More Princess Cupcakes

These were done for a baby shower!

Family

The children at church put on a program today. Afterwards they had a party. I volunteered to make cupcakes.

The program's theme was "My Eternal Family" So I decided to emboss the heart shapes with the word "family"

Pretty Princess Cupcakes

These were made for a little girls 5th birthday party.

The birthday princesses name is Amy

These were fun to make. I hope I get another order for a princess party one of these days.

What a Hoot!

These were done for a baby shower. The owl is made in fondant and was made to look like the owl on the invite.

Light My Fire

So I'm sure you all are dying to know why some one would need cupcakes with a flame on top so I guess I'll be nice and tell you..... A friend hosted her book club this month and the book they read had something to do with fire. So she asked me to make something fire-ish and here they are....

Nightmare Before Christmas

Happy Halloween!!

A client ordered these for a Halloween party.

Jack Skelington is my favorite!

I Want My Mummy!

I whipped up some Mummy cupcakes last week.

Aren't they funny??

These were super easy to make. The mummy is just made from butter cream piped on with a flat tip and the eyes were made from green fondant and a red edible paint pen.

If you're wanting to make these for a halloween party and you don't have access to fondant and don't want to spend the time to whip up a batch, I suggest using M&M's. I think those would do the trick and they taste good too!!! I think the yellow, green and red ones would be perfect!! I'm sure you could find a use for those remaining colors.... YUM!

Birthday Bash

This weekend was a big birthday bash! My husband turned 35, my sister turned 24 and both me and my cousin turned 30. So my whole family got together to celebrate and have dinner. I was in charge of the cupcakes. I didn't go all out because I was super super busy this week. But, I had to do something besides just plain old cupcakes. (how boring!) So....I took about an hour and whipped up these toppers. Each representing each of the birthday boys/girls.

My cousin is in the Army so I though some camouflage cupcake toppers were in store....

My sister is a huge Angels baseball fan so some jersey's with the number "24" were perfect!

My husband is a musician and the guitar is one of his favorite instruments.

And just some plain old simple flowers for me. Like I said, I was in a hurry. It's much easier to come up with fun, creative things for other people than it is to come up with stuff for myself.

Hawaiian Wedding

I made over 300 cupcakes and 180 gum paste plumeria flowers for a Hawaiian themed wedding reception. The cupcakes were made in three different flavors. Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting, Vanilla with Marshmallow Butter cream and Chocolate with Chocolate Fudge frosting.

The plumeria flowers and leaves were all hand made and took many hours to make. This was my first wedding so I was very nervous. The bride and groom loved everything and said that it was "just as they had pictured" it. It made me feel so good to hear those words.

A friend made the big cupcake on top for the bride and groom. I made extra gum paste flowers to place on this cake as well.

Here's a closer look.

University Of Michigan

These were done for a 23rd birthday for a man that loves the University of Michigan.

Practice Round: Plumeria Cupcakes

I'm doing a Hawaiian themed wedding in a few weeks so I wanted to do some "practice" plumeria flower cupcakes. Instead of a wedding cake, they are doing a cupcake tower. I'm so excited!!
Here they are......

These are going to my wonderful sister in law in Virginia. I owe her some cupcakes so I figured why not use that as an opportunity to practice?? So that's just what I did.

My Papa's 90th Birthday!

Today was my Papa's 90th birthday. I was in charge of all the food. Lemon cake is his absolute favorite so I made a lemon cake and cupcakes for him.

His favorite colors are blue and yellow.

I kind of did a "story of my life" theme with his cupcakes and so they aren't going to make much sense to you.

I'll just have to explain....

Papa used to hop trains that would take him to different cities where he would try and find work. If you have ever seen the movie "Of Mice and Men" it was kind of like that. Just traveling around looking for work. Hopping onto moving trains hitching rides with all sorts of different people.

When Papa was a young man, he was an AWESOME baseball player. The St. Louis Cardinals wanted him to come to their tryouts one year. They scouted him. But back then, they didn't pass out million dollar contracts. Instead, you had to pay your own way to try outs and he was just a farmer, he could not afford the train ticket and never made it to the try outs. His buddy did and he made the team. Papa was just as good as this friend and he made it in the baseball hall of fame. Papa always wondered what his life would have been like had he been able to get that train ticket. It would have meant a whole other life for him meaning a whole other wife and kids as well (he has been married to my Nana for over 63 years!) so I think he is pretty dang happy he never got the money for that ticket. (So am I!!!)

After his retirement, he took quite a few cruises with my Nana. They loved to travel.

My Papa was a cotton farmer for awhile. So this cotton ball was a perfect addition.

He was born in Oklahoma and moved out with his family to California as a young man.

He played football and loved to watch it with my dad.

He played golf for many years. Until he wasn't able to get around as easily an he had to give it up.

Unfortunately, I did not get a good picture of the Army Helmet that I made. It turned out really cute and you can kind of see it up above in the picture with all the cupcakes. It was too blurry to post. My Papa was in World War II.

Today was an awesome day. I was so happy to be able to provide the cake and food for my family.

Ahhh... the sweet smell on success. It smelled like lemon cake.

Back To School

It's back to school time!!

A friend of mine, is a preschool teacher and is getting ready for school to start next week. She had a faculty meeting this morning and thought it would be so fun to bring a treat and back to school cupcakes is what she had in mind.
So I made some apples.

And a pencil.

A MATH book.


A Chalkboard.


A School Bus.


Scissors.
(Notice how they aren't sharp? Perfect for little kids!!)


Glue.

Yummy Yummy!!

Arrrgh!

"Arrrgh!! Where be the cupcakes???"

Here they are... your choice of chocolate or vanilla. Yum!

Can you guess what these cupcakes were for?? Yep.. a pirate party. So fun!

Skull and Crossbones

A Happy Pirate!


A Treasure Map.



The birthday boy turned 5 years old.

I made the birthday boy a "special" cupcake. A pirate ship.

Arrrrrren't these adorable??