Category: Recipe

Chocolate Mint Ice Cream Cake -9

For my son’s 9th birthday, we tried a new ice cream cake recipe. He loves mint, chocolate, and ice cream… and Andys Mints as well! This cake has a brownie base and ice cream and other delicious toppings!

Ingredients:

  • 1 box Brownie Mix
  • 1/2 cup Oil
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 1/2 quart Mint Chip Ice Cream
  • 1 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips
  • 1/2 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 1/4 teaspoon Pure Peppermint Extract
  • 8 oz. Cool Whip
  • 1 bag Andys Mint pieces
  • Green Food Coloring
  • Andys Mints

Directions:

  1. Make brownies according to directions on the box. Line a 9×13 inch baking dish with aluminum foil. Bake according to the box directions.
  2. Cool completely, then place in the freezer to chill.
  3. Stir the ice cream until it is smooth enough to spread.
  4. Gently spread evenly over the brownies, then place in the freezer again.
  5. Heat the cream over medium heat until hot and bubbly.
  6. Add chocolate chips and stir until smooth, then add peppermint extract.
  7. Let cool to room temperature (so it doesn’t melt the ice cream).
  8. Drizzle an even layer over the ice cream.
  9. Sprinkle some of the Andys mint pieces over the chocolate and freeze.
  10. Add a layer of cool whip and more Andys mint.
  11. I made some of the cool whip green to write “Happy Birthday” on the ice cream cake.
  12. Freeze for a couple hours. Pull out the ice cream cake to sit out about 15 minutes before cutting to serve.

Monster Truck Birthday Cake -4

My nephew came for a visit over his 4th birthday so I made him a #4 Monster Truck cake.

Ingredients:

  • Yellow Cake Mix
  • Eggs
  • Oil
  • Chocolate Mini Donuts
  • Chocolate Frosting
  • Oreo’s
  • Green Icing
  • Monster Trucks
  • #4 Candle

Directions:

  1. Bake the yellow cake according to directions in a 9×13 baking pan.
  2. Let it cool and cut the cake in half longwise so you have 2 long pieces of cake. Then cut one of the pieces in half. Shape on your cake board in the shape of the number 4.
  3. Cover the cake with chocolate frosting.
  4. Crush up some Oreo’s to create a Monster Truck track on top of the cake.
  5. Place the donuts around the side of the cake and us the green icing to add some grass between the donuts.
  6. I also used the green icing to write “Happy Birthday”.
  7. Place the number 4 candle and the Monster Trucks on top of the cake.

Chocolate Freezer Pies -13

My son just loves his grandma’s family recipe for Chocolate Freezer Pies. He doesn’t like cake very much, so he usually prefers pies for his birthday.

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz. Hershey’s bar
  • 8 oz. Cream Cheese
  • 16 oz. Cool Whip
  • 2 Prepared 8 inch Graham Crust
  • 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

  1. Heat the chocolate and 2 tablespoons of the milk in a saucepan over low heat, stirring until melted.
  2. Beat the cream cheese and add the remaining milk. Add chocolate mix and beat until smooth.
  3. In a bowl, fold the chocolate mix into the cool whip and blend until smooth.
  4. Spoon the mix into the crusts. I decorated the pies with some extra cool whip and shaved chocolate bar for my son’s birthday.
  5. Freeze for 4 hours.

NERF BOY

He still loves all things Nerf, so he had a few friends over the play Nerf again this year!

Laser Tag Birthday -8

My boy is 8!!! He took some of his buddies to play laser tag and then we came home for chocolate “8” cake.

Laser Tag Cake

I baked a 9 inch and an 8 inch chocolate cake with a cup in the middle to create a donut shape for each circle cake. Then I put them together and added chocolate icing. I used blue icing to write on the cake and added glow sticks to look like laser tag! AND of course 8 candles too.

Christmas Cakes & Crafts

I participated in a Christmas Craft & Bake sale this year at a local church. Here are some of the things that I made and sold…

Snowy Wonderland Trees

I baked a cake and some cupcakes according to the directions on the box. Then I made my own buttercream frosting; 1 cup butter, 1 cup Crisco, 4 cups powdered sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 1 tablespoon milk (if too thick). I frosted the cake and cupcakes and added coconut to look like snow. For the trees, I got thin dowel rods, candy melts, and sprinkles. I melted the candy melts and placed in piping bags; then I placed the dowel rods on wax paper and squeezed out the melted candy back and forth across the dowel rods to look like trees. I added the sprinkles before the melts hardened.

Hot Cocoa Cupcakes

I baked Devils Food Cake box recipe into cupcakes. Once they cooled I topped them with my buttercream icing. Then I added mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, and crushed candy canes. I placed a small candy cane on the side to look like a handle to a mug full of hot cocoa.

Peppermint Lollies

I placed the hard peppermint candies with a lollie stick on some wax paper on a cookie sheet. Melted them in the oven at 250 degrees, waited for them to cool and put them into bags with a cute red ribbon.

Candy Cane Forest Cake

I baked a white cake according to the box directions and placed a few drops of peppermint extract in the cake mix. I topped the cake with my buttercream icing and then added crushed peppermints, and candy canes.

Holiday Pretzels

I covered pretzels in white chocolate and milk chocolate. I used hot glue to attach buttons and a scarf to my Snowman Jar. And I attached eyes, red nose, and antlers to my Reindeer Jar.

Melted Snowman Ornament

I filled clear glass ornaments with fake white powder snow. Then I added buttons, a carrot nose, tiny twigs, and a red scarf in the ornaments. I used letter stickers to spell out, “Some People are Worth Melting For”, on the outside of the ornaments. These turned out soooo cute!

Poinsettia

I added gold stars and cute poems to these poinsettia’s and gave them as gifts to co-workers and neighbors!

Christmas Tree Cake

I made a chocolate cake with my Giant Cupcake pan. I dyed my buttercream icing green and used it to decorate the top of my Giant Cupcake. I used yellow and red candy melts to make a star and bows to decorate the Christmas Tree Cake.

Santa Hat Cupcakes

I decorated cupcakes with red buttercream icing. I added a mini marshmallow to the top and white icing around the base of the icing.

Nerf Birthday -12

My “Brilliant Boy” is 12 now. It goes by so fast… and I love him so much! He loves playing Nerf with his friends, so they all came over for a few hours and they had fun playing Nerf!

I used homemade marshmallow fondant to decorate his cake!

Marshmallow Fondant Recepie

Ingredients:

  • 16 oz. Mini Marshmallows
  • 3 TBSP water
  • 2 lbs Powdered Sugar (4 cups)
  • Crisco

Directions:

  1. Grease a large glass bowl with Crisco.
  2. Pour in the marshmallows and water; then microwave at 30- second intervals, stirring after each interval, until melted.
  3. Reserve about 1/4 cup of the powdered sugar. Place the red of the powdered sugar in a large bowl of a standing mixer.
  4. Grease the paddle attachment with Crisco and pour in the melted marshmallows on top of the powdered sugar.
  5. Beat until a dough form; there will be a lot of loose bits and sugar in the bottom of the bowl.
  6. Grease a clean work surface with Crisco and dump out the fondant and all the loose bits. Grease your hands liberally with Crisco and knead the mixture together, just like kneading bread, for about 5 minutes until smooth.
  7. Grease hands again as needed. As the fondant becomes smoother, use the reserved powdered sugar to coat the surface to keep it from sticking.
  8. Once smooth, you can divide and color the fondant. While working with one piece, cover the remaining fondant with plastic wrap to keep it from drying out.
  9. When you have your colors finished coat the fondant in a light layer or Crisco; wrap in plastic wrap and place in a large baggie for at least an hour, preferably overnight.
  10. Store at room temperature for several months. To us it, dust the surface and rolling pin with powdered sugar and roll out to 1/8 of an inch.
We had a taco bar for dinner!
Nerf with friends!

Cookies-n-Cream Birthday Cake -8

She wanted a Cookies -n- Cream cake for her 8th birthday!

Cake Recipe:

  • 2 boxes of some sort of chocolate cake mix
  • 2 boxes of 3.75 oz. vanilla pudding
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 c. oil
  • 1 c. milk

Mix all the ingredients and bake in 4 round cake pans according to the directions on the cake box.

Filling Recipe:

  • 1 sticks butter
  • 1/4 cup heaving whipping cream
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 jar marshmallow cream
  • 3 c. powdered sugar
  • 1 c. crushed Oreo’s

Whip butter and cream together then add in the other ingredients.  Put between the cake layers.

Buttercream Recipe:

  • 1 c. butter
  • 1 c. shortening
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 8 c. powder sugar
  • milk

Whip the butter and shortening together then add the vanilla and powder sugar.  Add a little milk if the buttercream is too thick.  Frost the sides and the top of the cake.

Chocolate Ganosh Recipe:

  • 1 Tbs. butter
  • 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips

Warm the whipping cream in the microwave for 2 minutes and then dump in the butter and chocolate chips.  Keep stirring until melted and runny.  Place in the refrigerator for about half an hour so it thickens up.  Drizzle it around the top of the cake so it drips part way down the sides.

Cake Toppings:

  • Hershey’s Cookies -n- Cream Bars
  • Oreo’s
  • Mini Oreo’s

Decorate the top and sides of the cake to look beautiful!

Fruit Dip:

  • 1 package of cream cheese
  • 1 jar of marshmallow cream

Mix the ingredients and whip together.  Then add the fruit to dip!

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