Oh, just put a cupcake in it....: August 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Snicker Bar Cupcakes...

chocolate cupcakes with a snicker bar ganache filling, frosted with caramel buttercream and drizzled with caramel, chocolate and salted peanuts.

Peanut Butter Cupcake..

chocolate, yummy peanut butter filling, dipped in ganache then frosted with chocolate buttercream and sprinkled with chopped peanut butter cups. These babies are really good cold.

More flower cupcakes...

and a simple smash cake to go with them....

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Other Goodies...

chocolate peanut butter whoopie pies, lemon-strawberry shooters, red velvet cupcakes, lemon cupcake with stawberry buttercream, and sugar cookies - all part of our "Alice in Wonderland" theme.

Mad Hatter Cake

The cake was vanilla with vanilla frosting...

Sweet 16 Alice in Wonderland Dessert Table

My daughter's dessert table (first one I've done). She wanted a mad hatter cake and various bright colors....Here's what I came up with.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Happy Birthday Kelly!

Boy did I have a time with this cake.....It was supposed to be "Yeah, easy cake....no problem". I'll plan it better next time....LOL.

This cake is a chocolate cake with peanut butter filling and chocolate buttercream. The birthday girl loves Justin Bieber, so we had to put a CD of his on there....plus she really wants a cell phone and an i pod, so her dad thought she should have gumpaste ones instead.....

The cake is modelled after the kid's store bag "Justice".

Friday, August 13, 2010

Black and White Wedding Cake

Black and white on the inside too....

vanilla cake

thin layer of dk chocolate ganache

thin layer of vanilla bean buttercream

dark chocolate cake

vanilla bean buttercream, and repeat one more time.....

Sunday, August 1, 2010

First Birthday...

"Lots of colorful flowers please"....this is what I came up with.

Dahlia cake and cuppies...

Technically not dahlia cupcakes, but close enough...In the natural light the color of the ribbon and the gumpaste dahlia matched, so it's disturbing to me that they don't in the picture.

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

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