1st Anniversary

Instead of baking cupcakes for our first wedding anniversary, I'm going to use this space to reminisce about the wonderful wedding and pre-wedding events we had last year. It's been an amazing year, and I love the life my husband and I have begun together. 

Here are our delicious chocolate raspberry and vanilla butter cream cupcakes for our wedding. These are obviously baked by professionals. There is no way I would ever want to bake for weddings (especially my own)-too much pressure. 

The groom's cupcake cake - a motorcycle on the open road

Here are my work bridal shower cupcakes piled high with delicious butter cream frosting made by my co-worker. They were finished off with beautiful shimmery sprinkles.

These are some of the tastiest cupcakes I've ever eaten. They are delicious red velvet with cream cheese frosting-a perfect combo. My sister made them for my family bridal shower.

More amazing flavors here: Strawberry Daiquiri and Margarita cupcakes. These were made for my cupcake inspired bachelorette party. The theme was "Cupcakes and Cocktails" and my friend planned an amazing event that included all things cupcake inspired from the invitations to the gifts to the pub crawl that kept us out until the wee hours of the morning. 

 

What a year! Happy first anniversary to my amazing husband!

Star Spangled Cake Pops

After learning some cake pop making tips last spring, I was excited to try these American flag cake pops for the Fourth of July. They weren't too difficult to create, but there were a few challenges. First, I couldn't find the right shade of blue chocolate, so I ended up adding oil based food dye to make them a darker blue. Then, I couldn't find white star sprinkles, so I had to intricately pick them out of the mix of red, white, and blue star sprinkles. My biggest challenge was overcoming the thickness of the darker colored melted chocolate. My secret is to add vegetable oil to thin it out. This can cause the chocolate coating to crack when it drys, but only a few of my cake pops were trashed for this reason (and, by trashed, I mean were eaten by my husband and I instead of neatly displayed).  

Happy Fourth of July!