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

Taylor's 2nd Birthday!

Our friends, Aaron & Sharilyn, are having a birthday party for their daughter Taylor who turned 2 on April 14th.  (I can't believe she is already two!!!!) 

I went over today to help Sharilyn make cupcakes - the theme is butterflies.  She baked chocolate and lemon cupcakes.  We made the fondant butterflies and I made the frosting and decorated.  It was a fun and easy project! 

Here are some photos - I think they turned out reallllllly cute!  :)

Happy Birthday, Taylor!
Love,
Aly

Post-St. Patty's Day Party!

We had a post-St. Patty's Day party last night - what a blast!

I made my Irish Car Bomb cupcakes again and they tasted pretty good!  These are Guinness chocolate cupcakes with Irish whiskey filling and Baileys buttercream frosting.

In honor of St. Patty's Day - I dyed the frosting green... :)  Here are some photos:

Laker's Birthday Cake!

A co-worker commissioned me to make a birthday cake for his son-in-law.  He said either "Simpsons" or "Lakers".  I opted for the Lakers theme because I thought this would be less time consuming and it was a really small cake.

This is just a plain yellow cake with milk chocolate fudge filling and frosting.  I made it like a Laker's jersey and left room for them to put his name on it and a big candle!

Here's a photo:

Dad's Birthday Cake

We celebrated my Dad's birthday a couple weeks ago.  He turned 56 on March 6th!  :)  Of course, I volunteered to make the cake.  However, Dad doesn't care for fondant so I had to try to test out my buttercream skills... YIKES!

This was a homemade dark chocolate chip cake with dark chocolate ganache buttercream filling and frosting (crumb coat) and a dark chocolate fudge icing.  I used the buttercream for the decorating.  It was VERY tasty!  :) 

Happy (belated) Birthday Dad!  Love you!