Engagement Cupcakes!

My friend, Maddie Varn's, sister was proposed to this weekend and the family came to town to celebrate! So, she asked if I would make cupcakes for the occasion! :)

I made chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing. I decorated them with edible pearls and blue white chocolate bows!

50th Birthday Surprise Party

My Sweet Aunt Janet turned turned "The big 5-0" this week and we all shocked her with a big surprise party with all of her family and friends! Her reaction was priceless! As for her birthday cake, I baked Red Velvet (everyone's favorite) cupcakes with cream cheese icing and topped them with adorable "50" flags that my cousins, Mary Elizabeth and Emily, made!

The Party was definitely a success and the cupcakes were a big hit! :) 

Valentine's Day Cupcakes!

One of my favorite holidays because everything is PINK!!!

Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Hearts

Perfect for your Valentine!:)

Lemon Blueberry Cupcake

I absolutely LOVE this flavor combo! This cupcake is to die for!

I simply whipped up a light and fluffy yellow cake and with fresh blueberries. I then topped it with Lemon Cream Cheese icing. The best!

Cupcake Birthday Party!!

 This Birthday Party had to be one of my most favorite things I have been asked to do with baking!

Anna Crew and I helped have a Cupcake themed birthday party for her niece, Frankie. I brought two different flavors of undecorated cupcakes, chocolate and pink-and-yellow swirl, along with two types of icing, pink cookies and cream and white cream cheese icing. I brought decorating tips and we helped the girls decorate two cupcakes: one to eat and one to take home in a cute little box.

In addition, I brought two dozen red velvet cupcakes that I decorated myself as her birthday cake. I topped them with her initials made of white chocolate. 

The party was the most adorable thing I had ever seen! Each girl got homemade aprons with their initial and a bag full of cupcake goodies to take home. I absolutely loved it! 

Penny's First Birthday Cake

I made this tiny individual cake for special friends of mine and their sweet little girl's 1st birthday!

This was actually my first time truly decorating a cake!

It is Red Velvet with Cream Cheese icing.

Anna Crew's 80s Prom Party

My best friend Anna Crew had a Tacky 80s Prom birthday party. To suit to occasion, I concocted these bright, retro cupcakes. They are Red Velvet cupcakes (most everyone's favorite) topped with neon green cream cheese icing and decorated with handmade white chocolate "80s."

Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes

Another one of my favorite flavor combinations, strawberry cheesecake cupcakes are incredible. I simply mixed up one of my strawberry cupcake recipes and baked homemade cheesecake inside. I topped it with scrumptious Strawberry Cream Cheese icing. If you are eating them immediately, a fresh strawberry is the perfect garnish! 

Cupcakes for the Football Players

I made both Blue Velvet and Black Bottom cupcakes for the our football team on game day. I turned my Red Velvet cupcakes blue because our school colors are blue and white. I go to school at Wilson Hall and the WH diamond is one of our school logos.

Black Bottom

Blue Velvet

Birthday Box

I love my new investment in these adorable little cupcake boxes! They are such a cute size and the cupcake slots are fantastic in that the keep the cupcakes standing up and in perfect shape!

I  this box I have Blue Velvet and Black Bottom Cupcakes! Yum!

Pecan Praline Cupcakes

One of my personal all time favorites, my Pecan Praline cupcakes are a perfect little version of my favorite Pecan Praline cake. I think I may like them better than pralines themselves(which I LOVE).

They are a buttery, pecan-filled cake with my favorite rich, cooked caramel frosting, and topped with chopped pecans. 

Cooked frostings and glazes tend to be runny and have a different consistency than others. I have learned that it is not worth it to try and make the icing look perfect but rather have fun and drizzle all over and not worry about the mess. I think the messiness is much cuter and more fun!

Black Bottom Cupcakes for Cori

Black Bottom Cupcakes are another one of my most popular cupcakes. They are rich chocolate cupcakes with chocolate chip cheesecake baked inside of them and topped with cream cheese icing.

I baked these for one of my best friend, Cori's, birthday. I personalized them with her initials which I handmade using white chocolate that I had dyed pink. Creating decorations with melted white chocolate and letting them sit and harden before using them is a fairly simple decorating technique that sophisticates any cupcake!

Baby Shower Cupcakes

I baked these for my bible study leader and sweet mentor of mine, Stacy Davis's, baby shower. She didn't know if she was having a boy or girl so I used a variety of colors on these mini cupcakes- pink, blue, and chocolate. The three flavors are are chocolate, lemon, and yellow cake. I decorated these cupcakes with my handmade white chocolate rattles and ducks.

Red Velvet and Chocolate-Peanut Butter Box

Red Velvet and Chocolate-Peanut Butter are two of my most popular flavors. This box of cupcakes is for a  good friends birthday. The Red Velvet are topped with a swirl of (my favorite) Cream Cheese icing and the others are Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing and both chocolate and peanut butter chips. YUM!

Cookies and Cream for Cheer Practice

These Cookies and Cream Cupcakes topped with Cookies and Cream Cream Cheese Icing were a delicious treat after a hard cheerleading practice. Oreos with initials in pink icing and pink cupcake liners were the perfect garnishes. They are is so simple but add so much!

Pecan Praline Cake

I concocted this scrumptious Pecan Praline cake for my best friend Anna Crew's 16th Birthday.

I had never made one before and could not find a recipe that suited my expectations for a true Praline Cake so I created my own. First, I  tweaked a praline cake recipe from an old cook book and also added chopped pecans into the batter. I then decided to frost it with my favorite rich, cooked Caramel Icing. Finally, the perfect topping to this Pecan Praline cake is the homemade candied pecans I baked using my Grandmama's recipe.   

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

I took a basic yellow cake with homemade chocolate icing and transformed it into a delectable chocolate-peanut butter sensation with the simple addition of homemade peanut butter ganache swirls on top of the chocolate icing. In addition, I swirled the sweet peanut butter ganache between the layers of cake creating a rich chocolate peanut butter treat much better the a reese s peanut butter cup:).

I baked this cake for my mom's birthday at the lake as chocolate and peanut butter is her absolute favorite combination.