Happy Belated Pi day!

This has been a busy week for me so I haven't had time to post much.

Every year I celebrate Pi day which is March 14th, and this year it was on Wednesday, which I had class then work and it was crazy that day. But I did made a pie the day before and I did have a piece on pie day.

I made my typical lemon meringue pie, just so I can draw the pi symbol in the meringue.

And because I was working at Disneyland this Pi day, so I would always remember that, I drew a little Mickey as well. I did have some problems here and there but that was just because of lack of tools. I don't have a zester so I had to peel and dice the lemon peel, and I had to hand whip the egg whites (good yet painful work out).

There is a gluten free crust (which honestly I eyeballed and kind of threw together but it worked), and focused on the filling. I used Alton Brown's recipe (available on foodnetwork.com) and it came out great and delicious and has been gone for a while since I have roommates who like to help me eat my baked goods.

More cupcakes will be coming soon. In the meantime here are some costumes of mine from Wondercon that I made:
Eve from WallE.


Young Ellie from Up.

-Charlotte

Minnie Mouse Cupcake

My just finished Minnie Mouse cupcake!

Honestly, I am not happy with how it turned out. Everything was just too....squishy and not in a cute Dori from Finding Nemo way, in an annoying way.

Nothing really was working for me tonight except my pudding and the cake itself, but here is what it is: a chocolate (suppose to be red velvet) cupcake, French Vanilla pudding filling, and a cream cheese frosting with a red glaze and black glaze writing.

I did have an idea of doing a chocolate cupcake with a whipped cream filling and a chocolate ganache frosting and a red and white polka dot bow, so I might so that one instead, but right now this is my Minni mouse cupcake.

-Charlotte

P.S. It does taste amazing though, the flavour is for sure all there.

Goofy Cupcake

This is the first of my Fabulous Five cupcakes. I started with Goofy because the items at had at my apartment worked for Goofy.

This is a nutmeg cupcake with chunks of apple and a orange coloured buttercream frosting. The hat is made of gum paste and the lettering is done in icing.

The next one is probably going to be Pluto.

-Charlotte

Fab Five Cupcakes

So yesterday my roommates and I went to Company D (discount cast member store full of cheap Disneyland merchandise) and in the pin area I saw a pin package of cupcake pins decorated like the fabulous five (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto). I didn't get them but they did give me an idea.

I know they won't be pixar, but I need something to make before Carsland opens up (I decided I will make cupcakes for that) so I'm going to make fabulous five cupcakes.

My roommates shall love me.

I don't have a picture of the pins but here look at my new hat:

And now a cake:



-Charlotte

Disney Magic

As of today I am now living by Disneyland and will be working there.

For my roommates and because I had left over cake batter I made these:

The left over cake batter was lemon and the filing was left over pastry cream. I then dipped them in dark chocolate and attached the dark chocolate ears.

I haven't tried them yet but they sure do look darn tasty.













If you want to see the cake I made in which I had left over cake batter from for these Mickey Ear hat cakes look for '2012- Wine Barrel 50th birthday cake' under my cakes page.

I hope to continue to bake while I'm here, we have a very nice kitchen and I know that I will be making pancakes this week sometime.

I will be here for the opening of Cars Land in California Adventure Park so I might do a special Pixar cupcake for that.

-Charlotte

An Update

As one might have noticed, due to my lack of updating, things have been very busy/hectic these last couple of months.

I did successfully complete my internship at the bakery, decorating many cakes and learning many new techniques in how to decorate cakes.

School is almost finished for me for the semester, I am coming up to my last week now. After which I will be going to Disneyland and working there from January to August. I will continue to decorate cakes (I have one scheduled for January 7th) and create Pixar Cupcakes (the next of which being Brave).

I will be doing some editing/updating of this particular blog but not much will change. In the meantime you can check out my other blog called Disney Eats. Still Disney and food related, I will posting about different restaurants/snacks/foods available at Disneyland and around it.

That is all for now, updates shall be coming soon.

-Charlotte

He He

Well it has certainly been awhile, but I have not been totally lacking in my cooking/baking/decorating ways.

First here's a cake I made:



It was my Grandpa's 70th birthday so I made him a sushi cake!

The cake is the yellow base (which to me kind of looks like cheese). I tried to make it look like a bamboo serving dish but ran out of time to really paint it.

But I know the sushi look great because my uncle though they were some of those plastic sushi that pretty much everyone in my family has around their house. I was very rushed in making this but I did everything I wanted to do for the most part.

The sushi is made out of fondant and rice krispie treats, and the ikura sushi, the ikura is made out of coloured white chocolate.

Fair warning: It was very sweet. We didn't finish most of it so my mum brought the leftovers into work the next day. That's how you get rid of dessert you don't want: give it to your hungry co-workers (or your mum's hungry co-workers).



And now for some other exciting news.

I got a summer internship at a bakery!

That's right, from 4:30 in the morning to eight I work on decorating individual desserts for the display case, then from eight to noon I decorate or assemble cakes. I just finished my first week and so far I've assembled eight different cakes and decorated an Indiana Jones 6th birthday cake and a Baby Shower (It's a Girl) cake. Let's see what is in store for next week.

And coming up!: My mum is graduating with her MBA so I get to make her graduation cake.

I will, of course, post pictures once I am done.

That's really all for now. I had been busy with school finishing up and what not so all time went to studying.

-Charlotte