Showing posts with label elmo cupcakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elmo cupcakes. Show all posts

Monday, June 16, 2014

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!!!

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Order Up: Happy 2nd Birthday Molly!

The order:
1 Dozen Vanilla Cupcakes

Wow!  So sorry it took so long for me to get this together - I *just* realized that this blog was still in draft mode!  I'm so sorry it took so long!

A few weeks ago, I received an email asking if we could make Elmo cupcakes - which I have to say, Elmo is one of my favorite to make, so of course we were in!  Then it got even better, she wanted 6 Elmo and 6 Cookie Monsters!  Done and done!

Into the kitchen we went, baking away and making frosting so the coloring could set while the cupcakes cooled.  Once they were cool, it was time to assemble!

First up was pipping the "fur" onto the cupcakes!


Once that was finished, the cookies were assembled for the mouths, white chocolate rounds were made into eyes with a little bit of black frosting then placed onto the cupcakes.  Final touch for Elmo was an orange peanut M&M to give him a nose!  

Can I just say how I love Cookie's eyes?  Every time I make them and they are crooked I can't help but giggle!  What do you think?

Thank you so much for your order and the pictures, Kathy!  I think Molly likes her cupcakes and hope she had a wonderful time at her party!!