Marion - Bakemoji!: emoji cupcakes, cakes, and baking sure to put a smile on any occasion

Emojis, or emoticons, are happy little pictures that have totally become part of our everyday lives. Yet, werent their forefathers the XOXOs from our parents? Simple circle-with-a-smile emojis have evolved into multi-colored figures enriched by expressions and social attributes. And they keep on changing, offering even more ways to express yourself... without having to write a thing!

Now found in places well beyond the cell phones always at our disposal, its only natural that emojis also make their way into cuisine. All youll need to start transforming crpes, cookies, cakes, and more into emojis is some fruit sauce, chocolate, and candy. Afterwards come the cookie cutters, stencils, trimming, sugar paste icing, and food decorating pens, turning a simple sponge cake into a gourmet party hat or heart.

Useor overusethe premade decorations and adornments found in most supermarkets, but dont hesitate to open your cupboards and fridge: blueberries, cherry tomatoes, and carrot slices all make great eyes. Cream cheese with a little sugar and vanilla? Thats all you need to make a quick icing.

Above all, dont hesitate to alter the recipes to suit your tastes and the messages that you want to get across. Youll find nothing says it better than your emoji cakes!

Marion Beilin

About Me

As a former food and travel journalist, I have traveled all around the world for different magazines. At the same time, I decided to get my CAP Pastry Diploma as an independent candidate. Nowadays, I advise hotels, restaurants, chefs, and independent pastry chefs. I have written several cookbooks, too, including Le quinoa et autres graines pleines dnergie, in the JAdore collection.

The Golden Recipe
BY OUR GUEST:
ROXANES
WORKSHOP

MAKES ABOUT 25 COOKIES

Preparation Time: minutes

Bake Time: minutes

For the cookies:

2 cups of flour

1 cup of powdered sugar

1 packet of vanilla sugar

1 pinch of salt

cup of butter

1 egg

For the icing:

1 egg white

2 cups of powdered sugar

1 tsp. of lemon juice

Various food colorings

Prepare the cookies. Preheat the oven to 350F. Mix the flour, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt in a bowl. Cut the cold butter into small pieces, add these in, and then work the ingredients together with your fingertips until you have a fine powder. Incorporate the egg and mix to obtain a smooth dough. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic, and set aside in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Roll out the dough, then use a unicorn cookie cutter or a unicorn stencil that you cut out from cardboard to form the cookies.

Place the cookies on an oven tray covered in baking paper and bake for 11 minutes.

Prepare the icing. Using an electric beater, mix together the egg white, powdered sugar, and lemon juice. Divide the icing into several bowls and add the different food colorings. Make sure to leave 1 white.

Fill each of your piping bags with a different color of icing and make a little hole at one end. Use a dark purple to trace the cookies outline, then draw the mane and the muzzle. Let the cookies air dry for 20 minutes.

Fill in the open spaces with the different colored icings. If necessary, add some drops of water or lemon juice to the icing for a more liquid consistency.

About Me

My name is Roxane, and Im the mother of 2 little pipsqueaks. Just 3 years ago, I developed a taste for pastries. Now I find myself thrown into the crazy adventures of YouTube through my channel, Roxanes Workshop, where I present easy family-friendly recipes. To me, pastry making is a synonym of sharing.

Basic Utensils:

Mixing bowl

Bowl

Spatula

Electric beater

Food processor

Whisk

Piping bag(s) and several nozzles of different sizes

Sharp kitchen knives

Vegetable peeler

Rubber spatula

Rolling pin

Cookie cutter

Kitchen scale

Measuring cups

Colander/sieve

Scissors

Parchment paper

Pie dish/cake pan

Springform pan with a removable bottom

Muffin/cupcake tin

Ramekins

Toothpicks

Measuring spoons

Popsicle sticks

Also:

Food decorating pens

Chocolate spread

Small edible cake decorations shaped like hearts, eyes, stars, etc.

Candies

Almond paste or sugar paste

First, keep in mind that the purpose of this book is to have fun (and, of course, to enjoy these delicious, fun recipes)! Feel free to experiment by adding a little more flour, a bit less sugar, green food coloring instead of yellow, swapping fruits for bonbons... use your imagination!

Before starting a recipe, take out all the ingredients and check that youre not missing any. It would be a shame to begin making a cake and then realize that youve run out of sugar or baking powder.

Let your imagination run wild!

Feel free to use a food processor or an electric beater. This will make tasks easier, and sometimes it will even be necessary in order to whip egg whites into stiff peaks. It will also help you save time. Consider rinsing off the utensils right after using them, as it is much easier to clean them then.

Dont invest right away in all the materials used by professional pastry artists. Open your cupboards and youll find cups or glasses that can serve as cookie-cutters, small knives to cut out shapes from sugar paste... even when using baking pans with a bland, classic shape, you can still cut the cake in the size and shape you want for a nice final product!