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Cocktail and Cookies

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:08:00 GMT

WOW! What a great time we had at the 2012 Cocktails and Cookies Girl Scout fundraiser! Feels great to give back to an organization that I was apart of some many years ago.

Our creation: Girl All Grown Up. We took the lemonade Girl Scout cookie, made it into a cookie truffle and topped it with limoncello lmeon curd. A bit of Italian sunshine!

Everyone else thought so too and we were honored to receive the Jodge's Choice award as well as the People's Choice Award! It was all too good to keep a secret and we have decided to share our recipe so all you lovely folks can make them at home. YUM!

Girl All Grown Up (Lemonade cookie truffles with Limoncello lemon curd):

Makes about 20 cookie truffles

Ingredients

3 to 4 lemons
6 large egg yolks
1 cup sugar (a heaping cup)
6 tablespoons cold butter, diced
1/4 cup limoncello liqueur
Lemonade Girl Scout Cookies
4-5 oz Cream Cheese
White Chocolate Coating (approx 1 lb)

Directions

Limoncello Curd (adapted from Emeril Lagasse's recipe):

Finely grate enough lemon zest to equal 2 teaspoons. Squeeze enough juice to equal 1/2 cup. Strain juice through a fine, wire-meshed strainer. Set aside.

Fill a medium saucepan with enough water to come 1 1/2 inches up the sides of the pan. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. In a heat-resistant bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until pale and slightly thickened. Add the reserved zest and juice and whisk to combine.

Set the bowl with the egg mixture over the simmering water and whisk constantly until mixture thickens, 10 to 12 minutes. The mixture will turn a light yellow color and coat the back of a spoon. Remove the bowl from the heat and whisk the diced butter into the curd, 1 tablespoon at a time, allowing each piece to incorporate before adding the next. Stir in the limoncello. Strain the curd through a wire-meshed strainer and place in a clean, non-reactive container. Cover with plastic wrap , pressing the plastic wrap onto the surface of the lemon curd to keep a skin from forming. Chill completely.

Lemonade Cookie Truffles:

Crush Lemonade cookies into fine crumb by placing in a food processor (if you don't have one of these place cookies in a baggie and crush with the based of a heavy glass). Placing cookie crumb in a large bowl. Save a tablespoon on the crumbs in a small bowl for later. Add half of the cream cheese and knead into cookies with hands. keep adding cream cheese until a cookie dough texture is achieved. Take a spoon and scoop about a tablespoon of dough out. Roll into ball and place on a waxed cookie sheet. Press your thumb into the cookie creating a small space for our limoncello limon curd. Insert a toothpick straight up into the center of your cookie. Once you have made all the cookies, place in the refrigerator until curd has cooled.

Place chocolate into microwavable bowl and heat according to directions. Remove cookie truffles from refrigerator and dip into chocolate using toothpick, letting the excess drip off. Place on waxed paper to dry. Once cookies have dried, scoop the limoncello lemon curd into a small bag and make a small cut in the corner of the bag. Pipe the curd into the center dipp of your cookies and top with the crumbs you saved earlier.

Viola and enjoy!!

P.S You'll have left over limoncello lemon curd which you can freeze and save, but I suggest adding it to vanilla bean ice cream ;)

Heart Cake Pops

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:27:00 GMT

Today we were on KWCH for Tasty Tuesday demonstrating how to make Heart Cake Pops just in time for Valentine's Day. In case you missed it, here is a link that will take you step by step to this delicious treat: http://www.kwch.com/videogallery/67622996/News/Velvet-Cream-Bakery

Our recipe and instructions:

Cake Pops Dough:

Your favorite cake (baked)

2 cups of frosting

Crumble the cake by sliding two pieces of cake against each other. Once completely crumbled, slow add the frosting until you reach a nice dough consistency with not crumbs unfrosted. Put in the refridgerator to chill for an hour or so.

Heart Cake Pops:

Cake pop dough

Lollipop sticks

Chocolate/Candy coating (heated per instructions)

Sprinkles or other fun edible decorations

Glass or foam piece

Heart shaped pan or mold

Once the dough has chilled, take a small ball and start to form it into the heart mold. Pop the heart out and grab a lollipop stick. Dip the stick about 1/4" into the melted chocolate and slide the stick through the heart at the base being careful not to go through the top. Let this set to dry a minute. Then dip the heart completely into the chocolate and once covered, tap the top of the stick to remove any excess chocolate. It's time to decorate! Have fun and each heart will be as unique as yours. Place the stick into a glass or foam mold and allow to dry.

After your hearts set, arrange them as a bouquet or wrap in a cellophane bag for a sweet Valentine's Day treat.

Bridal Expo 2012

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:45:00 GMT

It was great to meet everyone at the Wichita Bridal Expo this year. We made lots of new friends and can't wait for the opportunity to be apart of your wedding day. There was a lot to take in at the show, so here are a few photos of our booth to remind you of your favorites.

A perfectly pink collaboration from Jubilation Events, Stems Floral, and of course desserts by us. The cake pop stand is available for rental and for sale, please email us for pricing. It hold 63 cake pops.

A Snow White Wedding inspired cake truffle centerpiece and cake pop centerpiece/ favor bouquets.

Fiesta Cake Pop Centerpiece bouquet. Valentine's Day orders are now being taken through Sunday February 12th. Look for new items in our cart this weekend.

Royal Starry Night inspired Cake Truffle centerpiece.

Mini Bridal Cupcakes

Ask about our cupcakes toppers!

A few of our many favor options. For pricing, please call or email us the Wedding Questionnaire

Wichita Exposure 2011

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:21:00 GMT

The 2011 Wichita Chamber Exposure event was a BLAST yesterday! We met so many businesses and new friends to discuss delicious and unique ways to say thank you to clients that have helped us throughout the year. Karen and I served up over 1500 cake truffles and Velvet Cream Bakery won Best Exposure Biz Bite!

Cake Truffles are a great way to celebrate the up coming holidays for catering parties and various sizes of coprorate gifts.

We also got to hang out with great friend and mentor Beth Tully of Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolates. Thank you to everyone who came out to help us eat all of our cake truffles!

Daisy Love

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:30:00 GMT

We just spent a beautiful Saturday with newly weds Josh and Abbey and Century Plaza. Abbey's inspiration came from gerber daisies and shades of pink. Our custom cake pop stand had special meaning to the groom since he helped us build it last spring. Flavors like pink champagne, german chocolate, red velvet and mayan chocolate glittered their delicious table. Their marble cutting cake was adorned with an edible gerber daisy flower. Congrats Josh and Abbey!

Apples and Pearls

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:09:00 GMT

Brides around the world have been embracing the new wedding trend to make their wedding day desserts small, fun and unique. Dessert tables cater lots of flavors to your guests in a chic whimsical way.

This Apples and Pearls themed dessert table is centered around a Cake Truffle or Cake Ball Cake. Each tier provides guests with a different flavor from Mayan Chocolate to Amaretto Cheesecake cake truffles.

Then cake pops were displayed amongst pearls, roses, calla lilys, candles and of course apples. Blackberry Chocolate Syrah, Mayan Chocolate, and Vanilla Bean flavors keep guests coming back for more.

Dessert tables can designed for any occasion be it a wedding, birthday party, anniversary party, or even just an great excuse to get friends together. We want to know what's your favorite wedding/event theme?

-Kelly

Rainbow Weddings

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:55:00 GMT

Brides.com is embracing "the warm weather with a wedding cake featuring a rainbow of bold and bright hues." And we're one of them with rainbow colored cake pops!
Check out us in the wedding spot light here!

Cake Pop Fun!

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:30:00 GMT

We are happy to announce that CAKE POPS are now available at Velvet Cream Bakery. The sinful taste of the cake truffles you love are now on a fun lollipop stick. Another great part about these babies is that you choose! The flavor, color, dizzle or sprinkles! Fun for the whole family amd great for every occasion, from birthday parties to wedding centerpieces.

Holiday Flavors

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:54:00 GMT

The snow will soon fall but all our hearts will be warm with cheer. And a Holiday Cake Truffle Sampler is guarenteed to spread your holiday spirit. New flavors like Chocolate Candy Cane and Eggnog are paired with Velvet Cream Bakery favorites Chocolate Mint and Red Velvet. Pumpkin Spice in all it cinnamon and nutmeg flavors is always a crowd pleaser and White Chocolate Cranberry will have you singing carols to it's sweet-tart combination. A cake truffle gift box makes the perfect hostess gift and a tower will bring fun for the whole party. They be gone as fast as the season, so order today and I'll make some special just for you.

Go Wichita 30th Annual Meeting

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:09:00 GMT

This is a behind the scenes look at the packaging production line we had going for the Go Wichita 30th Annual Meeting favors.  Go Wichita is the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Wichita, KS and just celebrated it's 30th year of promoting Wichita as a tourist destintion where you can "Expect the unexpected". Cake truffle flavors included Mint Chocolate, Champagne, and Chocolate.   The custom truffle design was created exclusively for this event's theme of emeralds and pearls. Velvet Cream Bakery is a proud member of Go Wichita and was honored to be apart of this celebration of Wichita's treasures.

Craft Fair & Fall Festival

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:50:00 GMT

Lord of Life Lutheran Church

Craft Fair & Fall Festival

Saturday October 2^nd 9am - 4pm

11215 W 13^th St N Wichita, KS

(Between Maize Rd & 119^th St)

Over 50 Booths of Hand-Made Crafts

Indoors and outdoors, Bounce house,

games and prizes, and lots of great food to eat!

Free Admission

Come join us and enjoy Crafts,

Games, Food and Fun for the whole family!

We'll be there with lots of samples and cake truffles for sale!

Oktoberfest

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:07:00 GMT

Fall is here and that means welcoming back cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger to our palette. In honor of fall and Oktoberfest, Velvet Cream Bakery has baked up some special flavors.

Try an Apple strudel cake truffle made from four types of apples or a German chocolate cake truffle. If that doesn't sing of fall in Wichita, maybe a Pumpkin spice cake truffle will. And don't forget Red Velvet, Black Forest, and Salted Caramel. Hungry yet? Get your Fall Sampler dozen today!

Hydrangeas in July

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:44:00 GMT

I love weddings!

Yesterday was the most gorgeous July day for Kerry and Ted's wedding. Their 3-tier Wedding cake was inspired from a magazine clipping that Kerry fell in love with and together we designed her one of a kind cake. The top tier was a zesty Lemon cake with Raspberry filling, the middle tier an Amaretto Almond cake and the bottom tier was White and Chocolate layers with Truffle fillings. Delicious! The Groom's cake was Mint Chocolate.

Fresh hydrangeas added flashes of color to an ivory frosting. Clean and classy was the theme for this cake, so tone-on-tone piping and sugar gems added. A bouquet of left over hydrangeas were added to the table for a little whimsy.

Congratulations Kerry and Ted!