I’ve been on a Chai kick lately and it was only a matter of time before I decided to bake with it! On a side note, my posts have been somewhat verbose lately, so this one will be short and sweet, pinky promise.

The recipe for the cupcakes is from All recipes (I love that they recalculate the ingredients for you!), they came out incredibly tasty but the texture was very mushy moist and dense, it reminded me a lot of Brazilian Honey Bread, so much so that next time I might cover them in Semi-Sweet Chocolate. For this batch, however, I opted to try out Spork or Foon’s Honey Ginger Cream, which is very tasty!

The hearts atop these cakes showed up simply because the Cream is the perfect texture for that kind of decoration, I couldn’t resist!

I had posted a link that showed how to make Moffles a while back, and I was very tempted to try since me loves me some Mochi. So I broke out the Hello Kitty waffle maker, as soon as I found the Mochi they had used.

First of all making the waffle maker close took some work, the unbaked Mochi is very stiff, and sadly the end result was not really tasty. It was cute, but not as heavenly as I had imagined. Might have been the Mochi brand, or maybe it really isn’t for me.

Which I doubt.

Thanks to the cool chick herself we have a pic with two cakes!

A few years back, I met this really cool chick, and she became one of my best friends. While getting some frozen custard at Rita’s one day, she tells that lately she’s been feeling either sick or hungry (hmmm), few months later, I met the cutest little twin babies!

These beautiful babies soon became adorable toddlers who turned 3 this past Friday, and I was delighted to make them individual Dora cakes, one pink and one purple.

At some point it hit me that I could mock up the cakes in Photoshop. You can see them below, a few things changed, the scripted writing for one, I couldn’t pipe that! That was a bit too ambitious. Also, I added the polka dots since I had extra fondant, in fact I still do.

Alright peeps, what I learned was:

• This moment while writing this post, I just learned that Dora’s nose is just a little curve and not at all how I drew it.
• Chocolate is not very forgiving while doing line work.
• Silicone pans are awesome for melting marshmallows in microwave, they slid right off!
• The dough hook of a Kitchenaid is great for kneading MMF.
• Whipped Ganache is quite tasty.
• Writing on cakes is difficult.