I have been baking today, simply because I needed something sweet and sugary. I ended up with a batch of light chocolate cupcakes with a white meringue frosting on top. It is a really good flavour combination those two. If you are looking for a 100% white frosting, the white meringue frosting is a really…
Light chocolate cupcakes
Light chocolate cupcakes Serving Size: 12 Cupcakes If you want to keep it light while eating a great dessert, then you definitely want to try to make light chocolate cupcakes Ingredients 1/4 cup (25 grams) dark unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 cup (60 ml) hot boiled water 1/4 cup (60 ml) milk 1/2 cup (113 grams)…
White Meringue Frosting
White Meringue Frosting Cakes and cupcakes with white meringue frosting can be stored in the refrigerator for two days. Ingredients 3/4 cup (170 g) granulated white sugar 3 large egg whites 2 tbsp cold water 1 tsp lemon juice 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Instructions It is best to make this frosting in a metal…
CakeJournals December favourites
Before December is running out and a new year is beginning. I will share with all of you, CakeJournal’s December favourites. I would love to stock up with some new cookie cutters and these two will find their way into my cookie cutter collection. First a pretty teacup cookie cutter
Gingerbread cookie Christmas tree
I finally had some time to take a photo of my gingerbread cookie Christmas tree. 21 cookie stars decorated with lots of soft green royal icing, light golden sugar dragees and a gold painted star on top.
Christmas market
Here are some photos from our Christmas market last weekend. We used the old garage (charming – but would have looked great in one of these log cabins, too!) and it looked really pretty with all the snow. I made two small gingerbread houses and some gingerbread cookie hearts.
CakeJournals November favourites
Welcome to the first monthly post of CakeJournal’s favourites. Every month I will make a post about cake books, cake tools, cake crafts, cake recipes and cake websites that I find interesting. So lets start with CakeJournals November favourites.
Halloween cookies
Here are the Halloween cookies that we will be enjoying today. “Dead” fingers, green witches finger and then the Halloween cookies decorated with royal icing. I got inspired by the recipe from Martha Stewart for the “dead” and witches fingers.
CakeJournal on Facebook
This is just a quick test to see if I have done it all right to get CakeJournal on Facebook. A lot of you have asked if I could add CakeJournal to Facebook and here it is: CakeJournal.com I hope that it works and that you will enjoy it! A little side note, I still…