Ole-Talk

Some Birthday Creativity

A good friend asked me to make cupcakes for a Curious George themed birthday party for her son.  I of course immediately went to Pinterest to find some inspiration and also found this free printable. I dusted off my trusty Silhouette machine and got to work on the toppers.

I decided to just make a simple vanilla cupcake with a strawberry filling (using fresh strawberries of course) with white and yellow frosting on top.  I try to avoid using artificial colors whenever possible and especially since these were for kids I really did not want to. Thankfully the google gods led me to lots of posts about what I could use for yellow and I decided to go with powdered turmeric.

And here's the finished product.

I could not assemble them before delivery but Kristen was kind enough to snap a couple photos for me.  She said they were a hugh hit!

One of my friends at work was also about to celebrate her birthday so I made this card for her.

It was so much fun to put together. I found this birthday printed transparency that I have had in my stash like forever and used that as my jumping of point.  And guess what? Those circles are actually left over from my Curious George toppers.  I forgot just how much I enjoy making cards and I need to get back into doing them and building up my stash once more.

Thanks for stopping by!

Baking Soothes the Soul

It has been a while since I shared any of my baking adventures so here's a round up of some of my baking over the last few months.

Gluten Free Orange Cream Cupcakes {Recipe} made for a birthday party.

Brain cupcakes for our Walking Dead premiere party last year at the Kindness house!

Chocolate with a chocolate or vanilla center and chocolate vanilla frosting made for a "tailgate' party at my gym after the end of our road trip spin series!  Hey we burned a lot of calories before we indulged.

Baby shower cupcakes!  Chocolate raspberry! 

Holiday cupcakes for a bake sale during the holiday art sale at New Urban Arts!

Assortment of holiday cookies!

Sorry if I have made you hungry, guess you just may have to go eat a cupcake now!

 

Baby Knitting and Cupcakes

Another Museum baby is on the way so of course we had to celebrate and throw a shower.  And what's a baby shower with out cupcakes and gifts.

Remember the sneak peek from Wednesday?  Here's the full reveal of what I made...baby hat and booties.  Aren't they cute and the yarn is called Girlieflage...squeal!

The cupcakes also had a girlie theme!

They almost did not make it to the shower as my oven decided to stop working.  I had them all mixed up and in the pans and the oven decided to not light.  Luckily a great friend came to the rescue and I was able to trek over to her house (in the rain I may add) and use her oven.That's dedication for you!

Just a simple vanilla cake with a dark chocolate Hershey's Kiss as a sweet surprise in the middle.  The toppers are a mix of homemade marshmallow fondant and molded chocolate.

Here's a photo of our baby shower spread! It was a lot of fun and the parent's to be where very happy and thankful!

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Baby Girl Cupcakes

So I thought that after the summer I would be all done with baby showers for 2012.  However, another of our friends at the Museum is expecting her first kid so of course we had an excuse to throw another party and I had an excuse to make more baby themed cupcakes.  These are just a basic chocolate cupcake with a vanilla butter cream frosting.

I dipped a toothpick in some red food colour and ran it up the inside of the frosting bag in a few places before filling it with the frosting and this made the slight pink tint that you can see.

Vanilla chocolate, tinted pink was used to make the booties and pacifier toppers.

Thanks for visiting and happy Monday!

S'mores Cupcake

Here's a little something to brighten your Monday monning!

S'mores Cupcakes!
Made these last week...chocolate cake batter over graham cracker crust, marshmallow melted in the middle of the cake. 
my usual buttercream frosting, and garnished with a roasted marshmallow, and regular and chocolate graham cracker!

Happy Monday!!

Baby Shower Fever | Take 5

As promised in my last baby shower fever post I am sharing what I did for my friend Kristen's baby shower at the end of May.  I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas and then making all the stuff.  Today I will share the cupcakes that I made and tomorrow I'll show you all the decorations.

I made both chocolate with a chocolate Hersey kiss in the middle and ginger maple spice.  Both were frosted with buttercream tinted blue of course.  The toppers were paper ones that I print and cut with my Silhouette and then attached to lollipop sticks.

The other topper that I did were little candy pacifiers and booties made with melt and pour chocolate and molds.  It was my first time using the melt and pour and it was the easiest thing ever.  If I knew just how easy it was to make chocolate shapes I would have been melting and pouring a long time ago.

Here are a couple of close ups!

And here they are all packed up and ready to go.

Check back tomorrow for the last of my baby shower fever posts.

Baby Shower Fever | Take 3

After a brief break yesterday to post Sister Sketch I am back to share some more baby shower stuff.  Today is all about cupcakes.

I made a basic vanilla cupcake and for the baby boy ones I did a blueberry marshmallow filling and buttercream frosting.  Oh and I should note here that blueberries make frosting lilac not blue...just saying!

The baby girl cupcakes have a strawberry filling and frosting, and yes strawberries do make things pink! Imagine that!

The cupcake toppers were cut with my Silhouette.  I used a regular cut shape and used the fill tool and line color tool to add color to the shapes and words and then cut them using the print and cut feature.  Attach them to both sides of a lollipop stick and your topper is done.

The cupcakes were a hit and I got the highest compliment from coworkers who thought they were from a bakery and said that they were very professionally done.

Thanks for looking.  Check out take 1 and take 2 to see what else I did.

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes

I have been promising my friend Carol that I would make her chocolate raspberry cupcakes and I finally got around to doing them this weekend.  I used the chocolate cake recipe from these S'mores cupcakes, made a raspberry filling with marshmallow fluff, powdered sugar and raspberry puree that I made from fresh raspberries.

The frosting is my standard buttercream with some of the fresh raspberry puree.  I love how moist the cake came out and there is just the right amount of raspberry.

Oh and Carol totally enjoyed them so mission accomplished!