Spring is Poppin' Up Good Things!

 Happy Spring, Sweet Readers! I wanted to share my latest (in what has unfortunately become a rare experience these days) baking adventure. You have seen these here many many times in many forms, but I just loved the color of these little cupcake truffles (AKA cake pops). They are red velvet with some yummy vanilla cream cheese frosting. I just love the way the pink and purple go so well with the jewel tone sprinkles. They make me smile. Hope they do the same for you!

Ducky Cake and Cupcakes

Hello Sweet Readers! I have been out of town for over a week and am a bit overwhelmed with all that is on my plate right now, but I wanted to send out some photos of a dear friend's son's bday goodies. I made these awhile back, but never posted them. So here they are. She wanted a ducky/bathtub theme for the sweet boy's 1st bday and here is what I came up with.

The cake was fun and whimsical. I loved making it.
I made her some pops for the heck of it because I just couldn't resist!
I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful and blessed. I hope to share more with you soon, sweet readers.

Just Poppin' in...

to say hello to my sweet readers! Here are some fun cupcake truffles for your day...or cake pops...or whatever your little heart desires to call them. I call them yummy! Have a great day!

Boxed Gift Truffles for a Friend

Hello Sweet Readers!

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. It has spiked to 104 degrees here in Sacramento! Hot!

Here are some cupcake truffles I made for a friend's birthday awhile back. I posted some pics of them out of the box before, but I wanted to share these all packaged up. This is something I would really like to get as a gift, so I hope she did, too!

Truffles in the Grass

Hello Sweet Readers! I hope you have a sweet Sunday...I am recovering from a week of many cupcakes and a big dinner party last night! Just finished a cake to bring to a church meeting in an hour... I hope to post more soon! Have a great rest of your weekend and enjoy this photo of some cupcake truffles with candy flowers on top!

Chocolate Easter Bunny Experiment

Ok, Sweet Readers..so this is a bit strange...this bunny DID NOT look this scary and weird in real life. I promise. Believe me. In the photo, I think it truly looks rather evil. Scary. It was actually a lovely chocolate cake very heavily coated in ganache. There were three egg cakes and chocolate truffles with candy coating as embellishments...made for my women's bible study Friday morning.

Problem was, the cute bunny had so many niches and nooks and crannies that my method of pouring the ganache over the top of it just didn't work. So I had to keep pouring..and pouring..and pouring. It's three dimensional for goodness sake - cut me some slack! So it got a little out of hand. But heck, out of hand and into the mouth tasted pretty darn good! Kinda like when my high hat cupcakes became low hats--tada! Extra Chocolate is always good :) Anyhow, in real life, it wasn't this scary and even though the base was only about 2 1/2 inches wide, I actually made it to church without it falling over. I'm an amazing driver :O

So there ya go. I love the pan (thanks Mikela, for the gift!), and I will try again soon. If you have any hot tips on getting the coating down both sides of the bunny at the same time without getting fingerprints on it or messing up one side or the other, do tell. I would love your advice :)

Have a sweet weekend!

Cupcake Truffles and a Cupcake Tasting Party!

Hi Sweet Readers!

Thanks for all the kind comments on my blog and FB. You guys are the best and I love sharing my sweet with you. Thanks for coming back and checking in, too. I anticipate you coming and hope to share something new with you each week.

Today I made so many cupcakes that my family and I had to have a "cupcake tasting party" after dinner. When I told my youngest son what we were going to do, he thought I was having a party with my girlfriends. He was thrilled that he got to participate himself. It was fun. We split five different cupcakes and voted for our favorites. Seems my family really has an opinion after all the cupcakes they have tried :) Anyhow, you should try it sometime. Quite the treat...

The photo is of some cupcake truffles that I made for an order for a dear friend. Some were red velvet and some were dark chocolate. If you haven't tried one of these small treasures, you should. They are small, but delicious!!

I don't want to bore you with more Valentine's Day themed goodies, but I have many and just want to share! Stay tuned..hopefully I can get through them before St. Patrick's day because I have some fun planned for that, too :)

Minis and Cupcake Truffles

As promised, here are some more Valentine goodies. They are red velvet and vanilla minis and some yummy cupcake truffles. Have a great Sunday!

Spouse-ology Cupcake Truffles

So tomorrow night, our marriage group at church is having a game night. We will be playing the game "Spouse-ology" which is loads of fun. I, shockingly, signed up to bring dessert, and went through a few different options until I came to this one. These are dark chocolate cupcake truffles in "Spouse-ology" colors. (funny, as I type this, our UPS guy is delivering the fourth game we needed!)

Though they are small, these beauties pack a punch. They are deliciously decadent!

The little hearts on top are for all the wonderful married couples coming to share a date night together!

Hope you have a sweet weekend! :)

Engagement Party Cupcake Truffles

Hello Sweet Readers!

Here are some sweet cupcake truffles I made for my friend's son's engagement party. She wanted the tops all white, so I topped them with white non pareils, edible pearls, and sweet white stars.

Congrats and Blessings to Matt and Chrissy!

Santa Hat Cupcake Truffles

Hi there! Sorry about the poor picture quality...these are some fun cupcake truffles I made for my son's Christmas party today. For the first time I tried vanilla cake rather than chocolate or red velvet. They were delish! I think I like them better. The kids actually got a kick out of them, which was fun. I have never shaped the truffles into anything,but was inspired by Bakerella and was pleased with the result.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic weekend!

Happy Cupcake Truffles

Hi! I hope you are not sick of my Halloween creations yet. I just wanted to show you all the fun things that I did for orders and parties last week. These were some fun ghosts, pumpkins, mummies and yes, eyeballs that I created . Fun, huh? They are tasty, too. Very rich and decadent.