Rankin-Bass for Bart

The Miser Brothers, Santa and Bumble the Yeti - well, what else could Christmas be about?!?

My own posting!

Wahoooooey! Although these fine ladies had put one of my Halloween cupcakes on their blog this year, it was part of a montage of cuppie photos. I have never received an entire post for my little ol' self!

What a wonderful holiday gift!!! This is my all time favorite cupcake blog - here's a screen shot of the post:

http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2008/12/tinkerbell-and-grinch-cupcakes.html

Sweet Sealife for Abbey

Birthday time for Abbey! My friend from high school, Lisa, saw my photos on Facebook and gave me the honor of doing her daughter's birthday cuppies! It was so nice to reconnect and see that time doesn't change a thing! It was like graduation was yesterday - can't wait for a playdate! Lisa's family is amazing and I had an incredible time making the cupcakes! My ultimate favorite is the puffer fish!!! :)

Christmas Themes!

My friend Mary requested "holiday cuppies" - well how could I resist - Grinch and Snoopy Christmas!!! I plan on doing some Rudolph, Frosty and Miser Brothers cuppies tonight! Stay tuned!

All I Want For Christmas...

All I want for Christmas is...a new camera - a Nikon d90 to be exact! This camera gives us such crapolla photos...I sincerely apologize for the blurry/grainy/unprofessional photos!!! :( Santa...Puh-leeeeeze?!?

Tinkerbell and Friends

It's Bianca's 4th birthday with a Tinkerbell theme! What fun!

I had Tink and her pals standing in signature "Tinkerbell-green" hydrangeas with a Tinkerbell smash cake.

Dinos for Dillon!

It was a 4 year old birthday party for Trey's buddy Dillon - Dinosaurs!!! How could I resist using color and creative license on the creatures?!?



I decided on doing an:

Apatosaurus

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Stegosaurus

Triceratops

Pterodactyl

and Pteranodon...

...and of course for the smash cake - a HUGE T-REX!




I received great response on the new vanilla recipe I concocted - I think this may be the keeper!

Madagascar 2 cuppies

These are for my friend's son's birthday - they went to see Madagascar 2 then had an after-party featuring the cupcakes and his smash cake.

Luau Theme

So...I obviously need a new camera - these are the only images I have...:(

Someday i'll have a D-SLR and a lightbox - but until then - I'll document with my crappy camera!

These are luau themed cuppies - yummy swiss meringue butter cream on chocolate espresso and vanilla cake with royal icing run-outs.

Wooooooooooo Hoooooo!!!

So a goal of mine was to be featured in my favorite cupcake blog - cupcake takes the cake...I have been a fan of theirs for a loooong time! Although I'm not exactly "featured", having my cupcake posted for all to see was worthy of a happy dance!!!

http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2008/10/cupcake-ghosts.html

Thanks for the post Rachel!!! :)

Stormtrooper Cake

I made this stormtrooper helmet cake for Frank's 40th birthday. I was almost in tears as the cake settled more than I anticipated - so the nose of the helmet came away from the rest of the cake...man - it was close to perfect before the fondant was put on. In hindsight, I would have done the helmet part as cake and then do the nose part solely with fondant. This is a SIX layer vanilla cake with a chocolate swiss meringue buttercream frosting...YUM!

I guess I'll have to keep trying to get this perfect...the only good news that day was that Trey (4 years old) knew, when this was just crumb coated and before I covered this with fondant, that this was a stormtrooper! What a good kiddo! The most fun and the most annoying part of this project was carving the cake. I put so much detail into this that didn't come across in the final product - arg!!! Frustrating.

Smash Cake

This is the smash cake made for Mai's nephew - they requested a jack-o-lantern - I had a great time doing a mini pumpkin. Here's the before and after I drew the face...in hind sight I may have carved the face in - but instead I used an edible ink pen.

Halloween Cuppies for a 2nd Birthday Party

A Halloween 2nd birthday for Mai Mai's nephew - this was really fun to do. These are chocolate, vanilla, and red velvet cupcakes with royal icing toppers. The only request was that I have the characters smile and friendly. :)

I saw these Hello Kitty stormtroopers off of a Google image search...not my creativity - but it was way too cool to pass up!!! Kudos to the brain behind the design!

Mr. The King

After months and months of searching for lost party photos - I have found one...and only one picture of Trey's 3rd birthday.

Sadly - I had wonderful pictures of friends and family that attended - and also detailed photos of the Mr. The King cake Trey begged me for.

This was truly a challenge - as most boys, you would imagine, would ask for a Lightening McQueen cake. No no. Not Trey. So...I did with what I could and created this cake for him.

Can you tell he was excited?!?


Now...we just have to find the rest of the day's pictures and I'll be able to rest. Here's the worst part...we can't seem to find ANY photos from Brody's 1st birthday party a few months prior! * sigh * Four months of history...gone.

A Birthday and Company Soft Launch

My friend Mai Mai asked me to make mini cupcakes, regular cupcakes and jumbo cupcakes for her cousin's 30th birthday and company soft launch party. I made a moist and fluffy red velvet cupcakes and chocolate mini's with cream cheese frosting all adorned with royal icing monogrammed "B's". The jumbo red velvet cakes were filled by request of the birthday girl with Ube ice cream - YUM!

Zachy's Movin' On Up...

Zachary has graduated from the infant room to the crawling room - although he's not yet crawling...as a thank you to Miss Carmen and Miss Rosario, I made fondant covered "apple mini cakes" for them. These were super fun to make - and could only be made better by an (cross your fingers!) airbrush machine...my birthday's coming up!!! :)