Golden Wedding

We made the cake and cupcakes for my cousin Ethan's wedding.  I was able to work with my favorite partner in baking crime, my mom.  

They wanted a simple rosette cake and we kept the theme with rosette frosted cupcakes.  

The cupcakes flavors were Pineapple, Mango, and Chocolate Coconut. 

Each cupcake flavor had their own unique topper.  I spent over 7 hours creating the delicate gum paste gold flowers for the pineapple.  I also designed  the name toppers and Flavor display cards.  

Toffee Caramel Delight

If there was a Queen of Cupcakes...this would be it! This is a Chocolate Cake with Caramel filling a Chocolate ganache, Caramel buttercream and decorated with crushed Toffee pieces...

Oh yeah...come to mama!

Bow-tastic

Miranda's cute friend from Broadway class ordered special Cookies & Cream cupcakes with pink and green fondant bows (her signature style) Miranda didn't disappoint. With a brief tutorial from me, she whipped out 50 of these little beauties!

and yes, they were as delicious as they look!

Special Order Cupcakes

A friend of mine called and ordered cupcakes for her sons Mission Homecoming. He served his Mission in Texas, so she wanted the cupcakes to reflect images of Texas....

So we came up with Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese buttercream and the State shape and the Texas Star....

She also had a special request for an armidillo (apparently and inside joke) Miranda did a fabulous job hand crafting this little guy out of Fondant.

Lastly, they wanted a few mini lemon cupcakes just for a little variety and color.

Little Shop of Cupcakes

He plays Seymore. We went to his opening night and in true Miranda style she brought him cupcakes.

Cupcakes again!

chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Tie Die

Feed Me, Seymore!

Miranda's Director is playing Seymore in Signature's production of "Little Shop of Horrors".
We went to opening night and couldn't show up empty handed.
We came up with these "Audrey 2" cupcakes.

There is 4 with the plant in different growth stages

Feed Me!!!!

More Cupcakes

Here's a few more cupcakes in Miranda's line up
Birthday decorated Creamcicle

Patriotic Red Velvet

Neopolitan

Chocolate Caramel Pretzel...oh yeah baby!

Chocolate Mint

Cupcakes on Parade

Miranda has been quite the little Cupcake Baker lately
She decided to start taking treats to rehearsal each week
Her first one is "Into the Woods" Rocky Road Cupcake

These are Chocolate Peanut Butter Dressed up
for Father's Day

These are Banana cupcakes with caramel frosting

This little beauty is Strawberry cheesecake cupcake

She's getting quite good at baking ...more pictures to come!

Monster Madness

Miranda and I decided to try our hand at more fun cupcakes. We didn't have much time (only 1 hour and 15 minutes) so it had to be a quick and easy design...we decided to make little monsters.

The clock was ticking as I ran to the store and Miranda started baking the cupcakes (it was our own little version of Cupcake Wars on TLC)

While the cupcakes baked, I made frosting and Miranda created the eyeballs...
The cupcakes had to go in the freezer for quicker cooling time while I colored the frosting... then Miranda stacked the cupcakes with mini doughnuts...
Finally it was assembly and decorating time...
These were so fun and simple to make
We were able to finish with 10 minutes to spare...whew...
Miranda and I have so many more we want to create...what will be next?
Stay Tuned!

Hello Cupcake!

I picked up a couple cupcake decorating books a while back and Miranda and I have been dying to try some of the adorable creations out. Today on a whim, and because Miranda has been bored, we decided to try the sunflower cupcakes.
They start off with just a basic cupcake in a green cup (aren't the polka dots so cute!)
Then just frost them smooth with green icing
After that you set mini and regular oreos on top and off to the side.
Then using yellow and orange striped icing you pipe a double row of petals using a leaf tip around each oreo
We used fruit roll ups and a leaf cookie cutter to create the leaves

The adorable lady-bugs are just M&M's and black frostingSuper easy, super cute and just a bit time consuming but it was well worth it for such adorable cupcakes! We delivered them to a few families and they all loved them!

Now...what to try next?