Sesame Street Cupcakes

Here are my latest cupcakes!  They are Sesame Street cupcakes for a little boy's first birthday.  They are vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with vanilla and chocolate frosting.  The Sesame Street toppers are made out of brightly colored marshmallow fondant. 

 Here is the "smash" cake for the birthday boy.  I used one of the Elmo cupcake toppers and then decorated with blue frosting. Not only did the blue look great, but it also was sure to leave the birthday boy covered in messy frosting (perfect for pictures)!

 Here is an Oscar Cupcake Topper....he doesn't look that crabby :)

 Here is Zoe.

Elmo 

Grover 

Here are the cupcakes all ready to go!  They look so bright and beautiful! I love kids cupcakes and cookies because of all the colors! 

Red Sox Cake

 For my Dad's 50th birthday, guess who was in charge of the cake?  Yours truly.  His only request was "chocolate."  While I could have just picked up a chocolate sheet cake, I figured I should make him one of my cakes...since he is my dad and all :)  After thinking long and hard, I decided that baseball season was close enough and that I was going to make him a Red Sox cake. 

I covered the cake with white fondant.  Then I cute a large circle out of white fondant.  Then I cut red "Socks" out of fondant and decorated them with white royal icing and white fondant. Then I piped blue and red baseball seams on it.  Finally I finished the cake with blue shell borders. 

Flower Cupcakes: Bridal Shower

 The bride's request was to have vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting (her fav)...and she wanted her bridesmaid colors to be included (green, purple, and yellow).  I thought this would be a challenge because I wouldn't be able to tint chocolate frosting.

 I cut purple and green circles out of marshmallow fondant.  Then I used a flower cookie cutter to make imprints of flowers (lightly) on the circles. This gave the fondant some texture and was going to match the daisy I added to each one.  Since I still needed to tie-in the color yellow, I added my favorite embellishment, DAISIES! There were beautiful and simple...

Zoo Animal Cupcakes

For a baby's first birthday, what could be better than zoo/jungle animals?  I cut out the background using a round cutter and green marshmallow fondant.  Then I scoured my kitchen for the right shapes to use as cutters for the animal parts.  After much searching, I remembered seeing "homemade cookie cutters" on www.pinterest.com using soda cans.  See my tutorial of how to create your own cookie cutters, or in my case, fondant cutters.  I used my own cutters to create these adorable zebras.

 Next I used yellow and orange marshmallow fondant to create lions.  For all the cupcakes, I "painted" all the details by hand using food coloring gel.

 The next cupcakes I created were the giraffes.  I used yellow and beige fondant.  I had to free hand the ears and the horns.

 Last, what zoo is complete without monkeys?  I created the monkeys using brown and beige marshmallow fondant.  Then I painted on a variety of monkey faces.  Below are the 2 dozen cupcakes and the baby smash cake for the birthday boy!

Baby Zoo Smash Cake

 This is a smash cake for a baby's 1st birthday.  It goes with the zoo animal cupcakes.  For a smash cake, I always cover with buttercream (rather than fondant).  I used one of the giraffe cupcake toppers on the cake and decorated with coordinating green icing. 

Football: Chocolate Covered Strawberries

       I just wanted to share a VERY SIMPLE football treat that anyone can make.  These strawberries were covered with melted chocolate.  I usually dip them while they are on skewers and then stick the other end of the skewers into floral foam (to keep the strawberries from being flat on one side).  Once the chocolate dries you can pipe on the details using either melted white chocolate or royal icing.  They are treats that are going to impress with very little work! 

Giants Cookies: Superbowl

New York Football Giants cookies for all those Giants fans out there....including my husband.

Patriot Cookies: Superbowl

Superbowl is here and living in New England, there is a split. This post is for the Patriots' Fans out there....

Christmas Cookies

Here is my Christmas Cookie Variety Dozen...I wish I had pictures of the Santas that I made with the curly beards. They came out even cuter than this Santa!
Rudolph and Blitzen....or one of the other reindeer friends!

Santa Claus, Rudolph, and one of the other reindeer.

Stocking, Christmas tree, and a mitten...I liked the mitten because it added another color to the variety packs.

Here is a candy cane, a sparkling snowflake (with sanding sugar), and a "gingerbread" sugar cookie boy.

Here is a wreath with red berries and a red bow...and some holly complete with holly berries!