Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

In honor of the celebration, I did an order of cupcakes for a work party!

I made a vanilla cake (which I made green in color) filled the cupcakes with a lemon mousse filling (for the pot of gold in the middle) and topped it off with a vanilla buttercream tinted yellow with gold and green sprinkles! I love how the turned out!!

I also made some white chocolate covered pretzel shamrocks with green sprinkles! Aren't they cute? I was going to put these on top of the cupcakes...but the cupcakes turned out so nice and elegant, the shamrocks would have taken away from them! But I still ike them! :)

Have a good day!!

Cupcakes for a Work Party

My mom asked me to make some cupcakes for her work party. Since it is Halloween time, I decided to make some worms in dirt cupcakes and some candy corn cupcakes!

The "dirt" cupcakes were a chocolate cupcake with a whipped marshmellow cream filling, chocolate frosting, covered in crushed up chocolate graham crackers, with a gummy worm on top!The candy corn cupcakes were made of yellow cake - the bottom half yellow, the top half orange with a vanilla whipped frosting and topped with a little candy corn! Hope they enjoy them!

Kylee's 13th Birthday

Kylee turned 13 yesterday! I cannot believe she is a teenager! Yikes!

For all the kids birthdays this year, we gave them the option to have a party and presents or to just have a simple party and get their room's re-done...of course they chose for their rooms to get re-done. My point in this story in regards to my cake is the color scheme. Kylee chose her room to be hot pink with black and silver accents! It turned out great...as did the cake and the cupcakes!

I made one small little cake for the candles to go into...plus I always like the look of a small cake with a bunch of cupcakes! :)

I stacked them on black and silver trays in varying heights (used some pink crepe paper in one of my apothecary jars I made for the tall tier!)

My youngest helped me cut out the fondant accents!

They turned out pretty, elegant, girly and YUMMY! And of course that is what counts the most!

Happy Birthday Kylee!!

Cherry Pie Cupcakes

I did it! I tried a new creation last night and they are delicious!! :)

I LOVE cherry pie, so I wanted to try to incorporate that into a cupcake!

I started with a nice graham cracker crust, a yellow cake mix on top of that and then some cherry pie filling. Once baked up, the cherry filling sunk down to the bottom of the cupcake, but it was perfect there!! I topped them with a vanilla whipped frosting, and decorated some with the juice of the pie filling and graham cracker crumbs, and some with a cherry and graham cracker crumbs! I love how they turned out and my family loved eating them! :)

Tell me, which decoration do you think looks better?? With or without the cherry on top?

Cuppies!

I love to call them cuppies, especially since my brother cracks up every time I call them that! :)

My new found passion is in cupcakes! I am inspired every week by Cupcake Wars!! Love that show! Cannot see how they come up with the stuff they do and wish I had the imagination and culinary skills behind coming up with new recipes on the fly!!

Several weeks ago, I tried a new cake mix - just an ordinary store bought mis, but it sounded so good and I wanted to try it out! It was Betty Crocker's Butter Pecan mix. It was so yummy! I made a whipped vanilla filling and eating them just like that was heavenly! For the party we were going to, I added some buttercream frosting and dipped them in blue and pink sugar crystals - TOO sweet for my taste, but the kids LOVED them (of course, it was sugar!!) But they did look super cute!

The other day, our house got majorly toilet papered! It was the last day of summer vacation for the kids and they got to spend the morning, cleaning up a TON of toilet paper from our yard! However, the neighbors came and helped - so to make a long story short, I made them some thank you cupcakes! (sorry for the pictures, they were taken on the way out the door to the neighbors!)

I decided to venture out and create something - so I made a cinnamon vanilla cupcake with a cream cheese buttercream sprinkled with a little cinnamon and brown sugar! They were very yummy!! Have not heard yet what the neighbors thought of them, but I left one cupcake for each member of my own family and they were all raving and wishing we did not give the rest away! So yeah on that one!

I have a few more ideas on recipes I want to try...I will post when I do!! :)

Dad's Birthday

My dad is ever the partier, so I decided to attempt a glass of beer for his birthday cake! I made 4, 6 inch hexagon shaped vanilla cakes, stacked them with a layer of OREO cream filling and frosted with vanilla buttercream. it turned out pretty good, but the handle I made out of fondant was a little heavy so I had to make a support to help it stay in the cake...next time I will use a better strategy for that! :)

After the cakes were done, I made some cupcakes with the leftover batter and made some fondant pretzels to go on top of them, as well as made the fondant pretzels to spell "dad".

I like how it turned out - and my dad inhaled his piece of cake in about a minute, so it must have been really good! :) After my brothers seen how much my dad loved the cake, they decided to help feed him a little more! :)

With the left over cake tops and OREO filling, I made a trifle. It had more of a whipped cream base so it was nice and light! Yummy!

S'mores Cupcakes and a Tinkerbell Cake

This past weekend was my brother's birthday and a friend's niece's birthday!

For my brother, I decided since we were having a cook out - I would incorporate that theme and do S'mores cupcakes! They turned out delicious! Chocolate cake, a whipped marshmellow cream frosting, graham cracker cumbs and a piece of Hershey's candy bar on top! Yummy!!

My friend's little niece was turning 5 and she wanted a Tinkerbell cake. She also wanted some sparkles on the cake...so I chose to make a flower for the top and a bow for the bottom and completely cover them with pink sugar! They turned out adorable! I am definitely going to use this technique again in the future (my daughter Kylee already informed me that she wants it done for her birthday cake!)

The birthday girl wanted a chocolate cake with banana cream filling. So I did that for the top tier and I did a chocolate cake with a marshmellow cream filling for the bottom tier. I have to say, I was skeptical on the banana cream with chocolate cake...but I tasted it with some of the leftover cake tops and it was fabulous! I am really wanting to make another cake just so I can fill it with the banana cream I made! What a fun weekend!!

Weekend of Family making cupcakes and a Hamburger Birthday Cake!

This weekend we had a family party at my house with some egg coloring/decorating and cupcake decorating! My family is all so creative! I think they all turned out so good! Here are a few samples!

I loved this one I made, it was my favorite!!

I also had a birthday cake to do this weekend and they decided on my doing a hamburger and fries! Not too shabby! Looks good enough to eat!

My Sister's Baby Shower

So I held my sister's baby shower this past weekend. Here are a few things I made for the shower. To see more about the shower, go to my family blog!

OK, let's see...where to start...Well I wanted to decorate some letters for Alexis' room when she is born. The room is mainly Winnie the Pooh and pink - but I wanted something that would grow with her. I found some really pretty rose colored paper, some beautiful brown, rose and glittery paper with butterflies on it and a white and pink damask looking paper, so I used those. I painted the letters white and added the paper just on the inside of the letters. I found a really pretty butterfly and some flowers to add to the letters with the plain rose paper!

This paper is my FAVORITE!


I added some cute white ribbon to each letter to hang from!

Next, on to the cake and cupcakes. I wanted to make a cake, but the ease of cupcakes when you have many guests make them so much easier to eat! So I did both! And my sister got to take the cake home to eat with her hubby!

Since the theme was Winnie the Pooh for the shower, I made bees for the cupcakes!

Here is the process!

Step 1) Make bee shape out of yellow fondant - I used MM fondant - and use a dotter tool to add little eyes and a mouth! We want happy, Winnie the Pooh bees here! :)

Step 2) Add some antennaes. For this, I used some of the flower stamens I had for my sugar flowers. I just cut them down and colored the ends black. This was VERY time consuming! :)

Step 3) Add some black fondant around the body

Step 4) Add some wings. I used fondant for these as well. I just cut out some small circles and softened up the edges with a petal tool and attached them via a little vanilla!

Step 5) Make the icing on the cupcakes look like a beehive and attach bee!

I love how they turned out!

Now on to the baby!

Although, you will never see underneath the blankie, I wanted to bum to poke up just like how real babies sleep!

I decorated the fondant blankie like a little quilt and tucked her in!

Here is the final cake with the baby and a few buzzing bees!

Next is the diaper cake. I wanted to make this my present, as well as it being part of a game so there is a lot of stuff attached to the cake!

I got the cutest idea for some headbands off of one of the blogs I follow - Craftaholics Anonymous

Check out the link, she provides a tutorial and gander around the rest of her site! She always has so many great ideas! I have so many things from her site on my To Do list!

Anyway, these little nifty headbands are made out of knee high stockings! REALLY! They are soft for a newborn baby and they are stretchy enough to fit on an older girl!

I got a pack of knee highs from Walmart for $0.33!! And with items to put on the headbands from my stash of items I already had, it was only sixteen and a half cents to make each headband!!

My daughter is my model!

This one, I just took a piece of fabric and pulled all the sides and corners in and attached to the center using a button! And then added a little rhinestone to make it sparkle! (I also used both of these 2 headbands in the diaper cake on my middle and top tiers!)

Then I made one for my daughters!

And here is Kaitlyn trying it out! So cute!

Well a lot of planning and preparation over the past couple of weeks, but I think everything turned out good and I even got a little business out of it! Yeah!