o´ little sister!

I made some cupcakes for my younger sister´s 17th birthday this weekend. A great tip if you don´t have the time or the effort to make hand made sugar flowers, is to top your cupcakes with some fabric flowers like i did on theese. Cute and simple!

vanilla sour cream cupcakes with lemon curd filling and lemon cream cheese frosting

o´happy birthday to me!

Here´s a little mosaic from my birthday. Big thanks to my beloved family for making it such a wonderful day!

Love, Linda

o´happy birthday INREDA!

I was so thrilled when Annelie from INREDA

asked me to make them a cake to celebrate their lovely web shop. And I was even more excited when I saw theese beautiful pictures, taken by talented photographer Katarina Löfgren,

this morning!

Annelie´s web shop www.inreda.com opened 10 years ago, TODAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)

To celebrate they have great discounts and... cake!

Please check out their great web shop! They sell the most gorgeous things! My absolute favourites are... everything from RICE!

They sell china, wall paper, jewellery, wallies.. everything to make your home a little, or a lot, prettier!

And for my swedish readers, do visit Annelie & Susanne on Hem 2009

, inrednings- och designmässan, Stockholmsmässan october 1-4! I know I will!

photo: Katarina Löfgren

Annelie, thank you so much for letting me make the cake and cupcakes to celebrate your big day! And thank you for the gifts from RICE, I love them!

Thank you Katarina Löfgren, www.dokumenterat.nu, for making them look so gorgeous on your photos!

The cake is a dummy covered in chocolate fondant and hand made sugar flowers, so no filling in that one ;) But the cupcakes are the real stuff!

Valrhona chocolate cupcakes with raspberries and dark valrhona guanaja ganache

o` frida&Jimi´s cupcakes!

Here´s some pictures of the cupcakes I made for Frida&Jimi´s wedding...

valrhona chocolate cupcakes, cardamom/milk chocolate ganache, embossed white chocolate fondant
valrhona chocolate cupcake, honeyed raspberries, white chocolate cream cheese frosting
vanilla buttermilk cupcake, lemoncurd, vanilla meringue buttercream

Everything´s edible and all decorations hand made!

o´peony wedding cake!

white top cake with peonies, to go with matching cupcakes for sweet, sweet couple Jimi&Frida.

this is my favourite cake of the ones I´ve made this far, and I loved making it!

Jimi&Frida, I wish you a blessed marriage and a happy life together!

I can´t wait to see pictures from your wedding! cake layer 1: valrhona chocolate cake, milk chocolate/cardamom ganache & raspberries

cake layer 2: vanilla buttermilk cake, lemon curd, vanilla meringue buttercream

the cake is covered in white chocolate fondant and decorated with with edible decorations; silver pearls, edible monogram and hand made white chocolate pearls & sugar penonies

cupcakes in three different styles & tastes:

valrhona chocolate cupcake, honeyed raspberries & white chocolate cream cheese frosting

vanilla buttermilk cupcake, lemon curd & vanilla mwringue buttercream

valrhona chocolate cupcake, milk chocolate/cardamom ganache & white chocolate fondant

O´Holy Sweet!

Nu har jag äntligen registrerat mitt företag, Holy Sweet, och kan sakta men säkert börja min verksamhet i liten skala. Tyvärr kommer jag inte kunna ta så många beställningar jag egentligen önskar, eftersom jag samtidigt går en konditorutbildning.

Så det är först till kvarn som gäller!

Kolla in min hemsida http://www.holysweet.se/ för information om smaker, priser etc!

Sidan är inte helt klar, måste byta ut gallerierna och fixa och lägga till en hel del text och flikar, men nu finns ett litet smakprov med den viktigaste informationen i alla fall.

Jag är öppen för kritik, tips och råd kring sidan. Vad saknas, vad borde tas bort? Det är en första variant som måste slipas på ;)

Tacksam för all hjälp!

Love, Linda

white o´white!

...just a little sneak preview on some taste samples I made the other day, for the most adorable couple!

taste sample flavours:

* valrhona chocolate cake, honeyed raspberries, white chocolate cream cheese

* valrhona chocolate cake, milk chocolate/cardamom ganache, white chocolate fondant

* vanilla buttermilk cake, lemon curd filling, vanilla meringue buttercream

* white chocolate cake, honeyed raspberries, champagne/lemon meringue buttercream

o´recipe!

It is time for a chocolate cupcake recipe!

Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

6 tablespoons cocoa

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups all purpose flour

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cups vegetable oil

1 cup cold water

Sift together the cocoa, sugar, salt, baking soda and flour. Set aside. Using a mixer, mix the eggs, vanilla, oil and cold water until creamy. Slowly add the dry ingredients until well incorporated. Scoop evenly between 24 lined muffin cups and bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes. Frost with your favorite frosting.

Creamy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

500g unsalted butter, room temperature

500g confectioners sugar

pinch of salt

2 tsp vanilla extract

Cream the butter for a couple of minutes. Add confectioners sugar and salt and mix on low speed until incorporated. Mix on high speed until pale, smoot and really flyffy, about 5 minutes (scrape sides of bowl when needed). Add vanilla and mix on high for another minute.

( I added a drop of pink food colouring and chocolate shavings)

Please enjoy!
:)

o´colourful!

cupcake tower with matching two tier top cake for Jenny & Patrik. I just love the colours- red, orange and bright pink! so happy colours!

I enjoyed making this cake so much, especially the flowers for the top cake.

valrhona chocolate cake, raspberries and white chocolate cream cheese frosting. covered in white chocolate fondant and decorated with hand made sugar flowers and white chocolate pearls and butterflies.

o´cherry tree!

O´cherry tree top cake with matching cupcakes for the beautiful couple Elnaz & Pejman.
I wish you a blessed marriage!

chocolate cake, vanila meringue buttercream, fresh strawberries, dark chocolate ganache

o´apple blossom

photo shoot in the garden...

(dessert bar in whites & greens)

photography by Tintin Vidhammer & O´Holy Sweet

o´rose wedding cake!

wedding cake for sweet couple Paul & Ulrika.

Inspiration for the wedding was "The Great Gatsby", so the cake was decorated with royal icing feathers made with brushed embroidery technique to get the right 20´s feeling.

white chocolate cream cheese frosting with black cherries, and dark chocolate ganache layered between chocolate cake. covered with buttercream and fondant with a hint of almond.

gluten free chocolate cupcakes filled with ganache and black cherries, topped with fluffy white frosting.

o´summer cupcake recipe!

Strawberry Cardamom Cupcakes with Vanilla Yoghurt Cream Frosting

1 1/2 Cups all purpose flour (vetemjöl)

1/4 teaspoon baking soda (bikarbonat)

1/4 teaspoon baking powder (bakpulver)

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon cardamom seeds (kardemummakärnor)

1/2 Cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature (osaltat rumstempererat smör)

1 Cup sugar (strösocker)

2 large eggs, room temperature (rumstempererade ägg)

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (vaniljextrakt, kan bytas mot 1 tsk vaniljsocker)

1/2 Cup whole milk, room temperature

500 grams fresh strawberries cut into dices, not too small (tärnade färska jordgubbar)

1. Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C. Line muffin tray with paper liners and cruch the cardamom seeds/pods. Whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and crushed cardamom.

2. Cream butter and sugar on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until each is incorporated(scrape down sides of bowl as needed). Beat in vanilla extract. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with the milk.

When combined, stir in the strawberries.

3. Divide batter evenly in paper liners, filling each three-quarters full. Bake for about 25 minutes or until cake tester inserted in centers come out clean.Transfer muffin tray to wire racks to cool before removing cupcakes.

Frosting

2 Cups heavy cream (vispgrädde)

1 Cup thick yoghurt (10% fat)

about 4 tablespoons sugar (or as much as you like)

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Whisk the cream with the sugar until thick and firm peaks form. Add yoghurt and vanilla and whisk until well combined. Keep frosting cold until redy to swirl on comletely cooled cupcakes.This frosting is really fresh and not overly sweet, so for those of you that have a real sweet tooth you can add as much sugar as you desire.

Enjoy!

And for my swedish readers:

1 Cup är 2,36 dl så det är lite krångligt att föra över cups till dl, och som alltid när det gäller bakning ska alla recept följas så exakt som möjligt. Jag råder er att köpa en Cup-måttsats så blir alla recept med amerikanska mått en enkel match. Jag gör mina flesta recept med amerikanska mått, så även denna gång. Cup-måttsats finns bla på DUKA.

Hoppas ni gillar mina sommarcupcakes!

o´wedding cake design!

Wedding cake design with sugar pearls and pale peach farbric flowers. In the two upper pictures it´s adorned with a sparkly pin, and the lower two pictures, without it... Which one is you favourite? With or without the jewellery?

Love, Linda

o´ top cake!

top cake for a wedding, made with 200 matching cupcakes, that I didn´t have time to photograph...

the cake: chocolate butter cake with vanilla cream cheese/mascarpone frosting.

the cupcakes were chocolate butter cake and lime butter cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting.

o´birthday party!

kids birthday cake in white with matching macarons for a little birthday girl...

white cake, strawberry preserves/strawberry mascarpone mousse, a thin layer of dulce de leche, milk chocolate mascarpone mousse and vanilla meringue buttercream.

peach and blueberry macarons

o´ beloved!

Here is some of the desserts/sweets I made for my daughters 2nd birthday. We had a lovely day with our families in my mother in law´s beautiful house and garden.

Thank you all for making it such a great day for us, we love you!
all pictures taken by my darling sister Matilda.

macarons filled with vanilla buttercream and dark chocolate ganache

cake balls in two different flavours; lemon and dark chocolate

deep, dark, incredibly rich chocolate cake with chocolate ganache

cardamom- and vanilla buns

almond cake with champagne/elder flower cream and fresh strawberries (not in picture)

o´samples!

I made a three tier weddingcake last weekend but didn´t take any pictures :( arrrgh! Oh well, I hope someone elsa got some good pics...

until then, here´s some flower and butterfly taste samples!

chocolate cake, fluffy white frosting

vanilla cake, cream cheese mascarpone frosting

two different styles of wedding cupcakes and the cherry tree top cake for sweet couple Patric & Veronica.

Patrick and Veronica, I look forward to see your pictures from the wedding, I´m sure it will be absolutely beautiful! Have a blessed day!

from the top:

chocolate cake with vanilla meringue buttercream filling, topped with dark chocolate ganache

chocolate cake, honeyed raspberries, dark chocolate ganashe, topped with embossed chocolate sugar paste

topcake filled with the two different fillings and covered in pink sugar paste.

All decorations are hand made.

o´chocolate!

pink & brown cupcake samples for a wedding

chocolate cupcake with four different fillings;

dulce de leche, cherry, honeyed raspberries, vanilla buttercream. all frosted with dark chocolate ganache. (covering on two of the cupcakes is embossed modelling chocolate)