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Edible Photo Frosting & Photo Cake Toppers — Custom Made To Order

Help – I need a pretty dessert!

YouCake Edible Toppers

Help – I need a pretty dessert!

When your dessert needs a lift, here is is quick trick.

What you need:

• Store bought two-bit brownies

• A can Duncan Hines frosting,

• Pack of YouCake cookie toppers – 1.87 inch rounds. 

You can order a pack of toppers at YouCake – they keep sealed for several months. We include a zip lock bag if you want to hang on to any extras for a quick dessert lift later. Kids photos, old photos, and a few ideas featured below are fun to have. I like the Duncan Hines brand when you don’t have time to make your own – (and it also freezes well with the topper).

 

 

Frost brownies, apply the edible toppers, let the toppers rest on the dessert un-refrigereated for 45-60 minutes, then it is ready to serve. Watch the video:

 

 

YouCake Easter Cookies

Easter Toppers

I luv my Mom (Dad also available) – these are 1.5 inch for mini cupcakes

Animal toppers – cute on cupcakes or cookies

Make Custom Cookies with Edible Toppers

Edible toppers on homemade sugar cookies

Make Custom Cookies with Edible Toppers 

My mother is an artist, see cardsbycathrina.com, and does a lot of entertaining and baking. She made edible toppers using her latest owl and bird drawings that she scanned and uploaded to YouCake. Below are the results along with a two-part how-to video— first the baking, then the decorating. She did not film the eating, but they are delicious. She used the following recipe from Eloises Easy Cookies Recipe. She flavored this batch with lemon, she has also done with orange. The top-tip to share is that she added some lemon juice when she thinned the royal frosting mix…a really, nice touch. 

Since the toppers stay fresh in their sealed bags unopened for about a month, she took a pack with her to France. When she has guests come over she can make a batch of cookies and top them with her lovely owl art.

The results, they are really adorable!

edible toppers of birds on homemade cookies

The video, part-one baking: 

The video, part-two decorating:

The Recipe:

Eloise’s Easy Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

  • 
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 
1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 
1 cup butter, softened
  • 
1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 
1 egg
  • Directions
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Put in refrigerator over night
  • Divide into 4 pieces and roll out to about 1/8” and cut into rounds or whatever….

Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks. Let cookies cool completely before icing.

 For 3in. round cookies use 3.5 in cookie cutter

Royal Frosting

3 oz pasturized egg whites and 4 cups of confectioner’s sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla (or other flavoring)

Beat the egg whites at least 4 minutes until stiff and shiny white

Add little by little the powdered sugar add vanilla 

Thin with water or juice to paint on cookies prior to putting on the YouCake topper

Make your own toppers…

Watch the how-to make top a cupcake with edible toppers…

 

Thanks Mom!

My Birthday – Best Day, Makes Best Birthday Cake

 

My birthday cake with photo image

For my birthday, how to decorate my birthday cake? It is plenty easy to choose images for friends and family, but for my own cake?

 

I asked my husband which photo should make my birthday cake, what would best sum up the year and the occasion… Without hesitation, he pulled up his favorite picture of me during a trip to France. We had stopped at an itsy-bitsy town in France called Mons.

 

In Mons we walked into the middle ages, with steep, tiny streets. When we entered the town restaurant, we literally stepped off a cliff—the restaurant  balcony hung above the steep mountain-side. Needless to say, the views were spectacular. 

 

We settled in with a citron-presse (lemonade) in hand, marveling at the sites in this remote area, when a virtual feast was presented. I can’t recall the menu, but when treats come like this, especially at higher altitudes, you imagine you have found a slice of heaven. 

 

If you have a gourmand food photo, I thought the cake required some attention. I chose to make a banana cake with a coconut butter cream frosting with fresh strawberries and whipped cream filling. Click here to make the cake topper and get the recipe at Epicurious! This worked for a 9×13 inch cake pan.

I loved my YouCake! Happy Birthday to me!!!

Banana YouCake

 

 

Yummy Easter Cupcakes Recipes with Edible Toppers

Easter Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Yummy Easter Cupcakes Recipe with Edible Toppers

What could be better for Easter then homemade Carrot Cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. To make them festive and seasonal, decorate with the YouCake Easter Toppers. Toppers are edible images that apply to any frosted cake, cookie or cupcake. Here is the before and after.

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The fist step is to find a yummy recipe for carrot cake cupcakes and cream cheese frosting. I used this recipe from Real Simple magazine.  The only change I made was that I added some Bourbon soaked raisons and used a little less of the brown sugar.

The fun thing about carrot cake is that with all the carrots, topped with cream cheese, you can justify this cupcake as a breakfast treat :  )

Now to decorate…once you make cupcakes and cream cheese frosting, give each cupcake a squirt of frosting. Remove the toppers from their sealed bag. Remove the wax paper backing they come with and press them flat on the cupcake. Make sure your hands are dry when you handle the edible images. 

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Just make sure that the topper is flat. Then, if you like, add some sprinkles.

 Decorate Carrot Cake Cupcake

Let the toppers set for 30 minutes, then eat. The toppers are 100% edible – extra pretty and fun frosting. 

For those who like to prepare ahead. Cupcakes with the YouCake edible toppers freeze perfectly. De-thaw your frozen cupcake in the refrigerator. When de-thawing, remove the lid or cover of the container that they are being stored in to prevent any condensation that may drip onto the top of the cupcake.

Watch the video:

 

Design your own….

Custom Ready-to-Serve Cookies

Custom Edible Toppers

 

Spring Edible Dessert Decorations!

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Spring Cookies and Edible Toppers

 Finally, Spring! For Easter, Spring, or Mother’s Day seasonal cookies, here are the ordering options. For just toppers, contact@youcake.com

Ordering options for cookies:

12 (qty) @ $2.10 each ~ $24.99

24 (qty) @ $2.00 each ~ $48.00

Ordering options for toppers:

40 (qty) 1.5 inch mini cupcakes toppers ~ $15.50

24 (qty) 2-inch to 2.25-inch cupcake toppers ~ $12.00

 

Email your request to contact@youcake.com

Valentine’s Dessert Decorations, Edible Love Notes for the ones you Love!

Valentine’s Dessert Decorations, Edible Love Notes for the ones you Love!

This is a lovely holiday, Valentine’s Day. A day to share your love, with notes, and some sweet love bites.  A little wiki history

The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”). In Europe, Saint Valentine’s Keys are given to lovers “as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart”, as well as to children, in order to ward off Saint Valentine’s Malady.[6] Valentine’s Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid.

Keys, hearts, doves, Cupid…images and sentiments of courtly love with sweet confections makes this a popular holiday around the world. How sweet you’ll be if you adorn your Valentine’s Day treats with edible images expressing your affections. How about modernized expressions? Try out some emojicons on cupcakes or cookies…how many ways to say “I love you”!

Share your self-expression and make your own sweet decorations or ask us for ideas.

Here are some heart expressions by bakers, chocolate-makers, caterers and party creators…enjoy!

Chocolate pops by Sweet Flying Pigs

Custom chocolate pops

Custom engagement cookies—note with matching wedding colors for the flowers and heart. It must look and taste just right! Cookies by Bonne Fete Baking.

Engagement cookies with personal photos

I “heart” Mom and Dad design as used by Bonne Fete Baking as cupcake and cookie decorations.

Red velvet cupcake and cookies decorated with I heart you

Not just for adults, great idea for school valentine parties, here is a topper that went on a cookie last year.

Edible topper valentine template

Have a terrific Valentine’s Day! We look forward to your yummy ideas.

YouCake Holiday Gift Deals

YouCake Holiday Gift Deals

See our special blog-only gift deals for this holiday season:

Wine from around the works web

The perfect hostess gift – Assorted wine from around the world on a sugar cookie!


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Snowflake cookies with words of support

Season Greetings Snowflake cookies with sentiments Joy, Love, Hope, Happy Holidays. 3-inch round sugar cookies ~ Box of 12 $24.00

Add your own sentiments by typing in text box below.


Add your own custom greetings:


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Make your own YouCake custom edible dessert decoration, click here to get started. Request your theme, add your inscription, and voila…we melted white chocolate on store bought two-bite brownies and applied the YouCake  1.5 inch circles to make an extra special dessert. Use coupon code: 30OFFSERVESMILES at check out for 30% off your order.


 ABOUT YOUCAKE COOKIES

  • Photo perfect custom edible graphic (YouCake) topper
  • Artisan sugar cookies are fresh baked by Bonne Fete Baking, made with premium ingredients
  • Each cookie is individually sealed
  • Stys fresh 6-7 weeks
  • Easy to ship
  • Please allow up to 5 days to process. We ship from NYC, please add 1-3 days shipping. For west coast shipments, 5 days.

Celebrate Travel: Custom Travel Desserts

YouCake Custom Travel Desserts

What happens in Vegas, does not have to stay in Vegas

Celebrate Travel & Culture: Custom Travel Desserts

What to do with all of your fabulous travel stories and adventures? Have a party and serve up on cake! Here are some clever ideas that some of our customers have come up with that you can try as well.

Celebrate with friends away from home

Sinful Indulgence Cake by Kitchen Surfing (https://www.facebook.com/KizzyKooks)

Haitian Flag custom edible topper, cake by Kitchen Surfing, Kizzy Kooks

Holiday picts – perfect on a birthday cake – celebrating two great events on one cake! Birthday toppers from family vacation.

Custom YouCake edible topper on a birthday cake

Custom YouCake edible topper on a birthday cake

Favorite Destinations Displayed with Vintage Travel Edible Stickers on Suitcase Cake

Suitcase Cake by Bonne Fete Baking (https://www.facebook.com/BonneFeteBaking)

YouCake edible prints of vintage travel stickers on cake by Bonne Fete Baking

So many possibilities, serve up your last travel adventure on a cake, cookie, or cupcake! Create your custom topper at youcake.com

More travel desserts…

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