Birthday Cupcakes

Red velvet cupcakes to celebrate a special 18th birthday.  Not only her birthday, but the state championship competition for her high school drill team.  (I'm partial because it's my family's high school too!)

 Decorations done with gum paste.

Happy birthday, Kaitlin, and go CVHS!!

Winter Wonderland Cupcakes

These cupcakes were so fun and yummy!  Vanilla bean cupcakes with raspberry compote filling and vanilla bean frosting!  One of my personal favorite mixes.  Made for a surprise 16th birthday party for a very sweet girl and friend of my daughter!

 The party had a hot chocolate 'bar' with all sorts of mix in's so the little hot chocolate mugs were a perfect touch to add to the snow flakes and snow ball cake toppers.

 You can't really see it, but the little snowballs were sparkled with regular white sugar.

 Snow flakes with edible silver accents.

 Gum paste mugs filled with ganache and topped with tiny little gum paste marshmallows.  They even kind of melted in the warm ganache just like they do in cocoa!

I really enjoyed making these little winter wonderland cupcakes!  Happy Birthday, June!!!  We hope it was as fabulous as you are!!!!

CTR Shield and Cupcakes

I really love  making CTR cakes for cute little 8 year olds!  For those who don't know what I'm talking about; in my Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) when a child turns 8 they are given the opportunity to be baptized.  It's a very special time for family and friends.  And the CTR (Choose The Right) shield represents their commitment to live the commandments once they are baptized.  That's why these cakes are so special!

 For this 8 year old boy's birthday his mom did a 'Great to be 8" party with his friends.  So I made little cupcakes to go along with the big cake.

Happy birthday Madden, and congrats on your big day of being baptized!!

High School Graduation Cupcakes

Fun graduation cupcakes for a High School graduate who loves Choir and Debate.

 Edible glitter, fondant, gum paste and modeling chocolate were all used for the decorations.  I seriously LOVE the edible glitter!  I want some in every color!!

Dark chocolate and peanut butter chocolate chip cake flavors with creamy peanut butter and dark chocolate frosting.  So yummy!!!  My kitchen smelled incredible!

Congratulations, Jory!!  And have a fantastic time at BYU Idaho in the fall!

Zebra Princess Pink Cupcakes

These were fun little cupcakes for a little princess!  My own little princess wanted to eat them the whole time I was working on them!  The toppers were all melted candies and the flavor was princess pink; SUPER yummy!  So much fun!!!

More Valentine's Day Cupcakes

I've found cupcakes to be very fun lately!  They're much easier than big cakes, and so cute!!  These are some vanilla and chocolate cupcakes to celebrate the season of love!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Peanut Butter Cupcakes

These cupcakes were to die for!!  The peanut butter frosting was so smooth and silky!  Ahhh, it's a good thing we didn't have many left over cause I could have eaten them all!!!

Valentine's Day Cupcakes

Just some little red and pink cupcakes for a loving holiday!  White velvet and chocolate fudge!

Hearts are all handmade and edible

Baby Boy Baby Shower Cupcakes

These cupcakes were for 3 fabulous women who are all expecting baby boys!  I don't personally know the women, but they are all teachers at a local elementary school.  That's enough for me to know they are incredible.  Teachers are very under appreciated.  So hopefully these cupcakes helped them feel a little more special and loved!

The flavors were cherry chocolate cordial, key lime, and Reese's peanut butter.  Some of my all time favorites!

Gold Lace and White Roses and Pearls

This is the 4th birthday cake I've made for miss Brynlee June, and can I say I LOVED this one!  She is very much into vintage and pearls and everything delicate and pretty.  This cake was perfect for her!  And I loved making such a dainty cake with cupcakes to match!

 As I was making it I couldn't help thinking that the colors are Iron Man colors, though.  Hehe.  The nerd in me is coming out.  Or maybe it's the voice of my sister in my head.....either way, I love these colors together!!

 I tried a new way of doing roses and I really liked the way they turned out.  So pretty!

 I really wanted it to look like lace but I REALLY hate working with royal icing.  So, I melted down white chocolate chips and piped that onto the cake.  Once it was hardened I painted over it with gold luster dust. 

The pink frosting was strawberry cream cheese flavor and I really wished there had been more extra frosting.  It was super yummy!  Happy birthday Brynlee girl!  We love you tons and tons!

Pretty Skulls Wedding Cake

I know I know.  Pretty and Skulls don't really go together.  And believe me, I've been in the catacombs so I know how freaky real skulls can be!!  But this wedding cake was such a delight to make!  I loved making the skulls and hand painting them.  The bride was so fun to work with and it was a joy every step of the way!

 Modeling chocolate roses again.  I loved the purple the bride chose!

 Isn't it fun how there is one masculine skull and one feminine one?!

 This is the set up we did in Brandi's studio because I didn't want to set up the whole cupcake stand.  I loved how her lace burlap tied in so well with what the bride actually set up at her wedding!

The cake all set up at the wedding.  It was truly neat to watch the bride and groom get married.  I don't usually get invited to the ceremony for my brides.  They are so in love!!  

Congratulations Jamie and Andrew!!

Lemonade stand cupcakes

These are the cupcakes from a lemonade stand photo shoot with Brandi.  Yes, she is a staple in my life when it comes to capturing my cakes!  She just does such a terrific job!  These were super fun and summery.  I just loved the bright yellow and pink!

Teapot and Teacups cake

So Brandi has wanted to do a 'tea party' photo shoot for a long time and we finally got together and planned one out!  It was so fun and we had a few different families of girls invited.  We kind of went all out and got all sorts of fun decorations and I got to make the cake!!!  Um, teapot cake?!  Yes please!

 And of course, her photos always make my cakes look amazing; she has such a gift!!

 I mean, look at this awesome photo!  The cupcakes had tiny little sugar teacups on them that I hand painted.  I have more photos of those, but I'll have to add them at another time.  They were so fun to make!

 Textured rose and leaves then hand painted to add more fun and color!

These were my first attempt at modeling chocolate roses.  Kind of fun, but I still prefer gum paste.  Happy Birthday Leandra!  What a super fun way to celebrate your birthday!  And check out Brandi's site to see more of the fun photo shoot!