Camping

Camping
Originally uploaded by Happy Cakes (Little Cakes for Your Happy!)

I so want to try these camping cupcakes! Aren't they so cute! We are going camping next month and it is the weekend of my birthday, maybe I should make and bring these in honor of myself. LOL

A "Classy" Birthday

My brother's girlfriend turned 21 a few weeks ago and we had for party at our house. She wanted to "class it up" so we came up with the idea of Doing Van Gogh's Starry Night from one of my cupcake books. We decorated the house with stars and we worked on these together. This was my first time using cupcakes as a canvas. It was a lot of fun. I will definitely do it again. The next round of cupcakes will be for my son's first birthday in a couple of weeks.



THE REAL STARRY NIGHT

My sister-in-law had her engagement party last month. Her mom asked me to make some cupcakes. Her daughter came up with the idea of bunnies and bears based on their nicknames. I was a bit nervous at first that I wouldn't be able to pull it off but in the end I was very happy with the bears and the bunnies were okay. I made cupcakes with paw print and grass with flowers to compliment them. I based the structure of the bears on the polar bear design from "What's New, Cupcake" and tweaked the ingredients. The bunnies were my own design.

The following is what I used to make the bears:
Body: vanilla, chocolate or carrot cake cupcake
Head: plain munchkin dipped in dark chocolate frosting
Fur: ground up oreo cookie
Paws: chocolate covered brownie bites
Muzzle: chocolate covered brownie bite dipped in dark chocolate frosting and coated with turtle crunch
Ears: chocolate cheerios
Nose: mini M&M

Birthdays

I made monkeys and butterflies for a dual birthday party for my husband's sister and niece. I was pretty happy with the way that these came out. Even though I used melting chocolates to make my bug cupcakes for last Halloween, this felt like my first time really trying to work with them. I wasn't able to master dragging the toothpick through the two colors, but I am still happy with how they turned out. I will try the technique again at some point. Both of these designs were from the book "Hello, Cupcake".

Sleepover Kids

When we had some out of town friends visit us last November, I made some sleepover kid cupcakes in their honor. This is another one from the same cupcake book. They came out cute, but were too sweet for me to enjoy with all the candy on top. Microwaving candy to soften it is definitely an art form though.

A Cupcake Break

I know that these aren't cupcakes but really I wanted this to be about my edible creations, not just cupcakes, I just couldn't find an available blog name that I liked. When my husband youngest sister and niece came over to visit during their christmas break we made gingerbread houses. We all had a lot of fun and have big plans for next years houses. We are even going to try making "stained glass" windows for them!

Next!

Christmas itself was much to busy to make cupcakes, but the day after I went to my mom's for a little post holiday get together and brought some penguins and icebergs with me. This design was from the same cupcake book, but the icebergs (really snowy mounds) were my own. The technique of dipping cupcakes into melted frosting was new to me, a lot of fun, but wastes a lot of frosting.

Then began the Obession...

Once I got a taste of what I could do to a cupcake I had to try it again. The next holiday was Thanksgiving so I took advantage of it to try something new. I brought Tom the Turkeys with me to my mom's for Thanksgiving Dinner. I got the design from "Hello, Cupcake" and tweaked it a little. Tom was made with (beyond the cake and frosting) candy corns, ginger thin cookies, fruit by the foot and turtle crunch sprinkles. The combination of flavors really worked with this one (minus the fruit by the foot). Without further ado, here is Tom.

In the Beginning

My cupcake adventures began when I spotted a book while shopping with my mom last fall. The book "Hello, Cupcake" inspired some culinary creativity for my annual Halloween party. My brother's girlfriend came over the day before and we worked on cupcakes for 12 hours! Here were the results.

New Blog

I've decided to create a blog for my cupcake adventures. It will be mostly pictures, but I may post some how-tos and videos if there is interest. Enjoy!