Birthday Flower Cakes

These cupcakes were created for my cousin Patti's birthday. All chocolate, I used a silicone pan that created flower-shaped cupcakes, though they actually used more batter than a traditional cupcake, so I thought of them more as "mini cakes." I used the pastel yellow, pink, and lavender - all Wilton coloring. For the centers of the flowers I used pearlized sprinkles and sanding sugars. The flowers were done with a circle tip,  tip 10.

Emily's Birthday Cake

This was a birthday cake for Emily! It was a vanilla cake with almond frosting and a vanilla frosting filling. The colors were purposefully those shades, because she tends to wear a lot of gray and black. The roses turned out pretty well - I used the Wilton burgundy color. I actually think this is my best writing to date. :) The black around the base of the cake is fondant.

Peanut-Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes

These were delicious.  Dark chocolate cupcake with a peanut butter filling, dark chocolate frosting, and to top it off half of a mini peanut butter cup. I just used a 1M pastry tip to frost them.

Cupcakes!

This is a chocolate cupcake with a two-toned frosting. I used one pastry bag and attempted to put half violet frosting and half green frosting.

Red velvet cupcakes with whipped frosting and an adorable cupcake sugar topping.

Chocolate cupcake with the purple frosting and some really cute sprinkles.

Chocolate cupcake with two-toned frosting.

Operation Use-Remaining-Frosting: Success!

Vanilla cupcake filled with strawberry jam... who doesn't enjoy strawberry jam?!

Birthday Cupcakes

Here is a commission for birthday cupcakes to look like one cake. All of the cupcakes were vanilla with tin foil wrappers, the frosting are all buttercream and tinted using Duff's Electric Color Gels, though the purple cupcakes were also a blend with Wilton Icing Coloring as well. All the cupcakes were frosted using a round pastry tip. The flowers are completely beautiful as well as edible, made out of sugar and crafted by Mochasof, and then the sprinkles are silver and pearlized. 

Christmas Cupcakes!

Merry Christmas! I made four different types of cupcakes to create a box of cupcakes to give to everyone in my extended family. This is the first type, and personally, my favorite. It's an eggnog cake (I altered the recipe from last year - last year it didn't taste nearly enough like eggnog.) The wreath I piped on using the leaf tip. It was a little time consuming to do the white frosting and then pipe on the wreath, but definitely worth it.

This was my second type. A dark chocolate cake, with a mini peppermint patty inside, with a peppermint frosting. It's a great combination and the cupcake came out lovely. The little tree/reindeer cupcake toppers came from Joanne's.

Red Velvet! My first attempt using my grandmother's recipe and it came out splendidly. My sister said these were completely addicting. Such strange things in a red velvet, like buttermilk, and vinegar. The frosting is just a buttercream.

Hello gingerbread person! The gingerbread person is fittingly for a gingerbread cake. I really love gingerbread, and I used the same recipe last year. I really do love this recipe. The gingerbread topper comes from Joanne's.

And now... the entire box of cupcakes! 

Happy Birthday, Mom!

So this is my mom's birthday cake! She actually had no idea I was making this cake... I baked it while she was out to dinner with friends and then took the cake to work with me the next day and decorated it while on my lunch break. The cake is chocolate with a raspberry filling (because that's her favorite combination, and mine.) The flowers I purchased at Joanne's to save on time. And, they were adorable. This is actually probably my favorite cake I've made to date. If only I could just nail lettering, everything would be awesome. Especially the evasive letter "o."