Dr Seuss Cake :)

I had made this cake for work.  We celebrated a whole week for Dr Seuss.  On the day after his birthday I had brought this cake in for the children and Teachers to enjoy.  I have to thank my friend Jo, for mixing all the colors for me, so I can concentrate on the task in front of me. We didn't have two sizes of circle cake pans or square pans, so I thought since it is going to be a Dr Seuss cake why not use a circle and a square cake pan.  The first picture shows the first coating of the icing and the beginning of the star tip red layers.  The second pictures is of the fondant fish from The Cat in the Hat.  He will be sitting on top of the cake.  The rest of the pictures show the finished product.  I tried to get as many stories on there that I could fit on there.  The characters are also made out of fondant, and I used a edible marker to do the outline.  I used wire to show that the fish was splashing out of the top of the cake.  The cake was a little dense, I will have to work on that aspect of the cake better.

 

Oven that works!!!!!!!!!

I know that it has been since August since my last post.  Let me catch you up.  I had to get a second job, student loans were getting too high, on top of that I gave up on the oven at my house, the heating coil or something wasn't working.  Two weeks ago though I had moved up with a friend, and she has a working oven,  I am not going to make a lot of stuff right off the back, too much of moving and stuff but I do have a upcoming project.  Dr. Seuss birthday is on March 2nd.  Where  I am working now, I am making a birthday cake.  My friend who asked me to make this wanted me to do a topsy turvy cake but I have never made one, so I am not this time, I don't have enough time to make it.  But these two cakes I am inspired by so I will make one similar to these.  Keep looking for the updated cake pictures when I am done :).
These pictures you can find on google images and I DID NOT MAKE THESE:

Victoria's bday cake

I had a whole plan for this cake and once again seething went wrong and I had to think on my feet. I made red velvet and chocolate cake covered with icing and fondant. The design was supposed to include a hello kitty sugar cookie but I forgot to order it.
















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Blueberry pie

I made a simple pie crust then added blueberries, flour and sugar and made a wonderful pie.
Took it out of the pie plate too soon it was still warm that's why it looks funny but it was delish.



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Banana cream pie

For Father's Day my dad only wanted a banana cream pie (his favorite). Of course it had to be homemade and not a pudding packet. No problem. I used a very simple recipe and it didn't take long to set either.

3 cups of milk scolded was added to another pot filled with 3/4cups of sugar, 1/4cups of flour, 1/4tsp of salt. Over medium heat cook until thickened stirring constantly. Cover and stir occasionally for 2 minutes. In a small bowl have 3 egg yolks. When 2 minutes is up add very little of the milk mixture to the eggs stir then add the eggs to the milk mixture. Cook for one minute longer. Remove from heat add 2 tablespoons of butter and a teaspoon of vanilla. Let it sit til lukewarm. Have a baked pie shell ready, cut 3 bananas into slices and scatter among the bottom of the pie crust. Add pie mixture when cooled enough. Don't wait to long or te mixture would have set to much and it would be hard to add to the pie crust.

My dad loves Reese's so I placed them around the edges of the pie to have a scalloped look to it.

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Banana bread

Did you ever had bananas that looked like this or worse?



I had 2 bunches at my house that looked like this so I made banana bread, two kinds; plain and chocolate chips. It made two loaves each, I kept one of each home and brought the other ones to work. Neither lasted the day.



For recipe comment below.

Soft pretzels

I found an easy recipe for soft pretzels off of Pinterest. I don't think though that I kneeded it enough because it was too hard to roll out.




It looks more like a bagel then a pretzel. I will try again with a little more kneeding.



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