Lady Bug 1st Birthday!!!

I was asked by a long lost friend to make cupcakes for her daughter's 1st birthday party. The theme is red lady bugs...did I mention the lil birthday princess is the little sister to 3 brothers, so bring on the girly! First I made all the lady bugs, this alone took me 3 hours. I always seem to under estimate the actual time to make, color, and work with the fondant. But I LOVE doing it!!!
Some of them just had the lady bugs on them.
While other's have the letter's with the lady bug design and the actual lady bugs.
I can imagine that the brothers will still enjoy these since they are bugs with green frosting!
These turned out so cute.
I was also asked if the cousin could have a special cupcake since his birthday was also the same time. Hope they all loved them!

I love to craft in real life.....

Often times I am greatful I have 3 daughters...I would have have NO CLUE how to craft for boys. A tall tower with modge-podge art blocks, maybe whittle wooden trains, or sew a tent to camp in the playroom.

Nope...for now at least I will stick to girly stuff! My middle princess was invited to a kindergarten birthday party.

SWEET...all little girls love tutu's *at least i think they should*. She helped me choose the colors and I got to work.


I decorated a matching hanger to hold her skirt and a hairbow (top right). So cute right!!! I'm pretty sure she loved it, but it's hard to tell when all you see from lil kiddo's at their parties is papers fly...and the backs of all the friends that are WAY TO EXCITED TO SIT!

Starbucks cup attempt

I wasn't sure what to get my sister-in-law for her birthday so I decided on a Starbucks treat with a twist.

I learned a lot while making this and now I am pretty confident that my next attempt will look much better *fingers crossed*.

I had a sheet cake that I made and a red plastic cup cut up so I could figure out the size (this is one thing I learned) Starbucks cups are not fat & short. Next time I guess I'll just have to make a coffee run first!


Next I stacked them and put a skewer in the middle (2nd lesson) I made the skewer to long and it stuck out the top. Which gave the look of the top of the lid, but it could have been better.


I then covered it with my coffee flavored butter cream and then my marshmallow fondant.
I want to try these again soon since it was fairly easy and super fun! I would love to get one of these for my birthday!


Happy Birthday Amber!

Soon I can sell baked goods "legally" from my home!

Arizona just passed a program that will allow residents to sell home-baked good! SWEET!!! This has gotten me excited to start baking again...I really enjoyed making cupcakes, cakes, and goodies for others! Here are a few things I have recently made!

Baby shower rubber ducky theme! One cool duck....

Made of yummy fondant!
Cupcakes to match Kaya's 12th b-day cake

Kaya's fondant zebra cake...this is my 3rd cake ever!

Fondant Cake...Sweet 16

I am not going to lie...when my friend asked if I would make a fondant cake (like the one she saw on my blog) for her daughters Sweet 16, I got nervous! But I am learning FAST that everything will workout with my baked goods!
Here is the YUMMY double layer chocolate cake with my coffee butter cream frosting!
This is where I should have my picture of my perfectly smooth fondant covering, but I think I was so excited that it looked good that I just started working on the stars!
This is the marshmallow fondant covering the cake decorated with stars! FINALLY!!! I actually was able to trim the bottom correctly and it was perfect!!! Sorry, I am excited since my first one had large folds and a jagged bottom edge because I had NO CLUE what I was doing.
I put silver Wilton glitter paint on the white stars to give them a silver look. The stars are really purple, however my camera must think it is funny to make them look more blue!


I was sooo happy when this cake was completed! I loved EVERY minute of making it!


I should also mention that I REALLY did love the minute I was done with it, since it was 4:00am and I had to be up taking cupcakes and throwing a brunch baby shower at 7:30am! Lets just say i was functioning on a caffeine high all day!

Football fan!!!

My bff's nephew was here in the great NW for his 11th b-day so she asked if i would make some cupcakes for him....of course i will! His mama didn't want fancy so we stuck to some easy, but cool cupcakes!
I believe they enjoyed these after their dinner at The Old Spaghettie Factory! DOUBLE YUM!
Then they had to work off the food so they went to one of those trampoline places that is just completely trampolines! FUN!!!!

Glad everyone enjoyed them!!!

Morotcycles

What kind of cupcakes do you make for a 4 year old boy that loves morotcycles and is OBSESSED with the color green?
Have a look at what his mamma and I came up with!!! (sorry about the sideways photo...it will not go straight)

Race flag was made with mini chocolate and vanilla cupacakes and fondant squares...so easy, but so cool!

Motorcycle shirt with his favorite number...darn counter-clock-wise that won't work!
Black chocolate frosting...yummy! This was funny on the teeth of the children!!! hehehe
Dirt race track!

Helmets!!!

Green motorcycle with #12 of course!!!
How would we not make him a green and black #4!
We had to CUPCAKE the birthday boy! Can you see his broken tooth...he is a wild boy!

HELLO KITTY!

I did these for one of my favorite little 4 year olds! Her mama is one cool gal so when she asked if I would make her some cupcakes I said "of course"! Believe it or not these were some of the easiest ones I have ever made!
The way my mind works is I can see something and duplicate it, but I am not so good at creating things on my own.
So be impressed with my talent for one more minute then I will tell you what I did! Cause that will make you less impressed.
I was at Michael's (where else would i be?) when I saw a Hello Kitty mint tin and that is what i used as a fondant cutter! I know, I know part lame but, admit it part genious!
I am the queen of "MAKING IT WORK".
Packed up and ready to go!!!
WAIT...one more picture with the bingo card I used for colors!

Camping Cupcakes part 2

More fondant fun.... campfire! Smore made from fondant.
Tiny ladybug made by big sister in the grass.
Butterfly
Random camping cupcakes...i see a spider, flashlight, and a lantern.
WORMS in the grass! Unfortunately she loves worms!



Lots of work, but LOTS OF FUN!!!