Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Ginger Ale Spice Cupcakes (6/5)

Made with Diet Ginger Ale soda instead of vegetable oil for an incredibly low fat cupcake (cancelled out by the incredibly high-fat ginger cream cheese frosting). Still phenomenally delicious. Toped with spice drops!

Blue Monster Cupcakes (5/3)

Would you believe these are a school project? My Theatre History final, based on Carlo Gozzi's Commedia piece, "The Blue Monster."

A Seven-Headed Hydra.

The Chinese Character for "Transform."

Arlecchino.

Orange Dream Cupcakes with Blueberry Buttercream.

Garbage Cakes (5/31)

Orange Dream Cupcakes with chocolate and vanilla frosting, utilizing all the candy I have lying around (better than throwing it away).

Worms and Dirt Cake (5/28)

For the first time, I was commissioned to bake something and got paid for it!

This is a classic Worms 'n' Dirt Cake baked for a guy's experimental film. The cake is Devil's Food, filled with raspberry curd and chocolate buttercream. Topped with crushed Oreo dirt and gummy worms.

Tarts (5/24)

I sat in on Drexel's Patisserie I class, and was thrilled to participate in the assembly of various tarts and tartlets!

Tart filled with Bruleed Banana Pastry Cream, chocolate ganache, and fresh strawberries.
Tart filled with Bruleed Banana Pastry Cream.









Tart filled with Roasted Banana Pastry Cream and fresh strawberries.
Tart filled with grapefruit curd and fresh berries.









Tart filled with chocolate ganache, chocolate raspberry mousse, and topped with fresh raspberry.
Tart filled with caramel, chocolate ganache, mousse, and topped with a hazelnut.
Tartlet filled with caramel, chocolate mousse, and topped with macadamia nuts.

Sweet Potato Muffins

Moist and fluffy breakfast muffins made with mashed sweet potato.









Rolled in a mixture of cinnamon, sugar, allspice.










Made these for the cast and crew of my film--definitely got us through the morning!

Candy Cane Cheesecake Brownies (5/14)

Delicious marbled cheesecake brownies, flavored with peppermint.



















They may not be "special" in that way, but these were still a hit at the Reefer Madness Cast Party. No pun intended.