Oh, just put a cupcake in it....

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Yumminess....

My vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and a sugar cookie...

my chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate sugar cookie.

Snickers cupcake - chocolate cake with a snickers ganache filling, caramel frosting, homemade caramel drizzle and chunks of chocolate and peanuts.

This is a white chocolate cream cheese cupcake with a raspberry swiss merenque and homemade raspberry sauce drizzle...

Safari Themed Baby Shower cake and cuppies.

this is the bedding that I was to model the cake after...

I liked the way it turned out....vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream,

the cupcakes are chocolate and vanilla also.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

From top to bottom: chocolate strawberry, salted turtle, and Hot Damn! (That's my current fave, and its adapted from Fields of Cake Vinnie cupcake...it's a dark chocolate chipotle cake with a "Hot Damn schnapps" caramel filling, frosted with a cinnamon ermine and topped with more hot damn caramel...topped with a chunk of my fave dark chocolate..it's infused with cinnamon, chipotle, salt and POP ROCKS!)

My chocolate strawberry...choc cake with strawberry buttercream filling, topped with dark ganache and a homemade choc dipped strawberry.

the line up from left to right...red hot velvet, chocolate chocolate, white chocolate cream cheese with strawberry icing and my vanilla vanilla.

white chocolate cream cheese cake with strawberry frosting and a white chocolate dipped strawberry. The chocolate cake is my dark chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and a homemade chocolate cookie.

Red Hot velvet in the forefront there. This is a family favorite. It's my red velvet cake studded with mini chocolate chips, topped with cinnamon ermine and a little chocolate heart and red hot.

Green Bay Packers...

um, NO, not a fan....but Matthew is.....

Baptism Cake

This cake was designed after the invitation...I did not get good pics on this one at all...

The top pic is an add-on...it was taken after the baptism...the mom used the bare tree as a guest book, and each guest stamped on their fingerprint as a leaf....I think it's great that the cake and the guest book looked so similar.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Leprechaun Cake...

For a girl who likes Irish men and Irish Whiskey....

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Elmo cake...

Cupcake and Cake Flavors I've Done

Almond and Pear - an almond cupcake with caramelized pear folded in, topped with a salted caramel buttercream and more salted caramel drizzled over the top
Almond Joy - an almond and coconut poundcake, dipped in ganache with a coconut buttercream and sprinkled with toasted coconut and candied almond slices
Amaretto Vanilla Bean Poundcake - amaretto and vanilla bean in a dense, moist cake. Top it with a amaretto and Raspberry swiss meringue buttercream and toasted almonds
Bananas Foster - cake made with the bananas from the banana foster dessert, filled with dulce de leche and topped with a buttercream flavored from the sauce of the bananas foster dessert. topped with toasted coconut. One of my favorite cupcakes
Birthday Party Vanilla - this is more of a poundcake like cake, top it with any flavor buttercream
Blackberry Cabernet - chocolate cupcake infused with Cabernet Sauvignon and Ghiradelli blackberry cabernet chocolate. Topped with a blackberry buttercream drizzled with fresh blackberry sauce and topped with a blackberry gummy candy.
Blue Hawaiian - coconut rum cake with a Blue Hawaiian cocktail buttercream (blue curacao, rum, pineapple juice and coconut cream)
Brown Sugar Praline - brown sugar poundcake with homemade chopped pralines, topped with cream cheese frosting and a candied pecan
Brown Sugar Vanilla - this is a light and fluffy cupcake with just a hint of caramel flavor. Pair it with cream cheese frosting, chocolate buttercream or a light and fluffy caramel meringue buttercream
Chocolate - this is a rich, dense brownie like cake made with Droste cocoa and ghiradelli chocolate. Top it with my ghiradelli ganache buttercream.
Chocolate Chip Cookie - chocolate chip cookie sits on the bottom of my chocolate cake. filled with an eggless cookie dough, frosted with chocolate buttercream and topped with a homemade chocolate chip cookie.
Chocolate covered Strawberry - my chocolate cake filled with strawberry buttercream, topped with a whipped dark ganache and chocolate covered strawberry
Chocolate Menage a Trois - chocolate cake filled with a chocolate french buttercream and topped with a fudgy dark chocolate buttercream
Chocolate Mint - chocolate cake with chopped white chocolate mint kisses, topped with a white chocolate lightly minted cream cheese buttercream
Chocolate Peanut Butter - chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling, dipped in chocolate then topped with chocolate buttercream and chopped PB cups
Coconut - reduced coconut milk and vanilla bean make a dense, moist pound like cake. Top it with coconut frosting made with the same reduced coconut milk and vanilla bean, or go lighter and top it with a whipped cream-cream cheese frosting. both topped with toasted coconut and a maraschino cherry.
Cookies and Cream - chocolate or vanilla cake topped with cookies and cream buttercream
Create your own - I haven't listed everything I've done. But if its a cocktail, I can infuse it into cake and buttercream. If it's a candy bar, most likely I can make a ganache with it. Name your favorite flavor or spice and I will infuse it into a complimentary flavored cake or buttercream.
Dirty Elvis - a banana bread beer cupcake and a hint of chocolate chips topped with a peanut butter pretzel buttercream, drizzled with homemade caramel and topped with a chocolate covered pretzel
Hot Damn - chipotle and chocolate cake filled with a Hot Damn schnapps infused caramel and topped with cinnamon buttercream and more Hot Damn caramel and a piece of my favorite chocolate which has chiptole, cinnamon, salt and pop rocks in it.
Hummingbird - traditional southern cake with banana, pineapple and pecans. topped with cream cheese frosting and a candied pecan.
Irish Car Bomb - Guinness chocolate cake dipped in a Jameson infused ganache, topped with a Baileys buttercream and sprinkled with expresso chocolate
Lemon - fresh, lemony cake - top it with any berry flavored buttercream.
Mai Tai - This is a dark Meyers Rum cake topped with a Mai Tai cocktail buttercream and drizzled with grenadine
Mojito - lemon or lime cake infused with mint and rum, top it with a lemon, lime or strawberry mojito buttercream
Monkey La La - based after the popular drink - choc cake with baileys and kahlua topped with a coconut, baileys, kahlua and vodka buttercream
Pina Colada - a coconut, pineapple and rum cake, topped with a pina colada infused buttercream. I can make this one without rum.
Pumpkin Gingerbread - Gingerbread cake with pumpkin and candied ginger folded in, topped with a limoncello cream cheese buttercream and a homemade gingerbread man
Red Hot Velvet - red velvet cake with chocolate chips topped with a cinnamon ermine frosting and red hots
Red Velvet - classic red velvet with mini chocolate chips. I like to top mine with Ermine Frosting because it pairs well and really lets you taste the cake. I have and will serve it with cream cheese frosting tho if you insist ;-)
Salty Turtle - chocolate cake with a caramel buttercream, topped with a homemade salted caramel sauce, chocolate chunks and toasted pecans
Samoa - a recipe from Fields of Cake - Its a chocolate cake sitting ontop of a shortbread cookie crust, with a coconut chocolate chip caramel center. Dipped in ganache, and topped with a coconut buttercream, caramel and a samoa cookie. This one is seasonal to Girl Scout cookies.
Shocktop orange - chocolate cake made with Shocktop beer and orange zest, frosted with a Grand Marnier buttercream and topped with a slice of a chocolate orange.
Snicker Bar - chocolate cake with a snicker bar ganache center, topped with caramel buttercream, chopped chocolate, caramel and peanuts
Snickerdoodle - cinnamon cake filled with Dulce de Leche, topped with a cream cheese frosting and cinnamon sugar
White Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake - Cream cheese pound cake with white chocolate folded in (This can be done with any flavor chocolate). Pair it with a berry buttercream
Wicked Jameson - Surly Coffee Bender and Jameson infused into a chocolate cake with cayenne and cinnamon, topped with a Jameson and Maple syrup buttercream and topped with a piece of candied spicy bacon