Baking Bonus: Icing Fruits, Flavors, and Batter Babies!

Oh, how I dream of living near a specialty bake shop! Luckily, I have friends and family that do and on occasion a little treat or two arrive on my doorstep. With Easter approaching, my mother decided to make a stop at Houston's Make-A-Cake decorating supply warehouse (baking warehouse? swoon) and send me a few fun baking additions:

Icing Fruits

Concentrated fruit with real fruit pulp to add 

flavor and fruit to icing, confections, or cakes.

I had never even heard of icing fruits - but I am

sure looking forward to some experimentation!

CK Products makes a bunch of different ones:

banana, cherry, lemon, orange, raspberry and strawberry

Go to their website!

Lorann Natural Flavor

This natural flavor is produced in a base of vegetable glycerin and/or natural grain alcohol and contain no added sugars or fats. The flavor is designed to be used in cakes, fudges, frostings, fondants, cream centers, hard candy, ice cream and a wide variety of other baking applications.

 I have seen the small bottles of this stuff at grocery stores, but now I've made it to the big time with a large bottle of strawberry flavor! If you've ever seen one of their displays, you know that there is an enormous variety, so here's just a few:

almond, banana, blueberry, cherry, cranberry, creamy caramel, maple, pomegranate, strawberry, toffee, apple, bavarian cream, black walnut, butterscotch, champagne, cheesecake, coconut, coffee, egg nog, guava, key lime, mango, marshmallow, melon, orange cream, peach, pina colada, plum, watermelon

Go to their website!

Kimber's Batter Babies

Bake one of a kind cupcakes containing two flavors (or colors). Batter Babies fit most standard size cupcake pans and cups. Buy two packages to save time and fill all 12 cups of your favorite cupcake pan with Batter Babies. Made from a foodgrade plastic, they are reusable. (Remove before baking)

I have seen these on a few of my favorite supplies sites recently but have yet to meet anyone who's used them. Looks like more experimenting is in order! Cupcakes just got a whole lot more delicious - two flavors?! I'm in. 

Go to their website!