Thursday, September 23, 2010
Peep Cupcakes
My husbands favorite Easter candy is Peeps. He has to have them in his Easter basket (yes, he still gets an Easter basket full of his favorite Easter candies). So these cupcakes were for him. I don't think he even noticed the cupcakes, he went straight for the Peeps.
Lily Cake
This is a cake I made for an Easter brunch. This was just a small 6" white cake with chocolate butter cream frosting in a basket weave. I made the Lilies out of fondant. It made a great center piece.
Easter Cupcakes
These cupcakes really dress up a table for an Easter gathering. I used green dyed coconut, but if you don't like coconut, you can always use green chocolate shavings. Or make it really easy and use a grass tip and just use green butter cream.
Earth Day Pudding Treats
For the past two Earth Days, I've been going to my oldest daughters school and teaching them about the importance of recycling and planting gardens in a yummy way. This treat is so easy to make. Here are the steps:
- You'll need small terracotta pots, individual snack size pudding cups, green spoons, fake flowers, hot glue gun, Oreos, gallon size bag, and gummy worms.
- Crush the Oreos in the gallon size bag so that it looks like dirt. Cut worms in half.
- Hot glue one flower to the tip of each spoon.
- Place pudding cups in pots and remove top.
- Carefully place enough crushed Oreos on top of pudding to cover it.
- Place gummy worm into the pudding and place spoon in center of each pudding snack.
CAbi Cake
A friend of mine is a CAbi consultant and had a spring preview show at her house (If you've never heard of CAbi clothes, please check them out, love their clothes). Anyway, she asked if I could make a cake for her party in the shape of the logo. The cake was a 1/2 sheet white almond cake with red raspberry filling. I used butter cream frosting and fondant flowers. The party was a great success!
Dora Cupcakes
Dora is big at our house. These cupcakes were a big hit with my girls. I got the idea from the Nickelodeon web site. So easy to do, but looks like you spent a lot of time and effort! My oldest daughter did wonder why I didn't make any Boots cupcakes.
Island Cake
Star Wars
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate!
I made this birthday cake for a good friend of mine. She loves chocolate, so I made a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling. Chocolate butter cream wasn't enough of a chocolate frosting, so I poured on chocolate ganache! She loves pink, so I added a few fondant pink flowers to make this Death By Chocolate Cake look elegant. It was so rich, I could only eat one little slice, loved it!
1st Birthday Cake
For my oldest daughters first birthday, I made her a 6" apple cake with whip cream frosting. The butterflies were made out of chocolate. This was her first taste of cake and chocolate. We actually had two birthday parties for her; one on her actual birth day, and the other a week later when family could visit. The Winnie the Pooh cake is also a 6" apple cake with whip cream frosting. The Pooh characters were also made out of chocolate.
Carrot Cake
For our 12th Wedding Anniversary I made one of my husbands favorite cakes (he has many "favorites"). I used real carrots and a great blend of spices for this carrot cake recipe. The vanilla bean cream cheese frosting made this a decadent desert. I only made a 6" cake for us, and then cup cakes that he took to work the next day. I don't even think he noticed the fondant carrot decorations, but I thought they looked cute.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Chocolate Ganache Cupcakes
Monday, September 20, 2010
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