Reb's B-day

SO...the 4th of July party was at the home of one of my favorite ladies! Reb (for short) and her birthday is shared by my 4 year old which is on the 6th of July. But I wanted to bless her with a few special cupcakes just for her!When i arrived at the 4th of July party I gave these to her and told her to HIDE THEM! Everyone will try to steal them once they learn how good they are. *wink wink*
So she hid them so she could enjoy them at a later time for her special day. I just adore how the pink swirl looks with the cute little flower.

I used the butter cream frosting for her cupcakes knowing she would already have access to the cream cheese ones. Plus how cute is the cupcake papers? SO CUTE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY REB....I LUV U SISTER!

My first fondant covered cake

I was going to make cupcakes for my neighbors birthday party at the skate rink. BUT for some reason they don't allow cupcakes only a cake! What kind of CrAzY rule is that? First off who has any sort of rule against cupcakes must be nuts! Second their rational is that they make more mess than cake. I guess I can't wrap my brain around that since you have plates and forks with cake and someone ALWAYS drops their plate!

Oh well...fondant cake here we go..........

My chocolate cupcake mix (2 batches) to make this double layer 9in cake.
Frosting to hold on the fondant topping. YUM!!!

For this I made marshmellow fondant which would be really good with the chocolate cake and crumb layer as the main "frosting". I rolled it out and thought I knew enough of what I was doing as far as the size went.

NOPE....to BIG! See the folds and trimming it on the bottom was not as easy as I thought it would be. AHHHHHH! This is when I started to STRESS.
I already had all the top fondant decorations made to match her invitation. But, I had to go back and make some larger flowers to cover the folds on the side. Cause once you put the fondant down on the frosting layer on the cake...game over! There is no going back to make it smaller.
Over all I am very happy with it since it was my first attempt and TOTALLY out of my cupcake comfort zone!




Not so sure I will make a cake anytime soon! It is to much STRESS for me! I like having a LOT of chances to make them FUN!

Black & White Sweet 16

My friend asked me if I would make cupcakes for her daughters sweet 16 party that was being shared with her best friend. They were having the co-ed party at a local airport in a hanger. Who would say no to that? What a fun idea. The girls had made a drawing of what they wanted. We made a great team and everyone was super happy with how they turned out.
As you can see the liners that I own 300+ of were perfect for this party also! Here is a close up of a flower on the chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
One tray is packed up and ready to go! I love these cupcake trays!!! Thanks Safeway for allowing me to purchase some.
I had the fondant flowers dry in a cupcake tin so they would be rounded not flat on the top of the frosting. It worked out perfectly and they were just as I had hoped.
All packed up and ready to go....you can see dad's Raider cupcake in there as well as plastic wrap with extra flowers that mom was going to put on sheet cakes she ordered to feed the teen crowd!
Here are the cupcakes displayed on the table! They were so perfect with the other decorations they had in the room.
Close UP!
Table display, my work here is done! Have fun kids ( I mean TEENS).

Sunflowers

Once I saw these in my Hello Cupcake book I knew I needed to make these! They are so fun! I was nervous to use the 2 different colors of frosting in the same bag, but once I made these I knew I was in LOVE!
The Oreo's were so good! I know, we all love oreo's, but with added frosting on them! WOW! I gave the extra's to neighbors and they STILL talk about these ones!
I made these for o reason, but to try. I would love to make these again. How cute are the bugs? LOVE THEM!

How did all this happen?

The great cupcake adventure all started at a 4 year old girls party when her mom said she paid $3.50 each for the cupcakes! I almost fell off my chair. While yes they were cute they were not for a wedding! I told her I could make cute cupcakes too...this is how it all got started.