It's Christmas!

So its Christmas and I'm spending my afternoon decorating cakes, but I don't mind so much because I love making cakes. Today I'm making a Mario and Sonic cake for a birthday as well as a cake of choice to bring to my grandparents house for Christmas. To make life easier for myself I decided to make the cake and fillings the same flavour so they are both vanilla cake with italian meringue buttercream and homemade raspberry jam. Both were delicious. I am really happy with the way the mario cake turned out. For my grandparents I made just a buche de noel since its easy, could be done quickly, and doesn't take a lot of thought. I added real greens just to make it look prettier. Anyways hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year!

My Birthday!

I'm back in Canada for Christmas holidays and just two days after I got back I had to make a cake for my birthday party seeing as my mom threatened me that I either make one or she was going to order one from the Portuguese bakery. I didn't have alot of time to make decorations and such..and I was so lazy that I even bought pre-coloured fondant but it turned out being chocolate flavoured not only chocolate coloured so that was interesting. I made a simple devils food cake since I had an order for a chocolate cake the next day so I killed two birds with one stone. It was layered with caramel and masked with Italian meringue buttercream. It was my first time doing a quilting pattern on fondant which is surprisingly a little harder then it seems to do.

Yummie Banana Cinnamon Muffins

These muffins are super delicious and super simple! So moist and soft with a little crunch in the muffin top. The perfect handful of warmth to come home to on a crisp cold day.

Banana Cinnamon Muffins

1 1/3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
4 mashed very ripe bananas
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a muffin tray with paper baking cups.
2. In medium bowl, beat sugar, oil, and eggs with wire whisk. Stir in bananas and vanilla. Stir in remaining muffin ingredients just until moistened. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups (makes 24 muffins).
3. Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately remove from pan to cooling rack.