The Inn being listed in Bon Appetit Magazine's Top Ten Hotels in America

Hello loves,

It has been a while since I wrote, but here is a quick flash at what I have been doing...

Cakes, cakes and MY NEW JOB as a Pastry Cook at The Inn at Palmetto Bluff.

Working and still doing cakes has been awesome and I get to do my two passions towards pastry...

Enough about me.  Today I learned that my resort (yes I claim it as mine, I work there) has been named #7 in Bon Appetit on the Top Ten Hotels in America.

How awesome is that???  I feel so proud to be a part of that great team.  I will post updates on all the cakes I have done and have coming up.  I will also keep you updated with some tutorials and some work stuff I have been up to.

Love you always,
Jae

To read the article about Palmetto Bluff, please click here.

Stay baking!!!!

White Chocolate Cranberry Muffins

So every now and again, I challenge my daughter's to try a new flavor. So for snack we are trying the white chocolate cranberry muffin, especially since I had some craisins lying around.

I hope they will love them because they smell absolutely delish!

Ingredients
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup white chocolate chips
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups milk (can used reduced fat-2%)
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

Yield two dozen muffins

Procedure
1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease 24 muffin cups (or use cup cake liners)
2. Mix berries and white chocolate chips with 1 tablespoon flour, set aside.
3. Combine remaining flour, whole wheat flour, sugar and salt in large mixing bowl.
4. Mix egg, milk, butter in another bowl. Stir egg mixture into dry ingredients until just combined (important to not over mix). Gently fold in berries.
5. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake muffins until golden brown, 18-20 minutes.

I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Serve warm or cool.

First Baby Shower cake of the year

Wow, I have been gone so long, I feel guilty.  But I have not been just lazy.  I did have two completed projects, which I am going to share.

Working on pearl embroidery

My beautiful sister, Marquita, was given a surprise baby shower!  I was so excited because I just had to make her cake.  Thank you to her wonderful husband who finally said yes, after I hounded him at church and via text, lol.

Working on pearl embroidery

My sister, Kia, decided to get pictures of me in the process of finishing the cake (I thought it was a cool idea, so I agreed).  Hope you like them.  Most of all, I was excited because she loved the cake.

Finished cake

Love always,

Jae

Close up

Finished cake

Close up of finished baby and blanket

Finished cake: Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing, Butter Cream Fondant

Close up of cake

Close up of finished baby and blanket

Close up of finished baby with blanket

Welcome Princess Trinity!

Finished cake

Finishing pearl embroidery

Finished cake!!!!

Breathing, it is almost done, smiles!!!

Cutting fondant circles for the cake

Chocolate Fondant baby with unfinished blanket

Finishing up blanket

Added mini headband to the molded baby

Coloring the "hair"

Starting the pearl embroidery for the blanket

Letting pearls dry

Looking at pearls, do we like them so far?

Adding fondant circles to the cake

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

November 17th Alisha's 6th birthday party...

She loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so thats what we went with...

Used their logo styling for letters...

Did I mention she loved it!!! Im so glad!

Love,
Jae

Work in progress

Well my birthday is coming up and I decided to make my own cake!!! Im loving it...

Since starting Cakes by Jae P, I have loved making new cake flavors and experimenting and for the holidays, I have Blue Velvet Cake on the menu as a special...

Since blue is my favorite color... You know what cake I made!!!

More pictures to come later, but I wanted you to know I was working....

Love you always,

Jae

Martini cookies

I have been so busy being mom, business woman and aunt, i have forgotten my greatest fundamentals of fun...

So i have combined my two passions into one thing!

I have a customer who is throwing a Mary Kay party (passion) and she asked me to bake her some cookies (passion) in the shape of martini glasses!!! Dont ask, I didnt, lol.

So, we have lavender sugar sprinkled snickerdoodles!!!

Have a great Sunday, more to come...

Jae

Pumpkin cupcakes

For Halloween, I made Pumpkin Spice cupcakes... One of my fall flavors being offered this holiday season.

Well I hope you enjoyed Halloween and I look forward to the upcoming holiday season!!!