Baketastic!

Dark chocolate cupcakes topped with chocolate buttercream decorated with hula girls, hula boys, palm trees and mini umbrellas.  They didn’t just taste great, they looked hella-cute too!  The birthday girl (my 9yr old niece) was very pleased, and so were her guests.

Vodka and Diet is a pretty traditional drink at a bar or club.  And it is true to its namesake, a bit of vodka and a bit of diet soda, some ice cubes and a straw.  Viola!  Some people may add a cherry or even a lime but it is most often enjoyed without a [...]

Wow, Easter came, and went and I was a little surprised to see that not many people actually celebrated the religious side of it. No matter what store I visited, I heard, “But, MOOOOOOOOOM, I want the big Easter basket!“ and, “That candy is gross, I want the expensive kind.” It seems [...]

A friend of mine is having a birthday party for her son, he’ll be the big 1!  He’ll be needing cowboy cookies for his cowboy pals so I came up with these Deputy Badges.  Sugar cookie stars frosted with royal icing, Kopykakes writing, gold dragees and dusted with edible gold dust.  They were a bit [...]

Captain, Captain, there are sharks afin!
This weekend my nieces visited and we worked together on a great cupcake project.  Shark Attack cupcakes.  We started off with a basic vanilla cake recipe and then added some red food coloring to make the cake look gory like blooooooooood…    Ewwwwwwwwwww.  And, scaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrry!
For the frosting we added blue to [...]

After having been sick for the last week and a half, I decided to bake something fun, for myself, as a bit of “feel better” non-medicine.  I decided on the following recipe which I altered from the original found in my 100 Best Cupcake Recipes book – Tropical Luau Cupcakes.  Although the recipe calls for [...]

This weekends project was a 3-tiered wedding style baby shower cake that turned out to be only 2-tiered.  3 tiers was just too much cake.  Like the cupcake party, I used a basic vanilla butter recipe and swirled in an amazing chocolate recipe (using sour creme for extra moist texture and a tad of instant [...]

Giant Mardi Gras cupcake baked for my nieces 1st Birthday

I survived a 10 year olds birthday party this past weekend.  I survived said party attended by twenty-seven 10 year olds.  There was a karaoke DJ, a face painter and a seriously loud sound system.  Those kiddos were rockin’ out!
Of course, I made the much talked about guitar cake.  I started on it on Thursday [...]