Chocolate-cake box

Hey you guysss!! ;P

Valentine's Day here in the U.S. in on February 14th but in Brazil is in July 12th and my husband is very lucky because this year (just like the year before) he'll get sweet treats for both Valentines Day! :D For the american V-day I made him a very special cake. It's a cake that I saw on Bakerella site a while ago and I always wanted to try. It's a heart- chocolate-box made out of cake and fondant! Super cool!! :) And to get better... the "cake-box" is filled with cake truffles (which are the same thing as cake pops just without the stick).
My hubby loved his gift! The flavour of the cake is dark chocolate and I used cream cheese buttercream (OH MY GOSH, this is so yummy!! I totally recommend!!) that I also got from Mrs. Bakerella and you can find the recipe here.
I hope you like it!! 

And there it is... the "box" of chocolate! yummy!!

Tha cake truffles

More truffles

Oh, oh... a broken heart... ;P

Happy Baking!!

Cake Pops & Cupcake Bites

Wow, I have so much to tell you guys… so much to post! A lot is happening. Well, as the famous saying goes: I'll start from the beginning ... hahahaha...

So, my sister-in-law Melissa came to visit us here and I already had the idea to make some cake pops again to test a new recipe and a new technique. And nothing better than having the family to test my new cake pop .. hahahahahaha ... The result? I loved it!!! This time my pops did not fall from the sticks and after a week (yeah… I think I did 50 pops, including cupcake bites and cake pops) they are still wonderful and super delicious. It seems that the more time passes the batter gets better and more yummy, the chocolate around them protects the batter.

Mel loved it and my cupcake bites made a big success. For those who do not know, cupcake bite is like a mini cupcake just that it's chocolate covered "head to toe." The baking cups are made out of chocolate and so is the frosting.

It's almost Thanksgiving so I gave some cake pops and bites as a gift for Shannon which is a very special person to us here as thanks for all she does for us.

The batter of the pops and bites is Devil's Food Cake with "brigadier" (a brazilian candy, it's like a toffee). For the recipe just go to my friend's Luciana Blog or click here.

My Cake Pops:

Cake Pops coated with purple sugar and decorated with purple bows.

This I did for my son just for fun… its an owl. It is kinda cute but the next will be better …

Brigadeiro Cake Pops with Chocolate Jimmies and a colorful one... oops, I see a little boy's hand there.. ;P

And here are my Cupcake Bites: aren't they cute? :)

So many of them.... 

Look at it in detail: you can clearly see the chocolate baking cups here...

My inspiration? Bakerella, of course.... ;P

Happy Baking!!

Godiva, Godiva...

Mmmmm... I love Godiva more than anything... I'm a total sucker for their chocolates, truffles  and candy bars. It seams that everytime you bite you fall in love all over again... It's really something!  And now I'm more in love with them. Godiva just launched their cake bites collection! Yeah, they surrendered to the world of cake pops and bites! Don't you think it's perfect? I want so bad!!! hahaha


They named the collection Bakery Dessert Truffles to see the website just click here.

Happy Baking!!