St Patrick's Day Cupcakes 2011

At work we are having a potluck to celebrate St Patrick's Day, so OF COURSE I just had to make cupcakes! Going with the Irish origin of St Patty's day I went for (root)Beer Float cupcakes...and I'll admit, I "tested" one (gotta make sure they're edible), and it was delicious!

As usual, & because 3 is a great number to use in any sort of design/decor, I made 3 toppers containing a rootbeer mug, a polka-dotted shamrock & the cupcake flavor. I choose the brown & vanilla colors to keep with the rootbeer theme, but then added a mossy green to tie in St. Patty's Day. I didn't want to be too over bearing and have the cupcakes scream "IT'S MARCH 17TH!!", and I felt the color & image combos worked really well together to give a sense of both themes.

The cupcake stats:
Vanilla/Rootbeer Cake
Rootbeer buttercream
Dallop of whipped cream
White sprinkle pearls to represent the carbonation of rootbeer (love, love, love it)

Custom Toppers : Relief Society Birthday

I'm not gonna lie, I was really excited when I got an email (from a client who had ordered my CTR/Baptism toppers from my Esty shop) asking if I would design some toppers for her ward's Relief Society Birthday party.

Putting a "custom order" option in my Etsy shop has been on my to-do list since I started the shop last week (and will finally be available tonight), and so I was glad that Suzanne took a shot in the dark by asking if I would do a custom order for her.

The theme for the party was "Heart to Heart" and she wanted to use a pink and brown color scheme (excellent choice...that's a "never fail" color team, especially when women are concerned). She also wanted to incorporate a quote by Sister Julie B. Beck, and have another topper containing the Relief Society seal, which she planned to put on the back side of the other two toppers. I updated the colors in the RS logo to better fit in the color scheme. (Pink & brown themed toppers with a gold & blue RS seal was not really jiving, as you might imagine).

It was wonderful working with you Suzanne, and I hope your party is a success!

Tyson's Baptism II : Cupcakes

As promised, here are the cupcakes I made for Tyson's baptism. I stuck with the color theme from the invite (click here) and designed two toppers--a CTR emblem & a simple circle topper with his name, age, & date of the baptism. I finished them off with a color coordinating wrapper.

And, if you're wondering---that sweet little cupcake is made from a triple chocolate cake, cream cheese icing, and chocolate sprinkles. Mmm mmm!

**Want some for a baptism of someone YOU know? These are customizable from the text down to the color scheme! Check them out & purchase them in the Etsy Shop. (click here)

Anniversary Party

My (amazingly awesome) parents celebrated their 25th Wedding anniversary back in October (and yes...I'm just getting around to posting this). My sister and I had a plan to throw them a surprise party with immediate family. At the time my dad was working crazy shifts at his job, and knowing my parents are low-key & don't like big to-do's about themselves, I finally broke down (aka ruined the surprise) and asked my mom what night would work best for them & if they would mind. While they appreciated the thoughtfulness they suggested that they'd rather spend some time with just us kids than have a big shi-bang, which was fine with me--after all it was THEIR anniversary. However I wanted to post a few designs that I created in anticipation for doing the surprise party because I loved the way they turned out.

With silver being the 25th wedding anniversary color I wanted to be sure it was incorporated into the color theme, to which I added black & turquoise to give it sort of a modern-flare feel.

Invitation:

Cupcake Toppers :
"Thank You" tag for favors:

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2011 Valentines

This year my mom and I teamed up again to make Valentine treats for our coworkers. (You know...another excuse to make cute things....). This year we went for simple and gourmet-esque. We bought the monster-sized marshmallows (also known as Campire--if you haven't seen these, they are huge. Probably double the size of the traditional Jumbo marshmallows). We put them on a sucker stick, dipped them in chocolate and sprinkled them with valentine hearts. And of course, we had to incorporate an excuse to use the Cake Cricut so we cut out those large pink hearts from gum paste, bushed them with pearl dust and attached them to the bottom of the 'mallows. They were then topped off with some cute ribbon & a "hope your day is sweet" topper.

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes & Topper Design

Those of you who know me are most likely aware that I will take any excuse I can get to bake. So imagine my excitement when we decided that in our department at work that each woman (there are no men in our dept) would be assigned to another woman, of whom they would bring/make dessert for on their birthday! What an excellent excuse to bake something fun and yummy! This year I am the "baker" for Michelle, who--when asked what she'd like me to bring--suggested that I make some cupcakes and incorporate a lemon filling, which is her favorite.

So--have you seen the show Cupcake Wars? While the host of the show annoys me. To death. I really love watching the bakers come up with cupcake concoctions based on the client/event chosen for the show. So I held my own "cupcake war" with the suggestions from Michelle in mind and went to work! I decided to make a strawberry lemonade cupcake based on a vanilla cake with some added lemon juice and zest in the batter. I then "cored" the center of the cupcake with my handy-dandy cupcake plunger (love it) and filled it with a lemon filling I found on Wilton's website. I frosted each cupcake with a fresh-strawberry buttercream, and viola! Delicious!

Now, no birthday cupcake is complete without little details (for me the presentation is just as important as the taste) so I designed & printed some cute cupcake toppers & made some cupcake liners, in a pink & yellow color scheme to match the cupcake flavor.