Andy's 27?!

I really typed this on January 27th but I just found it...so everyone just pretend it's nice and cold outside...

Yesterday was my wonderful husband's birthday. We celebrated with some friends last Sunday evening and of course I had to make him something super fun. When he was in high school he played golf and worked at a golf course so I thought what better than to make him a golf course out of cupcakes?! I'd seen a really cute picture of one and I think mine turned out quite well...

Birthdays

This past month I've had the opportunity to make a few cakes for people at work.

Here is a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream for a teacher's birthday:

This one took a lot of time but was a "blast" to make. It was another chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream and it was the first time I had used rice cereal treats and I also found these awesome sparkler candles so it was really like lighting a fuse! This was for the principal's daughter. She is a great kid and LOVES softball. Her teams name is the "Bombs".

This last cake is up there as one of my favorites, right behind the baby shower cake. A tye-dye cake with chocolate filling. This was for a regular customer. Her daughter was having a Scooby Doo themed birthday party. I'd say this cake was a hit.

Garden Party

These sweet cupcakes were for a dear friend who had a garden/retirement party at her house. It was a blast getting creative with the display here and actually being able to stay and watch people's reactions as well as enjoy them.

 These are chocolate with vanilla buttercream. The wrappers say It's Your Day:

 These were a vanilla cake with raspberry filling topped with vanilla buttercream:

 And here we have a lemon cupcake with a lemon cream cheese icing:

Spring

I know this is a little late but here are some spring inspired cake pops based off Bakerella. These were for the same person the butterfly cake was for. The butterfly was more fun to make but these were pretty okay. They are strawberry cake covered in white chocolate and the yellow center is a lemon skittle. Strawberry + Lemon = Yum!

First Big Party

A friend from work's daughter got engaged so she asked me to do the cupcakes for her engagement party. These were tricky but it was my biggest order yet! There were 6 dozen GLUTEN FREE cupcakes. I have to say I was quite nervous that I would contaminate something but thankfully she didn't get sick! We had 2 dozen chocolate with vanilla buttercream, 2 dozen carrot with cream cheese icing, and 2 dozen strawberry cupcakes. Thankfully there is this great company, I'll have to get the name again, who makes gluten free cake mix and The Cake Doctor has a great gluten free cake mix doctor book. Anyway, she is getting married on the beach and her colors are a tiffany blue and red so I tried to incorporate everything into the cupcake designs :o) Enjoy!

Dino-Cake!

I love how things travel by word of mouth. That is how I got this job. My best friend's sister's friend. Got that? :o) Her son was having a birthday party and she ordered these cute little dinosaurs. All I had to do was bake the cupcakes and color the icing. I thought they came out pretty cute...

Cake Ball Crazy

Cake balls are so yummy! Another coworker wanted a cake for her daughters birthday/slumber party. She loves the cake balls but isn't huge on sweet cake frostings so we came up with this brilliant idea to make a cake ball cake. I would try to explain but I think the pictures do a better job. Here we have chocolate and strawberry cakes with vanilla icing and covered in either white or plain chocolate. So good! I can't wait to try another cake like this!