Saturday, December 6, 2008

Christmas Cupcakes


This festive box of mini cupcakes are just the perfect hostess gift. The cupcake is a rich red velvet topped with vanilla butter cream. A nice holiday touch is added with fondant hollies, candy canes and Christmas trees.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Holiday Mini Cupcakes

Mini cupcakes are a good idea to take in place of cookies for a cookie exchange. These buttery vanilla cupcakes are frosted with vanilla butter cream and festively decorated for any holiday gathering.

50th Birthday Party

It's fun to turn 50 when your cake is cupcakes. These scrumptious chocolate and vanilla cupcakes are topped with vanilla bean butter cream frosting and decorations of bright red hearts and creamy pearls sprinkles. Who could ask for anything more.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Mitten Cookies on Sticks

It's time again to bake Holiday cookies. I just started with a simple mitten cookie. The fun part is all the ways you can decorate them. A crisp buttery sugar cookie iced in blue and white.

My favorite cupcakes





Just some of my favorite cupcakes I made this week. Red velvet with cream cheese frosting and red fondant heart is just melt in your mouth. Rich pound cake with chocolate chips piled high with chocolate butter cream and a beautiful pink flower. And lastly a box of birthday cupcakes fit for a little girls birthday party.

Bridal Shower Cake




This was my first attempt at a bridal shower cake. The cake is covered in fondant with the flowers also made of fondant. It was alot easier than I thought it would be. The bride just loved it.

White Chocolate Mousse Cake


Another birthday celebration with my famous moist white cake layered with white chocolate mousse and frosted with homemade whip cream. Decorations were done in chocolate and malted milk balls.

Thanksgiving Cookies on a stick

This was a busy week. I made over 100 of these delious cookies. By far the turkey was the biggest hit. Sweet sugar cookie decorated with festive holiday motifs.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Thanksgiving Chocolate cupcakes



What is better than chocolate and chocolate. Not much. This rich dark chocolate cupcake is topped with a creamy chocolate butter cream frosting and adorned with a chocolate acorn just in time for Thanksgiving.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Birthday Cake Fun

This was my first big birthday cake. They just loved it. White cake with white chocolate mousse filling and whip cream frosting. Decorations were made from fondant.

Bride and Groom Fondant cupcakes

These were so fun to make. Dark chocolate cupcake with chocolate ganache then topped with fondant made to look like a Bride and Groom. The happy couple just loved them.

Vanilla Cupcake with French Silk Frosting

This is one of my favorite cupcakes. A very moist vanilla bean cupcake topped with my favorite french silk frosting. The combination is just perfect. These were decorated with little snowflake sprinkles.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sports lollipop cookies

Lollipop sport themed cookies are a great addition to any sporting event. These were made for the High School tennis team and the local softball team. Sugar cookie with sweet colored icing.

Halloween Cookies on a stick

Halloween is always a fun time to make cookies. You have so many different cookie cutters to choose from. These crisp sugar cookies are on lollipop sticks and decorated in fun holiday colors.




Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Wedding Cupcakes

These yummy chocolate cupcakes topped with vanilla bean buttercream and embellished with pearls, fondant roses and initials of the bride and groom for a bridal shower. It was a winter wedding, the bridal party in black with red roses as the flowers.



Birthday Cake

This was a birthday cake for my twin sister. One of my best cakes. Rich white cake with four layers filled with white chocolate mousse and frosted with a light whip cream frosting. The cake was decorated with white chocolate shavings and chocolate swirls.





Pumpkin Spice cupcake

This is one of my fall favorite. The Great Pumpkin. It is a pumpkin spice cupcake with a cinnomon cream cheese frosting topped with candy coated sunflower seeds.

Chocolate PB Swirl Cupcake

This cupcake tastes like a peanut butter cup. We call it chocolate pb swirl. It is a luscious chocolate cake with a peanut butter cup in the middle topped with a rich peanut butter frosting, sprinkled with peanuts and a small peanut butter cup.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Wilton Course Cakes


These are two cakes I have made through my Wilton Decorating courses. It's so fun to learn new cake ideas.

Little Girl's Birthday Cupcakes


Here is a sample of one of the cupcakes I had made for a little girl for her birthday. The theme of the party was princesses. It was a rich chocolate cupcake with pink italian meringue buttercream frosting. I can make any theme you would like.