Christmas Tree cupcakes for a kid's Christmas party. Yellow cupcakes, buttercream icing and gum paste stars. Pretty cute and simple.
Also, this is a chocolate cake for another Christmas party. A men's party at that. The cake was chocolate cake with chocolate chips, the filling was chocolate buttercream and the icing was chocolate fudge. Death by chocolate, huh?
We had a baby shower for my cousin's wife back in the first part of December. Since then they have had their beautiful baby girl. She is so pretty and the new parents are tickled pink and the grandparents, well they are on cloud nine as is Aunt R.
I used the same cupcake stand as before and added a 6 inch cake to the top.
We had a bridal shower for a special lady at church a couple of weeks ago. I had read about and seen so many pictures of beautiful cupcake stands and I saw the shower as a perfect opportunity to try one out.
First I had to make the stand. If you google cupcake stands you can find lots of instructions, but here's a site to get started. I did it basically like this, but in between each tier, I used a glass container full of decorative glass balls to match. Here is the finished cupcake stand.
Now for the cupcakes. As you can see I went with the colors pink, blue and chocolate brown. I made some yellow cupcakes and some chocolate cupcakes with delicious chocolate chips inside. The icing was an assortment of chocolate buttercream and white buttercream (colored pink of course). To finish them off I made little flowers out of fondant.
These were so much fun and I loved how it turned out!
Now I'm off to work on this beautiful lady's wedding cake (gasp)! Wish me luck and look for pictures next week. Have a great weekend!
My very good life long friend, photochick, had a beautiful baby boy about a week and a half ago. I wanted to take some goodies to the hospital for her and decided to try out a new recipe. I baked yellow cupcakes with bakeable cream cheese filling that had miniature chocolate chips in it. I iced some of the cupcakes with white buttercream and some with chocolate. She probably noticed that in a box that should hold 24 cupcakes, some were missing. I HAD to try one and so did my husband and the boys. We all agreed...delicious! I really think this combination would be an excellent cake as well.
I got pictures of the cupcakes...not to exciting. Photo said that I should have cut one open and photographed it that way. Yes that would have been an excellent idea except I didn't think of it. We don't call her photochick for nothing.
I also made some sugar cookies in honor of baby boy's arrival.
Last week was full of Valentine goodies. They were mostly for the kids and their friends and a good opportunity to try a few different things. First of all I made cupcake ice cream cones for my youngest guy's friends at his sitter's. They were red velvet cake and whipped cream cheese icing.
My sister also made some for the kids at church.
Of course I couldn't let a holiday go by without sugar cookies so I did some for Big Man's whole class and a few for his teacher.
