Summer treats-- cupcakes galore

I made these for a friend who was doing a baby shower. I was not real pleased with the way they turned out, but thats why I do this for free, so I can practice, practice, practice.Strawberry chocolate cupcakes. I made just for fun.
This cupcake was made for Jordans freind damon who had a birthday. It is dark chocolate, caramel filling and dark chocolate frosting.

This is a peanut butter cupcake, with chocolate filling and peanut butter fudge frosting with crushed peanut butter cups on top. The picture is kind of faded looking.

A sugar cookie

I made these from my friends Doris' birthday. They are Chocolate with caramel filling, chocolate buttercream toped with fondant flowers and white chocolate letters.Peanut butter cupcake with fondant daisy, made these for my neices birthdayChocolate cupcake, buttercream frosting, fondant flowers. These were also made for my neices birthday.I made the desserts for my brothers wedding luncheon. I made over 150 desserts. Brownies, cupcakes, and sugar cookies. I was a busy busy baker that week. Here are some of the cupcakes I made. Lemon with lemon filling, lemon buttercream-- oreo cupcake-- Chocolate strawberry cupcakes and a banana cupcake with chocolate filling and chocolate peanut butter frosting.

I made these just for visiting teaching. Chocolate cupcake,raspberry filling, raspberry buttercream.

Bridal shower cupcakes

I made these cupcakes for a bridal shower my Sister in Law was doing. The colors were pink and purple. The first is a cholocate cupcake with chocolate buttercream, filled with caramel topped with a purple primrose. Second is a lemon cupcake, with lemon zest buttercream, filled with lemon curd, topped with a few fondant flowers. I love doing cupcakes!!

Just some cupcakes

truck birthday cake

I made this for my friends son who was turning 2. My cake did not rise well and it resulted in a kind of lopsided cake. I am pleased with most of it, but if I did it over I know it could be great.

I made this for my brother in law, who loves cycling. Notice the cycler gets a flat tire and eventually crashes. My neice came out with the flat tire idea.

Baby Shower Bib cupcakes.

My friend was doing a baby shower and asked if I could do some cupcakes. I made a lemon poppy seed cupcake with lemon filling and lemon zest butter cream and also a dark chocolate cupcake with a dark chocolate frosting and caramel filling.

April Fools Cupcakes

Alex's Birthday cookie

My daughter Ales, just turned 13. She lives for gymnastics, it is what she absoululty loves to do. She wanted to bring a treat for her team on her birthday, so this is what I came up with. She also hates the color pink, I made the leotard pink as a joke. Next time it will be green or blue.

Blue and Gold dinner--- Go scouts!

Our church group was having a blue and gold dinner to celebrate scoutings birthday. Since I am the Webelos scout leader, I was able to help with the dinner. This is a cake and cupcakes I made for the dinner. The very hardest part was the collar, I could not get it to stand up straight, finally I covered a thin piece of cardboard to finish it. I need to figure how to make fondant stand up straight. Grr it was so frustrating!!

Christmas cupcakes

I made these cupcakes to give to co- workers. They are both a chocolate cupcake, one is dipped in chocolate ganache with a mint christmas tree. the other is topped with peppermint buttercream. It was fun to try dipping the cupcakes in ganache, I have never tried it before, but have to say it turned out good.

Some of my neices were visiting for Christmas. These are their fun Christmas cupcakes they made. We used ice cream cones for some of them. Good job girls.

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Hannah, Sara, Aleena, Isabell and their cupcakes.

Lady bug cupcakes

I made these for my friends little girls birthday. I tried dipping them in melted fondant, but it did no turn out very good, so I covered the cupcakes with a fondant flower. I think they looked cute, but the dipped fondant under the flower made it a very heavy cupcake.

First try at carved cake.

This was my very first attement at doing a carved cake. It is a subaru cake. I wish I could do it over, I know that I could do a way better job the second time around, when I actually know what I a doing. I can see every flaw and believe me there are many.

Daisey cupcakes

This is a chocolate cupcake I made for a baptism. My next cake is going to be a carved cake in the shape of a blue subaru car, hmm I have never tried a carved cake, we will see how it turns out.

Fondant and gum paste final cake

This is the cake I did on the final day of my fondant and gum paste class. I wanted to do something with the fall theme and this is what I came up with. I took it to work to share with my co workers and they loved it. I am quite happy with the way it turned out, but already know a few things I would do different next time.

Young Womens in Excellence

I love cake decorating and want to someday teach cake decorating. I also have a goal to get good enough to do wedding cakes for Nieces and Nephews and possibly make some money on the side doing an occasional event. This week our church had a program called young women in excellence, young women in our group were getting highlighted for there faith and good works ect. The young ladies in our church group have a list of 8 core values each has a color assigned to it. Example is integrity-purple, faith-white. I need ways to practice my cake decorating, so I volunteered to make all the desserts for this event. I made cupcakes representing each of the value colors. I made a total of 68 cupcakes. 8 per color plus 4 left over. This is the final display and individual pictures.
Chocolate cupcake with dark chocolate frosting decorated with a gold star fondant


Chocolate cupcake with white butter cream and a buttercream rose

Lemon Poppy seed with orange zest buttercream and a Callie Lilly. This is the flower I learned how to make this past Tuesday in the gumpaste/fondant class I am taking.

White cupcake with buttercream icing topped with a daisy

White cupcake with chocolate buttercream topped with a primrose made of royal icing

Lemon poppy seed cupcake, lime zest buttercream, tipped off with peeled lime

Lemon poppy seed cupcake, lemon icing, sprinkled with shimmery white specks.

White cupcake, buttercream icing, red apple blossoms.

My island in the kitchen covered with cupcakes. It took about 8 eight hours of time to construct and bake all the cupcakes and when I was finished I was like a giddy child. I was so excited and proud of my work. I can defiantly see improvement.

Halloween Cake

Hobby Lobby was offering a tiered cake class the day before Halloween, I jumped at the chance to learn a few more skills. Instead of some fancy cake I decided to go with a Halloween cake. Next month Hobby Lobby is offering a fondant/gumpaste class, I am excited to learn how to do fondant, since I have already tried two cakes on my own. Hopefully with tons of practice one day I will be a awesome cake decorater. I love creating stuff with food. Thats why I have to spend so much time working out.

I had to bring a treat to a scout court of honor and decided to make these cool monster cupcakes, because Halloween is just days away. They were a hit. I used a devils food cupcake recipe from the Martha Stewart Website. The reciepe turned out great! The cupcakes were lite and fluffy and rose perfectly. Thank you Martha Stewart, you rock!!

Oreo Truffles

I made these for a brunch I had on Wednesday. I got the reciepe from a friend in my church group. They were a hit. I am going to make more on Sunday to give to neighboors. Thanks Brittany for the recipe.

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All it takes is one bag oreo's double stuffed, one 80z package of cream cheese and dipping chocolate. To make: Crush the oreos, mix with cream cheese, chill, roll into balls, chill again and dip and you are done. Quick easy and yummy.

I had a pizza theme brunch at my house this week and the pizza turned out great, but I think pizza is not picture worthy, so here are the desserts I made. These are carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. For the the tops I made leaves out of buttersotch and milk chocolate chips.

This is a picture of a cupcake display with two types of cupcakes, the peanut butter/chocolate and carrot cake with cream cheese pictured above. My son took these pictures and also set up the display, he is eight and loves helping out-- sometimes.