Raspberry Cream Pops

Since I've had so much trouble keeping frosting in place lately, I decided to do something different. This time, a refreshing dessert, Raspberry Cream Pops from this recipe.

I must say, I've never made cream pops before, and these came out delicious! The tartness of the yogurt, combined with the sweetness of the raspberry puree and soft raspberry cream is lovely. Plus, you could make pops with any of those mixes! Personally, I think I'll be making raspberry puree pops sometime soon.

The recipe uses vanilla yogurt, but I couldn't find any at the stores so I used sweetened, natural yogurt and added a few spoons of vanilla extract.

My ice-pop molds are very small, so I ended up with 8 tiny pops, a very big one using a plastic cup, and 6 tiny pops with the left overs of the raspberry cream mix.

Cookies&Cream Cupcakes

A couple days ago Carola introduced me to the amazing blog Bakerella and I instantly fell in love with it. One of the most recent entries was about making Cookies & Cream cupcakes with Oreo cookies. The recipe seemed simple enough, so I though I'd give it a shot.

I got my Oreos and broke them into small pieces.

Then, I placed them in the baking cups.

I decided to make half a dozen cupcakes with a whole Oreo cookie within them.

In the end, the cookies didn't go up as Bakerella's did, they stayed at the bottom of the baking cup (maybe it was my Betty Crocker ready-made cake mix?), so there really wasn't a visible difference between the whole Oreo and the broken ones (which is a shame, Bakerella's broken Oreo cupcakes looked so pretty)

This time I actually wanted to try and make the frosting myself, since it was a special cookies & cream one, but unfortunately I didn't have shortening at hand so I had to settle with good ol' Betty Crocker's vanilla frosting.

I smashed the broken cookies I had left and sprinkled them over the vanilla frosting.

The Cake is not a lie.

My boyfriend and I are big videogamers, and as soon as Portal 2 came out, I decided to make him the cake from the first game for his bithday.

Excuse the crap quality, my batteries died and I had to take pics with my cellphone.


I didn't have much time to make it, so I used two Devil's Food Cake boxed mixes, Betty Crocker classic chocolate frosting, and I made some wipped cream to put in between layers and on top. I also separated the cookies and fillings of oreo cookies, smashed the cookies and covered the frosted cake to give it texture.

Sadly, the weather here is still too hot for anything to stay put, so I had to put the cake in the fridge at random intervals so it wouldn't fall over or melt before my boyfriend came to pick me up.

The reult was a delicious, moist cake. VERY heavy (5 kg), very chocolaty, but not too sweet.
Simply great.

Will do it again some time, when it's not so hot outside.

Chocolate Bread Roll

Made with Phillsbury's Classic Yellow Cake (Sugar free)

and Phillsbury's Chocolate icing (Sugar free).

Red Velvet Cake

I've been tempted to try to make a classic red velvet cake for quite a while and well, I finally made one!
I used Bakerella's Red Velvet Cake recipe, which is incredibly easy to make.

The result was underwhelming though. The cake itself is pretty dense, and the frosting is so sweet that my parents ended up scraping it off. Personally, I liked the frosting though it would be better without a cup or two of sugar, but I don't think I'd eat the cake without the frosting.

Maybe I did something wrong?

The extreme temperatures I live in don't help either, forcing me to keep the cake in the fridge and making me wait 15-20 minutes after I cut a piece and plate it before I can eat it, so that the bread is moist and velvety. The bad thing about that is that the cheese frosting starts melting too soon. Stupid weather.

I've also never tried a red velvet cake in my life, so I dunno what they're supposed to be like, but I was expecting something else.

In conclusion: I'd definitely do this again, except I'd use less sugar for the frosting and I'd make it during a 25ºC (or less) weather...

Here's a picture of a slice. If it looks too dense is probably because it was just out of the fridge.

Quequitos con chispas rojas (Graduación)

Quequitos de chocolate y vainilla, espolvoreados con chispitas rojas para mi fiesta de graduación :)

Mini "Whoopie Pies"

Hoy intenté hornear algo nuevo para mi tío con diabetes. Vi que la caja de la mezcla sin azúcar de Pillsbury tenía una receta de "Mini whoopie pies", así que decidí intentarla y hornear algo más. Pues, ¡salieron muy bien!

Las partes de arriba no deberían ser tan puntiagudas, pero honestamente pensé que la mezcla se iba a esparcir por toda la charola, así que fue agradable que no lo hicieran.