Bring Me the Head of Bucky Badger

My older daughter is graduating from the University of Wisconsin Madison later this month. Bucky is their beloved mascot so, I thought it would be perfect in cake:-)

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Salted Caramel Cupcake

Enough said:-)

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Valentines Treat

This is what I threw together for our family Valentines Dinner:

Emergency cupcakes with leftover pastry cream. Drag a toothpick through the middle of the cream to make the heart and top with red sandy sugar. Simple. That's love:-)

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Rainbow Cookies

My youngest loves rainbows. She colors EVERYTHING in rainbows. So, when I went to bake treats for her classroom for her birthday, I knew just what to do:

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Pecan Pie Gone Wrong

What do you do when your pecan pie goes this wrong? Make ice cream topping:-)

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Fondue for Two

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Pro Cupcake Clash Winners

This is what I am up against people!!

That's all cake and gum paste people! Erin and Melissa are amazing and definitely deserved the win:-)

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Baking Away

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Tailgate Cupcakes

Happy Wordless Wednesday at 5 Minutes for Mom and Wordful Wednesday on SevEn cLoWn CirCus! Monday, I competed in the Iron Cupcake: Milwaukee Tailgate Challenge. We were given the task of coming up with a cupcake that represents tailgating to you. Here is my submission:

Grilled Strawberry Short Cupcake

Grilled Sponge Cake

Dipped in Strawberry Syrup

Topped with Whipped Cream

Garnished with Fresh Strawberries and Mint

Since I just took my older daughter back to the University of Wisconsin: Madison, my presentation was all about Badgers. I love that you can see the arch of the Hoan Bridge behind us! It's a Milwaukee landmark that leads you to the neighborhood I grew up in so, I thought it was really fitting:-)

I didn't win but with a view like this, I didn't mind at all:

Birthday Cake

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We celebrated my oldest's 20th birthday last week and this is the cake I made:


This is a yellow cake with chocolate ganache filling and iced with chocolate buttercream. The cake is completed with marshmallow fondant and molding chocolate ribbon. It was delicious:-)

Bon Voyage

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Since my oldest was headed for Spain, I honored the occasion with the Spanish flag in cake:


She couldn't have gone to Japan...where the flag is white with a big red dot...No...she had to pick a country with details like this:

I think I pulled it off ok...don't you think?

Look What I Did With My Pears

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Look What My Friend Brought Me

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Cake Porn:-)

Spice Rack Cupcakes

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Iron Cupcake: Milwaukee Spice Challenge was yesterday. Here is my entry:

Spice Rack Cupcakes

These are spice cupcakes with pecans and filled with cream cheese and presented in sugar spice bottles. The "caps" are white chocolate and the spice bottles are made from molded sugar. I thought it was a pretty cool idea:-)

St. Patrick's Day Cake

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This is just a little something I whipped up for my family for St. Patrick's Day. I had an extra chocolate cake layer that I frosted in chocolate buttercream frosting, topped with mint chocolate chips and garnished with Thin Mint Cookies and white chocolate. Look's pretty good for doing it on the fly doesn't it?

Classmate Cupcakes

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Remember that mess I showed you on Friday? This is the result of that mess:

My daughter's birthday is this Friday and I made these beauties for an early party. Today, I will be making 11 more for Friday. Each one will look like her classmates and her teachers. Cute, right?

Tackling Kid's Cookie Day

Update: By popular demand, I have included the "recipes" below each cookie. Enjoy:-)
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Last week, I told you about our annual Ewing Family Cookie Day and I even showed you how much we made . Well, creativity runs in the family and you can't leave the kids out at Christmas time. So, this weekend we had Kid's Cookie Day.

Here is what 7 kids and 3 adults did in 3 hours in 1 kitchen:

Peanut Mice:-) My 4-year old made these!!

These are just peanut butter cookie dough with chocolate chip eyes, M&M noses, peanut ears and pretzel tails.

Bacon and Eggs
Two pretzel sticks, a glob of white chocolate and a yellow M&M make this treat:-)

Hamburgers
These burgers are made with vanilla wafers for the bun, thin mint meat and colored frosting for the lettuce and ketchup.

Chocolate Spoons
This was my niece's concoction. These are just plastic spoons dipped in chocolate and decorated.

Three Women, Six Hours and a Kitchen

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Annual Ewing Family Cookie Day

(This was only a third of what three women did in six hours:-)

Pecan Pie

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I am nothing if I am not accommodating. Many of you asked for my Pecan Pie recipe and I am happy to oblige. Here you go:

Susie's Homemade Pecan Pie
Ingredients:
1/2 Fail-Proof Pie Crust Recipe
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup dark corn syrup
1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
1 cup pecan, chopped plus enough pecan halves to top the pie

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Prepare pie crust.
3. In a medium bowl, beat sugar, butter, corn syrups, salt and eggs with a hand mixer. Stir in pecans and pour into the prepared crust. Top with pecan halves in concentric circles.
4. Bake 40 to 50 minutes until set. For easy service, cool at least 20 minutes before serving.

Serves 8

Pumpkin Cupcakes and a TV Appearance

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We had another Iron Cupcake: Milwaukee competition Monday. This time, the theme was Thanksgiving. This was my entry:

This is a Pumpkin Gingerbread Cupake with an orange-colored sugar glaze and a cinnamon stick for the stem. I set it atop a bed of spun sugar to look like straw in the garden and garnished it with mint for the vines. I made these last year for our Thanksgiving table so, I thought that it worked with the theme very well. What do you think?

In addition to the competition on Monday, I am going to be on TV Friday!! Our local NBC affliliate, TMJ4 is airing a story about people making money from home. My chocolate shop on Etsy is being featured!! How cool is that?? So, if you are in the Milwaukee area, tune in Friday at 10:00 p.m! Otherwise, I will post it on Saturday:-)