Oreo Cupcakes!

I've been wanting to make these cupcakes for weeks now. I finally had the time a couple nights ago and they were incredibly YUMMY!

(I dropped an oreo on my heated floor and it melted in about 2 seconds!)

Thanks to Bakegirl for the sharing this recipe!

Chocolate Cupcakes

I got an awesome birthday gift from my bestie, Amanada - a Michael's gift card! I decided to use it on baking supplies and ended up picking up some great stuff. Rolled fondant, cupcake cups and some fondant cutters. Here are a few cupcakes I will be bringing over to my very-pregnant sister-in-law this afternoon:

Inspired by a cake I saw in Weddingbells magazine a few weeks back...

Perfect Ensaimada...

I've watched my mom bake Ensaimada for as long as I can remember. When I was 5 she would always give me my own dough to roll out and bake along with hers. Mine, being so tiny of course would always burn, but I always remember having fun.

I've attempted to make Ensaimada quite a few times before but something always went wrong ...until now!


impatient Mia...lol


the inside, flaky and fluffy!

Funfetti Cupcakes!

So yummy! I brought a few to work today... I may end up bringing the rest there too. I doubled the recipe thinking it would make 24 - but I ended up with about 40!

Lemony Goodness...!

YUM.

Mia's 1st Birthday

I can't believe how fast the last year went. My baby girl turns one on Tuesday, but we celebrated a couple days early! I picked a cupcake, black and white theme for her party :) Here are a few pictures from today...

Gingerbread cookies

I don't usually get too excited about Christmas (working retail for 8 years has pretty much numbed any excitement I ever did feel lol). But! I was craving gingerbread cookies the other night - and hey, what else is there to do when your baby is sound asleep at 10pm!
Icing the cookies was kind of a bust. I'm going to make my own icing from now on - the ready-made stuff didn't impress me at all... It was either WAY too runny for decorating after following the heating instructions or way too hard to squeeze out of the bottle!

The cookies turned out GREAT. Tasted so yummy and were super soft! Definitely going to use this recipe again. (Note: if you are going to try this recipe, I suggest using about an extra cup of flour)


Icing-FAIL!



Cookies for everyone at work for CRAZY 30% off day :)



FAT Gingerbread people!



Had to throw one in of my Mia-Cakes!

Red Velvet Cake

Sunday after the downtown Christmas parade I decided to attempt to make Red Velvet Cake. It was a pretty tricky cake (especially when I forgot to buy self-rising flour!). It didn't look all that pretty and was a little dense but it tasted great! I used ALL of my red liquid food colouring PLUS a ton of my gel food colouring and it still wasn't as red as I expected! I definitely want to try the recipe again - with the right kind of flour :)

Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Curtis wanted me to make him something "lemony and creamy" = Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcakes! They were SO yummy. I found this recipe on the Kraft website ...yes, I did cheat a little and it wasn't entirely made from scratch BUT they tasted so good!

Cupcake Pops!

I want to make cake pops for Mia's 1st birthday!

Click here to see a how-to video

SO adorable!

Renee's Baby Shower

Here are a few pics of the cupcakes and mini cake I made for my sister-in-law's baby shower today. My first time ever making a cake with fondant! Not too shabby for my first time! I definitely want to keep practicing, so if anyone has an occasion coming up let me know :)

The inside of the mini cake was filled with buttercream and oreos!

The cute zebra never did make it onto the cake... I didn't realize how small my cake pans were at the time!

My cupcake blog!

Yay! Can't wait to post pictures of my cupcakes! I have volunteered to make my beautiful sister-in-law's cupcakes and mini cake for her baby shower this weekend. I will make sure to take pictures of my progress next week :)