Christmas mousse

It's light and fluffy. It's a nice dessert that makes you not to fill full and fat at the end of the last spoon. I used a small part of it as a filling for my Christmas cake. 

As I promised you I'll give you the recipe and I hope you will enjoy it.

Mint flavor mousse

2 cups (500ml) sour cream

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp green food color (I used 3 teaspoons but as you can notice I am far away form the green color)

1 cup whipping cream

I added 1 teaspoon of mint flavor. The flavor is your personal choice.

On the top I decorated with pieces of a Holly Leaves transfer sheet and some ground chocolate.

Christmas cake

I have been interested in transfer sheets for a long time...I have watched so many videos on  www.youtube.com how to use them, how to make candies, how to decorate mousses or cakes. For me the transfer sheets are the final touch for all high couture pastries. Unfortunately you can't find them in all shops for baking supplies.

Here is the one that I have found and I was pleasantly surprised how nice and helpful is the stuff there. They gave me a lot of instructions, advices and ideas and I am very thankful about their help. My son was also very happy there because while I was shopping he was treated with many delicious chocolate candies.

Now I will present you the cake that I made using the transfer sheet. It was easy and funny and definitely it was worthy to make this experiment.

As you can see the cake is made of 2 chocolate layers and for the filling I used a new recipe that I'll share with you in my next post. What you can't see is the light green color of the cream but I'll leave this to your imagination:). The filling is really very light and makes the cake not so heavy and sweet. I filled some cups with the rest of the cream for the people who prefer lighter desserts.

I used small pieces of the transfer sheet to decorate the mousses. There are so many different designs of the transfer sheets on the market that you can create unique desserts for different occasions. That's why go for it!

More Christmas cookies

I made some more Christmas cookies with cookie cutters that I bought an year ago from IKEA and I completely forgot about them. The package is not exactly for Christmas. It's with some forest animals - a bear, a moоse, a hedgehog,a squirrel... and of course, you can use them for all different occasions. 

I bought an enormous snowflake cutter some days ago from Michaels store and I wanted to use it immediately. Unfortunately, I didn't decorate the cookies so nicely as it was shown on the photo of the price label but my kids enjoyed them and actually that is the purpose of cookie making.

Happy birthday,Krisi!

Today's cake was for the 8th birthday of a very charming girl Krisi. She chose to have a cake with a horse head. By the way when I was looking for some ideas in Internet I found that most of the birthday cakes with horse heads were for kids at the age of 8! Which I found very interesting!

I hope that Krisi liked what I made for her although the horse was a little bit different from the photo that her mother sent me. If I should be honest with you there were a lot of emotions around the cake. First I liked the challenge to make something different. There is always a thrill when you have to create something new of what usually you are doing. Besides the thrill there was some fear. I was scared if I'll make the horse looks alive. The eye was a small element form the cake but very important. The look of the horse makes the whole cake. The 2 chocolate layers with mascarpone cream filling with wild berries is covered with homemade fondant which I found very soft and easy to work. The homemade fondant is very good to make small decorations and figures. I made an ivory fondant and after that I painted with brown color. The mane I made with chocolate frosting and I used some dark brown color candy writer. 

The horseshoe is my idea for good luck and happiness. We decided to add the rein which wasn't on the original photo but according to me it makes the horse more real.

I hope you will like it too...

Christmas cupcakes

Let's continue with the Christmas preparation. After the Christmas cookies it's time to make some Christmas cupcakes. Today I'll present you muffins with carrots and walnuts decorated with fondant snowflakes and some other winter ornaments.

Raspberry cupcakes

Боровинковите мъфини в центъра са с пълнеж от сладко от малини. Получи се доста свежа комбинация....

Cupcakes for a special friend

These cupcakes I made a long time ago for a special friend. You know them but because some changes are made on the blog this post appears in the beginning. I apologies for this. Anyway, you still may enjoy the blue cupcakes:)