Order Up: Happy Birthday John!

The Order:
1 Dozen Oreo

One of the lovely ladies I work with had a birthday coming up for her son, John, so she decided instead of going with an Acme cake, she wanted to order him cupcakes!  It was a little gathering for her family and some friends!  She mentioned he loved the Giants, so we added some red and blue to the cupcakes!

One of the cool things about this order was that after they were done baking, I frosted them in the morning and was able to bring them into the office and she took them right home and was able to surprise him!

I hope you had a happy birthday little man and enjoyed your cupcakes!

Oreo-Oh with some red and blue! 

Close-up Happy Birthday!

Boxed up and ready to make a trip to work!

Order Up: Lisa's Baby Shower Favors!

The Order:

Fluffy Elvis

Reese's Love

Red Velvet

Side Note: This order was back in April.  Yes I am slacking, but life changes took over for a while, but now we're back on track and I promise to catch up on the blogs I owe from the last few months! I'm making it a daily goal for this week! (And as I type this, baby Jolene made her arrival into the world, about 3 weeks ago and is such a cute little munchkin!!!)

Anywho, back to the good stuff!  Karen, Lisa's sister contacted me when she was planning the baby shower and asked me if I could make cupcakes to be used at the flavors, and I was so excited to make them!  Since Lisa and Matt decided to keep Baby P's gender a secret, the theme of the shower was yellow and green - so cute!  The flavors were decided and then the decorations were going to be candy teddy bears with matching pearls the same color. The cream colored boxes were bought, put together and yellow and green polka dot ribbons were selected to accent the boxes!

The cupcakes were baked fresh the morning of the shower!  Once they were completed, we frosted all of the cupcakes and individually boxed them up - after they had the adorable bears and sprinkles added.  Once I got to the baby shower, the ribbons were added and they were scattered on the tables! 

It was such a nice surprise and so good to see Lisa being showered for the little one!    

Reese's Love with chocolate bears! 

Fluffy Elvis with Yellow bears!   

Closeup!

Adorable little cupcakes all boxed up!

All the yellow Fluffy Elvis!

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The centerpieces with cupcakes surrounding them!

Congratulations Mommy and Daddy P!  May Jolene bring as much love, smiles, joy and noise to your lives as you bring to ours!

Order Up: Happy Sweet 16 Liv!

The Order:

1 Dozen Strawberries and Champagne

1 Dozen Minty Girl Scouts

1 Dozen Take Pride

1 Dozen Reese's Love

Ok, so I'm slacking on this blog.  Actually on a lot of them, but I digress.

Liv's Sweet 16 was hosted at the beginning of May - it was a leopard themed party, with a lot of teenage girls and family invited.  Sonja(her momma :) sent me a text before the party asking if I could make cupcakes.  Um DUH of course!  

So the cupcakes got picked, and I got to work! Since I was attending the party, I made them fresh that morning and headed over to hang out - such a good time.  Good food, good company, and a happy birthday girl, don't you think?

Hey there little Minty Girl Scouts!

Here's the Reese's Love and Minty Girl Scouts...the Reese's match the theme don't you think? 

Strawberries and Champagne (minus the champagne, they are under age after all ;) and Take Pride! 

I love chopping the Reese's on top instead of the whole ones :)

The colors turned out EXACTLY how I wanted them!!!

Since there was a chocolate fountain, we skipped right over the ones on the cupcakes and the party girls got to dip their own strawberries!!

Happy Birthday Ms Olivia!!! Welcome to the beginning of your adulthood...and being able to get your license!!! Hope you had a wonderful day!

Order Up: Mommy to Bee!

The order:

2 dozen mini lemon cupcakes with vanilla buttercream

A few weeks ago, we received a call from Lisa asking if we could make cupcakes for a shower she was throwing for an expectant mommy!  Of course we could!

She told me the theme was going to be "Mommy to Bee" and they were doing the colors in yellow and wanted to put some kind of bee accent on the cupcakes.  During the planning time, Lisa found cupcake toppers and just wanted to put yellow sprinkles on the top!

First up were baking the lemon cupcakes!  They smell so fresh! Then came the vanilla buttercream.  Once they were done, we swirled the beautiful frosting on top and topped with yellow sprinkles!  

Pretty little cupcakes!

 Close up of the yellow!

All boxed up awaiting pickup!

 How cute are the mini cupcake stickers? Michelle did an awesome job on them :)

Happy showers Mommy to Bee - hope you enjoyed your cupcakes!

Order Up: Happy 6th Birthday Anthony!

The order:

3 Dozen Chocolate Chip with Vanilla Buttercream

1 Dozen Caramel Apple Pie

2 Dozen Mini Weezy's Carrot Cake

A few weeks ago, we got an email from Kelly letting me know that she was having a magician's theme birthday party for her son Anthony and wanted to know if I had any thoughts about it. I did a few searches and after seeing the invitation, we decided to keep it simple! We went with red and yellow as the color; and then stuck with using hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds from the deck of cards and then yellow stars made of fondant and his name.

Early in the morning, it was time to get to baking! First up were the chocolate chops - they were in and baked. Next up were the caramel apple, then the carrot cake! Everything was left out to cool off and then it was time to make the frostings!

After the frostings - the fondant! YAY! We made red and yellow fondant. After rolling out the fondant, cookie cutters were used to press out the shapes and placed out to dry:

From there, it was time to frost! We swirled vanilla buttercream onto the chocolate chip cupcakes and topped with sprinkles that were blue, yellow, red , gold and silver!
Next up - time to adorn the cupcakes with the fondant!
Boxed up and ready to go!!
I loved the way the letters turned out with the different color backgrounds - what do you think?
Caramel apples and chocolate chips boxed up and ready to go!
Mmmmmm caramel drizzle!!
Happy 6th Birthday Anthony - hope you enjoyed your party, magician and cupcakes! (And the humongous moon bounce!!!)

Order Up: Happy Birthday Arianna!

The order:

2 Dozen Mini Smitten Snickers

The cupcake gremlin strikes again! Ang contacted us this week and needed cupcakes for her friend's birthday - no problem at all for one of our top customers!

Saturday we went into the kitchen, baked up the little chocolate loves, made the caramel and chopped up the Snickers bars, and made a batch of buttercream! A special request was for purple to be incorporated into the cupcakes. I tried to dye the frosting (just a little to test) and the purple color didn't come out right since the buttercream starts caramel colored and not white.

Next option was to sprinkle on some purple sprinkles and I think that worked wonderful, what do you think?

Close up...nothing like snickers and purple :)
See ya later little babies!
One last detail - a purple Happy Birthday sign!
Happy Birthday Arianna - I hope you enjoyed your cupcakes and had a wonderful birthday!

Order Up: Happy 10th Birthday Alexa!

The order:

1 dozen mini Chub Rub

1 dozen mini Cookie Dough

1 dozen mini Oreo Oh

1 dozen mini Take Pride

2 dozen Cupcake Pops

A few weeks ago we were having dinner with one of our favorite couples John and Rachel, when Rachel asked me if I could make cupcakes for her niece's birthday party - of course I could! She let me know that it was going to be a spa themed party - where the girls dressed up in their jammies, manis and pedis and hanging out being little girls! (And I'll admit - I'm totally jealous that they didn't have that when I was growing up! Maybe an idea for my next birthday ;)

Anywho - into the kitchen I went! The cupcakes were a baking, the frostings were made and patiently waiting to be beautifully piped onto the cupcakes! The best part of this? Getting to decorate! The colors were white, black and pink (my faves!) - and since it was glamour, we went with chocolate molds to make high heels, perfume bottles, compacts and lipsticks.

Hello little girly cupcakes!

What, girl's just love to accessorize!
Swoon - I want a pair of pink heels!
All the little babies boxed up and ready to go!
Chub Rub "A" for the birthday girl!
Once the cupcakes were done and decorated, it was onto the cake pops! So much fun to mush cake and frosting together and roll them into little balls of deliciousness! Once they were settled, it was time to cover them in pink and white fondant!

A whole stack of yummy cupcake pops!
Happy Birthday Alexa - I hope you had a wonderful day and enjoyed your spa treatments!