Spring cupcakes :)

I took some cupcakes around Birmingham to some friends and businesses in the area. I decided to do my new favorite dark chocolate cupcake with a lighter cream cheese icing. Since I was going for the spring theme, I did magenta icing with these amazing little wrappers that scallop the edges of the cake.

As always, they were a hit with all-just need a really cold glass of milk with them!

Vanilla buttercream

By far, this is one of my favorite cupcakes ever. Simple vanilla cupcake made with vanilla bean, and buttercream icing that is highly tinted :)

1st order pictures

So here are some pictures of my first order....enjoy!

Note the Cafe Du Monde-a close friend told me to try it, and it is seriously one of the best coffee blends I have ever had. Makes sense to have with cupcakes :)

As promised...

Pictures from Bottletree this weekend!

Bottletree Craft Bazaar 12-6 and 12-7

Wow. All I can say is wow. I am SO impressed with the people that came out this weekend! Everyone was so great, and the event was a great hit! I really want to thank all of the awesome people that bought my cupcakes and took an interest in my love of cupcakie-ness!

Also, I wanted to tell everyone how amazing my husband Jesse is. Not only did he have a late flight into B'ham on Friday night, he chose to stay up ALL night with me and supported me by making business cards, stickers, and building boxes to hold my treats. If I didnt have his help this weekend, I probally would have gone postal, or worse, given up on making the event on both days.

Last, I am at work right now, but I will be home later tonight, and I am planning on posting all of the pictures from this weekend. They should be up today or tomorrow at some point.

Seriously, the response I got from the people of B'ham really reassured me that I can do this for real, for money, and be totally happy. Thanks to all reading this that came....I had a great time this weekend, and I am really looking forward to the future !

Hello Cupcake! "Starry Night"

Wow. I never thought cupcakes could look like this. This is by far one of the coolest cupcake presentations I have ever made. This was the 3rd cupcake I made out of Hello Cupcake.

To say the least, I found it to be time consuming in the prep more so than the execution of the design. While the art isn't close to the original, I do agree with the authors that differences help it to be your own interpretation of it.

S'mores Cupcakes

So this is a tried and true favorite among my testers (my employees!) The idea came for this one because one of the managers I work with wanted to have a dinner party with the dessert theme being s'mores. I created a cupcake that has a dark chocolate cake, a graham cracker crust on the bottom, and a marshmallow icing.