My Little Pony Cake.

So as I have mentioned before I recently had some problems with my health. More specifically and without getting all morbid ;-) I was diagnosed with MS. Even though I luckily have not gotten any major symptoms yet, I have been plagued with some crazy fatigue. I am ALWAYS hopelessly tired. So the thought of taking on a whole kids party was just to much in the heat of summer. A dear friend of mine who just had a little baby suggested that we put two and two together and have one party for our two girls who both were turning 5. Magic.

She provided the location, the garden (it's amazing) and the games. And I brought the cake and desserts. It was perfect. I could focus on what I know how to do and she didn't have to do all that with a newborn plus 5 other kids in the house! Yeah, we both got a big win out of it :-)!!!

Check out her blog where you will find some of the pictures I have here too, as well as plenty more.

Here are some of her pictures and some of mine.  Hope you like them!

Some of the decorations provided by Linda!

Cakepops made of Ballerina cookies, Philadelphia and nutella!

The drinks setup!

The cake! I am personally quite in love with it, if I may say so myself ;-)!

Ellie's favorite MLP, Rainbowdash! As you will also see by her outfit......

 

Details!

The gals! Ellie with her Rainbowdash attire on... of course!

Massacred!!! 

I live the history behind these delights. Spike's jeweled cupcakes and the chocolate raining clouds. Both from separate episodes of MLP.

Some healthy stuff on an otherwise sugar covered table.

Some of the little tags on the food!

Here is my little birthday girl! I love her so much, and there is no way I could ever express it to her.  Maybe one day she will understand. <3

Enjoy!
-J.

I'm still here!

Hello everyone!

It has been a while, I know... and I AM still making cakes, I PROMISE ;-)!

But there has been a bump in the road for me unfortunately. Due to health I have had to take it rather easy. No stress allowed. And if any of you have ever made a cake you know how stressful it can be.

I don't want to bore you with the details, but if you are interested in why I have taken a little break, then you can go in to my new blogg here.

And like I said, I am still making cakes!!! 

I hope you have a great day :-)!

-J.

Ellie's 3rd Birthday - Minnie Mouse Cake

First of all... Excuse the quality of my photos... These were taken before my elevated awareness of the importance of good photos...

Ok. So I know this entry is a little late. Ellie is almost 5 and this is her 3rd birthday cake and 

decorations.

We were living in Darwen, near Manchester in Lancashire England at the time and I finally had a kitchen that was big enough and had enough work surface to make a proper dessert table. My first actually! 

The dessert table included:

The Cake

Salty Caramel filled Cookie Dough Balls

Make-your-own-Mickey Sugar Cookies

RiceKrispieTreat-pops

Chocolate Covered Oreos decorated like little mickeys

Buttercream covered Sugar Cookies

Rockpops (homemade)

Watermellon-Pops

Chocolate Mousse in shot glasses

Caramel Popcorn

Jelly filled Orange Slices

Anyone who is an avid Pinterest user will recognize a lot of the ideas ;-)... Let's just say that this was the beginning of my relationship with that wonderful world of Pinterest. A relationship that has just continued to blossom ;-)...

<3

Also I want to add that the kids DID have dinner before they got to dig into the deserts, but they STILL managed to get through most of it! Was mightily impressed... though their parents did help too ;-)..

If anyone is interested in the recipes and how to's, and I'll se if I can throw together a tutorial!

Enjoy!

J.

Plumbers Cake.

This was my first cake Swedish style.

By swedish style I mean with mousses, marzipan, berries and stuff rather than just buttercream (though buttercream is welcome too). It was scary because it means a more unstable cake. But oh how yummy it is.

In this one I had Vanilla bavaroise... which is a type of mousse I guess. It is something that I quite easily could eat by the bucketload. it is not too sweet and the texture is heavenly. perfectly smooth. I am desperately trying to find the recipe that I used and am currently struggling so I will link a different recipe for now and update it if and when I find it. This recipe looks very similar: http://food.ninemsn.com/recipes/other/8338444/vanilla-bavarois

I also had strawberry mousse, but the recipe was not the best so I will not include it here. 

It was my husbands birthday. We have just moved to sweden and bought a 1930's house that is in need of some TLC. But as it is with every new relationship (even one between people and a house) there is some "growing pains". In our case it was the plumbing. 

Without going into too many details(trust me be grateful) We had to change the whole system. Nick was thrown off the deep end... and he came up not only swimming but doing a perfect crawl. He changed the whole system basically by himself. He had some guidance from my brother who happens to live next door, but he read up on it and then did it. Ellie, Penelope and I went to live with my parents for the week where I made this cake as it was Nick's birthday that weekend(yes he spent his weekend knee high in dumpage(the nicest word I could find for what it was). Thank you to my brother and his family for letting him use the shower! He loved the cake. He was so surprised and happy. He probably thought he wasn't getting anything considering the circumstances. I had the MOST fun making it as I got to learn so much about how to make a cake like swedes do it. I'm telling you It ain't easy.

Enjoy.
-J.

P.s the smears on the cake is cocoa powder.... ;-)

My First Wedding Cake.

This was not work.

My husbands best friend was getting married to a girl from Jersey. If you don't know where Jersey is, it's just off the coast of France, but it belongs to the British Isles. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

They wondered if I could decorate their wedding cake. They would order covered cakes from Marks and Spencers and I would simply decorate it. They know their colors (maroon and gold) and their theme. Literature. So I brought my colors and the rest they provided as I couldn't take sugarpaste on the plane. So it was a little of an improvisation job.

This was Nick and I's first vacation together as a married couple. And quite literally the first time I was away from my 2 year old... EVER. Nicks parents came up to help us out with babysitting for the 4 days we would be gone. I was so stressed before the trip. Nothing was going right. And my expectations for the the holiday were very low. I think the cherry on the cake was when we got there and there was no one there to pick us up. I was close to a nervous breakdown. Then we met one of nicks friends at the airport who was renting a car. And from then on our time was spent either on the beach, at an amazing wedding, at amazing restaurants and always with awesome people. 

Now about the cake.

So I started by picking off the little pieces of royal icing that M&S thought would be decorative. This was tedious work as it would leave marks on the cake. So I knew that I would need to cover the cakes again. I had some thought of what I would do but it had to be altered slightly by the BAD finish of the cake. For the amount of money they spent on that cake they didn't get great quality. That's for sure. But I did what I could with it and they were overjoyed with the result. 

I saw one of the books that they would have as a table decoration and immediately thought of it topping the cake. They loved the idea so I went for it and added the rings as they wouldn't have a bride and groom top it. 

The roses were made out of Sugarpaste, not Gumpaste.. Which perhaps gives you an idea of how difficult it was to get them semi-right.

After having worked for quite a few hours the bride and groom said that enough was enough. They didn't want me spending anymore time in the kitchen while everyone else in the wedding party including them were out on the beach. So they dragged me out and what an amazing time we all had!

  

Enjoy.

-J.

So about me.

Here we go again... Attempt 2 at blogging.

I would like to see my last try as a practice run and that this time... THIS time I will not only stick to it, but excel at it... I know I'm digging my own grave...

 

So about me.

I am a mother of two, wife of one, sister of 5 and daughter of 2. I live in Fritsla, Sweden. In a house that feels like its still stuck in the 30's but that we will slowly be bringing into the 21st century but with a rustic charm. My family consists of me Josefine, my husband Nick, my beautiful daughters Elinor(3) and Penelope(3 months). They are my life.

I started making cakes just over 2 years ago now and have been learning ever since. It's a hobby. I make cakes for friends and family and the occasional friend of a friend. One day maybe this will be more than a hobby, but not before I have given my everything to my family first. <3.

 

I love my family, my life and my kitchen.

Enjoy.

-J.