My Valentine!

You will be seeing some new and exciting cupcakes very soon! My boyfriend got me some beautiful flowers for Valentine's day along with this book...


I had seen it before on Bakerella's blog, but I thought I could probably find all of the ideas online... Well I was surprised to see so many ideas I had never seen, all compiled into one book! I am excited to try them out and share them with you :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

I made 65 iced sugar cookies & 48 red velvet cake bites for 1st graders and their teachers. A cookie for each student and . . .





. . . a half dozen box of red velvet cake bites for each teacher!

More Cake Bites...

Cake dipped in chocolate. Could a cake bite be any more delicious?

Actually... yes! As if choosing any type of cake (chocolate, butter recipe, german chocolate, carrot, red velvet, etc) & any type of chocolate (milk, dark, white, mint) isn't enough, why not add toppings!



I topped these cake bites with chopped nuts, crushed toffee, coconut flakes and white chocolate. MMM!

Cupcakes!

These cupcakes were made for Isabella's 5th birthday party! I made a total of 60 chocolate and butter recipe, and topped them with a fluffy buttercream icing. I added a hint of coconut extract to the buttercream and it turned out great!



And one of several cupcakes my niece Kyleigh helped to make a few days later... using the same buttercream, yum!

Iced Sugar Cookies

Here are some more cookies I have been playing around with! By the way, I found a website that I absolutely LOVE! It's called Eleni's New York... just go to elenis.com and see for yourself :)





And just look how cute they are in cellophane bags tied up with ribbon!

Beer, Anyone?

I made a cake to look like a mug of Miller Lite for a "repeat" customer... (hey I am proud of that, I am just starting out you know!)

Miller Lite was written on dried royal icing with food coloring markers.

A Mountain of a Cake...

My boyfriend, Chris, had a very specific cake in mind. It was almost a challenge I think... He requested a mountain cake with Pistol Pete (for the Oklahoma State Cowboys) skiing down the side.

Well I gave it to him! Not too bad I dont think?

The cake was made complete with rolled fondant trees, a sugar cookie Pistol Pete and powdered sugar sifted as the snow!

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Here Comes Baby Cohen!

My sister's best friend, Kim, is about to have a baby boy! I was honored to help cater her shower. I made a two-tier cake, iced sugar cookies and 75 cake bites!



The sugar cookies were really fun to make... the possibilities of shapes & colors are just endless! I will be doing more of those in the future for sure.

Full of Color!

I made this cake for a friend of a friend! The word is spreading that I do cakes and such... yay! :)

The cake is butter recipe with tinted buttercream icing and the purple stripes are thinly cut rolled fondant. The letters were done with tinted white chocolate. Not as smooth as I'd hoped for, but better next time!

Baby's First Birthday!

I got to make Alexander's first birthday cake! I've been a nanny for the past year for a truly wonderful family and he is the youngest of their four children. I made him a 4 layer chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and buttercream icing. The lettering and handprint I made with melted milk chocolate and the sides are simply Hershey's chocolate bars broken.



He even got a cake of his own to devour!

Cake, Cake Bites & Cupcake Bites!

I came up with this two-tier cake design by looking at several wedding cakes. A smaller version of a wedding cake of course! It was butter recipe cake with chocolate ganache filling and buttercream icing tinted pink. Piping in chocolate buttercream. Sweet and simple!



I did coordinating cake bites and cupcake bites. These are simply cake rolled into balls and dipped in chocolate. Milk chocolate and white chocolate tinted pink! Everyone just loves these.



The cupcake bites I learned from Bakerella! She has the cutest ideas and I always want to recreate them :)