cuppycakes: October 2010

This cake and cupcake set was really fun to make, it was for a 13 year old boys birthday party. He loves skateboarding and was getting a skateboard for his birthday so I had his mom forward me the picture of what she bought so that I could make the cupcakes match, and then be displayed with, his birthday skateboard! I did a fondant covered cake and 24 cupcakes.

The toppers where white chocolate skulls and Tech Deck skateboards.

Wedding cake

This was it! 150 cupcakes and a wedding cake. My proudest accomplishment. Professional photos were taken and will be up shortly, but for now, check these out to tide you over.

Also, these were featured on a website, http://www.munchkincakes.com/ . Check them out!

The butterflies were my favorite part.

*Photos courtesy of Betsy Wiederstein

Pumpkin cupcakes

Do you ever have those life-altering moments when you go from hating something to absolutely loving it??

Like, you've hated peas your whole life, and one day, you wake up and cant get enough. Well, my friends, pumpkins are my peas. I am not a fan of pumpkin pie, pumpkin scents, pumpkin ANYTHING.

And yet, one day, on a whim, I decided to try some pumpkin cupcakes. They turned out SO dense and moist, I will NEVER use another recipe. Its weird and dumb luck that I've found the perfect recipe on the first try and that now, all of a sudden, I have pumpkin fever. In the months since I've made these, I've got pumpkin flavored febreeze, candles, body wash, cant go more than a week without Panera's pumpkin spice latte of Culver's pumpkin pie cheesecake "mixer", and have plans for an elaborate caramel pecan pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving!

These guys were topped with my new favorite piping technique (super cute and completely effortless) with honey almond buttercream and almonds for garnish.

Princess Birthday

These were the cupcakes I made for my little sister's birthday party. They are vanilla bean cupcakes with real madagascar vanilla bean buttercream and if you LOVE vanilla bean as much as I do, these cupcakes are HEAVEN!

The crown-topped "C" in the middle is for Chelsey, the guest of honor!

Close-up of the cupcakes. The lace print liners were my favorite.

Harley Davidson Cake

This had me up literally ALL night creating. I made this Harley cake for Kevin's best friend Casey's surprise birthday. We house-sat at their house the night prior to the party, so I had to use the tools at my disposal in THEIR kitchen to make this....definitely a challenge,but it made me that much more proud of the finished product! The flames are my favorite part of this cake.

**Originals below**

OREOOOOOOOO!

THESE have me very excited. I did these for a little boy's Birthday Party. They have an oreo on the bottom, then chocolate oreo cupcakes, oreo buttercream, and an oreo truffle topper.

These turned out so moist and tasty, and you DEFINITELY need a glass of milk handy when you eat one of these boys!

I would like to try different flavors of oreos with this same cupcake concept: strawberry milkshake, mint, peanut butter, golden oreos, the blue summer-time oreos, banana-split oreos....ok, I'll stop.

..And on to the picture!

4th of July Topiaries

I am such a glutten for punishment...After my 18 Mother's Day topiaries I swore up and down my cupcake topiary days had come and gone. So I have absolutely NO explanation as to why, a mere 2 months later, I INVITED more of this punishment.

I did 2 topiaries and surprisingly, they worked amazingly! I learned from my mistakes and trials/errors from the Mother's Day bunch, was able to charge more, actually make a profit, and had FUN doing these.

Check out both sets below!

"A Bun in the Oven"

I did this order for a baby shower, themed "A Bun in the Oven". I made the oven out of a carboard bankers box, spray paint, some condiment cups, old CD's, and a sheet protector. I would LOVE to do more of these in different color schemes, this was SUCH a fun project!!

The cupcakes were cinnamon bun flavored cake with cinnamon cream cheese buttercream (Duh!). I topped them with mini-cinnamon rolls made from fondant.

~~Final Product~~

The Birth of the Cupcake jar

I used my Father's Day displays to try out my first trails of cupcake jars, and they turned out JUST like I imagined. I would like to start experimenting a lot more with these next summer and plan to sell them at the farmer's market.

~~Enjoy!~~