A Baked Creation: September 2008

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Cute Birthday Cupcakes

For a sister-in-law's birthday, who can resist chocolate and more chocolate cupcakes? We made chocolate frosting on chocolate cake with cute gum paste flowers

1. Cute tiny pink flowers made from gum paste.

2. Adorable medium pink blossoms made from gum paste.

3. Cute large white daisies made from gum paste.

4. Finishing touches of the centre (royal icing) on the gum paste flower decorations.

5. Happy Birthday plaque made from gum paste.

6. Chocolate buttercream on chocolate cake - yum!

7. Decorating the cupcakes (the fun part).

8. A garden of cute flowers for the birthday girl!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Our Second Feature!

Jess from the popular blog, All Things Cupcakes, featured our Saltimbanco Cupcakes! This is very exciting - two in one week! Please share and spread the word! Thank you!

A family friend - who is an avid golfer and greens keeper at a golf course - turned a year older yesterday. To commemorate, we made a banana cake decorated with a golf's green. The birthday boy was genuinely surprised and only made a tiny "professional" comment: "in our circles, that would be called fertilizer burn, not a sand pit." At least we know better now, for improvements in the future!

Overview of the cake!

Hole #19 is the club house! Dig in and eat!

Check out the sand pit or "fertilizer burn."

Happy Golf-Cake Birthday!

Friday, September 5, 2008

Our First Feature!

Rachel Kramer Bussel from the popular blog, Cupcakes Take the Cake, featured our fortune cookie cupcake (as seen here)! This is very exciting news for us, as we hope more people will visit our blog!

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Fortune Cookie Cupcakes

A friend of ours found a new job, and to say farewell to her old employers and employees, she asked us to make cupcakes! We made fortune cookies out of gum paste and inserted her unique personal notes. The green icing relates to the company's famous colour.