Orangewood Children's Foundation donation

We attended the 3rd annual Eric Pepys Memorial Golf Tournament, in memory of our good friend, Eric.  The Pepys family is now our extended family and we feel so blessed to get to spend time with them!

I donated my services to make a cake for an event as a silent auction item at the tournament.  The woman who won the bid needed my services this week for her husband's 50th birthday.  She requested something I had never made before - custard filling!  After the first batch was a total failure, the second time around the custard was delicious!  The cake was two tiers of chocolate with custard filling and one yellow tier with lemon filling.

She was going to be using cream tablecloths, etc. so I thought a theme of cream and brown would be classy and manly.  Here are a couple photos of the final product!

I have some more fun cakes to make in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned!

Thanks for viewing,
Aly

Birthday and an Open House!

This week my Aunt Margaret, Uncle Larry, cousin Kari Lynn, and my cousin's friend, Sarah, came to visit and go to Disneyland.  Maggie's birthday was on Tuesday and we got to celebrate it with her!  She is chocoholic, so the cake was chocolate with dark chocolate fudge on the top tier and milk chocolate fudge on the bottom tier.

I had some fun "family joke" ideas, but decided to do something more sentimental.  We have this great picture of my Aunt in my grandma's rose bushes when she was helping to prune them.  (My grandma has 100+ rose bushes).  I thought it would be fun to make a garden cake for her, but a cartoon version.

Here are some photos:

Also, this week my friend Kimberly hosted an Open House.  She is sells "Stampin Up" products and hosts a stamp club.  They make adorable invitations and stationary.  She also had a friend sending Lia Sophia jewelry - what a beautiful line! 

I brought some of my sweet treats for free samples and also had some cupcakes and larger cookies to sell.  I had chocolate chip, oatmeal chocolate chip, butterscotch chocolate chip, and white chocolate butterscotch cookies.  I also had yellow cupcakes with lemon filling and buttercream frosting and chocolate chip cupcakes with dark chocolate ganache filling and buttercream frosting.

One of our friends, Devin, took some photos of my cupcakes.  Here is a link to his blog:
http://www.devinworkman.com/blog/product-photography/everything-nice-and-sweet/

He is an incredible photographer!  Thanks, Devin!

Have a wonderful weekend,
Aly

Update!

Hi there!

It has been a while since I've posted.  I have been busily baking, but not just cupcakes.  I have made quite a few batches of the ever-popular chocolate chip cookies.  However, I did make some cupcakes for a celebration for my friend Courtney.  These were my chocolate chip cupcakes, with dark chocolate ganache filling and butter cream frosting.

Kyle and I also attended a BBQ yesterday at the Brown's house.  I made a really delicious and simple little treat.  Ralph's has been selling mini pie crusts (tart shells).  I just put a little slice of banana in it and filled it with my dark chocolate ganache frosting.  YUM!  I highly recommend these.  For a more simple recipe, you could take really any kind of fruit and fill it with whip cream or canned frosting. 

In other news, I will be bringing my treats to an Open House in Placentia on Thursday, September 15th.  If you are interested in stopping by for some delicious treats, to check out some beautiful jewelry, or to look at some fun ideas for invitations and stationary, let me know and I can provide additional information!

Thanks for viewing!
Aly