Order Up: Happy 1st Birthday Colton!

The Order: 

1 Giant Cupcake

Ok, so let me start out by saying that this order was one of my favorites to make! I love when customers give me an idea and then creative "reign" so to speak. 

Casey and Frank won a cupcake gift certificate and asked me if they could switch it for a smash cake for their son's first birthday!  Of course- I love making smash cakes!  Frank sent me this picture as a "guide" and after a few texts he let me know that instead of green, we could use blue:

I think the hardest part of making these is the actual baking process for the "giant" cupcake! They take about 55-75 minutes to bake depending on the batter and I swear I stand at the oven watching and watching and watching to make sure I take it out at the right time.  After that it's onto the cooling rack for about 2 hours to make sure it was fully cooled!

As this was cooling, I made the frosting and did some practicing on a few extra cupcakes I had sitting around to make sure I liked the way the piping was decorated :) Once cooled, it was time to get to work, I started by frosting the bottom half using a star tip, which surprisingly wound up being pretty easy!  Once that was done, I decided to spice it up and use a grass tip to pipe "fur" onto the top of the cupcake.  Once that was done, I added a black mouth and then added 3 gooey eyes and M&Ms for the feet at the bottom!  I happened to stumble upon the polka dotted cake mat which I think worked perfectly!  

Rawwwwwwr! 

I was so excited when I got this picture! I think that Colton enjoyed his cake, don't you?!?!

Happy Happy 1st Birthday Colton!

Order Up: Happy 1st Birthday, Bella!

The order: 

2 dozen Vanilla 

1 dozen Oreo

I know it's the middle of summer and Annabella is on her way to becoming a big 2 year old, but I HAVE to blog about how adorable her first birthday was! A few months before her party, Katrina(Bella's Momma) and I were stalking pinterest for ideas since she wanted to do a fall themed birthday - then she decided on Bella's Pumpkin Patch! 

The colors were going to be pink, orange and white (polka dots and stripes!) As were were discussing cupcakes, we got the idea to use candy corns and candy pumpkins to put on top of 'grass'.  Katrina ordered cupcake picks too, which completed the look!  

These were so fun to make and I hope to make more fun ones this fall too!

Birthday Girl!!

Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes!!!

SO cute!

All setup and waiting to be eaten!

Oreo-Oh!

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!

How cute is this cupcake stand?

More cupcakes and the adorable cupcake picks custom made!

Smash cake!!!

Cupcake Table!

James smashing into his cake!

Happy 1st Birthday, James - we hope you enjoyed Sesame Street!!!

Order Up: Baby Shower treats!

The order:
1 Dozen Chocolate 
1 Dozen Vanilla

Know what I love? When we have repeat customers who contact us for lots of different events!  Christine contacted us to have cupcakes made for a baby shower she was hosting - but the twist was instead of pink or blue, they decided on purple and green which I personally LOVED! 

We were going back and forth as the theme was going to be butterflies, once they figured it out - they decided on a smaller cake decorated and plain cupcakes to compliment!  No problem for us since chocolate and vanilla are pretty standard!

Into the kitchen to bake up the sweet treats, dye the frosting, swirl it on and deliver!

Can I just say how I love how this table comes together - especially with the painted background?!? How adorable and what a cute theme!

Best wishes for the new bundle of joy (who I am sure may have arrived since we made this order and are just now catching up on blogs...whoops!)