Chocolate Heaven

Alright, get ready for a big post. I've had SUCH a busy weekend baking. The pictures for the two weekend baby showers I baked for will come last. But first, here are some desserts full of chocolaty goodness :)

This cake is a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, but the best part is the filling. In between each of the four layers, there is a peanut butter chocolate chip buttercream filling that is DELICIOUS. I meant to take a picture of the inside once the cake was cut, but I never got around to it. That'll have to happen next time.

The next chocolate treats are Milky Way cupcakes. These have a warm chocolate filling and Milky Way icing on top. If you love Milky Way candy bars, you would love these. 

Now onto the decorative items I made this weekend. The first are bumblebee cupcakes and a bumblebee cake made for a shower. If you can't tell, the cake's supposed to look like a beehive. The bumblebees and the flowers are made out of fondant. Everything else is vanilla or chocolate buttercream.

And last but not least, these are just some colorful cupcakes for a baby shower. The cake is strawberry and the icing is vanilla. I LOVE the colors on these cupcakes. They made me really excited for Easter and the cute desserts I get to make!

Alabama Baby Shower Cake

Here's the first of three baby shower cakes/cupcakes. This was for an Alabama themed shower. The crimson color was SO hard to get, and it still isn't completely right, but it was close as I could come. I literally rubbed a blister on my finger trying to stir that food coloring in! Anyway, it's just the traditional vanilla cake with vanilla icing. The topper is made out of gum paste and the polka dots are made out of fondant.

There will be more baby shower cakes to come in the next couple of weeks!

footballs, carrots, and birthdays, oh my

Hey blog readers!

So it's been a while since I've posted. It's not that I haven't been baking, because of course I have, but I've been doing a lot of practice runs lately. I don't really like to take pictures of my practice cakes. After all, they're practice! Anyway, here's my first post of February.

First up-- Super Bowl cupcakes for our Sunday School party.

Second-- Carrot Cake Cupcakes for the preschool teacher Coffee House. The topper is a fondant carrot.

Third-- a glimpse of Sarah's birthday cake. I didn't get a picture of the actual cake, but I do have one of her blowing out the candles. Happy 18th Sarah!

That's all I have for now, but I'll definitely have some more pictures coming up within the next couple of weeks!

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust

Wendy: But, Peter, how do we get to Never Land?  
Peter Pan: Fly, of course.
Wendy: Fly?
Peter Pan: It's easy! All you have to do is to... is to... is to... Ha! That's funny.  
Wendy: What's the matter? Don't you know?
Peter Pan: Oh, sure. It's... It's just that I never thought about it before. Say, that's it! You think of a wonderful thought.

Well, there's your inspirational (I guess not so much inspirational as just plain cute) Peter Pan quote for the week. I was able to make some cupcakes for a Peter Pan themed baby shower this weekend, and it was definitely an experience. I wasn't sure how to go about making the hats, but I just went for it and I think they turned out pretty well.

The Bachelor is Back

Brad Womack has returned as The Bachelor, and what else do we do but watch the drama unfold? I do love the show, but I love the company it brings even more. I love that The Bachelor gives me an excuse to hang out with my BEST friends every Monday night, eat chocolate, and have girl talk. The show improves my Mondays immensely. Actually, I often look forward to Mondays. Who does that? Anyway, I had to make some cupcakes to kick off the new season. So...here they are. As you can tell, all of the cupcakes have roses on them except for one, which has a bowtie on it. I wonder why? :)

The cupcakes were vanilla with vanilla buttercream. The roses and bowtie were made out of royal icing. Royal icing is just a special kind of icing that dries hard and allows me to make the decorations for the cupcakes ahead of time.

Hope you like them!