Yesterday I received a message from a young lady in England named Brittney. She asked me if I can show her a easy way for icing and decorate a Christmas cake. She is a student and is going to celebrate Christmas with her friends. She is the one whos responsible for dessert and she want to show off with a beautifull Christmas cake. My Christmas Cake of 2013 is to dificult to remake, (hahahahah) She told me in her message.

So I decided to make a 2 part Youtube Tutorial on how to icing and decorate a cake for Christmas ( The easy way)

I’m going to show you how to icing and decorate the cake on the picture. You only need a few things to make this cake.

What do you need?

• Cake Icing (click here for my Blog/Youtube tutorial on “How to make Cake icing”)
• Christmas candy
• MM’s
• Ferrero coconut chocolate
• Grated coconut
• Spatula

There is a several ways to make cake icing. In this Youtube video tutorial I will show you an easy way to make Cake icing. In another Youtube video tutorial I will show you another way to make cake icing.

For this Cake icing you will need the following ingredients:

• 5 cups of confectioner sugar
• 3 Tablespoons of merinque powder
• 10-11 Tablespoons of warm water

1. Candy,
2. Snow,
3. Train,
4. Christmas tree,

1. Red,
2. White,
3. Black,
4. Skin tone color ( to create this color you need Ivory color paste. Mix it with white fondant)

Make your Santa Claus 2 days ahead so it can dry properly. I made a Santa Claus in his PJ’s, how cute…

• The Christmas tree is made with sugar paper and I put green fondant on the sugar paper.
• The train and snowman are also made a few days ahead! 
• Clouds,  owls, leaves and branches you can make the same day, that you are going to put your cake together.

To make and decorate this cake you need like one week. This week include baking your cakes, making your Santa Claus etc… and putting everything together!

Yesssss Browny’s Cakes owned a background music!!!

For a long time I wanted my own background music for Browny’s cakes. I hired “Melophonic music“ to make a music for Browny’s Cakes. They nailed it inmediately. The music is very Brownylicious!

I hope you like it as much as I do! Thumbs up on my Youtube channel if you  like it too!

This is a delicious recipe for people who like sweet bread with raisins. On Curacao, where I come from you can buy ‘Pan dushi” at every bakery. You have small ones or bigger ones.

Normally the size of the “Pan dushi” is bigger. I made small ones, because is easier to roll the dough. If you want to make them biger you only need to double up the ingredients.

For more sweetness I add cinnamon and brown sugar into the filling. Normally you only put raisins as filling. I don’t like too much raisins in my “Pan dushi” so I use less raisins. Feel free to put as many as you want.

Preheat the oven at 200 degrees Celcius. Baking time 20 minutes. Yields approx. 12 small “Pan dushis”.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 500 gr. Flour,
• 10 gr. Yeast,
• 50 gr. Sugar,
• 50 gr. Soft butter,
• 1/2 cup Milk,
• 1 teaspoon of Yellow food color,
• 1/2 teaspoon of Salt,
• 25 gr. Melted butter,

Ingredients for the filling:

• 1/2 cup of Raisins,
• 1/2 cup Brown sugar,
• 1 tablespoon of Cinnamon,

Mix all these ingredients in a little bowl and set aside.

Preparation:

•  Put all your dough ingredients in your mixing bowl and mix till your dough is not sticking at your bowl,

• Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and leave for about 30-45 minutes to rise,
• After 30-45 minutes roll your dough out into a rectangular,

• Brush the melted butter on the dough,

• Sprinkle the mixture of cinnamon, raisins and brown sugar on the dough,

• Now roll your dough,

• Cut the dough in half,

• Cut each half again in half and then into three equals parts,

• Cover the “Pan dushis” with a kitchen towel and let them rise up for about 1 hour or untill the “Pan dushis” doubled in size,

• When the “Pan dushis”are fully raised put them into the oven and bake for about 25 minutes,

• In the mean time heat up the abricot jam,
• When the “Pan dushis” are ready brush the abricot jam on the “Pan dushis” and let them cool off. If you can resist to let them cool down J

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We are a few weeks away from the end of the year and everybody is so busy! I’m busy too with all kinds of cake projects. For some of these cakes projects I need to make some things ahead. For this week I have a very cute Cake theme coming up and I need to make some fondant animals and clown. So this cake will be colorfull and cute.

Sculping animals
To sculp animals with fondant can be difficult but at the same time also easy. You only need to have some creativity! Normally I make some sketches before making my animals etc….

When you are making like an animal, you need to make all the body parts individually and then put all together.

Fondant versus gumpaste
Normally for making animals, flowers etc… you can use gumpaste. The most people use premade gumpaste, but I use fondant and ad some Tylose powder. When you add Tylose powder to fondant you create also gumpaste. The Tylose powder adds elasticity to fondant and decreases drying time. Use approximately 1 tsp to 170 gr. fondant.

Glue
Some people use water to glue fondant or gumpaste pieces together. I use edible glue. You can make this edible glue yourself. What doe you need?

You will need:
1. 1/4 cup water,
2. 1/2 teaspoon Tylose powder,

Mix  the tylose powder with the water. Don’t panic if it is a little bit clompy in the beginning. Let the mixture for a couple hours  and it will clear up and you will have a nice clear edible glue.

Or you can also buy edible glue on Browny’s Cakes webshop if you don’t want to make it your self!

Here is a list of everything you need for sculpting a fondant animal, clown etc…:

• Fondant,
• Tylose,
• Color paste,
• Rolling pin,
• Scissor,
• Edible glue,
• Toothpicks,
• Flower cutter,
• Modelling tools,
• Towel,
• Brush,
• Lollipop sticks,
• Piepschuim,

• 3/4 cup Semi Sweet baking chocolate,
• 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder,
• 1/2 cup hot water,
• 170 gr. soft unsalted butter, 
• 4 Eggs,
• 2 Egg yolk,
• 1 cup White sugar, 
• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract,
• ½ cup Milk,
• 1 ¾ cups Flour,
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda,
• ½ teaspoon salt,

• Sift the flour, baking soda and the salt together in a bowl and set aside.
• In another bowl add the cocoa powder to the hot water and whisk it smooth,




Cacao powder dissolved in hot water

 

• Add the melted chocolate. When the chocolate is complete dissolved, add your butter and vanilla extract to this and whisk all smooth.

• In your mixer bowl whip the eggs and the egg yolks on high speed with the whip attachment until foamy, and gradually start adding in your sugar very slowly. The eggs mixture will take about 5 minutes to reach the ribbon stage.




Foamy egg mixture

 

Ribbon stage

• Add the entire melted chocolate/cocoa powder mixture to the whipped egg mixture, and whip until it is all incorporated(about 20 seconds).




Adding the chocolate mixture to the egg mixture

 

• Next we start the alternating of the dry ingredients with the milk, beginning with the dry ingredients and ending with the dry, in 3 and 2 additions. Mix untill all the ingredients are incorporated.

• Pour the chocolate batter into your cake pan(s) and bake for approx 25-40 minutes.

You all know me for my recipes, tutorials and how to but beside that I also have Browny’s Cakes webshop! On my webshop you can find all kind of baking products to bake and decorate cakes, cookies, cupcakes etc…

There is a lot of  well known brands of products on Browny’s cakes webshop:

• Wilton
• Funcakes
• PME
• Pettinice
• Rainbow dust

Christmas cake 2012

Today I bake and decorate some delicious and cute Red Velvet cupcakes. These cupcakes were for a 23 birthday of a young Lady. She was very happy when she saw the cupcakes! One happy Customer again!

Last monday I post a Red Velvet recipe for a 1 – 8 ” inch cake. With the same recipe you can bake these cupcakes.You can bake approximately 26 cupcakes with my recipe. Baking time is 15 minutes! No more or less! Like I promise last monday the cream cheese frosting recipe is coming soon on my blog. You only need a few ingredients to make the cream cheese frosting.  If you don’t want to miss any blog anymore subscribe here!

The theme for these cupcakes were “Paris”. I think this young lady likes pink and Paris because those were the only thing she wanted for her cupcakes. Secretly I check her Whatsapp saw the Eiffel tower on her display. So It was not so difficult to figure out, how to decorate the cupcakes! LOL!

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