Wedding Love: Silka and Frank!

The order:

30 Red Velvet

30 Chocolate with Cream Cheese Frosting

30 Vanilla with Cream Cheese Frosting

Wow. Where to even begin with this blog.

First, I want to apologize for it being oh, 2 months late.

Second. This order was so dear to my heart. This event was years in the making and even as I sit here now thinking about it, it makes my heart swell with happiness. This order was for my best friend, Silka's, wedding. I've watched her relationship with Frank develop ,over the 7 years I've known her, into something pretty amazing. No it wasn't always rainbows and butterflies, but they made their relationship work for them, and I certainly learned a lot from it.

Now that the sappiness is out of the way, let's get to the good stuff. Her wedding was on a Friday night, which meant I got to take off of work and get up to NY. Thursday night was baking night and that went pretty smoothly...except it went very late so instead of heading to NY like the plans called for, Steph and I waited until Friday morning.

Upon getting to NY, we had lunch at her mom's house and took a little bit to relax since we couldn't get into the venue until 7 PM. Then the heat was on.

We arrived, got to the hall and got to frosting. While Steph swirled her life away, I was setting up the table and arranging the lifts and making sure the drapery worked. It was team in motion! Once that was completed, we arranged the cupcakes into their wrappers - red and gold - to color coordinate!

Now, onto the good stuff, the pictures!

Here's a picture of the table all set up!

Side view!

Cutting the cake! (Confession, I didn't make the cake, but bought a small one and decorated it with the leftover flowers used in her hair!)

Hello pretty little vanilla babies!

Beautiful chocolates. I loved these wrappers!

And I can't miss an opportunity for a photo op! From left to right, Isis, Silka and I...they are more than friends, they are my family and like sister to me. I can't even explain how amazing they are.

It was a wrap once we made sure the bride got her cupcake...I think that smile says she loved it all!

Congratulations Silka and Frank and may you have many more years of wonderful, wedded bliss...and cupcakes ;)

Order Up: Baby Shower Celebration!

The order:
1 Dozen Chocolate Chip with Chocolate buttercream
1 Dozen Vanilla with Chocolate buttercream
1 Dozen Chocoalte with Vanilla buttercream
1 Dozen Red Velvet
1 Dozen Weezy's Carrot Cake

A few weeks ago, my moms friend from work contacted me about ordering cupcakes for the baby shower she was hosting for her daughter. At the time she wasn't sure about the response and wanted to talk through some ideas for what we could do to make the cupcakes special. I had an idea of a diaper cupcake and then using toppers to tie in the theme.

Maureen gave my mom a copy of the invitation - which was an animal theme with the colors of yellow, blue and green. When walking through Walmart one day, in the card section, I came across adorable stickers with assorted zoo animals on them! They were perfect. I then pulled out the scrap paper, paper cutters and got to work!

Once they were done, it was time to hit the kitchen to finish up the baking. Since we already had orders for Red Velvet and Chocolate, they were baked. That morning, it was time to make the vanilla, chocolate chip and Weezy's Carrot Cake.

First up were the vanilla. One the batter was made and put in the oven, it was time to start the carrot cake. I shredded the carrots, mixed up the cinnamon smelling batter and voila into the oven they went.

As the cupcakes finished up baking, I prepped the frostings and piping bags. Once the cupcakes were cooled, they were frosted and boxed up.

This order was one that I was taking to deliver and setup. I arrived at the restaurant and they did a great job at making it look adorable! The cake table was set up and already had some decorations so I got right to work.

First, I setup the cupcake stand and put the chocolate frosted cupcakes scattered on the stand. I topped each cupcake with one of the cupcake toppers and made sure Mr Giraffe was front and center on the top!


Seriously - isn't he adorable?
Next up, I set out the cake stand, topped with cupcakes, then added a larger cupcake pick to each one, then tied around them with a polka dot ribbon in the colors to accent. The front cupcakes were topped with tissue paper pics!

Hello little diaper cupcakes!

Lastly, we borrowed a silver platter from the restaurant to display the rest of the cupcakes. I set those up, added the cupcake toppers and voila!

I think the cupcake table came out adorable - what do you think?

Congratulations Maureen and Momma to Be - I hope you enjoyed your cupcakes and can't wait to hear when the baby arrives!

Order Up: Thanksgiving Pot Luck!

The order:
3 Dozen cupcakes

My amazing cousin Michelle - who I've already told you about has done all of my graphic work. She's branched out and created a whole etsy site, has her own website and Facebook page, contacted me a while ago about wanting cupcakes for a Thanksgiving pot luck dinner that she was attending.

But stop. If you haven't already done so, go check out her blog and "Like" her on Facebook. NOW. Go.

Good little cupcakes :)

So the only thing Michelle said is that she would like a fall flavor included in the order - which will be the Caramel Apple Pie. Knowing she also loves the Reese's Love and Red Velvet, I decided to make her a number of minis so she can mix and match.

We also talked about making them look "fall" - but I wasn't about to put a turkey or anything on them, so I rolled out some fondant for the Reese's Love and made little leaves. I hate the way some fondant tastes, so I made them thin and put them on top so if people didn't want to eat, they didn't have to! So once the decorating was done, they were boxed up and ready to go!

Happy little Reese's Love and Red Velvets!

Close up of the leaves...I think they matched the icing and sprinkles perfectly!

Since the Caramel Apple Pie were included, I decided to make little apples out of fondant to place on top as well! How cute!

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmy!

Hope you had a yummy dinner and enjoyed your pot luck Michelle!

Order Up: Wedding Day Treats!

The order:

3 Dozen mini Reese's Love
2 Dozen mini Red Velvet
2 Dozen mini Caramel Apple Pie

Last week we received an email from Gail, asking if she could place an order for Saturday - and of course, the answer was yes. She is a prior client who ordered cupcakes for her daughter's bridal shower - and we love repeat customers! And know what else is awesome about Gail - the only requirement she had was that we made sure there were 3 dozen Reese's Love - the other flavors she told me to pick from any orders I have that weekend! Whew, she makes life easy :)

So into the kitchen I go. First baked, the Reese's Love - which was nice to be able to make a batch and use them for all the orders of the weekend! Second baked were the Red Velvets...everytime I make the red velvets I think I put too much chocolate in them and they don't look "red" enough...then I have to remind myself that true red velvet is a chocolate based cake....and those creepy red ones you see at the stores are WAY too fake ;)

The last batch that we baked were the Caramel Apple Pie. Yup, that's a new flavor!! I had been experimenting with the recipe for a few weeks (don't worry, blog to follow) and why not let Gail and her group get the first "official" batch?!

Once the Reese's cooled, they were frosted and sprinkled with fall colored sprinkles!

Caramel apple cupcakes cored and filled!

Frosted with Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting and topped with excess caramel...

Red Velvets boxed up and ready to go!

Funny story about this delivery - as I was driving down, I realized that I wasn't sure what the occassion was for - Gail didn't need any custom decorations, just the cupcakes as they were. Well when I arrived and was walking to the door, I heard "Oh it's the cupcake lady" and her daughter was there with her veil on, hair and makeup done! It was her wedding day!

How adorable for her mom to order cupcakes to enjoy while getting ready for her big day!

Thank you for your order Gail - I hope the day was amazing and Congratulations to the new Mister and Misses!

Order Up: Happy Birthday Geeds!!!

The order:

2 dozen mini Take Pride

2 dozen mini Red Velvet

A few weeks ago, my favorite cupcake gremlin emailed me that she was going to have a suprise get together for Gida's birthday and wanted to order cupcakes. How could we say no?!?

After the tasting party, Ang had trouble figuring out waht kind to order and went back to her tried and true Take Pride with a side of Red Velvet...but since she was throwing her off with a Halloween party, we came up with some ideas for decorating!

Into the oven go the colorful little ones!

5 little pumpkins sitting in a box...ok well there are more than 5, but I'm sure once the box was opened, they all rolled out of sight!

The plan was originally to make scary faces (dracula, mummies, etc) but since these guys were so little the faces weren't working just right. Next best solution? Color the icing orange and stick some skulls and "pick your poison" stickers on them ;)

We boxed up these little monsters and took them to Ang's for the party.

Happy Birthday Geeds - hope you enjoyed every bite!