More cupcakes

I wanted to update with a few more pictures. I've been busy, busy the past few weeks with orders and I'm loving it! I haven't tried any new flavors lately aside from the pumpkin, which is quickly becoming a personal favorite.

Graveyard cupcake:



I was asked to make some cupcakes with a breast cancer awareness theme. I found these liners at a local cake shop and just thought they were adorable! My favorite part is that a portion of the cost of the liners is donated to breast cancer awareness research.

This just might be the most delicious apple ever :)

Fun

 Yesterday I had some free time, so I decided to try a pumpkin cupcake recipe. Sure enough, the smells in my kitchen were pure amazing-ness. The batter had that beautiful pumpkin pie color

And the smell! I wish I could bottle it up and upload it onto this blog because it was so enticing! They turned out beautifully and tasted as good as they smelled. I used a cream cheese frosting and it was a perfect compliment to the pumpkin.

So of course, I had to decorate them and with the current season we are in, what better way to decorate than Fall/Halloween?

This candy corn one is I think my favorite:

 Even though the mummy is pretty darn cute, too.

 Pumpkin:

 The ghost didn't turn out so well, but the concept is there. I just need to work on my execution!

So I had fun making them and my family and friends most definitely enjoyed eating them!

Girly

I know I say this every time I make cupcakes, but I was SO excited about the cupcakes I was asked to make last weekend. I think the theme had a lot to do with it...hot pink and zebra. Can you get any more girly and fabulous than that?! I made 1 dozen chocolate in hot pink liners and 1 dozen vanilla in zebra striped liners.

I love these liners! They are just so stinkin' cute! Anyways, I wasn't able to do everything I wanted with them because I had a shoulder injury, but they were still pretty fantastic. I need to get the pictures and post them, but the zebra lined cupcakes had hot pink frosting with a white chocolate "J" (for the girls first name) and the hot pink lined cupcakes had white frosting with white and black glitter....*sigh* Boy did I love making these cupcakes! 

Fall

September is quickly coming to a close and it's hard to walk through a store anymore without noticing all the Halloween decorations and candy. Fall is one of my favorite times of year and I can't help but be a little awestruck at how beautiful the earth gets with all the leaves changing colors. Not only that, but we can start wearing sweatshirts again and who doesn't love that?! That being said, this rainy weather has definitely been putting me in the mood to bake and I've got some cute ideas for some Fall/Halloween cupcakes. I'm also thinking of trying my hand at some different recipes...can you smell the pumpkin now? Mmmmmmmm

Cake pops

I've gotten some new business lately and let me tell ya, it is exciting! My brother works as one of the lead techs at a local car lot and he had me make 6 dozen cupcakes a few weeks ago in honor of one of the employees birthdays. Six dozen cupcakes; red velvet, funfetti and chocolate peanut butter. Quite an order!

On a side note, can I just say how in love I am with the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes?! Mmmm they are just so delicious! In fact, the more I'm thinking about them, the better they sound ;)

Another area that's really taking off lately is cake pops. Just this week, I had a friend order 2 dozen of them and I delivered them to her OB/GYN's office...she just had a baby a few weeks ago. What a fabulous idea this is! I never sent anything, not even a note (horrible, I know) thanking my doctor's office after the birth of either of my son's. With my youngest being a preemie, I really should have taken the time! But that's the thing, when you have a newborn, who has time to make some cupcakes or cake pops or anything special for that matter? So I was especially pleased when she asked me to make them and I even delivered them for her. Great idea! Wish I had thought of it! Feel free to pass it along :)

Peanut butter

I wanted to make some cupcakes last week, but wanted to make something different...without having to go to the store :) So that led me to chocolate peanut butter cupcakes. Basically it's a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting and I actually ended up making a peanut butter filling and putting that in half of them. The verdict? They were delicious, the frosting had a perfect amount of peanut butter. I will say though that the ones that had the peanut butter filling were gone much quicker than the ones that didn't. Note taken :)

Candyland!

For my youngest niece's 1st birthday party, my sister decided to have a Candyland themed birthday party. Pretty awesome party theme! And the options for cupcakes were pretty much limitless.

Here are the gingerbread men and gumdrop cupcakes. In front of those are cake pops. This was my first run with cake pops and I LOVED making them! Not to mention, they were a complete hit.

Just a little bit of Candy land love. 

Life

I sincerely apologize for the lack of activity lately! I have been making cupcakes and have even ventured into the realm of cake pops, but life has just gotten in the way! I have gotten out of the habit of posting pictures and cupcake adventures and that is something I plan on rectifying as soon as possible. I also have made a page on Facebook, but have not set it up so it's functional yet. In fact, I'm not even sure it has any relevant information at all. I will be adding that to my to-do list! Until next time....

Carrot cake or pumpkin??

Well, I made my brother carrot cake cupcakes. I wasn't really a fan. My niece & brother liked them a lot, but I don't know. I think they tasted more like pumpkin than carrot cake. I will say that I learned a very, very important lesson. Nuts, whether they are walnuts or pecans, are essential when making a carrot cake. I decided to skip adding the nuts. Big, BIG mistake. I think that had a lot to do with them tasting more like pumpkin than carrot cake.
Slight change of thought here, but can we just talk for a minute about how long it takes to peel and grate a full pound of carrots? Don't get me wrong, they were beautiful and smelled sooooo good! But it took quite awhile AND I practically took my thumb off in the process. Ok, I may only have 2 grate marks on my finger, but boy oh boy did it hurt!

See? Beautiful!

Carrot cake

My brother is obsessed with carrot cake. Completely and totally obsessed. I'm not quite sure where this obsession came from. I mean, he's only 18 months younger than I am so we pretty much did everything together and never have I known him to be so completely into carrot cake. He's always bugging me to make him cupcakes. "Meredith, when are you making cupcakes?" "Hey Meredith, I think you should make me some cupcakes" "I want some cupcakes!"... get the idea?? It can be quite annoying, but hey, at least the boy supports me :) So I'm thinking in honor of my baby brother, I'm going to have to work on a carrot cake recipe. It definitely has me intrigued!