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Decorating Desserts for the holidays with YouCake

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Holiday Dessert Topping Recipe:

Take two bite size brownies, cupcakes, cakes, or cookies

Add royal, vanilla or butter cream frosting or melt white chocolate

Apply your YouCake custom or seasonal topper

Let set or dry and serve a one-of -kind treat that shares your sentiments!

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Make your own custom topper: Customize your edible frosting sheet

Purchase a season pack of Thanks Giving toppers, options below, send us an email with your preference and shipping info:

  • 1.5 inch circles – perfect for mini cupcake and two-bite desserts ~ Pack of 36 (qty) toppers  $15
  • 2.1 inch circles – perfect for standard size cupcakes or cookies ~ Pack of 24 (qty) toppers $17
  • 1 inch circle – cake pops or tiny treats ~ Pack of 108 (qty) toppers $21

Top tip on how we decorated these brownies:
We took a bag of Wilton white chocolate candy melts. A full proof double-boiler method is to put one inch of water in a pan with a bowl placed on top (water must not touch the top of the double boiler). When the water boils, turn off the burner and take the pot off the heat source. Add, a tsp of vegetable oil to one bag of melts as indicated on the package, add the candy melts and just keep stirring until all the melts are dissolved.

Then, we spooned the melted white chocolate over the dessert. With dry hands, removed the backing of the edible frosting sheet and place on the melted chocolate. Pat flat to remove any air bubbles and make the topper flush with the chocolate – the pinky finger seems to have the perfect pressure for this technique.

Let dry and it is ready to serve.

Have a great holiday!

Here are some more seasonal toppers available:

Here are some holiday inspired by our customers:

Custom Decorating Brownies At Home Guide

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Decorating Brownies

While my friend Deb was visiting, we made brownies and decided to custom decorate the brownies using melted white chocolate – easy and yum! I like using melted white chocolate, the topper sets as soon as the white chocolate dries and is simpler to transport.

To begin, melt the chocolate according to the packaging. We used Nestle white chocolate morsels, which are available at any supermarket. Follow the direction on the packaging. Since our microwave did not allow us to lower the power, we used the double-boiler and followed these instructions  exactly for melting white chocolate and it worked perfectly.

Once the white chocolate is melted spread the melted chocolate on the brownie – or any cookie you are want to decorate.

Decorating brownies with melted chocolate

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Building Specialty Cakes with YouCake Prints

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All of our cakes are special, but these cakes get the term “specialty cakes” because of the “irregular” edible prints that they inspired for sculpted cakes.

There is a tremendous opportunity to tell your story visually on cakes. For example, when you turn fifty – a todo list list becomes extra sweet, such as in this cake: First,  “Remind Mano to file the paper for the generator” and end by “rocking the next 50 years!”

ToDo List Sculpted Cake

 

At work, keep the office theme…Easel  and Post it Notes work great!

Easel cake and postits

 

Great for wedding or anniversary cakes…make a film strip of images

carousel cake and film strip

 

For irregular prints, contact us 212-358-779 or email us for a quote. Pricing depends on the project and includes the print and if needed design work and set up fee for multiple images. We make sure you will have a show-stopper!

 

ColorCraft Cookie Put to the Test!

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ColorCraft Cookie Put to the Test!

The YouCake ColorCraft Party Activity is a fun party activity for kids ages 4-9 to color and decorate cookies, but don’t take our word for it.

The Mama Maven put it to the test with her own family and here are the results:


Thank you theMamaMaven and Company!!!!

YouCake ColorCraft cookie put to the test

Learn more and order for your party…http://www.youcake.com/products/colorcraft-coloring-activity-cookies/

Halloween Treats & Party Bash Ideas!

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Halloween Treats & Party Bash Ideas! Here are several Halloween Treat Ideas for Your Party…

Halloween treats party bash ideas

For a great Halloween Party Bash, here are several unique dessert ideas….

 Assorted Jack-o-Lantern cookies.
Each cookie is individually wrapped for a perfect party give-away.  Order before October 15 for our fresh-baked artisanal sugar 2×2 inch square sugar cookies – Reserve  16 assorted Jack-o-lantern cookies for your party ~  $34.

Custom edible toppers. 
Decorate your own cake, cookie or cupcake — Create your own dessert topper.

No bake custom cookies.
Our ready-to-serve cookies topped with your personal design idea is the best solution ever — Design a cookie.

Halloween Party Activity for Kids – Color and Decorate Jack-o-lantern Cookies!
Everything you need is included for a no-bake, but have all the fun cookie decorating  — ColorCraft Jack-o-lantern cookie activity set.

 

Vote for YouCake – We are in the Martha Stewart American Made Program

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YouCake Nominee badge2014YouCake has entered the Martha Stewart Made in America Contest – American Made spotlights the maker, supports the local, and celebrates the handmade.

For more than 20 years, Martha Stewart has celebrated the spirit of innovation in the pages of her magazines and on her television shows. Now, through American Made, Martha Stewart and the editors of Martha Stewart Living are spotlighting the next generation of great American makers: entrepreneurs, artisans, and small-business owners who are creating beautiful, inspiring, useful products; pioneering new industries; improving local communities; and changing the way we eat, shop, work, and live. The program is made up of people and communities that have turned their passion for quality craftsmanship and well-designed goods into a way of life.

Help us get the most social shares on Facebook and twitter!  The more social shares on Facebook and Twitter, the better our chances of winning a wild-card spot. Click on the badge to view YouCake’s American Made Badge and share us on Facebook and Twitter. THANKS!!!!

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Join us at the South Street Seaport Family Fun Fest! Aug 6-7, 2014

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YouCake will have a cookie decorating station at the South Street Seaport Family Fun Fest to Benefit Hamilton Madison House. Activities include fashion trunk show. handmade products, fairytale theatre, kids fun events, and refreshments.

About the event:
Hamilton Madison House invites all Families to celebrate the announcement of its Working Wonders Preschool Alternative Daycare Program coming to the Financial District!
  • Date: Wednesday and Thursday, August 6-7, 2014
  • Time: 11am-7pm
  • Location: Cannon’s Walk Inside the South Street Seaport Museum, Front Street
YouCake Cookie Decorating Station
At the event, come and decorate cookies with us. The YouCake ColorCraft cookie decorating activity is fun for kids ages 3-9. For the activity, each child receives a baked cookie topped with a coloring design edible topper. First, they can color with edible markers, decorate with sprinkles, and then eat or take home their own cookie creations. A portion of all proceeds from the show will go towards supporting this initiative!

See you there!

Download the event flyer to see the kids activity schedule for the show: Trunk Show Flyer

 

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How to Throw the Ultimate Hero Party for your 50th Birthday!

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YouCake 50th Birthday Cake Topper Following is a step-by-step guide to my husband’s 50th Birthday. First order your custom topper. When you receive your topper, make the cake. I used a box cake from Duncan Hines  as well as store bought frosting. This was his request from the nostalgia of his younger days. Since he wanted chocolate frosting, I frosted the cake vanilla on top so that the topper would not turn brown and frosted the rest of the cake of chocolate. He never noticed.   cakeingredientsbannerweb Above are the items purchased for the cake. I added the chocolate bits from Chiradelli into the cake to make it more chocolate-more chocolate is always a good idea :  ) I made the cake and frosted it. There is no photo because I was elbow deep in frosting and cake shavings. Here is a quick tutorial for how to remove the topper from the backing (also see our Howto Video). Take it in both hands and rub it along the the edge of the counter. This adds air and unseals the topper from the backing. Take the topper out starting from the middle. If you have any difficulty with the edges, the edible paper is pressed thinner, you can trim to make it release even more easily. topperweb   After I  applied the topper to the cake center and padded it flat, I decorated around the edges with some extra frosting. Then, I let the cake sit out for another 10 minutes before putting in the fridge overnight. The next day I took the cake out of the fridge 30 minutes before serving. Cakes should be served at room temperature, but this also gives the topper more time to set. The cake is ready to serve when the topper can be easily pierced with a pin. The frosting and the topper should have gelled. And, voila, the ordinary cake transformed into a one-and-only Russ Cake. How Ultimate Hero is that?   YouCake Cake Topper    

Now, for the rest of the festivities. We had party games with party favors for the game winners. Games included: pin the patch on the pirate, a ball game, the melon game,  and trivia quizzes throughout the evening.

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Party Agenda:

  • 5:00 Pin the Patch on the Pirate
  • 5:45 Ball catch game
  • 6:15 Pinata
  • 6:45 Melon Stocking Croquet Game
  • 6:30 Salmon with Hollandaise sauce
  • Cake slicing
  • Sparklers And, repeat…

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How to get your own custom YouCake Topper – Design and Ordering Process:

      • Send logo/artwork as high resolution jpg or as illustrator, psd, or pdf to our topper ordering page!
      • Include your inscription- event name, save the date, etc.
      • Choose size of ready-to-serve cookie or cake topper
      • An email preview of the cupcake topper design is sent for review
      • Please allow 5 days to process, plus shipping

Call 212-358-7791 or email contact@youcake.com YouCake for any questions.

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