I really do make cakes. I promise.

So, it's been a while. I'm sorry about that. I'm not going to go into lots of detail on these, but they are pictures I wanted to share. Some of them are fairly old and others are more recent. All of them are something random that I was working on. So, without further ado, here are my pictures:

This is my first attempt at a diaper cake. It was super fun, but it did fall apart super easy. I'll have to find a better way to hold it together.

This was a birthday cake for my roommate. Her favorite flowers are tulips. I love tulips, but they are a very hard flower to make look good on a cake. This is what I came up with. I think it is an acceptable way to include tulips. :)

This was for Halloween this year. Happy Halloween! This was my first cake made with my crucut machine. All I had were super girly patterns, so I decided I would go with gothic looking curtains and windows. I love the cricut machine, but I did have a hard time figuring out exactly how to get it to cut the fondant without stretching it. I'll have to play around with it a little more.

Hopefully you've enjoyed at least seeing some of my creations. I do have one more cake that I need to post. It's actually a wedding cake, so it should be a little more detailed of a post. It won't be near as long next time, I promise.

-Kelda

Angel Food Cake

I had heard from a lot of different people that angel food cake was one of the harder cakes to make. It sticks, it falls, it doesn't taste right. There were a myriad of reasons why buying angel food cake was the better options. And, me being who I am, didn't accept this. Buying is NEVER better. Nonetheless, I was nervous to try.

I had to get over it though. My boss asked me to make a cake for her son's birthday and all that he was able to eat because of specific health problems was angel food cake. So, I tried it. It went great! This was a few months ago, but since then I have made it again and was able to take pictures.

I don't know what I was worried about! It was a fairly simple cake. I'll post my recipe and then I'll show the final product. :)

Angel Food Cake Recipe:

1 3/4 cups sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup cake flour (This is important. Don't try using anything else.)
12 egg whites
1/3 cup water
1 tsp flavored extract (I've tried almond and vanilla. The next one I want to experiment with is lemon.)
1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Put sugar in blender and blend for about two minutes until very fine.
3. Sift flour, half of the sugar, and salt together in a bowl.
4. Beat egg whites, water, extract, and cream of tartar in separate bowl until medium stiff peaks form. Add the half of sugar not with flour. Beat again so that peaks appear.
5. Sift a fine layer of flour mixture on top of eggs. Fold gently in until completely mixed.
6. Repeat step 5 until all the flour is incorporated into the batter.
7. Pour batter into an UN-GREASED tube or bundt pan.
8. Cook for about 45 and check with a wooden skewer. When inserted in the middle it should come out clean and just a little damp.
9. Cool upside down elevated (I used an old glass bottle for this part.) until the pan is cool to the touch.
10. Gentle scrap edges and remove cake. Eat and enjoy!

Strawberries
1 lb strawberries
1 lemon
1 1/2 cup sugar

Slice the strawberries. Juice the lemon into the bowl with the strawberries. Add sugar to desired taste. Let sit for a while. The sugar brings out the juices in the strawberries, so the longer you let it sit, the more sauce you will have.

Serve over angel food cake or shortcake.


And here's the picture of mine:

 
I will NEVER buy angel food cake again. This cake homemade is about a billion times better! It's moist, delicious and every other word you can use to describe good food. :)

Kakes with Kelda's new specialty!

I know, I know... It has been way too long. I have plenty of cakes that I did, but I've been neglecting updating this. Mainly because I've been neglecting taking pictures. I don't have a decent camera, so I always feel my pictures never really do justice. Once I get a few decent pictures, I promise, you'll see all the cakes that I've done. But for now, I have a new announcement!

It all starts with a normal boring Wednesday. My roommate Kenlynn and I were watching the travel channel (yes, we were really that bored). All of a sudden, Kenlynn comes running in the room, grabs her computer, and with much more excitement than I expected exclaimed, "I know what I can do! I'm going to make waffles from cake batter!'

Now, being the baking person that I am, I perked up. Cake batter? Waffles? Should those even be mixed? Well, it turns out that yes. Yes they should. Kenlynn quickly mixed up a box cake mix (Don't judge. Even I cut corners sometimes.) And we pulled out the waffle iron. We put the first scoop of batter in and weren't quite sure what to expect. See... we've had many a waffle making extravaganza, but cake batter just seemed strange. The first waffle wouldn't come out of the iron. It was too soft and crumbly. So, the second one we left in a little longer. This worked much better. It was the perfect balance of crispy waffle outside, and soft moist cake inside.

It was at this moment that I started wishing for raspberry syrup. And, although I didn't have any of that, I did have vanilla bean ice cream. I pulled it out and quickly decided that this was how waffle cakes must be eaten.  Then I remembered some cherry syrup I had in the fridge (not as tasty, and I certainly don't want to use it again, but it worked for the experiment).

Now, here comes the sad news. I took pictures. None of them do it justice. But, I will show you one. Please don't judge too harshly. They were much tastier looking in real life.

And now for the exciting part! This is going to be the house specialty when I open my bakery. Waffle cakes. I'm excited to try it out with different flavors of cake, ice cream, and syrups. And, to give credit where credit is due, the idea was Kenlynn's who heard from someone else that it was tasty. 

Again, sorry for the wait, and I promise to update with wedding cakes and party cakes soon.

-Kelda-