is *Vanilla Bean with 'Deep Blue Sea' whipped Vanilla Old Fashioned Frosting and Nautical accent. Followed by-
*Lemon Curd with Meringue Frosting
*Pistachio with Vanilla-Nut Cream Cheese Frosting
*Dark Chocolate with Red Berry & White Chocolate Chip Frosting
*Vanilla-Spice with Peanut Butter filling and Salted Caramel & Whipped Peanut Butter Frosting

Thanks for looking, guys. And hey, post a comment, too!
I love all your feedback :)

'Til next time,
Love always-
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Halloween Eats!

Mmmmmm! Zombies and Werewolves!

Have a spooky, ghoulishly amazing Halloween!

Love always,

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Quick Baking Post

My wonderful gal-pal Manar & I did some baking today for a certain Miss Carissa :)

Here's what we came up with!

Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting!

Happy Sunday!

Love always,

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Sweets & Family

I've been super busy with school lately and itching to bake. Luckily, part of my "homework" was to do just that! I'm giving a speech on 'How to Make the Perfect Cake' and decided little cupcake samples would be quite nice. So I whipped up a batch of chocolate cakes with injected raspberry preserves and a cream cheese frosting to top them off :)

My mother decided there should be a photo opportunity, so here are our modeling pics!

Hehe ♥

Love you, Mom!

Always,

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Baby Shower Cake!

I just put together a cake for a baby shower!

It comes complete with lemon cake, raspberry preserves &

an adorable marzipan owl family!

Congrats Sarah & LaMott on your sweet pea!

Love always,

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Lobster Cookies!

Today I finished an order for a wedding rehearsal dinner.

The bride & groom are hosting a lobster bake for all their guests

and ordered a big batch of sugar cookies as souvenirs!

The cookies are simple, sugar & butter recipe biscuits

with royal icing and candy embellishments.

They have chocolate chip eyes, red sugar scales, red-hot tail

fins and gummy worms and fish as their suppers.

Congrats Lindsay & Erick on your wonderful night!

Love always,

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Summer Bakes-- Fresh Fruit!

Today I went to visit a local farm stand in a neighboring town called Gator Creek Farms. I found some lovely peaches there and just had to buy them! They were so pretty and bright :) These juicy jems soon found their way into a mixture of oats, brown sugar and cinnamon crumbs, creating a wonderful summer peach crisp!

Here are some pictures:

The perfect little peach halves, all cut up & ready to go!

The crisp baking away...

The gooey cinnamon-sugar-oats-&-almonds topping

just looks so delectable! I can't wait to try a spoonful :)

Happy summer y'all!

Love always,

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A Lovely Cake For A Lovely Boy!

So it is officially my wonderful boyfriend's 23rd birthday!

His name is Tanner & he's just the tops :)

We're in Cape Cod celebrating as we speak, but before leaving home

a surprise party was had with friends & this yummy cake!

Simple butter cake layered with fresh strawberries

& topped off with whipped chocolate frosting!

Enjoy!

Love always,

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Pool Party Oreo Cupcakes

This isn't a super big post, but here's a snapshot of what I made yesterday

afternoon. They were some mighty delicious cupcakes that came into

attendance at a pool party in the evening.

Chocolate cupcakes with oreo crumbs, oreo-vanilla frosting & topped with a cookie!

Enjoy :)

Always,

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Tim & Mo's Wedding Cake

Some lovely people were married today

& here is their cake!

With basic decoration

The cupcakes to sit along side

The finished cake!

Marble cake layers with mixed fruit filling and cream cheese frosting.

Delish.

Congrats Tim & Maura!

Love always,

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Ali's Flowery Birthday Cake

A wonderful girl I know just turned another year older. In celebration of this big day and her sunshiney personality, I created a cake covered in colorful flowers! The inside is white cake layered & injected with raspberry preserves and the outside is a substantial coating of semi-sweet chocolate whipped ganache frosting. I'm sure she's going to love it!

Stay tuned for more updates :)

Always,

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The Thanksgiving Beach Party!

A few months ago I was invited to a weekend schindig in Boston area. The party theme was 'Thanksgiving Beach Party!' in which guests would, among other things, dress as indians ( like I did, shown in the picture above), swim in a kiddie pool, have social drinks & indulge in a biannual thanksgiving sit-down spread. Of course, I had to bring something to the event. Here are pictures of my creations!

Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Delicious!

Keep those comments coming!

Love,

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Graduation Cake

Quick graduation cake update!

I've been quite busy with work, baking & summer social gatherings lately so sorry for the lack of updates. After last week's wedding cake, I took a few days off. This week was the order for a University of New hampshire graduation cake.

The picture above is of the cake chilling in the fridge before the party. The bottom sheet cake was layers of vanilla-spice cake with strawberry preserves and the top tiered section was pure & simple chocolate cake. The whole thing was topped off with vanilla cream cheese frosting and chocolate embellishments & decals.

The very top layer had the UNH seal on and the sides said various things such as "Congratulations", "Class of 2010" and "UNH!" with baby music notes and heart corner-borders.

All-in-all a fun cake to create, serve & eat (yes, I even got paid to eat some at the get-together!).

More detailed pictures soon.

I just need to upload them onto my mac.

Talk to you soon!

Always,

Lauren Elise

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The Wedding Cake is Done!

Here's how the cake started out:

Naked layers of cake!
Vanilla-Spice and Deep Chocolate cake with French Vanilla and Dark Cocoa frostings.

Here's what happened next:

The crumb coat!
Swiss Meringue Buttercream spread on in a thin layer and set in the fridge to chill.

...And here's the finished product!

All done!
The finished cake with black royal icing pearls and a sunny gerbera daisy on top.

Side note- the humidity today was/is horrible, which caused a little problem. My royal icing pearls started to melt rather than harden! The little drops became all 'smooshed' together in pools and the buttercream became slightly more transparent with the heat as well. Once in the fridge at the wedding it will set back up. Good thing I armed Elaine, one of the girls who picked up the cake, with a pastry bag full of that good ol' goo to touch up the edging before dessert time. Making this cake was a challenge, it was fun and rewarding, but at the same time... I'm glad it's over! Without my own commercial-size refrigerator and freezer, cake frosting in summer time can be just a bit too complicated.

Love to all,

(After all that hard work, I'm beat for today!)

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Birthday Tea Cake!

Along with starting to bake for this wedding cake, I put a little something extra into the oven :) My Grandmother's 80th birthday is today & a family picnic is in order this evening. I decided to make a Pecan Vanilla-Spice cake with Chocolate Ganache drizzle. The picture is the cake cooling on the counter sans topping. And below, with the ganache and an extra dusting of spice! Mmmm.

Always,

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Celebration Bakes

My boyfriend's dad is dating this amazing lady named Rhea & Monday was her birthday! She said she 'didn't want anything' for her big day, as it 'wasn't a big deal'. So naturally, I forced baked goods upon her, saying it had to be done. After all, a birthday's a birthday! So strawberry shortcakes were just the ticket. I went to the market and bought a few quarts of fresh, sweet strawberries, made some baked biscuits with cinnamon and sugar topping and a fresh vanilla whipped cream. They were dynamite!

Also, yesterday was the first ever Beach Tea Party in Old Saybrook. A few friends and I made a spread for the sand of lemon iced tea, sliced apples, fresh berries & grapes, crackers & cheese and a bowl of homemade trail mix. For our dessert craving, we had chocolate brownies I put together that afternoon with peanut butter swirl on top and extra chocolate chips. Sinful. But so good!

In other news, I start the wedding cake tomorrow. I don't now whether to be excited or frightened! I'm sure it'll be perfectly sweet & work out just fine. Wish me luck! :)