Polka Dot Cake

A new experiment. This was my first ever 10 inch cake. I tried a new white cake recipe. And the first time to do any kind of fondant bow. So all in all, lots of new things! The cake seemed HUGE! I'm not sure if I like the white cake recipe yet or not, may try a few tweeks to it and see what that does. The fondant bow...well I got a little impatient and didn't let the ribbon pieces dry over night so they don't stand up how I wanted them to, but it was still a good learning experience! There was lots of cake and not many of us to eat it!! My parents were in town, so they had some and then my neighbor came over (who has two boys) so I gave her probably half the cake...and still lots left over. I used brown and turquoise, even though the picture makes the brown look like an army green, ha! It was fun to make!

Cupcake Sampling Party

This past week my parents came in town to help me get ready for the cupcake sampling party!

I made samples of:

Carrot cake
Red Velvet cake
Snickerdoodle cake
Chocolate cake
Yellow cake
Strawberry cake

...and lots of yummy icing: vanilla, chocolate fudge, cream cheese, strawberry buttercream, buttercream...

It was fun making them all!

There are lots of pictures of each decorated cupcake, enjoy!

 Cupcake Pops

 Cupcake balls

 Cute snowmen- yellow cake with vanilla icing

 kids cupcakes

 ice cream

 butterfly

 football

 Cars 2- lightning McQueen

 Sheep

 Snickerdoodle & Reeses

 Flowers!

 Zenia

 Snowflakes

 Pearls

 Lily

 Rose

 Santa Hat

 Rudolph

 Holly

 Christmas Tree

 Turkey

 Carrot

 Leaf & Acorn

 Christmas

 Fall

The whole table!

Those were all of the different decorated cupcakes for the party- some got taken home with people and I have a lot left over that I need to find some people to give them to :)





Halloween Cupcakes

 Candy Corn Cupcakes

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Our Monday Night small group decided to have a "Halloween" Party- just an excuse to bring friends and eat yummy food! I decided to make some cupcakes and decorate them with a Halloween theme..well kinda-not the scary Halloween theme. I made yellow cupcakes and decorated half of them as Candy Corn and the other half as Pumpkins. The frosting is just vanilla frosting and colored the various colors for each design. Hopefully there will be a lot of people there so we don't have to bring lots of cupcakes home with us! These were fun and easy to make!



Loui Vuitton cupcakes

My wonderful husband has been doing some marketing for me while he meets with some of his clients too! A lady that he met a couple of days ago called and asked if I could do Loui Vuitton cupcakes. hmmm I didn't even know the logo off hand for Loui Vuitton, but sure...i'll try! ha. She didn't care what flavors but she just wanted 2 dozen of them- she called thursday morning and needed them friday (the same week that i had to make 8 dozen cupcakes, 2 dozen cupcake pops, and a small cake), but it all got done!

The story behind why she wanted the cupcakes was great! Two of her friends were celebrating their 15th anniversary and a bunch of people were going out to celebrate with them. The wife in this couple has wanted a Loui Vuitton purse for the longest time and has never had one. So all of the ladies going out with them that night were going to use their Loui Vuitton purses and kinda "rub it in" to the wife. (the husband did get the wife a Loui Vuitton purse for their anniversary but isn't giving it to her until later that night). So they were making the whole night be a Loui Vuitton themed night, hence the Loui Vuitton cupcakes!

One dozen is a snickerdoodle cupcake with cinnamon buttercream icing and the other dozen is chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing. I stuck with the brown theme because they all had the brown loui vuitton purses. I love the bronze cupcake liners! They are my new favorite! I colored the cream cheese frosting to make it a tan color and the cinnamon buttercream is already the tan color. I used fondant to make the circle for the "medallion" and then painted it with pearl dust to make them sparkle. I used some of the cream cheese frosting to write the LV logo on the cupcake. She came to pick them up and loved them! I hope the party went well :)

Lemon Daisy Cake and Cupcakes

My mom came in town for a couple of days to help me bake! I had to do 4 dozen cupcakes and 3 dozen cupcake pops for a rehearsal dinner, 2 dozen cupcakes for another lady and then my friend, Claire, asked me to make a cake and some cupcakes for her Mother in -law's wedding this weekend.

This is the wedding cake and cupcakes...She wanted a lemon cake with a lemon buttercream frosting. This is a 6 inch cake (they wanted a small cake to keep) with a light yellow frosting and white polka dots with 3 fondant daisys painted with pearl dust to make them sparkle!

She wanted 2 dozen cupcakes with the daisy on them as well. Her colors were yellow, cream, and hunter green. The icing is tinted a very light yellow and the daisy on top is the same daisy that was on the cake. I added some green leaves to incorporated the hunter green in the wedding. I think they turned out pretty cute!

"Portal" Cake

My neighbor, who I met while taking cupcakes around to the neighbors, emailed me and asked me if I could do a "Portal" cake. I had no clue what a portal cake was...good thing she explained it and sent a picture with it!

This is a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge icing on the top filled with coconut pecan frosting in the middle (the frosting you use for German Chocolate cake). The white swirls on top are cream cheese icing topped with cherries. The whole cake is topped with chocolate shavings. I just took a hersheys bar and shredded it with a cheese grater.

This was a fun cake to make and it looks just like the picture she sent me!!

Tow Mater Cake

Ok, so I know it has been a while since I have blogged!! It has been a crazy couple of weeks... I started a new bakery business and Dawson and I just took a road trip to South Carolina and back! I have had several orders for cupcakes and cupcake pops and have done many for other events that I have gone to in the last couple of weeks. I had one lady email me and ask me if I could do a "Mater cake" from the Disney movie Cars. I had NO idea if I could do a 3D cake or not...so I did a practice round to see if I could do a tow mater cake for this lady... here is what turned out.

Not too shabby... first try for a 3D cake and on a whim..not much prep or anything. It ends up that the lady can't get the cake, but I still did the practice round and now know that I can do it! Lots of new things, but it's so fun!!

I used fondant for the wheels, teeth, eyes, windows and side mirrors. A reeses is used for the engine...twix and twizlers for the tow part in the back. The cake came out of two 9 x 13 cake pans. I cut two inches off each cake lenghwise and then cut those two pieces in half so there were both about 6 in long- those 4 pieces were used for the cab part of the truck. I would probably do it a little different next time, but it's always a learning process!