Banana and Nutella

After our post on Cupcake Takes the Cake blog, I found out Rachel one of the bloggers was going to be in Austin. We set up a time meet up this afternoon and I brought our yummy banana cupcakes with super creamy Nutella buttercream to share. It was a fun meeting she is super sweet in person!!

We also took advantage of the lovely day we had and did an fun little photo shot this afteroon. This is my favorite photo from the set.

Bananas for your Birthday!

Yesterday was my darling BF birthday; you can read a little bit more here (if your curious). Well we are on this lose weight eat better kick, so baking lately has been strictly for clients. The BF kept saying I don’t want a cake, but what kind of baking mama would I be, if I didn’t surprise him with some yummy goodness.

The flavor idea came to me in the middle of traffic, so I had to do an illegal u-turn and almost take out a bird to make my way to the grocery store to pick up the supplies. From the start this cake was nothing but trouble. Since it was last minute, I didn’t have my butter soften so I had to improvise and then I kept dropping yolk in my egg whites. After almost pulling out all my hair (and this is really expensive hair…LOL) I decided to just mix everything together and shove it in the oven.
30 minutes and 350 degrees later I had a yummy moist banana cake. I filled the cake layers with a banana buttercream with chunks of bananas. Then I slathered it all up with some delicious semi-sweet ganache frosting. The cake came out so delicious and the BF was surprised and happy. We each ate (some people being better than others…NOT ME!!) a piece of cake and he took the rest with him to work to share with his co-workers

I realized after making this cake, how much I really enjoy baking and making delicious things to eat. What I mean by this, I love to see pretty cakes in all their fondant glory, but I personally just love yummy cakes slathered in yummy frostings. A little color, maybe some fun sprinkles, but just simplicity. The kind of cakes you remember your grandma making.

I use to struggle with trying to create cakes that would make the Cake Boss proud, but I realized for me, I would rather see someone smile, because they love the way my cake taste, verus how pretty is it. Maybe that is strange logic, but I am strange and from this day forward, I have vowed to put my efforts into creating the best tasting cakes I can. This means, not beating myself up anymore, because I can't make a stupid fondant rose or create perfect little hand piped decorations. My creations will be just as fun, yummy and whimisical as I am!

Happy 2010

NOTE - Please be aware that no birds were actually injured in the making of this cake!!