Sweet treats

Mini business, what? I don't really know why I came up with that idea - I haven't posted anything in quite some time, but I've been pretty busy and I only have three followers anyway, so I think I can let it slide.

Made a big move to Missoula, MT to attend college - it's not too bad so far! Been really different. Anyway, I haven't had a ton of time to bake anything, really, but at Michaels we have really cute Valentine's Day merchandise so I HAD to. Took some tasties home for my family and for my love this past weekend <3

I tried my first crack at chocolate covered Oreos - a couple of them didn't turn out 100% but they were seriously delicious.

 

Cute little treat bags! Seriously, I love Michaels. Those Oreos were pretty easy to make - just melt Wilton candy and put it into the molds!

Valentine's cupcakes! 

 Cute little silver boxes from - you guessed it - Michaels.

Happy Single Awareness Day! & Happy 27th Birthday to my brother.

Summer cleaning.

My phone has officially gone kaput. The battery lasts maybe five hours per day, even if I don't text anyone (P.O.S.). It might have something to do with the fact that it is two years old, I send over 8,000 texts per month (True story - my mom had the guy at Verizon check), I drop it on a daily basis, and I've spilled NyQuil on it. I don't know though, it might be because of something else, heh, heh. At any rate, I'll be getting a new one this week so I decided to clean out my pictures and I realized I had some cake pictures that I hadn't put on my blog yet so I s'pose I'll put a few of them on this here new post!

This was for my mom's boss on his birthday. First crack at chocolate frosting! Actually turned out pretty delicious - I had Haley taste test for me.

This was my final cake for one of my classes. Cake still sitting on the lid for the picture- how classy of me.

These were some of the first cupcakes I ever did! Junior year - Valentine's Day, obviously.

Mother's Day cake - Not a very good quality picture, but, I had to put it on here because it was for my momma :)

That's all I've got for now. Most of the pictures that were in my phone are pictures that I've already posted in here previously. Hope you enjoy and thanks for lookin'! :)

Weddingweddingweddingwedding

I did my first wedding a couple of weekends ago - finally getting around to posting some pictures!

I hope these are big enough to see! The left picture is all of my pieces I made to assemble my bow! It's crazy easy. All you have to do is roll out fondant, cut long 1'' wide by 5'' long strips, and then you fold them together and glue 'em! Then for the assembly, you just glue all the pieces together - edible glue, by the way. It's made of gum paste and water.

So, that is the cake topper. My next project was the chocolate dipped strawberries...200 of them. I owe a HUGE thank you to my amazing mom who helped me with this portion of the wedding project.

 

Chocolate dipped strawberries are actually really easy to make because it is exactly as it sounds: dipping strawberries in chocolate. It worked out really well because my mom had left over chocolate bunnies from Easter so we melted those down with some shortening and started dippin'! I did all the striping on them with a pastry bag and candy melts that I bought from Michaels (I love my job). It took us a while, but maybe wouldn't have taken as long if we didn't eat some along the way. I'm gonna go ahead and brag here a little bit and say they were pretty delicious.

 

Next came the cuppy cakes! I had 120 of those to do, but was able to crack them out pretty fast with four cupcake pans and my mom's extraordinary kitchen. I WILL have an island in my house when I'm rich.

 

I did chocolate and white cakes and buttercream frosting for all. Their dessert theme was Oreos, and I had originally planned to just do plain, double stuffed Oreos. HOWEVER, Oreo came out with these fabulous new BERRY filled Oreos which were absolutely perfect because the wedding colors were black and pink! Mom and I may or may not have had a few of the Oreos, too. 

Here's the cake! It's a bit hard to see, but on the cake wires there are mini Oreos which was my favorite part about the cake hands down.

 

(Left) The bride's mother had her friend make pistao cookies (I apologize, for I don't know how to spell that. It's pronounced like pis-tay-oh). They are similar to caramel waffle cookies, but it's arguable which are better. Those cookies were tasty!

 

Their wedding programs! Darling little fans. The wedding was originally planned to be held outside so you could use the program to cool yourself off, but this being Montana, it was raining. It was a bit of a bummer because the garden was absolutely breathtaking. Instead, they performed the ceremony inside, and it was still gorgeous and they still looked just as happy.

 

It was also my Mom and Dad's 35th wedding anniversary that day, so props to them! I owe everything I am to them.

All in all, it was a really good experience for me. It was excited to get my work out there and to be able to watch everyone enjoy my treats! The best part, though, was clean up. I walked to the kitchen and the caterer was chowin' down on one of my cupcakes and he looks at me and he says: "Oh my gosh, this is so good! Did you make these?" And I just replied back bashfully, but PROUDLY, "Yes!" It's always nice to know that someone else who enjoys food, enjoys MY food.

 

Congratulations Ashley & Ryan

Cupcake business.

Hey, guys! Been crazy busy lately! Got my first apartment and so I've been getting into the swing of this thing called "being a grown up." Anyway, thought since I had a few spare minutes and was sitting on my butt at my favorite coffee shop, I would post a blog of a few of my things.

The above are some cupcakes that I did for a birthday - they were one of my first orders! Hooray! I wish I would have taken a picture of all of them and not just the two because I had a lot more variety of flowers, but alas, I did not. I was in a hurry to deliver them before work; it was a surprise delivery. She was so appreciative! It was one of the most special cake projects I've ever done.

Not much else going on right now for cakes at the moment. I'm delivering cupcakes tomorrow with my roommate to our favorite high school teachers. I think they'll appreciate a little Single Awareness Day sugar!

Holy cow, Batman!

French vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and decorated in fondant. Check yes to the batman cake and a Happy Birthday to Kyle.

O Christmas cake, O Christmas cake!

Well, it's been long enough! I haven't been on here because I honestly have not made any cakes for some time! I snagged myself a seasonal job at Michaels - how fitting - and I am working 20+ hours at the Airport gift shop, so I am one busy lady this holiday. I did make a simple Harley Davidson cake for my mom's boss, and a few cupcakes, but nothing out of the ordinary - no specialty cakes.

I finally got around to making my good friend Lynsey a birthday/Christmas cake. I have to admit, it's probably one of my favorite ones that I have done so far.

 

The cake is lemon flavored and filled with sweet lemon pie filling, mm! I frosted it with buttercream and it is decorated with all fondant (sans the candy canes, ha, ha).

Little, mini birthday party at OTL with only the most important of people. I absolutely adore that first picture of Chris and Tanner lighting the cake. I don't know why. There is just something about it.

The best part about making a double layer cake? Leftover batter for cupcakes! Happy 19th Birthday, Lynsey Lou Bear!

Happy (Late) Halloweenie!

This is the latest cake I've done (sans one that I sold to a customer and the picture turned out a little blurry). This was my final cake for my final class: fondant and gum paste. That being said, the entire cake is, in fact, fondant - even the cake board! The spiders, however, are not fondant - just those fancy little rings that we all used to enjoy in the good ol' days. It is a carrot cake and frosted with yummy buttercream (you get to that when you peel the fondant off; most people don't eat it because it's not very good)!

I ended up giving it to Kyle's mom, Shari, for one of her Halloween themed Mary Kay parties. I was so excited to give it away because my previous two final cakes were just brought home and eaten by my family. It was exciting to finally give one for someone else to enjoy!

I also made these coordinating cupcakes which I also gave to Shari because she helped me pick out some Mary Kay make-up and other goodies. She is just so sweet!

Aren't these cupcake boxes so darling!? I bought a 3-pack for five dolllars - a little pricey, but so worth it!

 

Hope everyone had a safe Halloween!