Baby Feet – Baby Shower Cake – Soledad, CA

My adorable delivery girl Alexis had her baby shower last weekend.  She is due with her little boy the beginning of September, although my bets are on her delivering early.   

Her shower was set up beautifully and her dessert table made a sweet addition to her baby shower decor!

Flavors for her shower included a marble cake with chocolate buttercream, vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream topped with white sugar beads and red velvet/cream cheese cake balls dipped in dark chocolate and drizzled with white chocolate. 

Congratulations Alexis on your little one. 

He’s going to be such a handsome little baby!  I can’t wait to meet him. 

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Edible Flower Garden

My “sugar sweet bouqet” cake pops ended up linked to Mothers Day Flower Baskets for edible floral arrangements for your mom for Mother’s Day.  After checking out their post, I was in LOVE with the idea of making my cupcakes look like flowers and off I went to make my own Cupcake Flower Bouqet.  They remind me of a little flower garden, except instead of picking the flowers to smell them, you get to eat them. 

These would be darling for a cupcake wedding or a baby shower or even a birthday party.  Planter pots could be set up as the cupcake stands. 

Cupcake:  Strawberry and Espresso Chocolate

Icing:  Straberry buttercream and Buttercream (tinted purple and orange)

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Happy May Day!

I love May.  Not only is it my birthday month, but May rejuvenates me.  It seems like the air changes, the flowers come out, the weather stays nice, and good things happen!   

Shyla had called me a month or so ago wanting cupcakes for her daughters birthday party.  It didn’t end up working out and she called the other day and ordered a dozen cupcakes just because.    I made her these delectible delights topped with a flower in honor of May Day.  It seemed appropriate to have an edible “flower basket”. 

Cupcake:  Red Velvet

Icing:  Buttercream

Topper:  Gumpaste flowers

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Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

I am sitting here wallowing in my lonliness while my husband lives it up in Vegas, so I baked.  Baking always makes me happy. 

I’ve been wanting to try something different with my cake balls and had seen a DARLING chocolate box made out of cake and cake balls and thought I’d take a stab at it.  I wish I could remember what site I saw it on to give them credit…but alas, my memory fails me.  So- to the site I saw this darling idea on, THANK YOU!    I think it might have been BAKERELLA…or CAKE JOURNAL…hmmmm…really, idk.  My husband gets on me all the time about my terrible memory, which is why I love blogging so much because it’s record keeping for my memories.  Anyways…waaaay off track.

Since I was making these while missing the hubster, I chose a lovey dovey background setting.  These would make a super cute Valentine or Anniversary gifts. 

Cake:  Red Velvet

Icing:  Half cream cheese/half buttercream

Covering:  Semi-sweet chocolate with white chocolate drizzle 

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Mini Oreo Cupcakes Bites

My almost 3 year old son is getting to the age where daily activities are a must if we want to avoid several meltdowns.  This particular day I promised him he could “go WILD” with mommy’s sprinkles.  He was beyond excited and kept talking about it ALL day!  Both sprinkles containers were dumped out completely and thrown to the side in 10 seconds flat.  

He was a happy boy and I was a happy momma.

Mini Cupcakes:  Made with homemade oreo dough

Icing:  Buttercream tinted pink/purple and covered in sprinkles

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