"Water" Mini Cupcakes

Good Morning, Sweet Readers!

I have to say, I am overwhelmed. I was gone this weekend and came back to find that my slider cupcakes were published on two blogs, Digg and Cupcakes Take the Cake! On my Flikr account , a photo of my slider cuppies (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smileyssweets/3331745348/) had over 110,000 views as of today! That is just crazy! Very fun, for sure. Thanks to all of you who made the sweet comments about them and for all of you always checking in. I love baking and creating, and it gives me great pleasure to share it with you.

So what are these? They are mini dark chocolate Guiness cuppies topped with dreamy chocolate ganache and vanilla bean buttercream. I made them for a "water" themed order. Just the perfect bite!

Have a fabulous week!

Yummy Yummy Treasures! Samoa and Coffee/Kahlua/Guiness Cupcakes!

Hi Sweet Readers!

Since it's Girl Scout cookie time, I thought I'd share a couple yummy cookie-like cupcakes with you. I have been dying to make the Samoa cupcake since September and was inspired to just do it when I saw Melody's post over at My Sweet and Saucy. The recipe for the Samoa cupcake is from Chockylit. It's a brown sugar cupcake, topped with ganache, a wonderful coconut butter topping and more ganache. Yum! Oh, and it's filled with caramel. More yum!


The other cuppie is a Dark Chocolate Guiness topped with creamy ganache and the best ever coffee/Kahlua buttercream (thanks, Carrie from Fields of Cake for my new fav buttercream!).

Thanks for checking in!

Rachel's Birthday Cuppies

These are some of the yummy cuppies we had for the card club in honor of Rachel's birthday. Her favorite cupcake right now is the Dark Chocolate Guiness, so she got one with vanilla buttercream and two with caramel buttercream. Both were filled with fudge frosting. The pink one is strawberry, filled with strawberry cream filling and topped with vanilla buttercream.

Colorful 1st Birthday Cupcakes

Good Morning, Sweet Readers!

Here are some fun colorful first bday cupcakes I did for an order. It was for a first bday, so my friend wanted them colorful. Half the order was vanilla and the other half was dark chocolate chip Guinness cupcakes. I think the one year old is going to get the vanilla! :)

Have a sweet day!

Bicycle Cupcakes!

I made these fun cupcakes today for my friend and neighbor, John. His birthday is Monday and his lovely wife and dear friend of mine, Nancy, requested a special batch to share with his family. These cuppies are a bit eclectic in flavoring, but it all comes together and tastes fabulous (according to my hubby who had to sample one :) They are a Guinness dark chocolate cupcake filled with caramel and an Oreo surprise. I topped them with Oreo brown sugar cream cheese buttercream and some fun blue sprinkles. One of John's passions is cycling and he is darn good at it, so I wanted to honor that and created these fun candy bicycles! I wanted them to be royal blue, his favorite color, but alas, the blue on the package was not the blue it turned out to be. I am still very happy with them and frankly, thrilled that I was able to create them!

I hope you have a very happy birthday, John!