Every year around Easter my family goes through several packages of store-bought hot cross buns. Seeing the buns smooshed together inside plastic packaging with icing smeared everywhere doesn’t look very appetizing to me, so I decided to try making some from scratch at home with my own added twist. Cute hot cross bunnies-or bun buns!
Category: Spring
Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake Roll
This is a lovely dessert for the spring and summer months! It’s light and airy with a smooth sweetness. I made this recipe using an angel food cake mix for time constraint purposes, but you can make your own sponge cake recipe from scratch and it will work just as well! Your friends and family…
Lion and Lamb Cookies
The month of March is almost here! I’m sure you have all heard the old folk saying, “When March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb.” (Of course the opposite is said as well!) The lion and the lamb are similarly compared to the characteristics of yin and yang–just like vanilla…
Carrot Cake Bunnies
A cute design for Easter. I wanted to make these bunnies less ‘cartoony’. I tried to pipe a more realistic shape for more adult tastes since most kids I know don’t like carrot cake too much… since its called ‘carrot’ cake. I started out with regular carrot cake cupcakes and frosted them with cream cheese…
Painted Turtle Cake
This cake was made for a friend who loves turtles and bright colors. I had previously made the Spring Frog Cake for her and I wanted to continue that theme. To make this cake a little different I decided to use a square shape. I used yellow cake and put a strawberry filling between layers….
Strawberries ‘n Cream Cupcakes
My favorite of the ‘gourmet’ series. I love strawberries! And pocky. Why not put them both together on a cupcake? First, I mixed up a strawberry cake mix and made the cupcakes. After the cupcakes cooled I piped on some strawberry flavored whipped topping with a #22 star tip. Next, I carefully sliced some strawberries…
CupCake Flower
A CupCake flower. The design can be modified by changing the color of the petals and flower center. I like putting a face on the flower, but sometimes I go without. The butterflies can be left off as well. I think the butterflies and the face give it a more child friendly flair. As in…
Frog CupCake
A popular design for Spring; the frog CupCake. What I like about this design is how the frog looks at the fly like he is contemplating lunch. I have made this kupcake using a darker green frosting as the basis and using a lighter green for the outline. I prefer the lighter green with dark…
Turtle CupCake
Another CupCake, this time a turtle! The turtle is one of my more popular designs. I sometimes use different colors for the shell depending on what people prefer. As with all the CupCake designs, I tint the board with food coloring to compliment the frosting colors I use.
Spring Frog Cake
This is my first fondant cake. I didn’t know much about fondant before I experimented with it for this cake. I was always interested in working with fondant, and after watching a few cake decoration competitions on Food Network I really had the urge to play around with it. I bought ready-made fondant at a…
Lion and Lamb Critter Cupcakes
These are the first cupcakes I made in my CupCake Series. I was asked to prepare a dessert for a local crafting group last March. I wanted to make something was was fun and creative, and I thought it would be neat to make a reference to the saying; “March comes in like a lion…