John Deere photo as promised!

I will have to say this was probably the hardest cupcake cake I've done. If I were to do this another time, I would probably make the white and yellow (besides the wheels) out of fondant. It was really hard to make that icing smooth especially since it wasn't a smooth surface. This was for a wedding reception. It matched their decorations perfectly - burlap and lace in a barn with cowboy boots...again...why didn't Pinterest exist when I got married??

I'm a slacker....

So, my last post was in October....I'm going to post pictures of all my cupcakes since then.

Rainbow Fish

 

 

Winter W'ONE'derland

Gender Reveal - It's a Boy
I piped in blue icing in the center. It was hard keeping the secret from everyone!

It's Wedding Season!

Summertime Pool Party

 

The Pool Party cupcakes are probably my favorite, but I do enjoy making the wedding dresses. For the Pool Party cupcakes, I put a teddy graham in a gummie LifeSaver. I made light blue icing and streaked blue food coloring in the piping bag before I put the icing in to make the streaking. 

Stay tuned...this weekend I'm making a John Deere tractor cupcake cake. I'm really excited! I think it will turn out really cute! Hopefully, I will post pictures this weekend.

Spicy Pumpkin Wedding

Today, I got to make cupcakes for a wedding. It was a pretty outdoor fall wedding. I made spicy pumpkin cupcakes with caramel icing. Josh says they are his favorite so far (besides the mocha ones). I think they turned out great. I used 2 liners. One has small pumpkins on it and the other is plaid in fall colors. They looked really cute with her cupcake stands. The stands are pieces of wood or branches with burlap and lace platform. I'm sad Pinterest didn't exist when I got married.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

It has been a while since my last post. I've made a lot of cupcakes, but nothing fancy. Today, I'm sharing my favorite cupcakes I've made thus far...The Very Hungry Caterpillar! I think it turned out super cute. I normally don't do cakes, but the head of the caterpillar was small. I'm always nervous about icing big cakes. I even loved the different shades of green icing on the body.

You Could Not, Would Not Want to Miss a Celebration Like This!

How convenient that I get to make Dr. Seuss cupcakes...

 

Compared to some other cupcakes these were sort of hard. It wasn't hard to assemble them, but it was difficult to get them to stand up straight and not get red dye from the icing onto the white marshmallow. Plus, the hat made them really tall so they couldn't be assembled until they were out of the box ready to serve. 

Long Time, No Post

Even though I haven't posted pics of my cupcakes in a long time, I have made quite a few. Some people have asked me about my blog. Since I gave them the address, I figured I should get back to posting.

 

Sesame Street 

 

 

Super Hero

 

 

Graduation

 

  

More to come...

 



 



Let's Play Ball!! Take 2

Here are more pictures of the sports cupcakes. I thought the pictures turned out really good!

Is there something in the water?

This weekend I've been busy making cupcakes for another baby shower. Everytime I turn around someone else is pregnant. This time it is Josh's niece, Tresica. I found these cute cupcake liners at Michael's a few weeks ago. When I was having all that trouble with the sports cupcake liners I used some of the flower ones from Michael's to see if it was me or the cupcake liners that was the problem...definately the cupcake liners as the flower ones turned out fine (side note: the company did refund my money for the bad liners!). Since there were flowers on the liners, I found a new way to frost them like a rose (of course it was on Pinterest!). I have become so obsessed with Pinterest. When I was making these cupcakes for the shower Friday evening, I was on Pinterest while they were baking. When the timer went off, I was so engrossed in Pinterest that I had no clue what the beeping sound was. I was looking around trying to figure it out. We had a firedrill at school the day before. I was even trying to determine if that was what my fire alarm sounded like. Josh makes fun because he had to remind me that I was making cupcakes.  Anyway, here are a few pictures of the cupcakes!

Let's Play Ball!

A friend from high school who is now a colleague wanted me to make cupcakes for her son's first birthday party. She was doing a sports theme. I got the idea for these cupcakes from pinterest, I think. I will post better pictures when I get them from her. This was just a picture taken with my phone. I was pleased with them besides the cupcake liner snafu (that is another story). I made soccer balls, baseballs, footballs, and basketballs. Stay tuned for more pictures when they are available. Also, I'm making some cupcakes this weekend for a baby shower. I'll post those, too.

Catching Up!

I can't believe the last time I posted cupcakes was in August. I'm obviously not very consistent. I haven't made that many cupcakes either.  I have made a few, but they were plain with out any decorations. For the first picture, I iced the cupcakes with blue icing and then used toppers that I made. I didn't know how to decorate the cupcakes for a boy baby shower, so I made toppers using a Cricut and spelled out his name 'Benjamin.' I think it took longer to make the toppers than the cupcakes.

The next picture are some cupcakes I made for my mother-in-law's best friend's daughter's (are you confused?) baby shower. She is doing an owl theme for the nursery. I found this idea on the internet (maybe pinterest, I can't remember). When I first started making the owls I thought they looked really cute and they looked like the picture, but then as I made a bunch I thought they started looking like cats instead. Maybe they need to be a little larger. The owls are made out of fondant.

Whoa Baby!

I made some cupcakes tonight! I saw this idea on pinterest, too!

They are for a baby shower. The bibs are made out of fondant. I don't think I would like to work with fondant to put on a whole cake, but it wasn't too bad for the cupcakes. I made the fondant, so I was just glad it turned out ok. After I cut out the bib shape I decorated them by piping on icing.

I HEART these cupcakes!

Tomorrow is my turn to take a snack for my Bible study ladies. I didn't know what kind of cupcake to make besides a plain one with a pretty cup holder. I found this idea on my new favorite website http://www.pinterest.com/. I love it and am obsessed. I am probably on there a few hours a day.

They aren't as hard to make as they look. After you  make the batter, you take about 1/3 of it and dye it. Then, you put the dyed batter into a small baking dish and bake it just until it can be cut. You don't want to fully cook it. After it is cooked, it needs to cool (very important step). When it is cool, take a cookie cutter and cut out your shape. Then, place the cake in the cupcake pan (stand it up...pointy end of the heart touching the bottom of the pan) and fill the rest of the cup with the uncooked batter. It may take 4 hands to do. Josh helped me. Bake as you normally would. Since you have to rebake the dyed cake batter, that is why you don't want to fully cook it the first time. It may dry out the center.

Now, you need to remember which direction you put the shape inside the cupcake so that when they are cut or eaten you will see the intended shape not a blob of colored cake. That is why my icing is in the shape of a heart, which doesn't look that great. On these cupcakes, they will have to take a bite from the top or the bottom of the heart in order to see the shape.

I must try other shapes. I bought 3 cookie cutters - heart, cross, and a mini cupcake. I tried the cross but, it was too flimsy. I didnt' try the cupcake because I didn't think people would know what it was. Maybe next time.  :)

A new cupcake next week...

Well, I haven't had anything to make cupcakes for until now. I found a REALLY cute cupcake that I'm going to make next week for my Bible study girls. I saw it on pinterest. I hope it turns out. I'm not going to make them until Monday. So, hopefully pictures will be posted Monday or Tuesday night. I'm really excited!! Check back next week!

Josh's 32nd Birthday!

My husband will be 32 this Tuesday. I found a recipe for these cupcakes, but I tweaked it just a bit. I made fudge cupcakes but I melted dark chocolate morsels and mixed it in the batter then I made mocha icing and topped it with chocolate shavings. Yum yum! I even made him hold them while I took his picture!

It's a BOY!

Two of my friends are pregnant and due within a week of each other. Our group of friends threw them a surprise baby shower. I found this idea in What's New Cupcake? You  may not be able to tell in the picture, but the cupcake at the top is a shower head making it look like it is 'raining' babies! I made the same mistake with these cupcakes that I did with the mini pie cupcakes...I used canned frosting! So, when I turned the 'shower head' on its side ALL the icing ran off the cupcake. Not to mention a few of the babies were smashed during transport. I took a few cupcakes home and when I took them out of the pan ALL the icing ran off. I have definitely learned to NOT use canned frosting!

Masquerade Ball

I thought the butterfly cupcakes took a long time....these cupcakes took a LLLLLOOOOONNNNGGGG time. I made approximately 279 cupcakes. It wasn't the cupcakes that took forever, it was the masks. My plan was to make a mask for every cupcake, but I ran out of time. I had never made this many cupcakes so I didn't plan far enough ahead. The ones that didn't get a mask were placed in the shape of a mask. All in all it still looked good. I think I used every pie pan, casserole dish, baking dish, tupperware bowl that I had to store all of these. Then, my husband brought me 4 bread trays to transport them. That helped a lot! Then it began to storm as we were loading them but it quit by the time we had to unload them!

Butterflies

These were really fun to make. It seemed to take forever because I had to make 2 wings per cupcake and I made 48 cupcakes! They turned out great!