rose cupcakes

i made these cupcakes this morning for my little niece who's turning one! we're having a little family get together tonight that i'm bringing them to.

i piped the frosting on with a wilton #123 tip...and added crystal sprinkles. i think they turned out pretty cute!

princess cupcakes

i made these princess cupcakes last week for my cousins little girl. her favorite colors are purple and pink :).

princess and the frog cake

i made this cake for a friends little girl last week. i know it's not a cupcake, but i still decided to post it :).

i used a heart shaped pan to bake the cake layers. i cut the tip off the heart shaped cake pieces to make the cake look like a lily pad. i covered the cake with light green fondant and brushed on some edible shimmer dust to add a nice glittery princess shine. the flowers are fondant and frosting. my friend bought the characters at the disney store.

white baptism cupcakes

i made these over the weekend. so white and delicate. the frosting and sprinkles remind me of lace. i used a mini star tip, crystal sprinkles, and large pearl nonpareils.

pink flag cupcakes

i made these cupcakes for my sister's birthday. i think they turned out pretty cute. the flags were so easy to make. i just cut up little pieces of scrapbook paper and attached them to toothpicks. fun and PINK!

chocolate glaze cupcakes

i made these cupcakes for my niece's birthday party. we dipped the tops of the cupcakes in a chocolate glaze {my niece helped} and then added strawberry slices to finish them off. the glaze is really easy to make...

CHOCOLATE GLAZE FROSTING {dries smooth, hard, and shiny}

6 tablespoons cocoa
4 tablespoons butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

1-Melt your butter.
2-Add all other ingredients.
3-Stir until well mixed and smooth.
4-Add more water if you want it thinner at this point.
5-If using as icing and you think it's too thick just let it sit for a few minutes.

chocolate banana cream daisy cupcakes

i made these cupcakes last weekend for a benefit bake sale. they were chocolate cupcakes with banana cream frosting! i came up with the frosting on my own, although i know there's a lot of banana cream frosting recipe's out there.
here's my recipe:

BANANA CREAM FROSTING
1/2 cup butter {1 stick}, softened
1 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
1 small package of banana pudding mix

beat the butter, cream cheese, & vanilla together. add the powdered sugar and banana pudding mix and beat until well blended.

pinkalicious cupcakes

i made these darling little things for my niece's birthday last weekend. can i just say that i LOVE pink?! i'm also lovin' the dainty cupcake liners i found on bake it pretty.

the cupcakes~ the birthday girl loves chocolate, so of course, CHOCOLATE

the frosting~ made my yummy cream cheese frosting with a touch of pink food coloring gel

the sprinkles~ mixed together a bunch of different types of pink, crystal, and white sprinkles

happy birthday sweet kiriauna!

strawberry shortcake cupcakes

here's some more strawberry shortcake cupcakes i made for my nieces strawberry shortcake birthday party! i made them just like the cupcakes below {aug. 5th post} but added strawberry shortcake toppers {found them on ebay} instead of strawberry gummies :). to see more of the party click here.

strawberry shortcake cupcakes

i made these cuties for my nieces strawberry shortcake party {to see more of the party go here}. they were quite simple actually...i piped strawberry frosting onto each cuppy and added a gummy strawberry to the top.

clown cupcakes

here's my clown cupcakes i made for my little boys' circus party! i found the plastic shoes and clown heads online...

they were super fun...

to see more of my circus party go here {you can also see my popcorn cupcakes and snow cone cupcakes below}...

{photo's courtesty of my awesome photographer, lyndsey @ http://www.seenboxphotography.blogspot.com/}

cotton candy cupcakes

i made these cute cotton candy cupcakes for a sugar & spice party i hosted a few weeks ago {to see more pics of the party and my candy buffet go to my party site, here}. they were really yummy, and tasted a lot like cotton candy!

how to:

first i added 1 1/2 containers of blueberry yogurt to my white cake batter...

then added a little cotton candy flavoring {you can also add actual cotton candy to the batter, i just didn't have any on hand}...

the frosting was cream cheese with cotton candy flavoring {and blue food coloring gel}.

after all was said and done i rolled the edges in clear candy sprinkles & added a cotton candy topper {found on ebay}.

juicy couture cupcakes!

my sister in law has a collection of 'juicy couture' handbags & loves the brand, 'juicy' so i decided to try and come up with some juicy couture cupcakes for her birthday!

i made some jumbo peanut butter chocolate cupcakes to begin with {they were yum!}...

then piped on some raspberry cream frosting i made with a jumbo #1c tip {the frosting tasted EXACTLY like cream savers!}...

and as for the cupcake toppers:

i found some wooden shapes at the craft store {crowns, hearts, royalty symbols} that worked perfectly! i got so excited when i found them! i revised them a bit and then matched the colors in photoshop and made some 'juicy couture' logos {gotta love google images}...which i printed, cut, and glued onto the crowns etc. i then painted some regular kitchen skewers and glued them to the backs of the shapes...and walla!

elmo cupcakes

my son turned two today! and although we're having a big circus birthday party for him & his brother {they're both june babies} in a few weeks, we celebrated today as well. he loves elmo...so i decided to make him some elmo cupcakes! i've seen a lot of different ideas floating around the web for elmo cakes/cupcakes etc. here's my own version of them.

how i made them:

i piped red frosting on using a grass tip to make the red elmo fur
used oreo cookies for the mouths
used orange gumballs for the noses
and used white candy melts for the eyes

my little guy LOVED them! these would be perfect for any elmo/sesame street themed party!

snow cone cupcakes!

Yes folks, these are actual cupcakes..not snow cones made out of ice!

So I'm planning a big circus birthday party....and the other day I was thinking about snow cones. I thought they would be fun for the whole event but didn't know if I wanted to stand behind a snow cone machine making them throughout the whole party. I sat there thinking for a bit, and suddenly came up with the idea of 'snow cone cupcakes'!!! I don't know why I didn't think of them earlier! Just use snow cone papers as cupcake liners and there ya have it!

I made some tester ones tonight :). I want the final ones to be more rounded on top but here's my quick go at 'em. Cute, huh?!

I just filled the snow cone papers with batter..baked them (now that was the tricky part..but guess what, the snow cone holders you see above are metal...so I used them! I was originally going to use chicken wire over a deep pan, which I think would work as well)..and covered the tops with frosting and bright colored sprinkles! I'm so excited about them! I've never seen anything like them. I'm patting myself on the back right now..hehe.

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penguin cupcakes

i made these baby penguin cupcakes for my sister in law's shower last saturday. she's having a girl (hence the pink frosting). the penguin's are made out of keebler cookies, tic tac's, and bubble tape cut into triangles :). i stuck heart shape pics into them to match the shower theme.

ice cream cone cupcakes

i'm sure many of you have seen these before, they're just too darn cute to pass up though! yup, the cones i made aren't actually 'ice cream cones' they're 'cupcake cones'. and for toppings-coconut frosting with chocolate or strawberry syrup and rainbow nonpareils. kids love these bad boys!

swirly fun cupcakes

i made these with fondant (that i dyed pink), green frosting, & yellow nonpareils :). fondant definitely doesn't taste the best, but i just love the look of it..all smoothe! i do have a recipe for a marshmellow fondant that's suppose to taste good..i need to try it!

princess cupcakes

my friend jamie asked for some ideas for princess cupcakes. i've been thinking about what would be cute ever since i read your comment this morning jamie :). i came up with this cupcake while my boys were napping today. it was really fun :). i cut two stars from some scrapbook paper...hot glued a sucker stick & some wrapping paper ribbon inbetween the two to make a princess wand...then cut a large circle out of pink tissue paper and hot glued it to the cupcake wrapper to add some spice :). i had some princess ribbon lying around (i have tons of ribbon bc i used to make things & sell 'em on ebay) that i glued to the outside of the base. oh, and the cupcake is just regular chocolate with strawberry frosting and fun pink sprinkles :). man, i need a little girl or something :).

strawberry chocolate cupcakes

here's some strawberry chocolate cupcakes i made. the chocolate swirls on top were really fun..the sloppier the better :).