Lila Loa's Creative Cookie Contest Closing

Man that is a lot of C's! But you heard it right, it's the closing of her contest. *sniff sniff* But give a big round of applause to her winners! Amy Hayes and Amy Clough, they won the grand prizes and then the people's choice award went to Connie Kim!
Yay! I'm super happy for you guys and everyone that entered! I just wanted to say a big thanks to Lila Loa who hosted this contest and to everyone that voted for me in the people's choice award!

Man, now I have nothing to look forward to... maybe she'll do another contest! Ooooo I'm am so excited! I'll be waiting in anticipation!

Shelan Boake out! XD

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! Great job all you mothers who keep children happy and healthy and spend a lot of time helping those in the family. And even to those mothers who have passed away, you mean the world to us. So in honor of you very special people out there who are mothers, I made you some cupcakes!

This is the first time I have ever made cupcakes that are not chocolate flavored! Yay! I'm taking a step forward to greater recipes! They are a white cake. Surprisingly, I like them better without icing... Crazy right? I guess I'm just used to chocolate.
Do you see the two different colours in the icing? I put pink and white icing in the piping bag and it came out like this! It looks great. I was going to do a apple blossom piped flower but Michel's ruined my plans. 
I was initially going to do a round tip blob on top.  But I didn't have one so I went to Michel's and they only carried a round tip to size 12 and that was too small. So I bought a 4B tip. It looked awful. So I changed it to a 2D and it looked sooo much better. Though with the not smooth texture I couldn't pipe a flower. Whew! That was a mouthful! Thanks for reading, I feel so much better now letting it all out.
Sorry the cupcakes aren't too awesome but I gave some to the moms around my neighborhood letting them know that what they do is great!
Oh and by the way, it's my 20th post! Hooray! Thank you to all the people who have visited my blog, you make my days a whole lot better!
Speaking of making days a whole lot better, for mother's day I bought my mother flowers! They are roses. Hey! And they match the cupcakes! What did you buy your mom? Chocolates, flowers, or maybe treated her to dinner. You can vote on what you did in the poll at the top of the page!
 

Happy Mother's day! I hope your children treated you right! If not, shame...
Shelan Boake out! XD

Birthday Bundt Cake

Another birthday?? Yes, again. It's that month, the parent birthdays... 

You know, I just realized that for all the birthdays I've done the dessert started with B's. Brownies, bundt... What's that you say? You haven't seen the bundt cake I made? Well here you go!

It's chocolate bundt cake with a chocolate ganache filling and sifted icing sugar on top to decorate it. Yum... When I served it, I put a dollop of non sweetened whipped cream on the side of the plate. Everyone loved it. Very moist, but doesn't keep.
I made small one person portioned ones. 

My best friend gave me the pan, They were so easy to pop right out! I greased it with butter then I put flour on it and that was that! Piece of bundt! See what I did there? Hahaha hem, hem...

And for a thank you token I gave a bundt cake to my friend so he knows I made good use of the pan. Come to think of it I still have one left over... Ok time to go eat it while you read this post!
* om nom nom*
And a thank you to all the people who have voted for me so far! *hugs*


Shelan Boake out! XD

LilaLoa's Creative Cookie Contest Voting

I'm back! Did you miss me? Sorry I've been lacking in posts but I didn't get around to baking last weekend. I still haven't, but soon, later today.
Today was the closing of Lilaloa's Creative Cookie contest and the beginning of a voting period! You can vote here. If you have not already voted, and if you like the Organ Heart cookie I created you can vote for mine by pressing the little star under my cookie.

If you don't want to vote for my cookie I completely understand. I'm not forcing you, only if you think mine is worthy. But, if you did it would be greatly appreciated!  There are tons of different submissions to choose from, all very wonderful and unique! Happy voting!
Shelan Boake out! XD

Birthday Brownies! (Recipe)

Happy Birthday too you!~ It's that time of year again. A birthday! Hooray!! And it calls for a special kind of treat that the birthday girl or guy loves sooo much they could eat it all the time. It's not an ordinary kind of dessert. It's... brownies.

Remember these? You know the time I said I would make my own brownies, from scratch? Well, I did it. And man, was it a reward! they are moist, chewy and delicious. With butter icing it all goes up hill.
The recipe I used, my Aunt Jeanne invented. She is a good baker! 
What's that i hear coming? A recipe! Get your sleeves rolled up and put on an apron because it's baking time!


Brownies


3/4 cup           melted butter

1  1/2 cup       granulated sugar
1  1/2 tsp        vanilla
2 eggs
3/4 cup           all purpose flour
1/2 cup           cocoa
1/2 tsp            baking powder
1/2 tsp            salt
1 cup              chocolate chips
Butter icing , see here.  (optional)


Blend melted butter, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Add eggs. Beat with spoon. In another bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to egg mixture until well blended. Add chocolate chips mix thoroughly. Spread in greased 8" square pan. At 350 degrees bake for 40-45 minutes or until brownie edge's begin to peel away from pan. Cool and cut into squares.

 There you have it perfect brownies with little effort! Ok, some, man is it hard to mix brownies with a spoon! My arm still hurts... :(
Perfect for a birthday, especially for my Dad's. (He ate 6 of em,) Well I ate 5 so...
Hope you liked our family's great recipe. If you try it out be sure to leave a comment below for feed back! Have a great week. There will be more birthday fun to come, guaranteed!
Shelan Boake out! XD

Spring Cookies

Spring has sprung and for it's triumph over winter I thought I should make some cookies to honor it. Cute little flower cookies of course! I used left over icing from the organ Heart cookies I made.
I love when the first flowers come out and you know its the start of a brand new year!
Unintentionally I think  I put the flowers in an order of a flag... French flag I think? Well they can hang that in the air instead.

Anywho... what have you been up to lately? Any new things I should know about? Leave a comment below! Me? I have a project I have to work on tomorrow. Blah! Well you have to pay attention to homework or else the unspeakable will happen. Bad marks. *gasp*
I hope you are liking my blog, we are at 600 views! Yay!
 Thank you guys for reading, have a nice day! I hope my cookies brightened it a bit!
Talk to you soon!
Spring Shelan Boake out! XD

LilaLoa's Creative Cookie Contest

Welcome back! How was Easter dinner? Good, great, awesome? Mine was fabulous. Yummers!
OK, back to the important stuff. You all know Lila Loa, right? She makes fabulous cookies and always has wonderful ideas. Well, about a month ago she had one of the best ideas ever. She is having a Creative Cookie Contest. You have to use this specific shape (a present) that she assigned and turn it into something completely different! It is a marvelous way to force people to be out of the ordinary! (I wouldn't say force but I can't think of another word to describe what I want to say...)

So, I created a cookie. What do you think, do you like it? It is a organ heart! The first thought that came to my head when I saw the present. And I knew no one else would think of it!

It took a long time, but worth it. It looks much better now with the veins! 
First I had to outline and flood, wait, then do the pink wet on wet technique to swirl them. Finally I finished off with a veins, waiting for them to dry in between colours. A lot of effort and time but I'm happy I got it done. It was one of those visions you have and they come true.


I did a couple, just in-case I messed up!
The fun part about this contest is seeing what other people come up with! If you have time and love decorating cookies be sure to check out her contest the more entries the better!
Talk to you soon!
Shelan Boake out! XD