Christmas!

So I made more for Christmas than just these, but they happen to be my favorites (and the prettiest.) The top picture is of my little gingerbread cakes. I used tree silicone molds with my gingerbread cake and an eggnog frosting. I just used the star tip (possibly 18?) to pipe on the frosting. My only regret is that I didn't have any stars I could have put at the top of the tree. The bottom ones are just chocolate, the white frosting is actually peppermint and I used the leaf tip (maybe 352?) to pipe on the wreath. The others are just a variety of Christmas sprinkles. The little sugar presents I found at Walmart - they were just too cute. 

Engagement Cupcakes

So one of my dearest friends got engaged in November. Two other friends of her and I put together a small party to celebrate. They are "funfetti" cupcakes, one of her favorites, and I tried to capture that gorgeous Tiffany's blue. The bows are made out of white fondant and then I used some pearl-ized sprinkles.

Cake Tattoo!

This was a birthday cake for my lovely sister. As the title clearly states, I used Duff's Cake Tattoos. I just used a white frosting for the base and a pink frosting for the borders. Definitely cute, and they have a ton of other designs that I'm looking forward to using!

RI Flag Birthday Cake!

This lovely cake was an order for a birthday cake for an amazing person who just happened to be a state representative for the state of Rhode Island. Thus, we decided it would be great to make the outside of the cake somewhat official-looking - so it was modeled on the state flag. The stars, anchor, and border of the cake are all fondant - the stars created with a cookie cutter and the anchor was traced using wax paper, piping gel, and a anchor template. The inside of the cake, however, is tie-dye! I used a vanilla cake and separated the batter into four bowls - and used food coloring to create red, blue, green, and yellow batter.

Lemon Blueberry White Chocolate Cupcakes

So I realize that my lighting for all of my photos are simply awful, but! I need to get the pictures before the cupcakes are eaten, and I do my baking in afternoons/evenings. In any case, these are lemon blueberry white chocolate cupcakes, with lemon cream cheese frosting. I loved these cupcakes! The frosting is delicious and the cake is a perfect blend of all three flavors. 

Even more chocolate cupcakes.

So here are some chocolate cupcakes I baked last weekend. The cupcake all the way to the left has a peanut butter filling. The middle cupcake has a vanilla frosting and mini chocolate chips. The cupcake on the right has a sweet mocha hazelnut sprinkle which I think would be fantastic on a mocha/espresso cupcake... hmm... I'll have to store that one away and give it a try later. All in all the cupcakes were good, but I think I'll try something new this weekend... trying to decide between a coconut cupcake, a lemon blueberry white chocolate cupcake, or chocolate orange. !

Gregory's Chocolate Birthday Cake

Unfortunately, I neglected to cake a picture of the cake before we started eating it. But I'm pretty sure you can imagine what the rest of the cake looked like. Four layer chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting between the layers, chocolate frosting on the outside with a chocolate frosting star-tip border along the bottom and on top. There are also chocolate chips on the side of the cake that went all the way around. I only wish I had made another of these for me...