Кекс с канела, орехи и портокал

Yesterday I made this dessert for my family. Or being honest with you I made it for myself :) I adore desserts with cinnamon and walnuts. And here it's my favorite combination.

Here is the original recipe that I used and I'll mention what I have changed...

homemade spice cake mix

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients
• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons corn starch - I didn't use
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice*- I used cinnamon
• I added ground walnuts
Wet Ingredients
• 1/2 cup whole milk - I replace it with 200 ml orange juice
• 2 eggs, room temperature - I used 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup butter, room temperature - I replaced with avocado oil

1. Bake at 350 for about 18 minutes in 8-inch round pans. Increase time to about 30 minutes for 9x13 pan and keep a close eye on it.

When the dessert was completely cool I poured some melted chocolate chips, spread some ground walnuts and orange peel.

And a piece for you :)

Vanilla cake with fruit

This very vanilla cake was for Zaharinka's birthday. Happy birthday, dear! Be very healthy and happy!

Zaharinka is an amazing lady! Very charming, very talkative, very positive. It's nice to communicate with people like her.

She asked me for a cake for her birthday. Her preferences were light in taste, vanilla and with fruit.

That's why I baked French vanilla layers gently attached by homemade vanilla cream. I decided to add a little bit of chocolate on the top just to spoil her kids...All kids adore chocolate :)

These days I couldn't find any good strawberries although I like to make decorations with them. Anyway, there is plenty of tangerines, blueberries, raspberries and grapes...

And here I made some sweet treats for Zaharinka as a small surprise. Some of them are chocolate, some are vanilla. I covered the balls with colorful flower decorations that I had bought from a cake store...

Отново класика

Отново ще Ви почерпя виртуално с парче "Наполеон". Принципно правя торти,които не се повтарят. По този начин искам да зарадвам всеки, искам да накарам всеки да се почувства специален и важен като получи торта,която е една единствена.

Но (винаги има едно "Но" ),когато се отнася до торта за семейството и когато тя е обичана и харасвана от всички,започват да се появяват и повторенията :).

Съвсем наскоро за първи път направих торта "Наполеон". Видях снимка в нета на моя виртуална приятелка и толкова много ме впечатли и примами, че веднага се разтърсих за най-точната рецепта. И пак същата приятелка ми изпрати рецептата,която тя бе ползвала. Доверих й се на 100% и веднага се захванах да си набавя продуктите...

Не успях да устоя и щракнах няколко снимки. Те пък, отново, не са добри,ама...по-добре си направете тортата и си подсладете живота :) Заслужава си!

Ето я моята скромна тортичка пред една рисунка на моя син,която я донесе преди няколко дена от училище. Много ми хареса и реших да Ви я покажа по този по-нестандартен начин :)

Рецептата може да видите в мой преден пост в блога.

Моята торта е правена стрикно по спомената рецепта,но всичко е на половина... 

Успех на всички любители на торта "Наполеон"!

L'agent Jean cake

This cake was for Kaloyan's birthday. Koko is a boy that I mentioned not for the first time in my blog. He is a son of a friend of mine and here you can see his birthday cakes from the last year and two years ago.

Kaloyan's mom and my friend called me and asked me for her son's birthday cake. When she mentioned "L'agent Jean" nothing came into my mind. But at that moment my son was close to me and when he heard "agent Jean" he told me "Oh, I know him. It's very interesting. I'll show you who is agent Jean". OK, now I was calm.

These characters are from comics magazines for kids. They are very popular among the guys at age between 8-12 years old. But, unfortunately, I have never heard about them...:(

I checked in the net but I found only pictures from the magazines...Anyway, my son helped me a lot with the ideas and advices.

These quotations that I wrote around the cake I took from different L'agent Jean's magazines. I thought it would be a good idea to put them on the cake.

The cake is a combination of chocolate and vanilla layers. The cream is chocolate, two types of chocolate filling. The first one is a mix of chocolate frosting and whipping cream. The second filling is very light chocolate cream without any butter.

Happy birthday,Koko!!! Be very happy boy!

Baptism cake

This purple cake is for the baptism of a baby girl Alma. Her father ordered the cake for the party.

The cake size are 12", 10" and 6". All the cakes are vanilla. The filling is white frosting with wild berries. Only in the middle cake I added sour cream in the filling to make the taste more gentle.

All the decorations are made out of fondant.

I wish you all the best in life, cute little baby!

St. Valentine is coming

These are my first St. Valentine's cupcakes for this year. Oatmeal muffins with a tiny brownie heart in the middle. The cream on the top is whipping cream 35% with pink frosting. Then I sprinkled some pink candy hearts on the top.

My photos unfortunately are not good at all. I took them in the late evening and the light was good enough. You can notice the difference in the colors of my photos. But let's turn the negative into positive - you can use your imagination :)