Cake
Chocolate Cake
A sturdy chocolate cake, good for sculpting and decorating. People say it tastes like Devil Dogs!
Cookies
Patti Paige’s Sugar Cookies
Makes 40-45 cookies Ingredients: 24 ounces all-purpose flour 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder ¾ teaspoon salt ¾ pound butter, at room temperature 2 ¼ cups sugar 3 large eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla extract Instructions: Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl and set aside. Cream the butter and sugar together in [...]
Decorating
Modeling Chocolate
Modeling Chocolate (from Candy Melts) Ingredients: 14 ounces candy melts (color of your choice) 1/3 cup of light corn syrup Directions: Warm the melts in the microwave them at 30 second intervals. Let it rest for a minute or two, especially if it’s hot. Pour in the corn syrup and mix with a rubber spatula [...]
Filling
Chocolate ganache
Yields three cups Ingredients 24 ounces of chopped semi sweet chocolate or chocolate chips 12 fluid ounces of heavy cream Directions Pour chocolate into a heat safe bowl. Heat the heavy cream in a sauce pan until it comes to a boil. As soon as the cream boils, pour it over the chocolate. Give the bowl a jiggle [...]
Frosting & Buttercream
Practice Buttercream Icing
This is a great buttercream to use while you practice piping! It is technically edible, but it’s super sweet. It has no butter in it, so it doesn’t need to be refrigerated.
Cream Cheese Crusting Frosting
A nice. tasty stiff frosting, which sets with a smooth “crust” after resting.
