Cake Sale

Just wanted to share my newest cupcake creations! Enjoy :)

Vanilla Cake with Strawberry buttercream and fresh strawberry reduction

Just in time for camping season: S'mores! Cupcakes. Honey graham cake with a hint of cinnamon, chocolate ganache and home made marshmallow.  Yummy!

Christmas Cupcakes Galore

I am literally buried with cupcake requests this year.  I love this season, everything from trees to malls, houses to hedges are covered with Christmas lights.   So merry and bright!  To kick off my Christmas cupcake stretch, here is a picture I hope you all will like.

 Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese frosting.  Topped with red sugar and gum paste candy cane.

Velvet Dreams

It's been awhile... busy with other things.  I made this batch of Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting for my daughter's teachers and my hubbie's co-workers.  I will find reason to bake!  This recipe is delish!  The cake has a hint of chocolate.  Yummy!

Banana Cupcake with Cream Cheese Buttercream

 

Cait has been asking me to make her some banana cake to take to school as a recess snack.  So I made a double batch of Moist Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream.  I am not a big Cream Cheese desserts.  I find them to dense and strong tasting.  But I do love cream cheese on savory dishes.  For mother's day I made my mom some pistachio cheese cake and it was pretty good!  

I had to play around the portion of c.cheese and icing sugar as I wish it to have a hint of c. cheese without overpowering the banana. It is so YUMMY!

My Guinea Pigs!

From those who know me, they would know that I am a total FAKE!  I love, love to bake but I don't eat lots of sweets!  Baking is my outlet and has been in awhile.  For months and months, desserts, cakes and such would sit around the house when I am experimenting and eventually will get thrown out!  I know, I know! it's not good but I don't want to gain 10 lbs a weeks!

I found some willing guinea pigs... my hubbie's co-workers! 

I made them Mango Cupcakes last night, my hubbie helped, of course! He is the best-ever dishwasher! :D

Buttercream made out of REAL fruit!  Hope they like it!

 Italian sponge cake, mango syrup and mango buttercream.

Coconut Dream

 I now moved my obsession to coconut cupcakes.  I was given an opportunity to make these babies and I loved it.  It was light and delicious!

Coconut Dream Cupcakes, with coconut syrup, coconut buttercream and last but not the least, coconut flakes.

Pistachio Ganache Cupcakes

Lately, I developed an obsession with Pistachio.  Pistachio this, pistachio that...they are so expensive!  I found a reason to use my left over pistachio... make pistachio and chocolate cupcakes.

Cupcakes, Engagement and a Wedding

Cupcake addiction? No such thing! But what do they say about people with addiction - first sign denial!

Dutch chocolate cupcakes with Vanilla buttercream.

My sis just got Engaged! Another excuse to bake a cake.  Coincidentally, I am in the midst of a wedding cake project. I will be posting pictures of the sketch.  The bride, my cousin, emailed me a picture of a cake she wanted me to replicate.  I find it more challenging to copy a cake design because you don't have artistic interpretation but I aim to please the bride!