Birthday Cupcakes

These fun cupcakes were for a 16th birthday.  Hello Kitty is so cute!

Fire Helmet Cake Pops

Hmmm...what to say about these cake pops.  These were for my cousin's son's 3rd birthday.  He's into fire trucks, which I didn't think I could make, but I thought I could make a fire helmet.  I thought I could.  I had a great picture in my mind.  They started out looking good but then fell apart so I tried again, and again, and this is what they became.  I wasn't very happy with them, in fact I thought they looked like a duck or like that character from the Fat Albert cartoon that wears a hat over his eyes (see picture below), but he's only 3 and I'm sure he'll eat them!

These look much better!

Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes

These 250 mini cupcakes were for a farewell open house last weekend.  I made turtle (of course - everyone loves chocolate!), red velvet, vanilla, and a new recipe - lemon blueberry.

 I love the pink liners!

 Lemon blueberry were scrumptious!

Corn Cobs & Yarn

 My friend, Kris, asked me to make cake pops for her parents's 50th anniversary party.  He's a farmer and she's a crafter so I made cake pops to look like corn on the cob, balls of yarn, and tomato pin cushions.  I heard they were a big hit!

S'more Cupcakes Please!

I've seen several recipes for s'more cupcakes and thought they would be fun to make.  I had to make a couple of chocolate cakes today so I used some of that batter and made two experimental cupcakes.    Both cakes are chocolate cake with a marshmallow inside and topped with crumbled grahm crackers.  I tried two different toppings.  One is toasted marshmallows with a pieces of Hershey's chocolate and a grahm cracker.  The other is a marshmallow buttercream frosting (which melted when I tried to toast it - wasn't thinking on that one!), a piece of chocolate and grahm cracker.  So fun!

Turtle Cupcakes Revised

As I wrote in my last post, I haven't been baking lately because of my foot surgery.  I'm still not doing much but I had a call for 2 dozen mini cupcakes so I thought I'd try my best.  I've had a lot of requests for turtle cupcakes and I think I finally made the best one!  I added more caramel to the frosting and instead of drizzling just caramel on top I also drizzled chocolate.  These were delicious!  I'm not even a big chocolate eater, but these were good!

These are also wonderful!  Vanilla with raspberry frosting and a blackberry on top.