A Frozen birthday cake

We threw a Disney's Frozen birthday party for the girls' birthdays.  I created this three tiered cake for the party.

The bottom 12 inch cake tier is chocolate cake with caramel filling.  The middle 9 inch cake tier is orange with orange curd filling.  The top 6 inch cake tier is chocolate with strawberry buttercream filling.

It's frosted with light blue vanilla buttercream.  The snow is a vanilla meringue frosting.  The blue "ice" is homemade candy shards.  I purchased the Frozen figurines and sugar snowflakes.

Market Day April 11

The menu for market day includes these sweet Easter cupcakes

 As well as  a new item, Browned butterscotch cashew bars which are perfectly sweet salty

Cookies:
Sea salt chocolate chip
White chocolate macadamia nut

Scones:
Whole wheat apple cinnamon
Coconut
Whole wheat cherry dark chocolate
Butterscotch almond

Market Day April 4, 2014

Ricotta Lime cupcakes

Cookies
Classic Chocolate chip
Toffee Chocolate chip
Bailey's Chocolate

Scones
Fresh strawberry
White chocolate cranberry almond
Coffee Chocolate chip
Pumpkin

Cake for a first birthday

Market Day Feb 14 menu

Happy Valentines Day!

Ladytroupe Sweets has a sweet Valentines Day menu lined up

Red Velvet cupcakes
Vanilla bean macarons
Valentine sugar cookies

Scones:
Orange cream
Chocolate chip
Cinnamon cranberry
White chocolate cranberry almond

wedding cake practice

Did I mention that I am making my sister's wedding cake this summer?  I'm so excited to have such an important assignment for her big day.  Luckily, I have had two opportunities to practice a three tiered cake.  One was for our Halloween party and the second was for a traditional engagement and ring ceremony here in Ethiopia.

The cake is quite small as wedding cakes come.  The bottom tier is 12 inches, the second tier is 9 inches and the top tier is 6 inches.  Each tier is a two layer cake with filling in between.  For this cake the 12 inch tier is almond butter cake with a strawberry buttercream filling.  The 9 inch tier is chocolate cake with a coffee buttercream filling.  The 6 inch tier is vanilla butter cake with a lemon buttercream filling.

For the size, it's immensely heavy.  Which I guess is the true test whether a cake is made with real butter!  I know it sounds crazy but this cake took 30 eggs and 6.25 pounds of butter.  Well, you only get married once right?

The real practice for me is in the assembly.  All the stability lies at the base and wooden dowels help support the next layer.  I could still use a bit of practice before this July, but so far so good.  This cake made it to it's destination driven on the mean streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia completely assembled!  Amazing.

Market Day Jan 17, 2014

Can you believe it's 2014 already?  I'm so excited for the new year and for all the ideas I have for Ladytroupe Sweets.

I'll be back at the US Embassy Market today (Friday, Jan 17th).  I'll be selling starting at 11:45AM so come early because everything is usually gone by 1 PM.

The menu for this wee is the following:

Cookies: Classic sea salt chocolate chip
Toffee Chocolate Chip

Scones: Double Chocolate
Honey & Fig
Orange Cream
Butterscotch Pecan

Small loaves of wheat bread are for sale too.

But the show stoppers are the Chocolate Orange cupcakes topped with candied orange peels.  Gorgeous and taste fantastic.  Get them while they last!

what's baking lately

chocolate cupcakes with meringue ghost frosting

vanilla cupcake with pumpkin pie frosting

Three tier Halloween cake feeds 75-80

popcorn balls-perfect party favor

chocolate caramel cake

Market Day October 11

I'll see you at the Market today folks!

Today's menu includes a really exciting new take on the pumpkin cupcake.  I've done the pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting too many times.  Today is a cinnamon cake with pumpkin spice buttercream!

Salted chocolate chip cookies
Scones (double chocolate orange, toffee, orange cranberry, and cranberry white chocolate almond)

Market Day Sept 20

The menu is pretty fantastic for today so don't forget to come see me.

Pistachio cupcakes are the special today.  Super simple and wonderful for a Friday treat.

Salted chocolate chip cookies
Scones:
Cookies 'n cream
Almond berry
Fig and honey
Mango coconut

Market Day August 30

For all the parents who've been busy with back to school night this week at ICS.  This Market Day menu is for you.

Vanilla cupcakes filled with chocolate ganache and topped with marshmallow vanilla bean frosting

Now that the back to school edge is off here's the rest.

Salted chocolate chip cookies
Cranberry pecan oatmeal cookies

Scones
Coffee toffee
White chocolate cranberry almond
Lemon blueberry
Strawberries'n cream

Market Day Friday August 23

I hope to see you there!  I'll be there at 11:45 AM

Menu for Friday
Chocolate chip cookies
Caramel macchiato cupcakes

Scones
Cranberry white chocolate almond
Toffee chocolate
Orange Cranberry
Apricots n cream

No Market Day Aug 16

Hi folks, I will not be at Market Day this week because I have a huge catering order for Saturday.  See you next Friday! Have a great weekend.

baking lately

I am always trying new things in my kitchen and it's been awhile since I've updated my products list as well as my catering photos.  May and June were fun months for experimentation.  Here's what's been baking lately.

Macarons: these light almond flour and meringue based cookie are light and crispy filled with creamy pistachio Swiss meringue buttercream and tart passion fruit curd.  The flavors are endless with macarons.  Challenge me!

Rustic peach and ginger galette with lavender sugar.  Perfect for afternoon tea.

 Homemade apple fritters.  Simply amazing and decadent. These were my Father's Day gift to my husband.

 I provided 130 cupcakes for Head To Toe Preschool's end of the year circus extravaganza.

 Browned butter bacon chocolate chip cookies.  The salty sweet combination is inspiring me lately.  These amazing cookies will surprise you in a good way.

Blueberry white chocolate bread pudding with white chocolate rum sauce.  Rustic and simple but the rum sauce really elevates this bread pudding to a dinner party type dessert.

Vanilla ice cream cake with chocolate wafer layers.  All tinted pink for my eldest daughter's 6th birthday.  This mile high cake served close to 50 people.  We all wished there were leftovers!

Ladytroupe Sweets accepting orders

I'm back in Addis Ababa after a nice long holiday in Cape Town, South Africa.  I found so many things about the city inspiring.  Get ready for some Cape Town inspired baked treats at Market day coming up.  

Closed June 24-July 24

We're headed out of town for a few weeks so I will not be able to fulfill any custom orders and I won't be at Market Day.  But don't fret, I'll be back for business at the end of July!  

S'mores cupcakes

My new favorite creation is a S'mores cupcake.  It's a chocolate cupcake with a graham cracker crust, toasted marshmallow filling and a marshmallow frosting.  Sinfully delicious!

Market Day June 21

Schools out for summer and my daughters can't wait to help at Market Day this week!  They even had a hand in the menu.  Hope your sweet tooth is ready!

S'mores cupcakes (graham cracker crust, chocolate cupcake with toasted marshmallow filling and marshmallow frosting)

Chocolate chip cookies
Vanilla bean frosted sugar cookies

Scones:
Cinnamon filbert (hazelnut for all you non-Oregonians)
M&M
Chocolate raspberry (no joke-raspberries all the way from the US)
Chocolate marshmallow (the girls' favorite)

Not this week folks

Hi all!  Our eldest daughter turned 6 this week and we are celebrating with a Pajama Party this weekend. I am up to my elbows in ice cream cake, balloons and sugar cookies.  No market day for me this week.

Market Day May 24

Hi folks!
Menu for today-It's a cookie scone week!

chocolate chip cookies
salted chocolate peanut butter
chocolate mint chip

Scones
Orange cherry
white chocolate cranberry almond
coffee almond
toffee