Bake 2019 - April

My first bake of April was for a work party.  I made Cupcake Jemma's chocolate cupcakes.  They are SO good.  They have coffee in them.  You don't taste coffee just delicious chocolate.  

Then I made her Chocolate Buttercream and Vanilla Buttercream.  Both really good!

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We had a party to celebrate our anniversary with our database provider at work.  I made chocolate chip cookies with crushed mini Cadbury eggs.  

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I made another French Silk Pie for Easter Sunday.  I can't believe I didn't get a photo of it.  It was tasty and I got some compliments on the pie crust.   🙌  That felt good.  

I did get a photo of the French Silk-cicles, French Silk Pudding Pops, I made with the leftovers.  My pie dish isn't a deep dish one so there are always leftovers.  No problem for me. 

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I really had a great time making this yellow cake with vanilla frosting.  It was so much fun!  I really wanted to work on some fancy decorating skills.  I thought about a watercolor design or a drip cake, but the layers weren't tall enough to really be effective.  I needed at least one more layer to make it look cool.  So I leveled the cakes and did a crumb coat with white vanilla frosting.  

I decided to dye the rest of the frosting pink.  After I frosted the cake I had some leftover and I had some cake crumbs from leveling.  Of course I thought of cake pops.  I had white almond bark in the pantry for such an emergency.  I died it a little lighter pink.  I just piled them on top.  It was fun!  People just walked by and picked a cake pop off the top.  

It was very tasty as well!  I used a recipe from one of my mom's baking cookbooks that didn't make the move to Florida.  I used to make this cake all the time.  

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I know I didn't bake this but I had to share.  My friend found a fruit bunny and shared the photo with me.  I knew I was going to have a fruit tray so why not make it cute.  Does it look like the original?  Not even close!  Jackson looked at it and said, "You made a fruit Pikachu!"  HA!!  Love it!

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Next up my Sweet and Salty Cookies.  Basically, my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe with crushed up pretzels.  I put a whole pretzel on top so people knew what they were eating.

I also made a few plain old chocolate chip cookie and then froze a couple dozen cookie balls for emergency cookie situations.

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The last bake of April was my mom's fudge.  I tried to swirl some peanut butter on top but you can't really tell it's there.  I think I got carried away with my marbling.  Ha!  You can taste the peanut butter.

I took them to small group and they were a hit!  The container was almost overflowing when we got there and then was almost empty when we left.  Mom's recipe is a can't miss!

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I did make a small batch of buttermilk biscuits that were not great.  I think I tried this recipe once before and found it to have too much baking powder.  I gave it another try and this time really worked to mix the dry ingredients before adding the rest.  Still it had an overpowering taste of baking powder.  Now I know for sure it's not a good recipe.

That's it for April!  I've got some things on my list still that I would love to tackle.  I'd like to make more bread, work on my piping and decorating skills, and so much more.