Happy Birthday Bekki!

There are too many birthday's this month.  So maybe cupcakes next month!  Over the weekend was my friend Bekki's birthday.  She's an 80's freak so of course we had an 80's themed party.  And of course I made her a cake.

Yay for pacman! Half of it was chocolate and half was white cake.  I dyed the white cake purple, blue, and green but I didn't get a picture of it.  It's basically like my last post though.


And here are some pictures of us crazy kids!

Debbie and George! Don't we look just like them!?

Yeah....not really...but we tried!

 Here is the birthday girl all pretty in pink.

Some silly bathroom pictures.

And here we have Freddie Mercury and George Michael trying to turn poor Josh.  And Steven has a piano key tie!

Happy Birthday Sister!

I know, I know....I was supposed to get back to the cupcakes but this was a very special occasion!  It was my sister's 30th birthday.  Love you sister!  She's a fan of the rainbow, but come on...who isn't?  I saw this really cool idea on babble.com.  It's a rainbow cake in a jar! How neat!

This is what it was supposed to look like.

Isn't it beautiful!  Yeah! I thought so too!  So brilliant me decided to do this an hour before we left for Houston to see her.....

So I go to the store get what I need....food coloring, quart size canning jars, sprinkles....QUART SIZED CANNING JARS?!  I guess I just thought that was a jumbo spoon or something (it does look pretty big)...The recipe called for pint sized canning jars...no big deal! I'll just make 2 jars instead of 3!  So still being my brilliant self didn't think about cooking time....(also did it in the microwave instead of the oven because it said 2 minutes instead of 40! Woo!).....

WRONG...For some reason I couldn't get them to cook on the outsides....but the inside was done!  I said what the hell...took them to Houston and presented them the next day....this is how it all went down.

Yeah, it's pretty ugly.  It may be rainbow colors but it's no rainbow. 

Oh look! It's much prettier out of the jar!  She ate quite a bit, then got a phone call and let the cake sit.......

This started to appear....goo...this is after being microwaved for...oh I don't know 6 minutes?.....So we removed the icing and nuked it some more...Eventually everything was well again!

Take a look at this rainbow cake in a bowl! It really did turn out pretty and gooooood. 

I just know better than to wait until the last minute, and I won't be cutting any corners next time!

Look! I do still bake!

This is something my boss asked me if I could make. I had never tried it before so I thought I would! It's a chocolate chip cake. It was SO good. My boss approved.

Flan is something I've always wanted to try to make, which is weird because I've never actually eaten it before. I don't care for it. It was kind of boring...or it was exactly how it was supposed to be, I don't know because I've never had it! My darling husband called it egg jell-o. What a sweetie...

This is a pink lady cake. My mom asked me to make something for her friend's birthday so this is what I found. I heard it was good. I hope they really enjoyed it. It was a devil's food cake with pink frosting and lady fingers around the edge.

It's been so long since I made these that I don't remember what they are called. Let's call them, cream cheese awesome. They were pretty damn good. The "shell" is a tortilla, filling is cream cheese, and it was obviously topped with blueberries! You could put anything on top. Maybe I'll do chocolate next time. Mmm...

I feel like I'm getting away from what the actual blog is supposed to be. Cupcakes. I think I'll try to make some from the original book this week. Wish me luck.

We could use some internet.

I would probably...maybe....update more often if I didn't have to go to my parent's house every time I needed some internet! I'm also getting bad about not taking pictures of my goodies....

Since the AMAZING ice cream toffee pie, I've made some walnut clusters (which were grand), a caramel apple cheese cake (the family says I have to make it again), and ZOMBIES!

These were made for Steven for his birthday. They are green velvet with cream cheese icing. They were supposed to have arms reaching up at the last cupcake standing but all I could think of was pipe cleaners and they left fuzzies EVERYWHERE. It's all good....some zombies don't have arms...

Drawing the faces was the hardest part because if the liners, but Bruce Campbell's (or who ever you want it to be, Steven) face turned out awesome...

And of course zombies have to have guts when you slice them open! They were so good!

Home sweet home.

I know I've been neglecting the cupcakes but I've had a lot going on! We moved back to the good ol' town of Longview, America, and we are living in a camper. So it's hard to even get around to doing anything, especially baking. I have been cooking dinner for my parents. (It's a way of income or I wouldn't just do it every night) Love you mom! With dinner comes dessert! So I do have a few things I've been doing but still no cupcakes. When we get settled in a bit more I might be in the kitchen more.

These are apple pockets. They remind me of apple pies you get at McDonald's although I don't think I've ever had one. They were really good warmed up and with some ice cream!

These are chocolate biscuit puffs. And they were a bust, literally! The chocolate was supposed to stay inside of the biscuit but it obviously didn't. I'm not a big fan of bread so I really didn't care too much for these.

This beautiful creation is my lemon blueberry cheese cake. It was so light and fluffy. Yum! It was made with cottage cheese and only 171 calories a serving!

Tonight we will be feasting on the caramel toffee ice cream pie. I'm so excited! It's so pretty and super easy to make. It just has to freeze for 6 more hours...

If anyone ever wants a recipe don't be afraid to ask!

Babies!

While I was at the lake for Memorial weekend my mom told me she was going to a baby shower the next weekend. She asked me if I'd like to make the cake. Sometimes I take on more than I should. I said yes.

Any baby shower cakes I've seen are made with fondant. I've played with fondant a total of...oh 1 time...So on Tuesday when we got back home from the lake I started playing with fondant again. I made an entire cake in one day.

This is what I came up with. Of course I took the picture from the best side. It had wrinkles and cracks. Some of the fondant wasn't covering the cake. The next day the bow fell flat and melted a bit. But that was due to it being hot in our apartment and not letting the fondant dry enough.

So my REAL cake adventure started on Friday.

I made the bow and flower.

Placed pearl sprinkles in the center of every flower. It was tedious but they look great.

And this is the finished product! I was very happy with myself. It still had some wrinkles but they were easily covered by the ribbons. It was a big hit. The mother to be loved it.

It was supposed to be a pink velvet cake, but it turned out a little more red than I wanted. Didn't matter though because it was still good! You can't really tell but there is also pink cream cheese icing between the layers.

And this is me with the cake! Yay!

Memorial Weekend

Memorial weekend is a time of the year that I really look forward to. It marks the beginning of Summer and it's our first camping trip of the year. It's always so much fun! And of course I have to make some goodies for the long weekend.

These are called frozen lemonade cupcakes. They were SO sweet....I could only take one bite. I didn't realize they needed to be frozen at all times. A few of them melted.

These "cupcakes" are called dessert rose. They were kind of like puppy chow. Also very sweet. SO much chocolate. I couldn't eat a whole one of these either.

It was a really great weekend with friends and family. Can't wait until next year!