tis the season cupcakes

the last three of my cupcakes this season!  they were fun. and adorable.

melted snowmen:  rolled fondant, icing head, fruit chew nose, edible marker arms

santa hats: strawberry and icing

snowflakes:  melted candy wafers

snowman cupcakes

my latest wintery cupcakes !

thanksgiving pie cupcakes

my thanksgiving cupcakes this year!

i hope everyone had as lovely a holiday as i did!

halloween treats

thanks to hurricane sandy, halloween has been rescheduled for today.  i figure it's a good day to share my halloween treats this year.

i found a pictures of these bloody cupcakes online and did my best to make them myself.  store-bought candy knives and strawberry syrup blood

brownie graveyard, also found online. i was lazy so instead of making gravestone-shaped cookies, i just used melting candy wafers for the graves. 

peanut butter (eye)balls!  covered and decorated with melted candy wafers

ghost cupcakes i found in a halloween magazine. ghosts made from fondant. i didn't have a rolling pin and didn't follow the directions to make these properly. i winged it, worked well enough!

jackolantern and mummy cake pops. these were a nightmare to make. i've found cakepops to be frustratingly time consuming.  these were supposed to be fast and simple but for some reason i couldn't seem to get the candy wafers to melt properly. at least they still look halloweeny!

smores cupcakes

smores cupcakes!! nom nom nom. i got the idea from the hello cupcake newsletter. 

i'm hungry.

cupcakes, cookies, and pie, oh my! give away!

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when you win, i demand to be given the copy. then i'll make you tasty treats from the book.

this is the book series i've gotten tons of amazing ideas for cupcakes.  here are a few i've tried from the books:

wiener dog cupcakes

 i was commissioned to make these cupcakes for a coworker recently. wiener dog cupcakes! she gave me a photo to copy from, so sadly i can't take credit for the design.  this was my first attempt with fondant, and i had literally no idea what i was doing. i just kind of winged it and i think it came out cute. maybe i'll try more fondant in the future, but i prefer the taste and look of some good ol' messy icing. 

1EG friday: delightful and delectable

new 1EG ! since i'm in love with cupcake decorating, i thought this would be fun to paint. just in time for the "needs more butter" all-gal art show! this saturday, june 23. at life is sweet cake shop. 126 main street. bradley beach, nj

framed with a 3D layered effect. the glass is raised above the painting with some faint floral designs: 

yum yums.

slumber party!!!

the greatest slumber party cupcakes of all time. each made specifically for and of each person in attendance. my personal favorite are drew, sportin' the dreads, the only male with a teddy bear, wide-eyed awake, possibly scared. cory, the monster giant too tall for his sleeping bag with his feetsies sticking out.  and bill, who is...a teddy bear. 

the design i got from hello, cupcake and the were very easy to make.

zelda cake

my latest cake! a zelda cake featuring the adorable link.

happy birthday dr. seuss!

okay so his birthday was on friday, but thanks to working in a school, i celebrated it artistically through cakes and bulletin boards!

my GREEN green eggs and ham cake

dr. seuss bulletin boards and decorations ! i spent lots of time drawing these up and cutting these out. best job ever being able to sit and draw all day to make all the little kiddies happy with a cartoon seussy atmosphere.

(ok i only made the lorax here in this one, and he's adorable)

cartoon cakes

here are a bunch of cartoon cakes i made over the past several months !

cake pops

cake pops! the newest "art form" i've been playing with lately. here are my first three attempts.  babies (design from bakerella), zombies, and super mario.  they make really cute treats, but are unbelievably time consuming. those mushrooms took up an entire day to make. i'd say they're hard to make, but i can't decide whether or not i'm confusing hard with time consuming. a lot more practice and maybe my cake pops will look amazing and not so lumpy !