Strawberry Chocolate Cupcake

Chocolate covered strawberries are good, so why can't a chocolate strawberry cupcake be great?

Well, we thought it would be delicious, so we made one.

We cut our strawberries into small pieces and put them in sugar, like you would for strawberry shortcake. We frosted a chocolate cupcake with butter cream frosting and then topped it with the strawberries. Enjoy!

Birthday Cake

We love the beach so much. It is one of our favorite places to visit, and while on vacation we bought a palm tree cookie cutter and we wanted to use it for something. So, for our birthday we were going to make this cake and decided to put the palm trees on the top.  

We decorated it with fondant. We bought the black and white fondant, but colored the white fondant purple so that it wouldn't be a perfectly smooth color. For the palm trees we just used the cookie cutter on the rolled out black fondant. 

Beehive Cake

A woman that we know raises bees and sells their honey. She loves bees and knows everything about them. So, for her birthday we made and decorated this beehive cake for her. She loved the cake!

We made the bees out of fondant and stuck them onto the cake with toothpicks. This picture doesn't show all of what is written on the cake. It says Happy Bee-Day! :)

Firework Cupcakes

One of the best things about the Fourth of July is fireworks, right? Well the best thing about these cupcakes is that they look like mini fireworks that you can eat!

To decorate these we used a grass tip. Then we started in the middle and moved out, simply creating a circle with each color.

Fishing Cake

We decorated this cake for our step-dad for his birthday. We thought a fishing themed cake would be perfect since he loves to fish. We baked a chocolate cake so that it would look like dirt when it was cut. To make the grass we simply used a grass tip.

Rainbow Cake

Rainbow cakes are one of our favorite cakes to make because the inside is a surprise when the cake is cut.

 This is the outside of the cake we made for our Grandpa's birthday. We used buttercream frosting and decorated the cake with a basket weave.

       When my Grandpa cut the cake this is what he saw. He was so surprised and thought it was super cool!

                                  We decorated this cake for our brother's seventeenth birthday.

                                                     He loved the inside when he saw it!
There are so many different ways to decorate a rainbow cake. They are very versatile. They can be decorated fancy for a more formal party or the rainbow theme can be transferred to the decorating as well.

Apple Dapple Cake

This cake is super delicious and moist (and the batter is also delicious). Our entire family loves it. This cake would be great in the fall when apples are in season and at their best, but it taste great at anytime of the year.

Ingredients:

           For Cake:

• 1 1/2 cups oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 3 cups chopped raw apples
• 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts, optional

       For topping:

• 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
       Mix together oil, vanilla, sugar, and eggs.
      Add flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
     Stir/fold in chopped apples and pecans/ walnuts, if desired.
     Pour into well greased and floured pan ( 1 Bunt pan, 1 9x13 pan, or 2
loaf pans)
     Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

   Combine butter, brown sugar, and milk in a sauce pan and heat until well blended. Pour over still warm cake while the topping is hot.
   Let cool and enjoy.