Wedding Favors

Many brides are now opting to choose something a little more unique for their wedding favors. Gone are the days of matchbook favors with the bride and grooms name written in gold calligraphy across the front. No more mini champagne bottles or porceline swans are being handed out at the end of the evening. Heck, [...]

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Baby Shower Fondant Toppers

Working on some adorable toppers for an upcoming baby shower. I decided to do a variety of baby-related toppers including fondant bottles, onesies, rattles, feet, teddybears, and more. Can’t wait to set them on top of their cupcake partners-the perfect match!

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Cupcake Toppers-Fondant

The other day I was mentioning to someone that I specialize in “fondant toppers”. The problem was the person I was talking to   had no idea what fondant even was. I tend to forget that not everyone has knowledge of common cake designing terms. If you already know what fondant is, disregard the following explanation, [...]

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Vintage Pink Cupcakes

Something about the color pink, it just makes me all “squealy” inside. I think pale pink is a beautiful color- it evokes so much emotion-at least within me. The color pink reminds me of things. Things like newborn babies, sweethearts and loved ones, beautiful roses, and vintage wallpaper. I created these cupcakes today and couldn’t [...]

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Wedding Day (cup)Cakes

Choosing to have cupcakes in place of a traditional wedding cake is a very popular trend right now. Some brides opt to replace the whole cake with an elaborate tiered cupcake display while others are now utilizing cupcakes as favors to send home with their special guests. For those brides who opt to replace the [...]

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Buttercream Flowers

Cupcakes and flowers make a beautiful combination. There are many ways to add flowers to your cupcakes including fondant flowers, buttercream piped flowers (see photo above), fresh edible flowers, royal icing flowers, gumpaste flowers and even flowers molded out of modeling chocolate. The buttercream flowers seen in the above photos were created utilizing a special [...]

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Fondant Toppers

Fondant toppers are a nice way to add a little extra something to your cupcakes to personalize them for your event. Whether a monogram with the bride/grooms initial for weddings, a favorite character for a children’s party or a corporate logo to match a company’s brand-fondant toppers add that little bit of pizazz to customize [...]

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Kids Cupcakes

I get so many different requests for childrens cupcakes. Often times, it is a favorite character of the child such as Hello Kitty, Winnie the Pooh, Batman–you name it. But I also get larger themes such as “High School Musical theme” “beach theme” and things like “woodland animals”. I made some special woodland friends this [...]

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Cupcake Towers

Cupcake towers have become very popular for dessert lovers wanting to do something a little bit different than your “run of the mill” average cake. From birthday parties to Christenings to elaborate weddings, cupcake towers are now the “go to” choice for many different occasions. Last weekend I created the small tower seen above which [...]

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Christening Cupcakes Take Two

It must have been the weekend for Christenings in our little town. I had two orders; one set for newborn boys that I blogged about yesterday and these precious little pink ones for a new baby girl. I used fondant toppers again, but this time I used cross shapes and large blossom flowers. For the [...]

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