OK, so summer is over but I just found these pictures from our Cub Scout Swim Party. The boys thought these cupcakes were so fun. I made sure that I brought extra umbrellas, because I was sure that the boys would fight over who got an umbrella. Good thinking! :)
I loved this project and thought that the marshmallow beachballs was a cute detail!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Cub Scout Fun
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Carrot Cake
Another non-cupcake post. I know. And I know that I have committed the cardinal sin of blogging- not posting for 5 months. Well, I am going back to school-- which has significantly cut into my cupcaking time. Grrr.
Anyway, here is a 4 layer cake I made for my sister's boss. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The coolest thing is that I hate carrot cake, but this recipe is so good that I even ate some! :) And it is healthy! Yay for applesauce and pineapple! Double bonus points for the cute little gumpaste rabbit!
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Labels: cake, cream cheese, custom, cute, frosting, gumpaste, rabbit, vegetables
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Not a cupcake?!
Along with the below Sushi cupcakes, I made two 8 inch layered cakes for the prom dinner for my sister. They were French Vanilla with raspberry filling and then raspberry cream cheese frosting. Then chocolate branches and gumpaste cherry blossoms. I think they turned out pretty good. The frosting was a little more runny than I wanted, but it tasted great!
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Labels: asian, cake, cream cheese, flower, raspberry
Monday, May 11, 2009
SUSHI!!!
My sister had a pre-prom dinner at a friends house and all the parents were in charge of the different courses. They girls decided to have an asian themed dinner and my mom was given the dessert assignment. After a while of trying to think up a good asian dessert that everyone would eat, I came up with SUSHI CUPCAKES!!! They turned out really cute and the girls got to come over and decorate. I couldn't find green fruit roll-ups, so I used blue fruit-by-the-foot. I also had a hard time finding white jimmies without having to order online, but white nonpariels worked fine for the rice! The girls made such cute little "california rolls" and others, one even had a little smiling jelly fish! A-DOR-A-BLE! *^-^*
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
New Cream Cheese Frosting
More cute cupcakes for a party for my sister! Vanilla Buttermilk cuppies with made-from-scratch cream cheese frosting. I think I may have found the best cream cheese frosting ever! :)
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Happy Easter
So, I am a bit late with this post. I took a cup-break (get it? a cup-cake break!) to work on some made-from-scratch bread. Yum! Here is a little guy I made before Easter, but forgot to upload.
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Labels: cupcakes, cute, duck, Easter, Huntsville
Friday, April 10, 2009
Baseball Season
My little brothers are both on baseball teams this year and I was dying to try out a few different baseball cupcake ideas. The first is just frosting with piped stitching. It is a little thick, but I think it looks yummy! The second is a gum paste cut out on top of frosting. I don't know which one I like better.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
It's a Boy!
Cute boy cupcake toppers. Again, these could be for either a boy or a girl. Or, the flower could be for anything. The flower looks really elegant, I think. Maybe it would work for a wedding in coordinating colors.
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Labels: baby shower, Blue, boys, cupcakes, elegant, flower, umbrella, wedding