Order Up: Happy Birthday Sahana!

The order:

2 dozen mini chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream

A week ago, one of my awesome co-workers Ambu asked me if I could make cupcakes for his daughter's birthday to take to school. Of course we could make them!

A little history - Ambu and I have been working together for about 8 years and I remember when he told us his wife was pregnant! It was so exciting! Look how adorable she is! (And seriously - how did she turn 4 already?) Enjoy that cupcake :)

Ambu's wife was great - she bought these cute little toppers to put on the cupcakes and didn't want any special decorations except colored sprinkles for the boys and girls! So into the kitchen we went on Wednesday night to bake these little bad boys. One catch? Ambu sent me a text asking if he could pick them up earlier than expected - and since he lives by Princeton, NJ, I couldn't tell him no.

No problem at all though, it was time to practice for Cupcake Wars. Making chocolate cupcakes has become second nature to me, so I quick mixed the ingredients for the chocolate cupcake and into the oven they went. While they were baking, no time to waste, it was onto making the frosting. Once the timer went off - out with the cupcakes and into the freezer to cool. All done within 27 minutes :) I was pretty proud of myself.

Ambu called and let me know he arrived, so out of the freezer they came, and into the box. Pretty buttercream swirls and pink and blue sprinkles were added, and away they go!

And a HUGE thank you to Ambu for providing great pictures!

Hello little cuppycakes!

Disney Princesses' for the girls; Spiderman for the boys!

For some reason, I really love the way the swirls look on this and the way the pink shows through!

Boxed up and left the building!

Happy Birthday Sahana - I hope you and your classmates (and mom and dad and your baby sister) enjoyed the cupcake treats! May your birthday be filled with laughs and love!

Happy 50th Birthday Mrs. Gibs!

The order:

A whole dessert table for Mrs. Gibby's 50th Birthday party!

Ok, so before I finish this blog, can I just say I'm totally slacking on this one? I did this order for the party at the beginning of December...but with the holidays, waiting for the pictures that we took professionally (*ahem* Stephie *ahem*), it just got away from me. But now I can't wait any longer, shall we get back to the good stuff?

So the "official" order was:

1 Dozen Reese's Love, 2 Dozen mini Reese's Love

1 Dozen Red Velvet, 2 Dozen mini Red Velvet

1 Dozen Oreo-Oh, 2 Dozen mini Oreo-Oh

1 Dozen Minty Girl Scouts, 2 Dozen mini Minty Girl Scouts

1 Dozen Chub Rub, 2 Dozen mini Chub Rub

1 Dozen Fluffy Elvis, 2 Dozen mini Fluffy Elvis

1 Dozen Snickers, 2 Dozen mini Snickers

1 Dozen Strawberries and Champagne, 2 Dozen mini Strawberries and Champagne

1 Dozen Death by Chocolate, 2 Dozen mini Death by Chocolate

1 Assorted box to take home

1 Table setup

About 2 weeks before the party, I secretly met with Christina(Gibby) and Samantha to discuss ideas. It was so awesome - I was pretty much given creative reign of the table. Gibby told me that they were going to have a bunch of candies and a cake from her mom's favorite bakery - which I think is adorable.

And can we give props to these two daughters? They spared no expense in planning this party for their mom. Mrs. Gibs is awesome and always goes above and beyond for everyone in her life and this was something they wanted to do to honor all her hard work - which I thought was awesome and more "kids" should be like them. And yes I can call them kids because I used to drive their asses back and forth from softball and tournaments, blasting *Nsync, drinking capri suns and eating cheddar whales :)

I digress.

So the day of the party, into the kitchen I went. The baking went pretty smoothly and all the cupcakes were done by 1 and then it was time for frostings and getting everything over to the hall. I was running late (shocker) so when I went to the hall, I looked like a creature!

Once I got to the hall, everything looked beautiful! The colors were purple and white, mini christmas trees were the centerpieces, and the dessert buffet table was beautiful! It was purple, with white, colored lights and beautiful containers of candy!

What do you think?

We layered boxes and covered with pretty table cloths. Then the cupcakes were arranged and candy was scattered around it. So that the people at the party would know what cupcake they were going to eat, I placed little chalkboard plaques with the names on them!

Hello pretty little things!

I loved loved loved making these cupcakes and the way that the table turned out! Feedback from Gibby was that they were enjoyed, that almost all the cupcakes were eaten - by the plateful - and everyone was raving about them! YAY we love to hear people happy.

I also love that we were able to provide them with a box of cupcakes to take home and enjoy the next day!

Happy Birthday Mrs. Gibby! I hope you were surprised and enjoyed your party to the fullest!!

Happy Birthday Kole!

The order:

1 Dozen Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream

1 Dozen Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream

Our new customer Melinda contacted us last week about having cupcakes made for her son's birthday party. She was checking out the website and gave us a call to see if we would be able to help...and how could we say no? She told us the theme was Chica the Chicken from SproutTV. At the time, I had no idea who he was or what he looked like...but that's ok, that's what google is for!

Once I got the picture down , I printed out a few to make cupcake pics, along with dreaming up ideas of how to make a cupcake look like Chica. Into the kitchen we went early Saturday morning - the cupcakes were baked, frosting was prepped.

For the chocolate cupcake, they were just done in pretty swirls, topped with color coordinated sprinkles and the cupcake pics. They were boxed up and ready to go.

Also customized toppers that said Happy Birthday Kole!

Then came time to make Chica. This was a little bit tougher...Chica is very 3d. I made an attempt to make his face on the top of the cupcake, but really didn't like how it turned out - so much so that I didn't even take a picture of it because it looked ridiculous. Next time I'll take pictures.

In thinking about what to do and studying the picture - a predominant feature to me was the top of his head - a red mohawk against a copper color.

So to make the mohawk, I used the tip that is typically used for flower petals, stiffened the icing with some extra powdered sugar, and started my hand at making a mohawk.

How do you think they turned out?

I love them! Once they were done, Melinda came to pick them up and that is where we found out that she found us through google! So thank you Melinda for taking a chance with us!

We hope you enjoyed the cupcakes and that Kole had a very happy birthday!!