Flower Birthday Cupcakes

Hello Sweet Readers!

As promised, here are the birthday flower cupcakes for sweet Katie. She celebrated her birthday yesterday and I sure hope she enjoyed her cuppies! They were so fun to make - love making the girlie goodies :)

These were strawberry and chocolate cupcakes with a variegated purple and pink vanilla buttercream and white nonpariels. Some of the cuppies also had some fondant flowers and candy hearts for variety.

Dreamy Cupcakes!

Remember having Dreamsicle ice cream pops as a kid? The ice cream layer with the orange popsicle surrounding it made such a creamy treat! Well, this is THAT in cupcake form! The cupcake is orange flavored - real orange juice and zest mixed in the batter - and filled with delicious vanilla bean buttercream. Can you see the wonderful specs of fresh vanilla bean in the photo? Yum! The frosting is a mix of orange (ala Tang :) buttercream and the vanilla bean buttercream that fills this tasty treat. It really tastes like a Dreamsicle popsicle (just not as cold and such a more "adult" option :) Kudos to Carrie again for a great recipe to play with! I topped these beauties with some homemade edible candy magnolia flowers.

Have a wonderful day, sweet readers!

Debbie's Request

Good Afternoon, Everyone! The title of today's post is "Debbie's Request" because my dear friend Debbie requested that I show some pictures of these carrot and flower cupcakes. I make the totally edible candy toppings myself and can do just about anything to top a cake. It's very fun and creative! The ones above are carrot cupcakes with vanilla bean cream cheese frosting. I had fun with these and am looking forward to that scary holiday coming up to do some fun candy toppers!

These were some freehanded flowers I did atop some very moist chestnut cream cuppies (one of hubby's favorites).
I made these flower tops for brownies I gave as a thank you gift. I had fun with the packaging on these.


These candy toppers were made for my sweet niece's birthday cuppies. My cousin Krista made the yummy cuppies and I brought the flowers for the flower themed bday.

I made these chocolate musical notes for my nephew's bday. He turned just three and is such a musician already! Again, Krista made her famous cuppies and I topped them. We make a good team, don't you think?