Cupcake Cake

I just wanted to post some pictures from the cupcake party so that you could see how cute the cake was all set up!!

Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes!

Cupcakes are so popular now. And they are so much fun to decorate! I had 65 cupcakes to decorate for this past weekend. And one giant cupcake cake! I have wanted to make one of these for the longest time and I finally had an opportunity to! Twenty-five of the cupcakes went with the cupcake cake. We decided to ice them to go along with the colors of the sprinkles on top of the cake.

The remaining cupcakes were for my niece's birthday. They were iced in pink (of course!). I made cute white chocolate 4's and S's to go on top of these cupcakes; however, since it was 100 degrees by 10am here in Mississippi, the white chocolate didn't hold up long enough to make it. Sad. I don't currently have a picture of the pink cupcakes, but will post a pic if I can get my hands on one! Here are some pics of the toppers.

Let the sports wars begin!!!

This past weekend I was asked to do a cake for two boys' birthdays. One was an LSU fan and one was an Ole Miss fan! Now, I've been to an LSU/Ole Miss game and it was ugly! These two teams seriously hate one another. When I was putting the two sides of the cake together I felt like they were going to repel one another... the way magnets do when you try to put the like sides together. Overall, I think the cake turned out cute though. One side is chocolate fudge and the other is french vanilla. The cake is covered in buttercream.

Cookies!!!!

I've been wanting to try these iced cookies for awhile and finally felt up to it this week. I wasn't that pleased with the taste of the cookie because I used half white and half wheat flour, but I'll know better than to try to make a cookie healthy for next time!! I also am not a big fan of royal icing, but it is necessary in order to make these cookies look the way that they do. From what I've read, the cookie has to be the real standout when making these, not the icing. They turned out cute and I can see them being teacher/school happies for us this year! I'll keep working on them until I am please with how they taste! Here are some pictures.

Sports Ball Cake

I did a cake last week for sweet Reece's 1st birthday, which was sports themed. His mommy wanted to incorporate several different sports and had this design in mind. We did a 3 tiered cake with the bottom layer french vanilla torted with buttercream and covered in marshmallow fondant to look like a basketball. The middle layer was milk chocolate fudge torted with buttercream and covered in marshmallow fondant to look like a football and the top layer was french vanilla torted with buttercream and covered in marshmallow fondant to look like a golf ball. Reece's smash cake was a large french vanilla ball covered in buttercream to look like a baseball. Cute, cute!