Rising Virgo Bakery

Surprised my mama with a sweet indulgence of macarons, filled with rich, yet light, cream cheese Italian meringue buttercream, complemented and filled with a fruity red pepper jam, for an unforgettable Mother's Day delight!

I made two of these cakes recently for special birthdays - my boyfriend's and my mom's. I used a delicious (accidental) brown velvet cake that we're renaming to suede cake, covered it with black cocoa buttercream and a chocolate ganache drip, and topped it with three brownie macarons filled with black cocoa buttercream and ganache.

Just in case you guys didn't know how to check your sourdough starter's maturity level. 😉

This was for Randy's birthday. It was only my second time working with marshmallow fondant. Not bad. I will try a new method next time for the fondant as it was not stretchy and not easy to work with. The inside is red velvet and fully covered in american buttercream. I tried really hard to make purple velvet but when you mix red and blue into yellow cake batter you do NOT get purple... You get brown and brown velvet does not have a good ring to it. 😆 So I had to make new red velvet and stick to red. This cake was challenging to work on and I really hit my stride about three hours in. All in all, this was about ten hours of work but it taught me new things and it was fun.

Jasper's birthday cake. I made two 2x4 building block marble cakes with American buttercream and airbrushed the yellow. He loved them and they were so moist and delicious! Can't wait for next years challenge.

Birthday cake for my nephew. It was a double barrel 6 inch red velvet cake with ermine frosting. The 18 and barbells are rolled buttercream painted gold. Working on my drip. It's a tad runny. This was my first time though. Gonna be doing another drip on Devin's birthday cake this weekend. Gotta remind myself not to melt it so much next go round. 😅

I'm still here y'all. Just trying to live day by day. 😆 I'm gonna post a couple things I've recently done. It's not much but they were harder and more challenging because if I don't challenge myself I obviously won't get better and better. Gotta get away from the swirly cake tops, ya know. Hope everyone is enjoying the warmer weather. I know I am. The wasps though...they know where they can go... 🔥🔥🔥👿

What's the one thing that makes your mouth water and you can't resist buying?

I still have a few macaron gift boxes for a tasty Christmas treat! There are seven flavors in the box and it's ready for gifting!

Hot Cocoa, Cookie Dough, Pumpkin Pie, Apple Cider, Sugar Plum, White Chocolate Peppermint Ganache, & Eggnog.

$16

From planning to ex*****on. We had fun yesterday at the Noma Holiday Weekend Market. We would love to do it again next year!

Items I have left for sale:

(These all freeze well, if needed.)

☆DECORATED COOKIES - $4 each

🚫SOLD OUT Fireplace, chocolate
🎄Gift boxes, vanilla
🎄Cookie Tray, gingerbread
🎄Winter window, apple cider

☆MACARONS - $2 FOR ONE, $10 FOR SIX, $20 FOR 12

🎄HOT COCOA (Chocolate ganache with marshmallow fluff center)

🎄SUGAR PLUM (Cream cheese buttercream w/ plum jam center)

🎄APPLE CIDER (Apple cider buttercream)

🎄COOKIE DOUGH (Edible cookie dough)

🎄PUMPKIN PIE (Spiced buttercream with Pumpkin Pie filling in center)

🎄WHITE CHOC. PEPPERMINT GANACHE (Peppermint white choc. ganache)

🎄EGGNOG (Eggnog buttercream)

☆MACARON GIFT BOXES (ONE OF EACH FLAVOR IN THE BOX) - $16

☆BUCKEYES - $3

☆BROWNES - $2

☆CRANBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE DIPPED SHORTBREAD COOKIES - $2

☆SOURDOUGH STARTER - $10

Twenty-one days until the Noma Holiday Weekend Market and I have been a busy, busy bee. In the next week or so, I'll start showing you more of what I'm working on and bringing. Heads up, the cookies are going to be so cute! 😍 The theme I'll be working around is Cozy Christmas. Slow Burn Custom Woodworks and I really hope to see you there! We'll be there on Saturday, December 16th from 3-6 pm. Please come out and show your support for local small businesses and maybe indulge in a treat or two. 😊

All done. 😵‍💫

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First one to like, answer correctly, and share gets 15% off one dozen decorated cookies.

Disclaimer:

•Base dozen starts at $45

Winner recieves:

•One dozen
•One flavor
•3-4 shapes
•3 colors plus white
•Writing, transfers, or painted metallics is +$5 each per dozen
•Individually wrapped
•Pickup only unless you want to pay a delivery fee
•Pickup December 18th or later

Noma Holiday Weekend Market plans are done. Designs and flavors planned. Just have to buy ingredients and start creating edible art. Not gonna say much now. Don't wanna ruin the surprise but here's what I'm making:

Theme is 'Cozy Christmas'

144 cookies - 4 flavors/designs
168 macarons - 7 flavors
24 sourdough discard brownies
32 penuche
24 dipped shortbread cookies
16 sourdough starters

More if I have time and brain capacity. 😆

I'm tired already but this is gonna hopefully be a big day for getting my name out there. I really hope to see some of y'all out there. Slow Burn Custom Woodworks and I will be there Saturday, December 16th from 3pm until 6pm. 🥰

Packaged and picked up. This was the most challenging set I've done to date. Florals, transfers, writing and painted gold details. I'm pretty proud of how they turned out. 🥰

Finishing up an order that's been my most challenging cookie set so far and I can't wait to show you! ❤️

Price drop and then they are gone.

So here's some things I still have available for purchase.

MACARONS $2 EACH

☆Blueberry filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache

☆Salted Caramel Swiss Meringue Buttercream with extra salted caramel filling.

☆Apple Cinnamon Cream Cheese

☆Chocolate ganache with Salted caramel

☆Chocolate chip cookie dough with ganache filling

OTHER ITEMS

☆Extra Fudge brownies $2 EACH

☆Buttery shortbread $2 EACH

☆Decorated sugar cookies $3 EACH

More cookies made for the market.

First official market done. We had fun. We learned some things, and we can't wait to do another one!

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Cookie progress... 😮‍💨

These were also underbaked, then overbaked but yummy nonetheless. I will not be filling these. These are just macaron cookie shells which are delicious enough on their own. They remind me of the taste of cereal milk so I get a totally nostalgic feeling when I eat these. I probably haven't eaten cereal in over 10 years but you never forget the cereal milk flavor because that's the best.

Just made an oopsie. I was making giant macarons which used a double batch of batter and tried to fit them all onto the same tray. 😅 One batch, one tray, I'm the idiot today. They will still be delicious though. 😋 When they're done and cool, I'll post a size picture so you can see a regular macaron versus a mega macaron. Share size, or not, your choice. 😆

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Throwback to my youngest son's first birthday. I made a "stack of pancakes" cake. Each "pancake" is rolled and painted marshmallow fondant. The mini pancake cupcake toppers were also marshmallow fondant and they were drizzled with maple syrup. This was such a fun challenge and it turned out so realistic.

Found this gem and had to share. Who wouldn't want this mixer?!

😴 A girl can dream...



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Matching themed macarons. These were delicious. 😋

Today was my three year olds birthday party and he had a blast! This cake was a few skill levels higher than I've ever done but I'm not mad at it. Vanilla cake with swiss meringue buttercream and rolled buttercream moon, three, and cityscape. The cake was moist and light. The buttercream was airy and cloud-like. And this is the first cake I've put candles on because my son said, and I quote, "I want fire on my cake." 😅

A little sneak peek of a cake in making for my three year old's party on Saturday!