Pop Rocks Cupcake

Who would have thought that Pop Rocks candy could taste so good on a cupcake??? The popping in your mouth brings back all of your favorite childhood memories of eating Pop Rocks! Just like the package says, "Taste the Explosion!"

Perfect flavor for your next birthday party! It will bring out the child in all of us :)

We're Ready For Some Football

I made these cute little cuppies for my little boys flag football game. Each week a parent is in charge of the snackies and today was our day. Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream grass and fondant footballs. I put the laces on with royal icing.

Cupcake Bouquet #2

This is the second cupcake bouquet I've done. Funny, she didn't want me to change the color scheme. She said it was already beautiful, no need to change it! So we didn't! However, she wanted lemon cupcakes and so I created a brand new flavor of frosting. We went with a lemonade buttercream, sweet yet tart! Tasty stuff!

It's Autumn Time!!!

I love the fall season! I love everything about it! The cooler weather, the changing colors of the leaves, the smells of the fall, and especially pumpkins!!! So here is my first autumn creation of the season!!!

Pumpkin Spice Cupcake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting!

Tooth & Toothbrush

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These are for a local oral surgeon's office. They deliver them to the dentist offices who refer patients to them. Each cupcake has a tooth and toothbrush.

Cupcake Bouqet

This was for a bridal shower. They requested a cupcake bouquet with some cake pops and then pretty much left it up to me to decide how to do it all. It was my first attempt at a cupcake bouquet and I was quite pleased with the end result. As always, it was definitely a learning experiment but I will definitely make another one very soon :)

70th Birthday

I made these cupcakes for my Grandma's 70th Birthday! The theme was colorful flowers! It was perfect and so fun to make all of the flowers for the toppers.


I used the cupcake boxes to display all of the cupcakes so for the top tier I made a white cake and then did a basket weave design. I used crushed oreos for the dirt in the basket and then attached some of the cupcakes with the same colorful flowers with skewers.


Here are some views of it all put together!


There were about 9 different flavors to choose from so everyone should have been able to find something they likes :)


The flowers were all made out of fondant with royal icing centers and sprinkles.

Wedding Cupcakes

These are some cupcakes I did for a wedding open house. Very simple and oh so yummy!

Horse Birthday

I made these cupcakes for a little girl who loves horses and butterflies. She was having a hard time deciding whether to get little horses or little butterflies, so we decided to do horses with butterflies on the rump :) I used lots of bright colors for the horses and thought they turned out so cute. The actual horse is made out of fondant and then the detail is all out of royal icing. Happy 9th Birthday Jessica!

Batman Birthday

This is a batman cake I did for my son's 4th birthday. Both his 2nd and 3rd birthdays were of Thomas the Train so I was a bit unprepared when he announced he wanted Batman! I looked around and found a few ideas. I put them together and came up with my own Batman cake. He said it was perfect except it was supposed to be blue and black not yellow and black. Go figure!



It is chocolate cake with yellow buttercream icing. All of the black is fondant. I did the batman symbol and the circle freehand. The buildings I used various cookie cutters.


I used royal icing to pipe the symbol on the fondant for the cupcakes. There was no way I was going to hand cut 24 of those things! I learned lots and realized after I had them all done an easier way to do it that would have made them look better and take less time. Oh well, you live and learn!


On some of the cupcake toppers instead of putting the batman symbol I put the letters of my son's name and the number 4 since he was turning 4. He thought that was cool!

Bridal Shower Paisley

This is the final picture of the cupcakes with the paisleys. I thought they turned out very cute and oh so yummy!

Bunko Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes for my Bunko Group that I hosted this month! I made mint oreo cupcakes, black forest cupcakes, and chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. The dice are made out of fondant!

New Flavors

A couple of weeks ago my husband and I went on a cruise. If you have ever been on a cruise before you know the amount and style of food that they offer you. While perusing the different choices one particular evening and seeing an abundance of mangoes, my husband says to me, "Ooh, you should make a cupcake with mango frosting!" So, here is my creation! I am calling it Island Paradise! It is a lemon cupcake with mango frosting topped with shredded coconut.




I have a wedding coming up in October that has requested carrot cake with candied carrots as the garnish. Previous to today, I had yet to find a yummy carrot cake recipe and I had never attempted candied carrots. A friend was kind enough to share her carrot cake recipe with me and today I tried it! It is so moist and has the most wonderful flavor! As it was baking the aroma just yelled "Fall Weather"!!! It simply was heavenly!

As for the candied carrots, I found a recipe online and they weren't very difficult to make. I wish that they had turned out not quite so ooey and gooey but rather more flaky. I guess they weren't called flaky carrots though were they! The true taste test will come tomorrow when I deliver them to my husbands work for their sampling opinions! We shall see what the taste testers say!


This is a picture of the carrots drying after they had been caramelized.


This is a picture of the carrot cupcake topped with cream cheese frosting a garnish of candied carrots.

Baby Shower

These were really fun baby shower cupcakes because I got to try out a new technique. This is called fondant embossing. If you recall I blogged about this a month or so ago! These were really sweet. It is hard to see in the pictures but each fondant topper has a word embossed in it.

New Flavor!!!

Hello to all of my readers out there :) I have been wanting to try this new flavor out for awhile so I finally managed it this morning! My most favorite cookie in the world: MINT OREOS!!! So here you have it! A chocolate cupcake filled with a mint oreo treat then topped with mint oreo buttercream and a little chunk of the cookie to make it pretty :) This is definitely one to eat with a tall glass of milk!

9 Year Old Birthday Boy

These were for a little boy turning 9 years old! I hesitated on using that particular number 9 because it was exactly the same as the 6 in the set. I had several people ask if it was a 6 or a 9, but in the end I decided to use it because I liked the font and thought it went well with the circles. Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting! Very simple and oh so yummy!!!

Flip Flops

I've spent the last week working on this particular project. It was a lot of fun but you can only imagine my relief that it is done :) It is fun making all of the little parts, but such a sense of accomplishment when you can finally put all of the pieces together and have it all turn out just how you wanted.

This set of cupcakes/cake was for a wedding reception. It was an outdoor reception in the middle of July in Central CA! Crazy!!! But it was what it was! At least the Bride & Groom went easy on the guests and said it's casual, "Shorts & Flip Flops required"! What a life saver! That was also my cue for the theme of the cake/cupcakes.

I had never actually made flip flops before but I wanted to learn! So I researched the internet extensively and found a few sites that were quite explanatory on how they had achieved their adorable flip flops. I had several mess-ups which my son gladly helped me dispose of, and then finally I got the technique down. I was able to master the technique because I had to make 200 pairs (that's 400 individual) flip flops for the cupcakes, plus a few extras for spares. It would certainly be a lot easier if I could find a cutter in that exact shape, but for now I am content with my technique and thought they turned out quite well. I also made 2 pairs of large flip flops for the cake which sat on top of the cupcake boxes. One for groom and one for the bride!


Some flip flops :)


More flip flops!


And yet more flip flops!


After I got all of the soles cut out I had to put on the straps. I used fondant icing to do the stripes and attached a little fondant dot as an embellishment. I tried to do enough colors and alternate them so there were not too many duplicates. I was quite pleased with my 2 days work involved :)


Lots of flip flops :)

By that point it was time to make the cake and cupcakes. We did chocolate, vanilla, and marble cupcakes all with buttercream frosting. I piped the frosting on to look like green grass and then put the flip flops on with a little royal icing flower. Overall, I was extremely pleased with the end result. Rarely do I get the opportunity to attend the event I am baking for, but I was invited to this reception so I was able to see all of the reactions. It was very fun to hear how much everyone liked the cupcakes. It was even better to see them bite into the cupcake and realize that it tasted good too! That is a hard combination to come by!!!


Some cupcakes!


More cupcakes!


Bride & Groom Cake




Bottom layer of the cupcake boxes.


Middle layer of the cupcake boxes.


Top layer of cupcake boxes.