Almond Cupcakes w/ Blackberry Frosting for NYE!

Unfortunately, the iPhone’s camera cannot show how good these are! Here are some almond cupcakes that I had to tweak a bit after adding too much cachaça to the recipe!

Almond Cupcakes with Blackberry Frosting

Original recipe from Love & Olive Oil.

(ps…. as far as I can tell, baby food works!)

Christmas Desserts!

Home for the holidays and it’s time to bake and eat!!! For Christmas Eve dinner, there was plenty of delicious noms. I helped my father a bit with some crème brûlée!

Crème Brûlée

We also had two Brazilian desserts, torta de bolacha (a sort of Brazlian tiramisu) and bolinho de aipim (tapioca cake?).My aunt brought Jesus’s birthday cake, complete with a baby Jesus!!!

Christmas Desserts

Jesus Cake!!

Today, I made some gluten-free, sugar-free chocolate chip cookies (recipe thanks to Babycakes NYC cookbook). I then made them into chipwiches with vanilla frosting.

Gluten/Sugar Free chocolate chip cookies

Chipwiches!

Birthday Cakes for Kai!!

I made two cakes for my dear friend Kai this past weekend. When she described what kind of cake she wanted, it was a bit confusing with talks of jello, gummi bears, frosting, and super cupcakes. Then she also wanted my sweet potato cupcakes but in cake form.

So, while in Vegas, along with my pastry special conceptual specialist Bridget , we came up with an idea for Kai’s first thought and I progressed with turning the sweet potato cupcake recipe into a cake recipe for the second cake.

These are crappy iPhone images. I’m trying to get better images from the party.

Sweet Potato Cake!

And…. for the special concept cake….

Sushi Cake with "Fish Roe"

It’s a sushi cake! It’s a yellow cake with buttercream frosting. The nori (seaweed) is black fondant that stained my hands purple for the party . The best part is the fish roe. They’re all gummi bears!!!!!!!!!! And one GIANT ONE!! (Yes…. it’s made of gummi, too)

Sushi Cake With Gummi Bear!

Chocolate Macarons and Quiche (+ 1)

I made chocolate macarons for my French class tomorrow! The first batch was a wtf!disaster. D: But the second batch came out great! I also made quiche in between the two batches (also for French class). From bits and pieces I’ve been munching on, it seems like it’ll taste good? I won’t know until tomorrow though.

I tried making Panda Bread last…Sunday? It didn’t turn out too great though. I threw them out. My heart broke a little.

failed macaron

burger macaron

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failed panda bread

Buffet at the Bellagio in Vegas!

I was in Vegas for work and I had to check out the buffet at the Bellagio. Though it was amazing, I will say the buffet at the Wynn was more memorable last time I was there. Nevertheless, the desserts were amazing!! I grabbed a bunch and took as many bites as possible from each. They are clockwise, starting form the bottom right: cheesecake, peach/raspberry sorbet, chocolate eclair, chocolate cake, chocolate pie, oatmeal cookie, and flan!!!