Cupcake Fun!

My family wanted cupcakes, so I decided to play around with deocorating them. These were done with my grandmother's tips that she had given to my mother, who let me use them. I saw this idea to use kool-aid in your frosting to flavor and color it and thought it was such a neat idea and decided to do half vanilla, half kool-aid flavor. But, when you do half and half, you have to remember to do the same with flavoring. Not thinking it through, I dumped a whole packet of kool-aid into the half a can of frosting. Those cupcakes were tart! They were yummy, just really tart! Hahahah. Oh well, this is a learning stage for me and I'll remember that for next time!

 

I love using tips and doing a bunch of different designs. I deffinetley had a lot of fun decorating these cupcakes. And my family really enjoyed them. My dad loves when I make cakes and cupcakes for us to eat and not give away.

Valentine Treats

So for Valentines Day at school, I decided it would be fun to make some sugar cookies for my lunch table. I'm trying to make a variety of treats and didn't really want to bring a whole Valentine cake to school. These were super easy and fun to make. Pink and white are the classic Valentine colors, so I did some white, some pink and then some half white, half pink. I was just playing around and being creative with the cookies, and I think they turned out great. Plus, the girls loved them.

 For some extra fun, I found some red and yellow sugar crystal sprinkles in our cupboard and added them to a few of the cookies.

New Beginnings

 

For Young Women New Beginnings, I volunteered to make cakes. Our theme was "Happily Ever After" and how Personal Progress could help us work towards our fairytale endings. So, since it was storybook and princessy, I decided to carry that to the cakes. They needed to be simple because I didn't have much time to work on them. I focused on the trims and working with different tips. Once again, they turned out really good.

Sticking to the princess theme, my mom picked up some little tiaras and they were perfect finishers for the cakes.

 For this cake, I found some cool looking stencils with my grandmother's tips. I wanted to do something different for each cake and this looked really cool.

To make the plates we put the cakes on fancy, we got cheap paper doilies and they looked very pretty on the tables.

Like all the cakes I make, I had a lot of fun baking and deocrating them. They turned out wonderful and were perfect for the night. I was so happy with the way they turned out.

My First Cake

When I was 14, I found a wonderful new television show to watch. "Cake Boss" is about Buddy Valastro and his family bakery. He makes the craziest cakes and I knew then that I wanted to make wonderful works of art like he does. So, for Christmas, my mom let me make my first cake for our family party. I was so excited! I looked online and watched several episodes of "Cake Boss'' until I figured out what I wanted to create. Since it was Christmas, I decided I would make Christmas boxes and stack them on top of each other. It turned out beautiful!

If ya, you know, ignored the fact that the bottom one was kinda falling apart. Hahaha
I had so much fun making this cake and learning new things. My favorite was making the bow out of fruit roll ups.


It's hard to imagine that with our extended family of about 27 people (that were there to eat it) that this whole cake wasn't eaten up. Turns out, my family isn't big cake eaters. So for now, I'll have to wait to make big cakes until I have my own bakery and am baking for hundreds of people. Until then, I'll just work on my technique and improve myself.

Here are some pictures of the whole process: