Carnival!

I had the pleasure of creating Carnival-themed cupcake toppers for a family reunion.  As visions of sequins, feathers, and masks danced in my head, I created four very unique toppers for them to choose from.  Each mas was piped with different colors and designs, and hand-painted with luster dust to make them sparkle.

Can you guess which ones they chose?

Bowling Birthday Party

A friend's little boy was having a birthday party at a bowling alley, and asked if I could create a cake that would fit with that theme.  I had so much fun coming up with this one!  They only wanted a small personal cake for the birthday boy, and cupcakes for his guests.  I made bowling pins and balls out of fondant for cupcake toppers. 

Cupcake flavors (from left to right) are: banana cupcakes with honey-cinnamon cream cheese frosting; chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream; and lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting.

Everything Coming Up Roses

A customer ordered some cupcakes for Mother's Day.  Nothing fancy, just some delicious cupcakes.  I wanted to do something to make them special, so I frosted them using a slightly different technique - rather than frosting from the outside-in, I reversed the direction, going from the inside-out.  Thus creating an effect that looked like roses!  And what mother doesn't want a dozen roses for Mother's Day?!

 

Lady Bugs!

I love Spring - the way the weather slowly changes, my favorite flowers coming to bloom, the warm (but not hot!) weather that just SCREAMS for you to sit and soak up.  I couldn't resist making some lady bug cupcakes to celebrate the coming of Spring!

 

A Princess Party

Rubber Ducky!

I learned about piping gel and painting with real silver flakes the same morning.  The result was this oh-so-cute duck.  The tub was made out of two jumbo-sized cupcakes placed side by side, which was then covered in white fondant.  I added some blue dye to the piping gel, and texurized it to make it look like water in a tub.

Barbie Cupcake

Matel came out with a retro design to celebrate Barbie's birthday.  In honor of that, a friend asked me to make her mom a special mini-cake for Mother's Day. I piped Barbie's silouette with black royal icing, and then drew her name.  It was a fun challenge!

Soccer Cupcakes

My kids get to have the coolest cupcakes at their end of season soccer parties.  I rolled whit fondant to shape the balls, then cut out black fondant to add the detail.  The grass is just buttercream that I colored green.  They were thrilled!

I also had the opportunity to make some cupcakes for a grand opening event for the Long Beach Futsal Indoor Soccer arena.  Thank you to the Caparelli family for letting me help them celebrate their big day!

 

Christmas Cupcakes

Santa and Rudolph faces were cut out of fondant then decorated with white melted chocolate of different colors.  Rudolph's nose is a red hot

Rudolph and Clarisse cupcakes were covered and decorated in fondant.  Pearlized sugar dragees were used for Clarisse's polka dots!

Snowflake made out of white chocolate

Ornaments made out of fondant, and detailed with white chocolate

Snowglobe made out of fondant and hand-painted detail.

Thanksgiving Cupcakes

Thanksgiving cupcake - to give you something to be thankful about!  Fondant leaves, rolled sprinkles, and fondant turkey (with a candy corn nose!)

Popcorn!

Sometimes I get a little bored.  Sometimes my creative GENIUS gets hold of me, and I just let it do its thing.  Behold:  "popcoron" cupcakes.  To create the popcorn, I cut up mini white and yellow marshmellows, and stuck them together with a little buttercream.  I then stuck them on frosted mini cupcakes.

Who's got the movie?

Monsters!!!

Playing with some ideas for a montser-themed baby shower.  Which ones are your favorites?

 

 

Vanilla Horse Cupcakes

My first venture into the wonderful world of all things novelty was following a request from a friend to provide cupcakes for her daughter's Western-themed birthday party.  I wanted to come up with something different, something that was sure to please a bunch of 9 year olds, and something decidedly WESTERN.  So I got some wafer cookies, some white and milk chocolate, some peanuts and some pretzles, and went to work.  What I came up with was this:

I piped the milk chocolate on the wafer for the mane, and the pretzle for the tail.  I also added some spots to the horse's "torso".  I tried to find the Circus peanuts candies, but had to settle for regular old peanuts - but I was trying to make the entire cupcake edible.  Who wants to have to pick off a peanut shell from the top of a cupcake?!  Regardless, the birthday girl was beyond excited, so I'd have to say overall, it was a job well done.  Not bad for my first attempt!