Bridal shower cupcakes

I made these for Anna's bridal shower. I love decorating pink cupcakes. The lighting makes the hot pink look a little orange but it was pink. We made chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (Anna's favorite)
Since this was a huge cupcake order I wanted to add a little variety to some of them so I added a raspberry filling to more than half the order. I think it turned out yummy.
I used the recipe on the Wilton website but used less sugar since the cupcake and frosting is so sweet to begin with. It was the perfect tartness.
Raspberry filling
16 oz. frozen raspberries thawed
1/3 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
Drain raspberries, reserving liquid. Add enough water to liquid to equal 1 1/4 cups. In large saucepan, combine liquid, sugar, cornstarch and lemon juice; mix well. Heat and stir until mixtures boils and thickens. Cool completely. Stir thawed raspberries into cool mixture. I used the bismarck tip to fill the cupcakes. This makes enough for 4 dozen cupcakes.
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I used a star tip for the rose (this is the technique I am using for part of her wedding cake-it's basically a swirl) and a pedal tip for the flower.

I love the doilies they decorated with.

I had so much fun with these colors. I loved creating all the different textures.

Aerial shot. I love the way they decorated this table. I think they used wrapping paper for the runner. What an awesome idea!

Corny cupcakes

Natalie and I made these for our pioneer day celebration. We were suppose to bring food that our pioneers would have eaten back in the day. What? Me? Am I capable of making any of those things? Probably, but not nearly as fun. I have been wanting an excuse to make these Martha Stewart creations so I had to be creative and say that the pioneers definitely ate corn on the cob.

These were super easy especially if your friend who's helping makes the cupcakes and frosting. Thanks Natalie!!

We used jelly bellies (pina colada, buttered popcorn, and cream soda) for the kernels, yellow Starbursts for the butter, and black sugar for the pepper.

I found these corn holders in the dollar spot of Target.

Patti these are dedicated to you! We wanted to make these together but being a thousand miles away made it kinda difficult.

Pink and Orange baby shower

Where do I begin! I love that I get to do Jenny's cupcakes for her because she and her sister know how to throw darling/amazing showers. I was so happy that she let me take these photos at her house. I was happy to bring her the cupcakes to get this in return. First of all her house is so darling (she is an artist and has gorgeous artwork everywhere) and you can imagine how happy I was to see this cupcake stand there waiting for the cupcakes. She told me she was having her husband make her one like mine. But when I this I was floored, mine never looked so cute. So now I will be copying her to decorate mine from now on.

I did Stawberry cake and vanilla cake with cream cheese frosting (her favorite.) I did pink and orange for the main colors and the toppers were in the accent colors-lime green and light pink. I found the hearts in the Wilton wedding section at Wal-mart. For the sprinkles I used hot pink and orange sugar crystals and I picked out pink and orange dots from a multi-colored container.

I am in love with orange and pink together. What a fun combination.

I love that the flowers totally matched.

I had to get a shot of this. It was in the other room but it was so beautiful. See I told you they know how to throw a beautiful party. She even had kitchen towels hanging from her oven that matched. I loved it!!!

Zebra cupcakes

I made these for Ansley's bridal shower. I love zebra print so these were fun to do.
Sorry the lighting wasn't so great but you get the hint. I made a french vanilla cake from a box but changed it up by adding 1 cup sour cream, 1 box french vanilla pudding, 1 extra egg, 1 cup of white chocolate chips. I think they turned out yummy. I used my cream cheese frosting recipe and tinted it red and a small portion black using the Wilton gel colors.

I found these cupcake liners at Michael's. To get the swirled or zebra striped frosting look I painted 3 stripes of black frosting inside a piping bag then carefully added the white frosting in the middle. Squeeze bag over bowl until you see the color start to mix and then pipe away.

I love having a cupcake topper. For these I melted red and white chocolate melts and poured them individually into the Wilton heart mold (I also found this at Michaels.) For the zebra print I used melted black chocolate (I had in freezer from Halloween) and painted the stripes on using a paint brush. Thanks Dee for this idea! I tried to use gel color and edible markers but it didn't work on chocolate. I really didn't want to use fondant so I made this work.

Going Away Cupcakes

I made these for a going away luncheon for Katie and Jessica. They are leaving the great state of Alabama and moving to Utah. I had to make sure I threw in the y'all since they will not be hearing any of that there. The letters are made from green chocolate.

King of the "grill"

Ethan and I made these for my husband for Father's Day. He is truly the king of the "grill" so it was a fun theme to go off of this year. We found these on the Family Fun website.

We made chocolate cupcakes and cream cheese frosting tinted black and gray (for the slats).
Hot dogs-hot tamales with black gel grill marks. We applied all the grill marks with a toothpick.
Kabobs- red, green and yellow fruit slices cut in squares and caramel shaped and cut into meat. We used a toothpick for the skewer.
Chicken-caramel squares cut and shaped into chicken
Hamburger-grasshopper cookie with a orange Starburst flattened into a slice of cheese. I wish I could have found a smaller cookie for the burger but you get the idea.
*we used a little orange sugar to look like hot charcoal.
Happy Father's Day!

Bridal shower cupcakes

I made these for Rachel's bridal shower. I loved the colors Ann chose (light pink, coral pink and brown.) I also love that she wanted them to look simple. Sometimes I tend to go overboard. In the end simple is always better and usually prettier too. I used to always think I had to add sprinkles but I am happy with how these turned out.

So they may look simple but they still took time to make. I had a lot of fun with these recipes and I am excited to share them with you.
Strawberry (pink)cake (this is Kay Dawn's recipe)
1 box white cake mix (Duncan Hines)
1 small box strawberry jello
1/2 boiling water
3/4 cup oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup fresh mashed strawberries
Boil water in microwave. Add jello. Stir until dissolved. Add rest of ingredients. Mix few minutes on medium. Bake 350 for approx. 16 min.
Strawberry frosting *my modified version
1 stick butter
16 oz. powdered sugar
1/4 cup mashed strawberries
3 Tbsp. milk
Melt butter. Let cool. Meanwhile add sugar, straw. and milk then add butter.
*I didn't melt butter or use any milk since I was piping. I also added 6 ounces of cream cheese and 1 tsp. of vanilla.

I used a pedal tip to make the flowers (126) I used this tutorial for help. I used a smaller tip than she did.

Lemon cake- (coral pink)
I used a vanilla cake mix, 1 box of lemon pudding, 4 eggs, 1/2 cup oil, 1 cup sour cream and 1/2 water (I may have added more-I just kept adding until I got the right consistency)
*I wish I would have added lemon zest and replaced some water with lemon juice. Mine didn't have enough lemon flavor.
I used this lemon cream cheese recipe.

Too much Chocolate cake from Allrecipes.com (this is my husbands all time favorite recipe)

• 1 (18.25 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
• 1 (5.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup warm water
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips(I only use 1 cup)

I used this chocolate frosting recipe
*Sorry for some of the camera angles. Because of the mirror I didn't want to be in the pictures.