Last post

Perhaps the last post for this year, at least before Christmas I think. Tomorrow I join my wonderful boyfriend and son in the north. While they've been gone I spent some time scrapping Christmas cards.... here are some of them.

Christmas candy

This weekend I made some Christmas candy...


Chocolate candy with sugar free dark chocolate, 4 different kinds of nuts, coffee and cardamom.


Christmas muesli, with blueberries, cranberries and apples, cinnamon and cardamom.


White chocolate candy with cranberries and mini marshmallows.


I hope you enjoy your holiday and that you treat yourself to many different kinds of food and sweets during Christmas.

Leila's muffins a la Malin

Made some "healthy" muffins for me, my sister and our mother. Tomorrow we are going on a daytrip and need some good energy. These are made from Leila's book "A piece of cake". I added one avocado, chopped pecans, cashews and almonds and some ginger cookie spices.

Chocolate truffles

A Christmas without chocolate is not a real holiday... These little treats are made with pistachio and dark chocolate. I brought them to work for my colleagues, otherwise I would have eaten them all, yummy.

Have a very merry chocolaty Christmas

Kid is asleep and I pulled out all my new Christmas papers and other scrap things to remake two chocolate bars. These are for a colleague of mine who has invited us to Christmas lunch tomorrow at her house. I hope she will enjoy them, both the chocolate and the decorations.

Cards

A birthday card for my boyfriends mother, and below a card for the Christening of a little baby boy. (sorry for the bad quality pictures I hope you can see the cards well enough)

Birthday Cupcakes

My boyfriend is away on his birthday so I decided to celebrated him early. First a very nice meal with fresh tuna, and then some yummy cupcakes.


Saffron and marzipan cupcakes with white chocolate frosting. Someone (not me!) ate the marzipan I was gonna use, so I used black marzipan instead. The cupcakes looked like yellow volcanoes with black lava pouring from them :)

Babycard

This is a card I made for a friend who had a babyboy this summer. I have borrowed the verse from a card my son got from my sister for his Christening.

Mother's Day Cake

A cake for my mother in spring colours.

Bröllopstårta

Min första och hittills enda bröllopstårta, och första tvåvåningstårta, gjorde jag till min syster bröllop i augusti. Först hade vi tårtprovning för att de skulle få välja fyllningar. Jag gjorde tre olika tårtor som jag dekorerade, men ingen liknade den riktigt bröllopstårtan. Tyvärr missade jag att fota två av dem men här kommer den ena. Detta var även mitt första försök till en drapering av sugarpaste. Pärlbågen har fått stelna och tanken var att den skulle stå upp men det lyckades inte riktigt - får testa det fler gånger.


Den riktiga tårtan innehöll mjölkchokladmousse, hallonsylt och limemousse. Jag blev väldigt nöjd med dekoren som gick i vitt med lite blått för att matcha brudens klänning. Jag har ingen bra bild på tårtan monterad men här kommer de två delarna separat. Toppen har en prinsesskrona gjord av hjärtan, drapering och en skylt av sugarpaste med den enda icke ätbara detaljen, lite bling. Botten är täckt med rosor i vitt och blått. En pärlbåd pryder båda delarna. Allting pudrat med pärlemor- och silverdust.



Jag gjorde även ett kort till brudparet. Även det gick i vitt.

My First Cake

This cake was for my son's christening in February. It was my first cake using sugarpaste and and my first experiment with making roses. I was quite happy with the result!
Since the cake was big I got some help from my father in law to roll out the sugarpaste and to place it on the cake.
The roses were made in the easiest way, place a number of cut out circles in a row overlapping each other, roll it up, cut in half and spread the leafs a little to make the rose more real looking.



While baking and making this cake my new hobby became clear - I want to make cakes, cupcakes and beautiful decorations for cakes. This can be a neverending story since there are so many things to try, so many flavours, colours, sugarpastes and other edible materials....