Lemon Mint Natural Handmade Soap

Here it is!! My first natural soap bar with essential oils. This bar has an essential of blend of lemon, lemongrass, and peppermint. I absolutely adore this blend. I just cannot stop smelling it. I wanted to do this blend becuase it is one of my all time favorite drinks. I love to drink anything that has the combination of lemon and mint. So I just knew the smell would be awesom. I only made a small batch because it was my first time using essential oils. The blend worked wonderfully in the soap batter and I can't wait to soap it again. Here are some pics.

So there you have it. I love it, and I can't wait to try it out!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

-BigLady

Great Cake Soapworks May Challenge 2015

It's that time again!! Yay!! Let me just start by saying that this challenge really was a challenge for me. Lol! I love desserts and there were so many different choices to choose from. I chose to creat some of my favorites and create some that just came to mind. Hope you enjoy!

Mini Neapolitan Dessert Tray

I started by making the base soap to all my desserts. I made the colorants first, which were a deep brown to mimick chocolate, pink-red for the strawberry and white for the vanilla and whipped cream. I also made some melt and pour chocolate and strawberry squares for some toppings. Along with a melt and pour neapolitan bar to shave off for more toppings.

(My colors: TD, brown oxide, mixture of pink vibrance mica and iron oxide)

(Melted chocolate to add to the brown soap)

(I used unsweetened chocolate so that I wouldn't have acceleration)

(the mini glasses from the dollar store)

My first dessert is a Mini Neapolitan Parfait. I personally love to eat these for breakfast, but they can be change for a dessert too. I bought some little clear glasses at the dollor store. I mixed all my strawberry and chocolate "pudding" and "whipped cream" together and got to layering. In the chocolate soap I added the real melted chocolate.

(before adding the real chocolate)

(after adding the real chocolater. YUM!!)

Boy did this give the chocolate a real look to it. My family didn't believe it was soap! Ha Ha!

(after finishing the different layers

I started with chocoloate pudding, then strawberry, and then added whipped cream. I repeated this layering process until I got to the top. I finished the dessert off with a dollop of whipped cream and some neapolitan shavings. On another parfait I added chocolate chips and strawberryy pieces.

(All finished!!)

Like I said before I love parfait and the chocolate "pudding" looked so real I deceided to make a regular chocolate cup with whipped cream on top. I added some grated chocolate soap to the top and gave a dusting of cocoa powder. Looks so yummy to me!

(Chocolate Cre`me w/whipped cream)

(All Done!!)

My second dessert is probably one of my favorites of all time, cheesecake. I used the Brambe Berry 12 cavity silicone mold to make this dessert.  I made these Mini Neapolitan Cheesecake Bites with a chocolate crumb crust with a strawberry cheesecake filing with regular cheesecake swirled into it. I finished this dessert of with some strawberry drizzle and a large dollop of whipped cream.

(Strawberry soap poured over chocolate base)

White cheesecake swirled with strawberry filling, all cp)

(All finished!!)

The third dessert I made was Mini Chocolate Sandwich Cookies. These actually took two days to make. I let the chocolate soap thicken a little and I added it to a pipping bag and piped out the top and bottoms of the cookies. The next day I made some white cp soap for the vanilla cookie cream. I let it thicken and then piped it onto the cookie bottoms and sandwiched them together. Viola!

(Day 1: Piped tops and bottoms)

(Day 2: Piped vanilla cream to make sandwich cookies, all cp)

The fourth but definitely not least dessert I made is another one of my favorites. Mini Neapolitan Chocolate Truffles. These were more work then I thought I would have to do. Ha! These also took two days to make. I first poured some of the realistic chocolate soap that I made at the beginning into a mold and let it sit overnight.

(Poured chocolate cp for truffle filing)

(Cut up truffle bites (right) ready for dipping)

The next day I whipped up some more cp soap in chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla (all cp).

I took the bar of chocolate soap I made and cut it into many bites. I then took the mini bites and dipped it into the colored soap. That really didn't work for me so then I let the soap get thicker and I slowly poured it onto the bites and let it fall over the sides. To finish the truffles off I put neapolitan shavings on some, piped some chocolate on a couple, and layered some pink himalayian salt on the rest. Just like those salted truffles from the stores, YUM!!

(The white chocolate and milk chocolate truffles w/neapolitan shavings, pink salt, and piped ganache)

(All finished and ready to eat!!) 

 I really liked how these turned out since they were the hardest and at first I didn't think I was going to finish them. Ha! 

So there you have it! My mini desserts all together. I loved this challenge and I have to say its my favorite so far. Thanks for stopping by! See ya next time!

-Biglady