These home-made mini Bundt cakes make great wedding favors when packaged in individual gift boxes and are beautiful enough to create a cake tower to replace the traditional wedding cake. Use the recipe below to make them yourself to serve at your wedding, rehearsal dinner or engagement party.
Aug
21st
Funny, funny James Bond Theme Cake
By Carla Carlise
The moment I saw this I just new I had to share it with you ladies. It is so funny and creative. You just know people could not stop taking about this cake at the wedding!
Aug
19th
Easy Marshmallow Fondant Recipe
By Carla Carlise
I've posted this recipe before in the Monogrammed Cookies favor idea article from stylishgiving.com, but I thought it would be a good idea for me to high-light it today. There some of you who are thinking about making your own cake, yet do not like the taste of regular fondant and it can be costly if you are making a larger cake too. So this fondant recipe is an answer to your prayers because not only does it get rave reviews for its taste, but as you can see from the recipe and the ingredients, you can make it yourself, no sweat at all. Of course, my favorite part is that you can make a four tower cake using your own recipe and make enough fondant to cover the whole thing for under $20.00!
Don't forget to watch the video as well to see that is no such a daunting task to bake and cover your own cake with fondant.
Aug
10th
Favor Idea - Easy Mini Cheesecakes
By Carla Carlise
This recipe comes to you from one of my favorite baking blogs and is quite easy to follow. It should not intimidate any of you ladies, bronze budget brides, who are looking for a cheap wedding favor idea for her guests. They are cute, dainty and delicious... your guest would just love them.
Jul
28th
Make a Foot-Ball Cake for your Groom!
By Carla Carlise
I found the recipe below at parenting.com while searching for Super Bowl party food earlier this year. I decided to share it here because I thought it would make a perfect groom's cake for a football fanatic. It's made mostly out of cake, frosting and candy, so yeah, what football fan would not be happy with that.
Jul
27th
Textile-Inspired Cupcake Wrappers - $0.96
By Carla Carlise
photo credit cupcaketakethecake.blogspot.com
"Similar to haute couture, all our designs are custom-created and made from high-quality materials with an extreme attention to detail and finish. The product when assembled into its cupcake shape has a continuation of the pattern with an intent of not showing any “seam”..."
Jul
19th
Mini Chocolate Bundt Cakes
By Carla CarliseThese home-made mini Bundt cakes make great wedding favors when packaged in individual gift boxes and are beautiful enough to create a cake tower to replace the traditional wedding cake. Use the recipe below to make them yourself to serve at your wedding, rehearsal dinner or engagement party.
Jul
17th
Pipe beautiful flowers on your Cupcakes!
By Carla CarliseAfter seeing this video I realized that it is easier than I imagined to pipe some floral design on my cupcakes. I am sure that I'll need to pratice doing it a few times before I get them looking great but this video surely is an inspiration.
Jul
11th
Funny - Now I Have You Cake Topper- $15.00
By Carla Carlise
I love this cake topper, it's too funny and perfect for the bride who had to fight for a wedding day. I have an uncle who has been engaged for almost all his adult life to the same woman who he now shares 3 children with. He is very committed to his fiance, who is such a sweetheart, but he is so against a wedding day, he keeps saying it's not necessary. Well, when they do get married, which may be soon since he is softening to the idea, this would be a cake topper I'd suggest his fiancee gets. All the guests who know them would truly understand why she chose it. (hehe)
Jul
4th
Wedding Cake Alternative - Cream Puff Cake Stand
By Carla Carlise
Makes 10 servings
Ingredients
- Cream Puff Dough
- Filling (choose one of the following):
- -Ice cream
- -Chocolate-Orange Cream
- -Lightly sweetened whipped cream flavored with vanilla or a liqueur
- Chocolate ice cream topping (optional)
- Powdered sugar (optional)
Preparation
1. Spoon Cream Puff Dough into 10 equal mounds (about 1/4 cup each) about 2 inches apart on two lightly buttered 12- by 15-inch baking sheets.
2. Bake in a 375° regular or convection oven until puffs are golden, 25 to 35 minutes; if baking the sheets at the same time in one oven, switch their positions halfway through. With a wooden skewer, poke each puff in several places, then continue baking until golden brown, dry, and crisp, 5 to 8 minutes longer. Transfer puffs to racks to cool completely.
photos coutesy of happhomemaker88.wordpress.com
3. Slice the top third off each puff. Fill each bottom with 1/2 cup of one of the following: ice cream, Chocolate-Orange Cream, or lightly sweetened whipped cream flavored with vanilla or a liqueur. Cover with tops, and drizzle each puff with 2 to 3 teaspoons chocolate ice cream topping or sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar.
recipe courtesy of myrecipes.com
Place in cupcake liners. You can choose a color to match you theme but gold or silver is my preferred choice.
Jul
3rd
Mini Fudge Wedding Cakes
By Carla Carlise
Ingredients
Makes 14 cakes
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3 1/2 cups mini marhsmallows, 8 ounces
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups coarsely chopped dark or white chocolate, 20 ounces
- 2 tablespoons sanding sugar
Directions
- Cut three 3-by-18-inch strips waxed paper; line 9-by-12-inch rimmed baking sheet, 1 strip along length and 2 along width. Allow strips to hang over sides. Coat with cooking spray; set aside. In medium saucepan, combine granulated sugar, salt, butter, cream, and marshmallows. Cook, stirring occasionally, over medium-low heat until most of the butter and the marshmallows are melted, 4 to 5 minutes. Bring to boil; boil, stirring, 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and chocolate; stir until completely smooth. Pour immediately into prepared baking sheet; let cool, 3 to 4 hours.
- When fudge is firm enough to work with, use paper to lift fudge onto a cutting board. Using 1-, 1 1/4 -, and 1 1/2-inch round cutters, cut out 14 rounds of each size. Pour sanding sugar into a small, shallow bowl; dip top of each round in sugar. Stack rounds to form 3-layer cakes; let stand until fudge is completely solid, about 1 hour.
courtesy of marthastewart.com
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