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Wow, I guess the cake was too easy to guess huh? Yep, I will be trying to make a princess cake. My little girl is into her “I’m a princess” stage now, so I decided to indulge her and make a princess cake. Hopefully it will turn out nice.

Many people have asked whether I have taken a baking/decorating class before and the answer is no! I am hoping someday I will but so far I have never taken any classes. Everything I’ve done is all self-learned. My daughter’s cakes are my experiment grounds. So far, I have decorated less than 5 cakes. In fact, The Pooh cake was my 1st ever attempt at cake decorating (well, not counting the practice piece I did 2 days before doing the Pooh cake).  Then for Elmo cake, it was my 1st attempt at fondant.  I will blog more about this later.

For this princess cake, I am trying out sugar paste craft. This is the result of my attempt! What do you think?

I use cookie cutters to cut the flower and just roll a little ball on top of it to make the center.  It was a fun first try. The hardest part was the trying to get the sugar into a pliable dough. The kneading really took a lot of strength! But once it’s a dough, it’s just like playdoh. It can be made into any shapes imaginable!! Will try to see if I can make something else other than a flower. FYI, I almost failed art class in high school!!! hahaha……

I love to bake. If only I don’t have to worry about gaining weight, I will probably bake a lot more. I have baked a lot of things including cakes, cookies, pies and many more. Usually I like to try new recipes but there are some recipes that I call my standby recipes. Those are the favorite recipes that I use all the time. One of them is the oatmeal raisin cookie.

This oatmeal raisin cookie is very easy to make. It requires 1 cup flour, ¾ cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ½ teaspoon baking soda, 1 ½ cup oats, and ½ cup raisins. Sometimes I will add chocolate chip or nuts in it too. Just mix everything together using a mixer, and then using an ice-cream scoop, drop 1 spoonful at a time on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for about 8 – 10 min and it’s ready.

This is my little girl’s favorite cookie. Usually I try to make them often for her because it is one way for her to eat more oats too. Unfortunately, my little hand mixer does not handle this cookie very well because the oatmeal mixture can get a little too heavy for my fragile little mixer. I really wish that I have 400 watts Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer. It is so tough that it can mix up to 9 dozen cookies. This Eclectrics® Mixer has up to 12 settings to ensure more mixing flexibility and precise control. With its huge stainless steel locking bowl, I will be baking up a storm in my kitchen. I am definitely going to add the Hamilton Beach® Mixer to my Christmas list.