Dream Baby Shower

So, i have had this ideal baby shower vision in my head for quite some time now and was finally able to make it a reality. I love polka dots so i really enjoyed this job. Hope's friend from back home wanted to really throw a good baby shower for her friend so she enlisted our help! We did a dozen chocolate chip with cream cheese filling and a dozen white cupcakes with bavarian cream filling cupcakes with pink, chocolate, and white fondant decorations and a coordinating 6" and 8" stacked cake. The cake will have a big pink bow on top but will need to be added when assembly is complete. Hopefully i will get a good picture to post when the party is over. 

We also did two dozen chocolate dipped sandwich cookie favors with pink baby decorations for guests to pick up on their way out. Everything turned out so cute and this was such an easy job to do. Maybe this means we are getting better at it? Who knows, but i am so glad i was finally able to do this! I have been waiting on someone to have a girl, so i could have some baking fun!!! 

 

Happy Halloween!

I decided to make some Halloween treats for us to bring tailgating for the LSU game. I made pumpkin spice cupcakes and pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes with buttercream icing. I also made some fondant flowers to use as decorations and added candy corn to the tops of some of the cupcakes as well. I also made candy corn bark and chocolate dipped oreos.

Breast Cancer Awareness

October is breast cancer awareness month so i decided to make some pink cupcakes to honor it! These cupcakes are pink lemonade with lemon buttercream in hot pink cupcake liners and adorned with pink ribbons (one with pink sugar crystals and one without). They were pretty good, not perfect, but good. I will still be working on my recipe. I also made a few little white chocolate dipped sandwich favors to go with it.

Gender Neutral Baby Shower

My Sister in Law's baby shower was today and i made the cupcakes to go with the theme. I made two dozen chocolate chip cupcakes with chocolate cream filling and two dozen white cupcakes with vanilla cream filling.

Beach Party!

I am missing out on a beach trip for Labor Day weekend but thought i would post the cupcakes that will be enjoyed on the trip. Hope baked and decorated these and they are so cute! We might have snuck and taste tested them and they were so good. Here's to fun in the sun...

Birthdays and Babies

I had two jobs to do for today. One was a pink and white polka dot birthday party for two twin girls and the other a pink and brown girl baby shower.

For the twins' birthday party i did three dozen cupcakes for the guests and jumbo cupcakes for the girls because they requested "muffins" or "cuppy cakes" as their separate personal cake. I used some solid pink and some pink polka dot cupcake liners and did both chocolate and white cupcakes each decorated with bright pink fondant decorations stamped with birthday images (if you look close, you can see them in the picture below). For the girls i did jumbo cupcakes to be placed on a cake drum with fondant decorations with their name. For the twin that wanted a white cupcake, i decided to do hot pink striping in the batter. I finished each jumbo cupcake with pink mouse ears to go with the party theme. There will also be a candle on each cupcake for the girls to blow out.


For the baby shower, i made a custom pink and brown polka dot cupcake tower and made both chocolate and white cupcakes and petit fours each with a white M monogram in chocolate cupcake liners. The petit fours do not even deserve to be called petit because they ended up being HUGE! So, i'll call them grand fours.


What a job this was. Cupcakes: no problem, fondant letter and petit (grand) fours: TIME CONSUMING! I began at 8pm and didn't finish until 2am. I think my feet fell off somewhere in the kitchen... i'll just look for them in the morning. In the morning you ask? Yes, i am blogging at 2:42 AM waiting on the petit-grand fours to dry but dry or not, i'm putting them up now or else i'll be sleep blogging!

Web Store

Since i don't have any jobs being finished this week for pictures i thought i would post that i have bought so many baking cups, i decided to open an online store to sell some of them in. Bear with me because i just populated it but it is there nonetheless! I have to buy thousands at a time to get a good price so i have more than i need presently. These would make your baking that much sweeter!

Our First Job.... A Baby Shower!

Hope and I did our first baby shower baking today. We made two dozen chocolate chip cupcakes and two dozen white chocolate cupcakes all with blue, green, and yellow pastel baby items on top. We are so happy with them, they came out SO cute!

Friends, Food, and Fun

We had a get together at our house last night and had a bunch of friends over. We barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers and we had chips and dip and some monogrammed cupcakes. I also made a taco dip and deviled eggs. I have never made deviled eggs, but they were so good, that was the first thing to go! The vanilla cupcakes are filled with a vanilla cream cheese filling and topped with buttercream and the chocolate chip ones are filled with mousse and topped with chocolate buttercream. I hand drew the monograms with chocolate and topped them with sugar crystals.

Practice Run

In an effort to prepare for our get together next weekend at our house, i decided to make a practice run of the chocolate and white cupcakes i wanted to serve. The chocolate cupcakes have chocolate mousse filling and chocolate buttercream icing and the white cupcakes are amaretto cake cupcakes with bavarian cream filling and buttercream icing. They were so good but oh so very rich. The mouse came out SO good. That's the first time i made any kind of mousse.

I made way too much for a tasting but i forgot i was making half a batch and put the full batch of eggs so i had to double everything else i had already done! Oh well. The more the merrier, right? The people at work will love me... I ended up making about 40 cupcakes. Yum! Here are the cupcakes with the filling showing placed on my magnificant appetizer plates.

My new obsession...

I have been looking online at all the cool baking accessories and have come across and purchased a lovely selection of baking cups. I love baking cups! Look how cute some of these are especially the pink and black zebra ones and of course the polka dot ones. I am sure i will find a use for all of these some time in the future right? If only i could find a baking cup holder of sorts. They are just in a box right now in my house and i want them to be more organized than that. They are also made out of greaseproof paper so the color won't change while baking due to the grease in the batter. How awesome is that? I'm in love...

Flowers, shells and figure piping oh my!

Today was the third class of the Wilton beginners basic course. We had to bring 8 iced cupcakes to class to practice decorating on. Hope and I made the cupcakes last night and couldn't stop talking about how good they were. Seriously, these were the best cupcakes i have ever tasted in my life. They are white chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate buttercream icing and Bavarian cream filling. Yum! The icing was a little different from the classic icing we have been making but much better tasting. Not good to decorate with, but great to just ice and eat!

I have bought a ton of books with various cake recipes so i want to experiment on the flavors of each one to add to our offering. This is where i got the white chocolate cupcake and icing recipe. One book i bought has a ton of cupcake recipes and another section with a ton of icing recipes and even a chart for which icing tastes good with what flavor cupcakes. The options are endless!

Well, i got my wedding dress cleaned and had to go pick it up so i put the cupcakes in my trunk for just about 15 minutes. That was too long and the icing started to melt, not to mention to carrier I used didn't exactly hold onto them tight so the cupcakes toppled over and smudged on the side of the carrier. Oh well, i know now to use my other carrier with deep cups so they can't move next time.

In class we learned the beginnings of the rose, some drop flowers, shells, and the startings of figure piping. I am not good at shells or figure piping but will practice because the results are so cute. I have included pictures below but only if you promise not to laugh. They are horrible! The icing was way too runny and was not cooperating. The classroom is so hot that the icing starts to melt. I included a separate of my favorite: the caterpillar. I was using the grass tip and figured a caterpillar would be so easy! You can't go wrong with the dot tips.

Decorators-in-training and our polka dot aprons


Hope's Cupcakes - look at the baby carriage!

My group - the flowers kept sticking the people look spooky! (we had limited colors to use)

The cutest one i had - the caterpillar

Ok, now you can stop laughing!