PANDA BREAD

Hello Everyone,

So a long time ago my awesome friend Kateri told me about this interesting, wonderful bread called Panda Bread.  Why is it called Panda Bread you ask...cause you can SEE a panda...

WHAT!  OMG the cuteness of this bread makes me die. 

I made that bread up there.  I am so stinking proud of myself.  Guess what my cyberfriends.  YOU could make some panda bread yourself.

For helpful tips on how to assemble the bread watch this video below:



DON'T follow her recipe guide...it was confusing and hard.  Use THIS ONE.

I know you are all looking at the above panda thinking to yourselves.  No way, I will never be able to make that.  You can.  If I can YOU can.

So here we go:

Next time he will be even MORE panda like!

I made myself a pb&j with the panda bread...I felt like such an adult!!!!

Love and Frosting,

Cup-e-Cake Gang

Cinco De Mayo [Margarita Cupcakes]

Hola todo el mundo!

According to Goggle that is "Hello Everyone" and I am going to believe them.  While I have studied Spanish in high school AND college...all I know is "donde esta la biblioteca" and "me llamo Cassandra"

Impressed?  Yeah I know, I am pretty amazing!  Bro. Paco would be so proud!

Happy Cinco de mayo!

I made a margarita cupcake.  To be honest while they smelled really good, I didnt taste any tequila.  I went to the store to buy my ingredients and I walked out of the store with vodka.  I got to the car and then thought "CRAP I need TEQUILA not VODKA!"  oh well.  I actually had some tequila at home so sometimes being an alcoholic is okay (JUST KIDDING).

There she is.  Beautiful right!  I think so.

The recipe is from the Brown Eyed Baker and I really liked the cupcake but I really wanted to feel a slight buzz from eating it.  So next time POUR ALL THE TEQUILA!!!!

Here is what I did.

flour, baking powder, salt

butter getting down with the sugar

hello lover.

do not worry, they will get better when you add the flour and buttercream

poured 1/4 teaspoon of tequila on them :)

tequila buttercream

So there you have it.

I now have a bottle of vodka and will proceed to make some cupcakes with it.

OH and I went to a gum paste flower class today...and here is what I made:

Plumeria, "rose", hibiscus

We also learned how to make a rose, but mine didnt turn out too good.  How was the class?  eh...okay.  I need to practice more, I think that is really the key to making realistic gum paste flowers.  Practice.

Be safe out there.

Love and Frosting,

Cup-e-Cake Gang

Buzzzz!!!!!

So the musical is over!  While it was super fun I am super happy to have my life back!

Now that I have time on my hands I can start baking again.  Its about time because while I am a musical SUPERSTAR, baking is more fun.

In honor of the Spelling Bee I made some Honey Cupcakes.

Before you all get excited about my new creation do note that I took a page from Sandra Lee and made it semi-homemade.

And in my book that is okay from time to time.  Yeah we all should be making things from scratch but when Billy Bob comes home from school and tells you (after you've had a long day at work) that he volunteered YOU to bake cupcakes for the bake sale TOMORROW.  Don't panic.  First yell at Billy for volunteering and then whip out that box of cake mix and get to work.

These cupcakes are super easy to make.  First up make some honeycombs.  I got the idea for this from Sweetopia.  She made a honeycomb cookie and I thought "awesome technique, I can use this for a cupcake"

So here is how I did it.

So I followed the directions on the box and ADDED a cup of honey.  WHAT!!!  Insane, maybe a little but it worked for me.

Once the cupcake were out of the oven I was worried about the honey taste.  Would the honey flavor bake out of the cupcakes?  So I decided to poke holes in the super hot cupcakes and pour honey (yep plain old honey) right onto the cupcakes.

Allow those to cool.  Then make some buttercream.

Same principle.  All I did was make the standard buttercream (whatever is your favoriate) and added honey...I didnt even measure...I just poured.

While you wait for the cupcakes to cool, make some bees!

Bees are super easy and are explained here. 

I had the BRILLIANT idea of putting some bees on wires to give the illusion of flying.

 Cute idea right....yeah it didnt work to good on the cupcake.

That was fun.

Okay.  I have nothing else to say.

Love and Frosting,

Cup-e-Cake Gang