Order Up: Showers of Happiness!

The Order:

1 dozen chocolate with vanilla buttercream

1 dozen vanilla with chocolate buttercream

2 dozen chocolate chip with vanilla buttercream

A few weeks ago, Marlene and I were playing phone tag - she wanted to order cupcakes for her future daughter-in-laws bridal shower.  After looking around on the website, she wanted the cupcake dress and was waiting for the final headcount to confirm how many dozen she needed. 

The week before the shower, Marlene called me to confirm her order and let me know that the colors were orange and brown and wanted to incorporate that into the frosting - no problem at all!  I headed off to Michael's to look for beading or flowers to match the orange and brown theme - and I found so many cute things! Once that was complete, it was home and into the kitchen to bake. 

First up were the chocolate cupcakes, then the vanilla.  While they were cooling, it was time to plan the layout of the dress and make the frosting.  Once the cupcakes were cooled and I was happy with the layout, it was time to secure each cupcake to the board with a dab of frosting - lesson learned! Once they were secure, then it was time to frost. Marlene had one request that there are no "spaces" in between the dress - no problem at all! After the frosting was complete and all spaces were filled, it was time to apply the flowers and beading!  This part is exciting but also a bit nerve wracking - when you're placing the beading, you want to make sure you place it right the first time so you don't mess up the frosting.  After everything was situated, I was happy with the result! What do you think? 

After the dress was boxed up and complete, it was onto frosting the chocolate cupcakes with orange buttercream and the vanilla with chocolate buttercream.  I love how the frosting color turned out!

Thank you Marlene and I hope the bride-to-be enjoyed her treats and got everything she wanted from her shower!

Order Up: Happy 3rd Birthday Jaelyn!

The Order:

1 Dozen Vanilla

1 Dozen Chocolate

I want to preface this order by saying how awesome it is to have repeat customers!  Christine was one of our first orders and has consistently contacted us to make orders for special celebrations!  

About 2 months ago, she gave us the heads up that Jaelyn's birthday party was going to be July 20th and to pencil her in! I had a few reactions to this!

1. Of course we've got you covered!
2. Wait, 3rd birthday? How did that happen, didn't we just make her 1st birthday cupcakes!?!? 
3. Thank god I keep old blog posts so I can go back and check!

Anywho - as time got closer, she shared with us the pattern that was going to be used and the colors and some sample cupcakes that she liked. The theme was chevron and assorted colors!  

Since her party was on a Saturday, the Friday night before, we took the time to craft and made these cute little pinwheels to go on top of the cupcakes!  So much fun and so cute how they turned out!

First thing in the morning, it was into the kitchen to bake and prep the frostings!  Once the cupcakes were baking away, the frosting was made and colored!  After cooling time, they were frosted in the assorted colors!  Since I knew there would be a display, we didn't add the pinwheels for transport, just simply boxed them up and took them for delivery.

It was so nice to see Christine and her new (to me!) baby boy - last time I saw her, they were doing the gender reveal party! Since they were going to setup the cupcakes, I asked if she could send me some pictures of the final displays!

What do you think of the final product? 

I love the cupcake stand!




Remember how we said we thought we just made her 1st birthday?  Well not only did we make her first, we made her second and now third!  I love being a part of all of her birthdays and we made this little collage to show her cupcakes!  

Happy Birthday Miss Jaelyn - we hope you enjoyed your day at the Little Gym and your cupcakes!  

And momma don't worry, we've got you on schedule for her 4th birthday ;)

Order Up: Congratulations on your Graduation, Sarah!!!

The order:

1 Dozen Reese's Love

1 Dozen Oreo Oh

1 Dozen Vanilla with vanilla buttercream

1 Dozen Chocolate with vanilla buttercream

Graduation season is upon us! My cousin Lori contacted us a few weeks ago asking if we could make cupcakes for Sarah's graduation party.  Every year they host a kick-ass 3rd of July party - complete with an entire pig roast and fireworks!  

Into the kitchen we went for baking!  First up were the vanilla, then the chocolate...while they cooled, the frostings were made and ready!  One thing Lori requested was having the plain cupcakes in the shape of a graduation cap!  How cool of an idea! (Post delivery lesson learned, secure the cupcakes to the board (Duh, Kel!) They did manage to shift a little during the ride for delivery!)

Boxed up and ready to go!  

Congratulations, Sarah and best wishes for all of your endeavors in the future - I know you'll be successful in whatever you do!

Order Up: Happy Birthday Shae!!!

The order: 

1 Dozen Cookie Dough

A few months ago, we donated a gift certificate and tee shirt for an online auction for Bella-Reed Pit Bull Rescue to raise funds for the pups in our care.  This is a cause near and dear to my heart so check out the link and like us on FB!  

Now onto the winner!! After the bids were placed, Sarah found out that she won the gift certificate and immediately contacted me to place the order for her daughter's birthday!  Shae (the birthday girl!) was having a Rock Star themed birthday and asked if she could have the Cookie Dough flavor - who are we to say no? 

Into the kitchen we went - cupcakes were prepped and into the oven they went since they required cooling before filling with the yummy cookie dough goodness! Which speaking of - doesn't this look delicious?  It's a no-bake chocolate chip cookie dough!!

Once the cupcakes were cooled and ready, they were cored (yup - like an apple!) 

From there, it was filling, frosting and topping with a perfect little chocolate chip kiss!

Boxed up and waiting for delivery!

The birthday girl herself - with all of her groupies, rocking out!  Happy Birthday, Shae - I hope you enjoyed every bite!!!

Order Up: Congratulations Graduates!

The order:

5 dozen vanilla with vanilla buttercream 

4 dozen chocolate with chocolate buttercream

A few weeks ago, Isis contacted me and wanted to know if I'd be interested in making cupcakes for the NY school district.  Ummm of course! She let me know that her new school was having a graduation celebration and they wanted to give each graduate a cupcake! How adorable! 

Since it was NY, they needed to be made and packaged up the day before so Isis could come down and pick them up - no problem for us! 

Into the kitchen we went! I wish I could say this was an easy order...but the first batch of chocolate I forgot the baking soda and they turned out like brownies...so onto another batch.  In the meantime, the icing was made and the rest of the cupcakes baked. 

When that was done it was time to place each cupcake in its own cup for safe wrapping! 

From there, each was frosted and topped with silver sprinkles. 

 Once that was done, it was time to bag, ribbon and box them up for the trip to NY! 

Congratulations and we hope you enjoyed kiddos! 

Order Up: Breakfast at Tiffany's Baby Shower!

The order:
2 dozen cake pops

A few weeks ago, my friend Rachel contacted me and wanted to know if she could order some cake pops for her sister's baby shower!  Now, normally we don't make cake pops, but it was worth a shot to me!

After spending some time looking up what the best way to make them were, into the kitchen we went!  cupcakes baked and cooled, then broken down into "crumbs".  Into the mixer they went with some buttercream frosting.  Then they were molded into "pops" and put in the freezer to set.

After that - into the melted chocolate to give them a candy coating - then time to top with different sprinkles and designs! What do you think ?

Also, since we had leftover cupcakes (and they can't stay in my house!) I packed them up and included those for some extra treats! Aren't the wrappers so cute? I may need to order some more of these!

And last but not least, I love when we get pictures from the events!  How adorable does this mommy-to-be look?  I hope you enjoyed your treats and that Baby Luca was showered with love!

(Post blog note: Baby Luca arrived healthy this week and is an adorable little munchkin!  Congrats Momma and Auntie!!)