Raiders

In my next post you will see the Black & White Sweet 16 party that I did for my friends daughter. The actual party fell on her dad's birthday so mom asked if I could make him a special Raiders cupcake. I said of course before I even knew what the logo was. Let's just say I was a little worried once I googled it! AHHHHHH...how in the world am I gonna do this? I was up so late working on this and the Sweet 16 party cupcakes, that I thought I was seeing 2 Raiders ones. Not really, but that would have been a bonus to really have 2. A little secret of my work is that I am usually up until 2 am the night before cupcakes are needed...there are two reasons for this. 1. MY KIDS ARE SLEEPING!!!! 2. I am usually watching a show on the computer while I am working. All my favorite things in a quite house....no wonder I love doing this!!!
I heard that dad was surprised by mom halfway through the party with his birthday cupcake and didn't want to eat it cause it was to cool! I love hearing things like that... but if you ever get one of my cupcakes and don't eat it I WILL CRY!

Happy Birthday! Check out the sweet 16 cupcakes tomorrow! I should mention the party was in an airplane hanger! SO COOL!

Bridal Shower

I was contacted by my friend to see if I was inerested in making cupcakes for a client of hers. I am not gonna lie....that was scary!!! But I try to live by the quote "What doesn't kill me, will only make me stronger". So I agreed to talk to her about the shower. She had thought she wanted sunflowers, but this is what we decided to go with. Teal fondant hearts.
Teal ribbon that is being used at showers as well as the wedding.
HOMEMADE teal sugar sprinkles!!! (Hard to see here, but they are there).
All packed up and ready to deliver to the location! So excited that I said I would try this!!!
The line-up! So beautiful!!! I just love the liners...did I mention I now own 300+ of this design? Sorry Snohomish county!!!
Cream cheese swirls!
Table at the shower. The mother-in-law made the wrapped boxes for the cupcakes to be displayed on and she found napkins that were PERFECT! We made a great team!
As I was taking these photo's I had a crowd behind me of family and friends that were there helping the MIL set-up!
I had my wonderful assistant with me as well! K did great!!! She helped me place them in a pattern....and we love how it looks!

Teal, black, and white. Elegant, beautiful, and YUMMY! What more can a bride to be ask for from her mother-in-law? This was an amazing cupcake adventure making 80+ cupcakes!

Northwest Cupcakes

When people think of the Great Northwest they think RAIN & Coffee. Both are very true! This is my most requested filling! COFFEE!!!!! It is AMAZING in my chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting on top!
This makes my hungry!!!

It runs in the family

We love this b-day gift! How cute are these cupcakes? They are wooden with plastic frosting toppers and the frosting are markers that you decorate them with! My girls play with these everyday (seriously) and they are so good about putting them back in their kitchen so they don't lose them!
THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN IN MY HOUSE PEOPLE!!!! Thank you A for the AMAZING gift that everyone one loves to play with. Well, let's be honest...who doesn't LOVE cupcakes!

PINK

Here are the cupcakes for the Fairy Princess Party. They were cute, yet simple. I didnt have a lot of time to work on these. But, they were perfect since the girls all had their cookie wands also. They were vanilla cupcakes with pink buttercream frosting.
I made yellow hearts for a little contrast. They were origionaly going to be yellow crowns, but they were not cooperating. BOOO....but note to self...2 year olds don't care as long as it is sugar!
I also sprinnkled them with rainbow sugar crystals. That added the final touch that made them PERFECT!

Magic Wand Cookies

Not a cupcake...but just as fun! I saw these wands in the Family Fun Magazine by Disney and we made them for a fairy princess party! I have the link below, I am not as good with computers as I am with frosting, so you will have to cut and paste the link. I used a cupcake tin with liners in it to hold the different sprinkles. I also had the cookies already in the bag with their name on it, that they would go back into when they were decorated. This was the take home treat since we were having cupcakes (next post) and it was only 11:00am.
I also had the pink buttercream frosting ready to go in a bag and I put it on each cookie, but had plastic knives so the girls could spread it out. It is tough for little hands to squeeze the bag and not have it come back out the top.
The girls all loved it and we had the cupcakes at the same table with the sprinkle mess, so they could also decorate their cupcakes!
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/edible-magic-wands-841568/

Thomas the Train

I think between this batch and the Star Wars batch I put in about 10+ hours each! It is crazy how much time it takes to put some of the details on to fondant.It also seems like once I start a theme I get nervous that they wont look like what they should. AHHHH.....talk about stress!
But they always seem to work out wonderfully in the end. Considering I have made all the cupcakes so far starting with white fondant and only looking at photo's online for my insperation.
Each one of these engines had their own colors, personality, eyebrows, noses, you name it and I had to create it! You cant really see it in the photo's but they each have 3D cheeks, cause that is what makes the engines so cute! WOW!!!
Jacob and his friends enjoyed this special treat for his 4th birthday! His family has been blessed with a wonderful momma who is a cancer SURVIVOR!! So I was very happy to help make Jacob's birthday just a little bit more special!

Thanks for allowing me to share in your day! Glad they were YUMMY!!!!!