Klicious Cupcakes: Order Up: Happy 1st Birthday, James!

The Order:

8 Dozen Cupcakes (Vanilla, Chocolate Chip and Take Pride)

1 Smash Cupcake

Let me preface this blog again by saying that James is now well onto his way to being a big 2 year old now that this blog is being written...but...

A few months before James was set to celebrate this big first birthday, Lizz contacted me about placing her cupcake order. The theme was going to be Sesame Street and she was having cupcake toppers made! How cute!

Into the kitchen we went the day of to bake the order - which was pretty awesome since with the flavors she picked, it was just making a few batches of our vanilla cupcakes! The only thing I wanted to kick myself on was not baking the smash cake first - lesson learned there - those suckers take a long time to cool down so they can be properly frosted!

First in were the plain vanilla and chocolate chip then onto dying the batter for the take pride and cooling them off! Onto frosting and voila the cupcakes were done. Just as I was getting ready to start on the smash cake, I realized it wasn't fully cooled. I'll admit I did have a few moments of panic since I was behind schedule on getting this done and I still had to deliver these!

After I got it together, I cooled off the smash cake in the fridge, got to frosting and put together! Of course on my way there, one piece of the cake did fall off, but good thing I brought my frosting bag with me to take care of fixing it!

Here's a few pics to leave you with!