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)

o´mini baking cups!

trying out mini baking cups/patties from by vestlihouse!
I just love them! Aren´t they just beautiful... I can´t decide witch of the patterns I like most, the blue with pink roses, the black lace one, the leopard...

I made some "cake balls", balls made of cake and frosting. Just mix them up and roll, melt in chocolate or candy melts and decorate.
yummy and cute!
I also made white and pink mini meringues with white sprinkles and giant purple meringues in large muffin cases, sprinkled with dried lavender.

o´birthday party!

cake, cupakes & macarons

themed "children´s party

ooops!

Jag har problem med min mail. Ni kan maila mig på nielsenlinda82@hotmail.com så länge, tills det är ordnat. Tack!

En liten cupcakemosaik så länge...

o´yum!

I just found this old pic of mine, and just had to put it on my blog... looks so yummy!

chocolate cupcake with caramel/mocha frosting

o´nicole!

birthday cakes for nicole!

(please excuse the very bad pictures!)

pink cake: chocolate cake, dark chocolate ganache, milk chocolate ganache

light blue cake: vanilla cake, strawberry preserves, vanilla custard/cream cheese filling

o´vestli house!

cupcakes I made for the "by vestli house" photo shoot...

I did not take this photo, and unfortunatley I do not have the name of the photographer, but here is some of the cupcakes I made for www.vestlihouse.com

wedding magazine!

My cherry tree weddingcake/ cupcake tower is in the new number of swedish wedding magazine

"Allt om Bröllop".

The article is about Anna & Ubbes magnificant wedding.

I´m so excited!

:)