Hair Style Themed Cupcakes

WOW! This weekend was BUSY BUSY with baking!!!

I had an order for 30 sugar cookies decorated in panties and bras for a bridal shower.

So, Friday right after work, I made my cookie dough, rolled it out, cut them and baked them.

I had this new glaze recipe I wanted to try that made the glaze really shiny...worked wonderfully! But I was up until 3:00am decorating those babies!!! Im a bit of a perfectionist

when it comes to decorating and I am also the type that ideas started brewing as I am in the moment, so I really got into it!! My feet and back paid for it in the end...but they turned out soooo cute!! OH and stupid me, FORGOT to take pics of all my hard work!!!

That order was picked up Saturday at 1:30pm.

In addition to the cookies I baked a birthday cake for my step father's bday...

Scooby Doo theme (YES he LOVES Scooby Doo!!)

So, I baked the cake Friday night and got up at 8:00am to decorate on Saturday morning because my mom wanted to have an early lunch at 11:30am.

So off I was to lunch and the Scooby Doo cake but I had to be back by 12:45pm to put the

cookies in their little individual bags and tie off with ribbons before the pick up time of 1:30pm.

WHEW!!!! I made both deadlines and after the cookies were picked up....I proceeded straight to

my bed for a MUCH NEEDED NAP!!! :)

I then woke up and proceeded to bake 45 cupcakes for an order that was being picked up

Sunday at 10:00am. This was for a hair stylists bday party..so she wanted a theme to fit the hair stylist. I initially started cutting out little hair dryers and scissors in fondant, but I didnt like the way the fondant looked so dull. So, I decided to do them in melted chocolate....YUMMY! Well, I did all of the chocolates Saturday night so they could set in the refridgerator overnight and then I woke up at 7:30am on Sunday and made chocolate buttercreme and vanilla buttercreme and started frosting away!!

They came out FANTASTIC and she loved them when she came to pick them up!!!

As soon as my order was picked up, off we went to a nice lunch in San Francisco with my hubby, mom, niece and auntie....GREAT way to end my busy weekend!!!

A BIG Cupcake!!!!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!

I was asked by one of my co-workers to bake a cake shaped as a big cupcake for her friend's bday. So, I borrowed my SIL's HUGE cupcake pan from Wilton's. Here is what I came up with.

She wanted a cake with chocolate frosting and basically told me to do whatever I wanted...though there isnt much creative process needed for this cake...I mean its not like I had to come up with a design or shape the cake myself. The hardest decision was what color the bottom "cupcake holder" I was going to choose...light pink won! I thought it would be a pretty contrast with the deep, rich chocolate....WHOOOOH I LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!!!

I decided to make a chocolate ganache frosting...my fave!!!!!

I infused some fresh vanilla bean in the batter. And then I added some little pink fondant flowers to make it a little cutesy but not too too cutesy.

Anyway it was a simple cake to make...but boy do my feet HURT from standing up all afternoon in the kitchen!!!

I am off to a Purse cake class on Saturday...can't wait for that! I will post the pick afterwards.

TWD CHOCOLATE PUDDING

YUMMY!!!!!! I was so happy when Melissa from It's Melissa's Kitchen selected

CHOCOLATE PUDDING!!

I am a CHOCOHOLIC and anytime I have to make something with chocolate in the recipe...hey, I am a HAPPY person!

So, this recipe was a bit labor intensive...but the end result was a nice, smooth, deep chocolate flavored pudding.

I used a dark chocolate infused with chile from Vosges' Chocolates that I had sitting in a lil secret stash drawer I keep...ssssshhhh!!! I have a hubby and 3 sons in the house that devour ALL food!!!

So a girl's gotta keep a secret drawer stash in the house for piece of mind!!!! ;)

Anyway, I was a tad worried that my pudding was developing the dreaded pudding skin..YUCK!

But, it didnt happen, my mind was playing tricks on me!!

It turned out fabulous!!! See ya next Tuesday!!!

TWD Blueberry Pie

Here is my pic Blueberry Pie for this weeks selection. It came out pretty well! Its been a heat wave here in Northern California, so my posting is going to be short and sweet! Until next week Bakers!

cupcakes n corsets

I finally tried working with fondant last night and found it pretty easy to play with. I bought a flower gumpaste tool set from Wiltons a few years ago and it just sat in my cupboard...well I broke it open last and started cranking out a few little flowers and then attempted to make a little pig...which came out so cute!

I baked some devli's food cupcakes with chocolate ganache frosting from scratch when I got home yesterday and then added the little fondant flowers to them with some sugar sprinklings...here they are!!

Here is a pic of the chocolate corsets I made for my bridal shower.....the theme was pink and black boudoir....I just got a call from one of my friend's and she is throwing a bridal shower end of July and requested these corsets as favors...so she ordered 30 of them!