Butter Pecan Cake Recipe

I made these cupcakes using butter pecan flavored cake and basic vanilla buttercream frosting. I garnished the tops with halves of pecans. 

Butter Pecan Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of chopped pecans
• 1 1/4 cups of softened butter
• 2 cups of sugar 
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups of all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup milk

Directions:

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 1/4 cup of the butter with the pecans in a baking dish for 20min. Stir frequently.

In a large bowl cream together sugar and remaining butter until light and fluffy. Add in one egg at a time. Stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the creamed mixture alternatively with the milk. Stir in 1 cup of the roasted pecans. 

Pour into cupcake tins or into 9inch round pans.

Bake at 350degrees for 25-30min. 

Let cool and then add frosting. 

Vanilla Frosting:

• 1 cup softened butter
• 8 cups confection sugar
• 1 can (5oz) evaporated milk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract 

Beat together butter and confection sugar. Add milk and vanilla; beat till smooth. Stir in remaining remaining roasted pecans.

Spread frosting between cake layer or pip onto cupcakes.

Mini Anniversary Cake

I was asked to make a small anniversary cake for my friend's parents. She wanted it to be so small that it only fed about two people. So I made this mini three-tiered cake (it's about as tall as a pencil). It's a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. I covered it in blue fondant and pipped white buttercream around to decorate it. 

I was also babysitting my niece while I was making the cake and she saw what I was doing and wanted to make one herself. This is her lovely masterpiece! It's a cake made out of blobs of blue fondant and decorated with buttercream pipping and checkers. 

Birthday cake pops

The cake flavor is vanilla with vanilla icing. I dipped the pops into red candy melts and added the black candy melts and piped on white melted candy melts to spell out "Happy Birthday".

Thanksgiving desserts & Pumpkin Pie recipe

For Thanksgiving this year I made pumpkin rolls, no-bake cheesecakes, and a lot of pumpkin pies! 

My family is HUGE so I had to make enough to feed an army! 

Thanksgiving was so great! And I'm so very thankful for the family I was blessed to be born into. Couldn't have asked for a better day. 

(*Scroll down for my awesome pumpkin pie recipe)

Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp of ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 2 large eggs
• 15oz. fresh or canned pumpkin
• 1 can (12 fl. oz.) evaporated milk
• 1 deep dish pie shell (frozen, unbaked)

Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 425degrees F.

Mix together the sugar cinnamon, salt, ginger and cloves in a bowl. Beat the eggs in another bowl. Stir in spices, pumpkin and evaporated milk to the egg mixture. Whisk together until all of the ingredients are evenly distributed.

Pour into pie crusts.

Bake in pre-heated 425 degree oven for 15min. Lower temperature to 350 degrees after the 15minuets are over and bake for 40-50min. Cool on wire rack for 2hours. Refrigerate after it cools or enjoy immediately.

Enjoy!

Army Cake for Veteran's Day

To help celebrate my sister Veronica being a veteran I made an Army symbol cake for her. It's a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting colored yellow and black. I used fondant to make the letters and star. I normally would've layered the entire cake with fondant, but she likes buttercream more than fondant so I decided to put as much frosting as I could. I tried to smooth out the frosting enough to make it look like it's fondant. 

Happy Veteran's Day, Sistah! We love you!

Happy Veterans Day, Sister! HOOAH!

While I was going into kindergarten my second oldest sister Veronica was going into the military. She joined the U.S Army in 1999 after she graduated high school. Thank God she was kept safe and well during her time serving & now she is a kindergarten teacher. This post is a thank you to her and to all those who've served, are currently serving our country, and their families. I'm so proud of her & i'm proud to call myself her little sister.

(Bottom left picture; Left to Right: My brother Joe, Michael, ME, Jonathan,& Priscilla)

These are some picture of my dad and me with my sister Veronica (mom was the one taking the pictures) when we went to go pick her up back in 2000 from Washington to come visit us for a weekend from the Army.  I remember being so excited to see her and getting to take pictures outside next to the White House's christmas tree.

Happy Birthday Big Brother, Michael!

October 31st was my third oldest brother's birthday. He is in love with his dogs so I made him a dog themed cake. The cake flavor is vanilla with vanilla frosting. It is decorated and layered with fondant. I decorated it to look like a dog's food bowl with a leash at the bottom and footprints all around.