Cakes by Steph

My daughter is at it again - designing her own cupcakes to take to school today.  She picked it all out… and even helped me do them.

These cookies were made for my sister’s baby shower this weekend.  She calls her baby her little monkey :)  So we did monkey things for the shower.

I had some extra cupcakes and some extra frosting…it was a sign I think that I needed to make these up for us :)  These are coconut cupcakes with a coconut pudding filling and chocolate buttercream icing.  And little royal icing flowers of course :)  Can’t wait until my girls see these later today…boy are they going to be excited for snack time tonight!

Here’s another big cupcake for you all to enjoy…this time in green and brown.  The “liner” on the cupcake is a chocolate shell - yum!  The base cake is a 10″ round…this time chocolate cake with chocolate ganache ;-)  Boy were Dave’s co workers lucky this month!

This was a birthday cake for 2 wonderful little girls turning 7 who love American Girl.  The standup/cutout in the middle is gumpaste and based on the old American Girl logo (see image below cake).  Cupcakes and stars on the cake were in colors to match the different girls.

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Here is a sheet cake and 65 cupcakes I made for a grand opening of Marian’s new Appleton location.  The cupcake colors represent the schools logo color of royal blue and the team color of burgundy.   The seal on the cake is made from gumpaste to replicate the seal from their website (see below).  I then hand drew on the lettering and flame/torch design.  Letters on cake are fondant cut outs and all the flowers on the cupcakes are fondant cut outs.

This is the seal that I replicated from

Closeup of some of the cupcakes

And here are the remaining 4 dozen!

Tomorrow my 4 yr old is celebrating her “pretend” birthday at school since her bday falls over the summer months.  So of course when I asked her what kind of cupcakes she wanted she said “Horse!”  So surprised :)    That girl loves horses!  And chocolate cupcakes…AND her fav color is purple.

The horses are piped with royal icing, fondant flowers and buttercream icing.

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I had some cupcakes from some leftover cake batter…what to do….  I was a little unsure what to even do with them this time.  I was feeling uninspired.  And of all the horrors, my hubby ate one before I got a chance to decorate it!  He tells me *gasp* he doesn’t really care if there’s frosting on it! :O  I’m not sure what’s wrong with him

In the end I came up with two styles…one more fancy, one fun for the kids.  The black and pink ones have fondant flowers on them…one I did a fondant gerbera daisy (or a variation of one :)  ).  I don’t normally use fondant for this type of flower but it worked ok.   The rainbow cupcakes I did with my girls in mind as they love rainbows.  Hubby ate one of these as well LOL

These cake and cupcakes were done for a friend’s daughter who celebrates her birthday this weekend.  The egg is fondant covered with a gum paste bow and the cupcakes have buttercream icing with gum paste eggs.

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Had some extra cupcakes to play with…all of the items are made from gumpaste.  I think my favorites are the daffodils.  I do love daffodils

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So its my oldest’s birthday tomorrow (she turns 7!!!).  A couple weeks back we started talking more about her birthday and what theme she wanted…and she decided on rock star. :)  This girl loves guitar hero, rock band, guitars and all that goes with it.  Yet in the next breathe she plays barbie and my little pony.  I can’t figure it out!   So when it came time to pick a cupcake for school she said “guitars!!!  or drums…or maybe a microphone…” :)  So we settled on guitars as that was probably easiest (and most fun) for me.  She picked the colors and wanted this style of guitar.

The guitars are royal icing piped (I made 30 of them! Only broke one - yay :)  ).  The stars are cut out of fondant and left to dry so they harden.  Then there’s icing and pink cake sparkles.  There will be more guitar cakes to follow as the celebration continues

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Valentine’s day is just around the corner ~ and I was on duty to make sweet treats for both the girls’ classes.  I decided to keep it easy on myself and make them all the same and not too detailed.  I did, after all, end up decorating 4 dozen cupcakes! :)  It didn’t take that long at all either.  Chocolate cupcakes by the request of my chocolate loving girls…the icing is piped out half pink/half white.  Dark pink cake sparkles on top and then I piped out chocolate pink and red hearts to put in top.  Click an image to enlarge…

Tonight is my 4 yr old daughter’s Christmas program for school.  I signed up to bring a sweet treat of course ;-)  I love working with the blues of winter and snowflakes.  So here are some blue iced cupcakes with some Wilton crystal sprinkles for “snow” and royal icing snowflakes that I piped.  Boy were they fragile! I’m glad I made extra.  But the delicate look of them is just what I wanted… Click the image to see a larger view.

These almost got away…I ALMOST didn’t decorate them but then I couldn’t let that happen!  So here they are all fall’d up!

These castle cupcakes I made for my daughter to take to school for her bday.  I had found this idea online along with another idea (princess crowns).  I let her pick thinking that won’t take too long.  Ok…well lesson learned ;-)  I spent a good 4 hrs on the castles alone.  Fortunately the baking and icing/glitter part was super quick. :)  But she loves them (other than thinking that the castles were going to be really big cause of the pic I had shown her).  They are dusted in a pearl dust so they shimmer.  I had to make 24 of them to take.  Whew…I’m tired of that now :)  But they did turn out cute.   I wish the pic could show the details and shimmer better…I need to make that light box!

Here is the cupcake cake I made for my daughter’s 6th birthday party with her friends tomorrow.  Cupcake cakes are made by putting a whole bunch of cupcakes together and icing over the top.  Then to serve you just take a cupcake off - no cutting! :)  On top is the tiara I made earlier this week (see pics below in the last post). I’ve put a pic below of the island princess barbie this was based on.

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February 2007

February 2006

Cupcakes with blue frosting star tipped long. White melt chocolates for eyes with mini m-n-m’s on them and for the nose.

August 2005

I found this idea in a magazine and it was pretty simple overall.

February 2004

This cake was made using Wilton’s Blue’s Clues cake pan. Nothing too fancy here but a great beginners project! The cup cakes are pretty basic - just used a star tip to make the paw prints.