Chocolate Bliss Cupcakes!

I had a huge craving for chocolate one day, 

and just happened to have some chocolate cupcakes from the 

left-over Triple Chocolate cake batter I had from one of my cakes, 

so I decided to put some frosting recipes to use...

So I made Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes....

Oreo Crumb Cupcakes.....

....and some with Oreo Buttercream Frosting.....

Rolo Cupcakes with Caramel Frosting.....

 And Mini-cupcake Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting!!!

Boy, that sure did satisfy my craving!!!

Tinkerbell!

My daughters 3rd birthday is in October, and her current obsession is Tinker Bell, 

so that's what her birthday party theme was. 

We had her party in our new backyard (since we finally just got our own house), 

and had her a bounce house. 

The bottom layer of her Tinkerbell Cake was Banana and the top layer was Red Velvet cake, 

both with Cream Cheese Butter-cream Frosting. 

All of the cake decorations were made out of fondant. 

I think this is my best one yet.... : )    

I used these pretty purple flower cupcakes liners with the cupcakes, 

and just frosted them with White Butter-cream Frosting. 

I used candy melts to design the butterfly and Initial decorations on top. 

(Picture soon to follow)...

Anniversary Cupcakes!

I had a request for Anniversary Cupcakes for my Aunt's 17th Wedding Anniversary. 

These where simply white cake with White Butter-cream frosting. 

I also made the initials and heart decorations out of candy melts. 

Pink and Zebra.

I made a pink and zebra cake and cupcakes for my sister-in-law's

 birthday party a couple of weeks ago. 

The party was a blast, but it was outside, 

so my cupcakes kept melting... 

Lesson learned though,

 i'll just have to find a thicker frosting for next time...

This is another zebra cake I did shortly after.

Hope you enjoy, and let me know what you think!!!

Sesame Street Sweetness!

For Evalyn's 2nd Birthday, I did a Sesame Street theme with the red, yellow, blue, and green colors. We had her party at the park on a beautiful cool and sunny day. Everything was decorated and created by hand, including the sweets and decor. The cupcakes were my absolute favorite. They were easy, cute, and so fun to make. 

I found this invitation online, which was actually the inspiration for her party decorations and cupcakes. 

For the Cookie Monster cupcake, I used blue frosting, half a chocolate chip cookie for the mouth, and candy eyes, and the cake was chocolate. 

Oscar the Grouch was chocolate cake with green frosting. I used black gel icing for the mouth, red frosting for the tongue, candy eyes, and bits of chocolate for the eyebrows. Notice I used silver cupcake wrappers to look like a tin garbage can. 

For Elmo, I used strawberry cake, red frosting, candy eyes, black icing gel for the mouth, and an orange tic-tac for the nose. I would recommend using an orange candy that more of a circle though. 

For these cupcakes, I just used confetti cake, white vanilla frosting, and rainbow sprinkles. 

I didn't get a picture of her smash cake, but it was a simple white cake with white frosting and huge rainbow sprinkles that I purchased from Target. It went perfectly with the theme. 

The decorations were really easy, I used construction paper to make each characters face, the banners, and the food labels.

A fun idea I had was to make food labels to go with each Sesame Street character.  

I had these tubs from Evalyn's 1st birthday party, so I cut our letters and numbers and pasted them on. I used each on to hold lollipops and the different colored silverware wrapped in a napkin. 

 And then I had everyone where Sesame Street shirts!!! 

This party was a blast!! Hope you enjoy!!!

Halloween

I had so much fun making this is the Halloween inspired cake that I made for Sammy, my 7 year old brother-in-law last year. Its a 2-tier chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. I decorated it with candy pumpkins and plastic fall leaves. Trust me, it was frighteningly delicious!!! 

For the tombstones, I shaped a milk Hersheys chocolate bar and covered them in powdered sugar. Then I crumbled the rest of he chocolate and used it as the grave dirt. 

If I remember right, I purchased this cupcake holder from the dollar store, as well as the spiders. I made these super easy vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting and Halloween orange, black, and white sprinkles.