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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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Cookies for a Cocktail Party

I met Bernie for the first time…gosh, I think it was on my wedding day, almost 3 years ago.  Surely we met earlier, but now that I think about it maybe not!  She is dating one of Colt’s BFF’s from high school and they are about to get MARRIED!  In twenty two days to be exact.    Chase and Bernie live about 40 minutes away and we don’t get together nearly enough.  Lately though, it seems we’ve seen them a lot more and I’ve been able to spend some more time with Bernie.  She is such a darling person and I’m so excited for her and Chase!

This weekend was her bridal shower and I wasn’t able to attend, so I sent cookies.  Actually, I didn’t think I was even invited, and she swears my invite got “lost-in-the-mail.”    Which I’m sure it did.  Her and Chase have been sending everything to our old address.  Even though Colt is IN their wedding we started thinking maybe we weren’t invited!  Lol.  I kid, I kid.

Anywho…back to the bridal shower.  The theme was a cocktail party and I had recently purchased this a-dorable martini glass cookie cutter.  I did half cosmos and half martini’s with olives.  I found my inspiration over HERE at “The Decorated Cookie.”  Which by-the-way, is a-freakin-dorable.  The next time I’m at a bookstore I am buying her book.  It’s seriously genius.

Cookie:  Suzie’s Sugar Cookie

Icing:  Royal Icing

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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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