Happy 2nd Birthday Cali

Here is Cali's 2nd Birthday Cake, the Princess and the Frog! I hear the chocolate rocks were quite the success at the kids birthday party! And... lucky enough I have gotten to be smart about how kids think and left all my extra princess pieces with Julie so there would be less fights among the kids...

A Decision...

So I decided to let the cupcake website go... I realized I don't have enough time to work on it or the cash to stock a store. Finding suppliers was a huge challenge and alot of the time the cost of importing from the states wouldn't make any profit because of exchange and high shipping costs. I love the blogging and will continue on with that of course. Thanks to everyone for the great compliments and requests for cakes/cupcakes for future events! Can't wait!

Yes, I am a perfectionist!

Yes... I know I already did these! But, in my defence, they weren't nearly as cute the first time and... AND... the colors bled as I think I didnt do the royal icing thick enough. Brian tried to convince me the others were fine but obviously I wasn't listening. So here are some of my much cuter and much improved 2nd round of frogs and princesses for Cali's upcoming birthday cake this coming weekend (they need a few days to dry out that is why I have been working on them so early!)

Duckies for Declan!

Little Declan's first birthday is coming up on Valentine's day! His party is going to be early and since I have such a busy weekend I made the cake last night and it turned out sooooo cute. (below are the step by sep constructing of the cake... its pretty self explainatory!)




Yummmm... bavarian cream! The layers do look a little dark from baking but it doesnt matter... once you cut into it you will see the colorful layers (I will post that later!)








And of course... matching duckie cupcakes! These little ducks were made with melting wafers and a duck mold!

Princess Prep

 

 

I spent 3 hours last night on these... for Cali's upcoming birthday, I am just trying to figure out how to best make these fun princess and the frog decals. I tried royal icing using flooding techniques. They have turned out not too bad so far. They probably need a few days drying and the color has bled a little in areas, but over all... pretty darn cute!

Duckie Sugar Cookies

I was given 2 fun cookie cutters by a co-worker of mine so I had to try out the ducks as it goes along with a theme of an upcoming Birthday for my little Nephew Declan. I was too lazy to bring out my better camera! Sorry for the poor quality pictures!

 

 

 

 

Super cute and very yummy! I made these cookies a bit thicker along with 2 tsps of vanilla... the extra vanilla and thickness of the cookies really add to the flavor and don't make the icing so overwhelming when putting this much icing on a cookie!

News & Updates for Cupcakes by Holly the Website

My website is take a bit longer to put together than I had hoped! I finally have tracked down a supplier for cupcake liners and will make an order soon. There are a tonne of birthday's coming up for February so I will have some new pictures and projects to add to the website!

Also, very exciting, Carrie from Bella Cupcake Couture is going to post one of my pictures of her product on her blog. What a compliment! She is a busy girl but said she would have it up in the next couple weeks... I will add the link to my blog when it happens!

Happy Birthday to Marj & Kimberly (from work!)

 

So this is headed to work for Marj and Kimberly (the monograms make sense now I am sure!)... I hope they like it!!

More Marshmallow Fondant Practice

I hope these taste good! I first flattened the top of the cupcake... added some chocolate icing to hold the fondant in place... scored it to look like a cushion (I have since found the scoring doesnt last, I think regular fondant might not have as much spring as the marshmallow) and then monogrammed them with more chocolate... finished off with a flower! I did the 'B' for Brian with a little crown (kind of a joke from a shirt he has!)

 

 

 

 

Butterfly Cupcakes

 

 

Yes, I know I did these a year ago... however, I made some big changes! I used more colors for the butterfly wings and added flowers on a green background instead of plain yellow. Also I thought it would be a fun project and photoshoot for my website... and there is a birthday at work on Monday so I can hand them out!!