On a good note...

For teacher appreciation week- for Nick's music teachers!

More Babies!

A friend threw a baby shower for 2 moms to be and one mother is expecting twins- the pictures are not the best! Would have tried to get better ones but I was running late because the baby "blankets" kept wanting to slide off the cupcakes. So the little hearts on the cupcakes are disguised pretzel sticks that I put in to hold the babies in place! :)
Then for the mini cupcakes; flowers, teddy bears and bottles. I love baby showers! My friend is going to send me better pictures, right Melissa? hint hint!

Yellow Rose of Texas

When I got an order for these for Mothers Day from a lady whose mother is from Texas, I realized how addicting rose making is. As you make petal after petal you kind of go into a trance- she only needed two so when I finished I felt like..... it just wasn't enough! I love the yellow with the green sugar. Thanks Annette for your order!

Shopping Anyone?

This was such cute idea- My friend Kim asked for some "purses" on her cupcakes so making these remind me of when I played playdough as a kid and designed my own things!

Daisys

I just love Daisys, one of my very favorite flowers. These were for a Mothers Day celebration at church and I just had to put a picture up.

Apples Apples Apples

Teacher appreciation week was a lot of fun- I got great feedback from friends and emails from teachers who had received their own "apple" and while I cant take credit for the original idea I still feel like I grew these babies myself :)
The jumbo one with the "seeds" the kids thought was so funny, and the silver container is full of regular sized cupcakes.

Thank You!!

Happy Mothers Day and thank you to everyone who ordered cupcakes this week!
I have some great pictures to post soon,(right now I need to sleep!) Double Baby shower, Purse cupcakes, Yellow rose of Texas cupcakes, Daisy Cupcakes, Cinnamon Rolls and a harvest of little apples. A busy week but a lot of fun! So thank you for your orders! I also tried out a great new strawberry frosting... tastes like fresh strawberry ice cream. In fact I scooped it onto a cupcake for a friends birthday with my cookie scoop and it looked like real ice cream scoops. :) My new favorite!!
I'll post some pictures soon. Hope everyone had a great mothers day!

I wanted to share my cream cheese recipe- after trying a couple ways to make it I decided I like my cream cheese frosting to have the rich cream cheese flavor but not be heavy and thick- I think it goes really well with anything if you are not a huge fan of sweet frosting. But I especially like it with pumpkin, apple or banana cakes. (This would also be good with red velvet chocolate cake.)

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:
1 8oz cube of cream cheese softened
1 lb (4 sticks) of unsalted butter
big slop of pure vanilla extract - (about 2 tsp)
5 cups of powdered sugar

Blend the cream cheese and butter together really well first then add the rest of the ingredients.
A lighter frosting with a great cream cheese taste!