Show Some Pride!

A new friend of mine was throwing a surprise birthday party for his roommate Mario.  He had only 2 specifications for me: 1. Red Velvet cake 2. A rainbow somewhere on the cake.  I wanted to do something creative, and I've been wanting to try out the spray colors for awhile now, so I thought this would be the perfect cake to try it on!  

Stormy Sunday...

It's definitely storm season here in Florida!  When its rainy out, I usually like to relax and read a book, or of course, bake!  I decided to try something a little different with some flavors, and here is the result:

I call this cupcake The MCPC.  Marshmallow, caramel, pretzel, and chocolate.  I absolutely LOVE the salty/sweet combination, and this had the perfect amount of each!  An instant favorite!!  

Strike!

(Cookies 'n Cream cake, and cereal treat pins!)

Another birthday down for one of my best friends' oldest daughter, Delaney.  Since she was having her 8th birthday party at the bowling alley with all of her close friends, she decided to give me a challenge and have the cake go with the theme of bowling!  It took quite a bit of brainstorming to see how cool I could possibly make this cake for her, and I think I nailed it! :)  Although this cake was a challenge, I had SO much fun making it!  Can't wait to see what she comes up with for birthday year 9! :)

Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Being that I am a HUGE Twilight fan, as well as my mother, I just had to make some cupcakes for the premier of the movie Eclipse.  We had a decent amount of people going to the midnight show, including my sister-in-law who was in town from Chicago, so some cupcakes were in order!  I made some "Blood" Red Velvet cupcakes and decorated them with some toppers that I ordered from Etsy.com.  Each topper had a different quote from the book series, and whether they chose team Vamp or Wolf, everyone loved their treats, as well as the movie!!!  

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Last month I had the pleasure of making some treats for a friends birthday.  Williams-Sonoma just released these awesome Star Wars cookie cutters, and being that my friend Brian is a HUGE Star Wars nerd, I decided to make these cookies for him as a surprise! I thought they were going to be insanely difficult to decorate, and while it did take many hours, they weren't as hard as I thought  they would be.  

I must say, Williams-Sonoma has to release a second collection of these cookie cutters...Yoda being the only Jedi in a collection just won't suffice.  We could definitely use some C3P0 and R2D2, and maybe even throw a little Chewbacca in the mix.  Needless to say, these cookies were a hit!  Brian's face when he saw these was priceless!    It was definitely worth the hours of work!  

May the force be with you...always.  

Pinkalicious & Tinkerbell

Memorial Day weekend was quite busy for me!  I had two cupcake orders for themed birthday parties:  one was Pinkalicious and the other was Tinkerbell.  I got very excited when I heard about the Tinkerbell order and thought how fun those would be to make!  But, I had never heard of Pinkalicious before.  Thankfully, a good friend of mine has two daughters who love Pinkalicious, and I was informed it's a book about a little girl who turns pink after eating too many pink cupcakes! Very cute, and very fun themes for both parties!

Here is the Pinkalicious cupcake tower, with a giant cupcake on top with the birthday girl's name substituted in: Camrynlicious! 

And here are the Tinkerbell cupcakes used on a cupcake stand:

These were a mix of Vanilla Bean cupcakes and Chocolate.

I also made some delicious Toasted Coconut cupcakes for the adults, which you can see in the background.

Eiffel Tower Cake

 

This was my first big cake order since my return from cake decorating school in Chicago!  The cake was for a 50th birthday party with a theme of "April in Paris."  The cake is red velvet with a cream cheese filling, and vanilla buttercream frosting.