Cupcake Weekend

This weekend I had two big projects - an engagement party and a baby shower!

For the engagement party, I was asked to make 60 mini cupcakes with my chocolate chip cupcake recipe.  These were fun to make - they are chocolate chip cupcakes filled with dark chocolate ganache and buttercream frosting.  I put little pearls on top to make them classy... :)

The baby shower was regular size cupcakes.  20 were red velvet with cream cheese filling, 20 were lemon with lemon filling, and 20 were chocolate chip with dark chocolate ganache filling.  All have buttercream frosting.  I handmade 60 sports balls for decorations out of fondant.  :)

Here are some photos:

I think these all turned out cute... I hope everyone enjoys them!

So - in sum, I made 120 cupcakes this weekend... I went through a dozen eggs, 5 lbs of powdered sugar, over 1 lb of butter, and much much more... I finished them this morning with plenty of time for delivery!  PHEW! 

Thanks for looking!
Aly

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes - round 2!

I have some orders for some chocolate chip cupcakes so I wanted to make them again just to make sure my recipe was good... :)

I made some mini cupcakes and some regular size ones. 

These cupcakes are a yellow cake batter with mini chocolate chips, dark chocolate ganache filling, and buttercream frosting.  I ran out of buttercream frosting so I did some of the cupcakes with ganache frosting!  YUM!  :)

I picked up a new piping tip and am really happy with how pretty the cupcakes are turning out now!

Easter cake

It has been a while since I actually made a cake - instead of cupcakes!  I really attempted to make this cake for Easter look like an Easter basket - but I was struggling big time with the frosting.  Anyways - it turned out OK - just not what I was expecting.

This was a fudge marble cake with chocolate mousse filling and buttercream frosting.  Here are a couple photos:

Stay tuned for some mini cupcakes and a baby shower cake in the next couple of weeks!

Thanks for looking,
Aly