This adorable cupcake vegetable garden is for my friend Anna K who is turning the big 4 0 today! Her husband Kent called and asked if Courtney and I would make a cake for her birthday and so originally we were going to do this same design on a fondant cake but then some things … Continue reading
Another sublime cupcake recipe from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes” which are for my young women at church tomorrow (if there are any there since it is Spring Break for them this week!). Vanilla cupcakes with granola inside and out and topped with a dollop of vanilla buttercream icing and then finished … Continue reading
And one last post about Bunco and then I promise I’ll be done! I made some Oreo Truffles for prizes (recipe already on the blog) and I had some extra Chocolate Velvet Cupcakes from Noah’s Muppet cupcakes and some extra purple frosting from Emmy’s Justin Bieber cupcakes so I combined them with some pearl sprinkles … Continue reading
I liked this recipe from Anne Byrn’s “Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor” but decided to make cupcakes and some other shapes instead of loaves. I made regular shaped cupcakes (pictured above) and iced some with my buttercream icing in purple and white and then topped the others with the chocolate frosting from the “Rocky … Continue reading
I also made these cupcakes for some Bunco prizes. I made regular shaped cupcakes (pictured here) and then I made some in the shape of bunnies (pictured at the end of the post). This recipe comes from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”. I baked these cupcakes in Easter liners and topped them … Continue reading
So this weekend was a mini cake and cupcake weekend. Here is the second round for our cute little neighbor, Emmy, who is turning 7 and thinks Justin Bieber is all that! 🙂 I ended up doing these on my own which was actually really fun! The mini cake is a 6″ chocolate (from the … Continue reading
My little great nephew Noah is turning 4 and his mom, my niece Amber, asked if Cort and I would make Muppet cupcakes for his party. The Muppets turned out to be pretty hard to make so we opted to make him a mini bday cake with Kermit on it (his favorite Muppet) and then … Continue reading
Courtney was having friends over tonight for their traditional Sunday night “movie night” and I have been dying to bake so I made these cupcakes for them. The recipe comes from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes” cookbook which I just love. Here’s how I decorated them – I took some of our … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Marlene! These are for you! Courtney and Courtney’s friend Jaren and I made these cupcakes for our friend Marlene who loves panda bears. (We made the panda bear graduation cake for her too.) The idea comes from Karen Tack and Alan Richardson’s cookbook called “Hello, Cupcake!” – love it! So much fun to … Continue reading
The blog has been a little quieter lately and that’s because I started working on a movie on Monday; it’s a movie for the ABC Family Channel and I’m doing wardrobe on this one from now until almost the end of March so posts will be a little less numerous for the next couple of … Continue reading
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