Happy Birthday and Blogoversary Cupcake Cake!

Hello faithful, sweet readers! Not only have I neglected your need for beautiful sweet postings, but I neglected my blog's own blogoversary! So sorry! I have been busy with my family, doing work over on the other side (My photography blog), making some fun appearances ( Check it out! ), and taking some neat courses and have not been able to post as much as usual. Heck, I haven't been able to bake as much as usual. I will try to keep them coming, I promise!

So here is a post with a birthday cake I made for a dear friend. It's red velvet, as requested, and I am happy to report that it was so cherished it was eaten again the very next day..for breakfast. I love those stories!

I guess we can call it a happy anniversary cake, too, since we all missed the blogoversary here. It's been 2 years!

So stay with me if can. I still bake and still love ya! (but if you care to see more of my other art, do visit me on my photography blog..I'd love to see some of you on the other side!)

Birthday Cupcake Tower

Hi Sweet Readers! Here are the cupcakes I made for Sage's 1st birthday celebration. The theme was flowers and butterflies!
I did dark chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. I did homemade candy and frosting toppers...
and a few different colors of frosting to match the invitations and serving-ware. I love my new cake plates! I saw them over on Flickr..Glorious Treats has them and they were calling out my name! Thanks for the enabling, Glory :)

I hope you enjoy!

Movie Night Cupcakes

Hello Sweet Readers!

In January, I posted some fun popcorn mini cuppies that I made from the very fun "Hello Cupcake" cookbook. Last week, I tried these cute ones from another amazing cookbook called "Little Cakes" (incidentally, Liv Hansen, one of the coauthors of the book, put my cuppies on her blog! http://whimsicalbakehouse.blogspot.com/2009/03/lisas-take-on-our-popcorn-cupcakes.html.) I really like these because of the cute little individual candy shell made by striping candy on a silicone cupcake liner and peeling away the shell. It looks so festive!


The"popcorn" on these cupcakes is not marshmallow, but yummy buttercream with a bit of caramel swirled in. I also colored some of the vanilla buttercream yellow to make it look like the buttered part of the popcorn. The cuppie just sits in the cup ready to eat along with the candy (the paper wrapper is discarded).

I made these for a sweet six year old boy's birthday. They were having a movie themed party and I think these went very well with the candy, hot dogs and even real popcorn!

I have to say, I really had a fun time making these! I was a bit skeptical as to whether the candy shells would work, but they did! Thanks for checking them out and Happy Birthday, Ryder!

Cupcakes for a Princess

Hello Sweet Readers!

I am ready for something non-green and perhaps you are, too. So here you go...some pink princess birthday cuppies. I made these butterfly cuppies with vanilla buttercream for a little girl's birthday. Her mom said that she would like something "princessy", so I went with crowns and wands. I hand-piped them with melted candy. The little sprinkles are butterflies and they are adorable, though hard to see in this pictures. I hope she likes them!

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.