Olive Cake Pops

I made these olive cake pops for a 30th birthday party.  The birthday girl is the owner of "23 Week Boutique."  (You should look her up on facebook.)    Her party was "martini" themed.  

German Chocolate Cake

I made this German Chocolate cake for my Father-in-law's 60th birthday.  (It's his favorite)

Pardon the Slacker!

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while.  I lost my Grandfather, who was quite possibly my favorite person on Earth,  on March9th.  You can read all about him on my personal blog.  


I promise, more posts are coming soon.  I just made a German Chocolate Cake for my Father-in-law's 60th birthday and I have several cute cakes coming up.  So, please stay tuned.  

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess!

I decided to honor Dr. Suess on his birthday with some baked goods.  What better way to do so than with Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes!  (Ok, so Andrew's teacher asked me to do something "Dr. Suess-ish," but I had been wanting to make these little babies, so it worked out perfectly.)

I started with the cupcake cups.  I had to label them, so I painstakingly lovingly traced out some circles, printed out some Dr. Suess font, cut, and glued 2 dozen labels!  (Thank you swim class for giving me 40 uninterrupted minutes!)

 Don't worry, from a distance you couldn't see the cut/paste lines!

 Color the frosting blue, stick some blue cotton candy on top for hair and ta-da...thing 1 and thing 2 cupcakes!

 Thing 1 was vanilla.

 Thing 2: chocolate!

**Side note:  If you try this at home, be sure NOT to put the cotton candy on until you're ready to serve and eat them.  All the oil from the frosting melts the cotton candy.  You have about 15 minutes before it starts to look like liquid mush!**

Almond Joy Cupcakes

Sometimes you feel like a nut...sometimes you don't!  Today, I did, so I made some almond joy cupcakes.  I saw a recipe on Pinterest that I wanted to give a try.  One I really like came from "Cookies and Cups."  Go HERE to check out the recipe!

I didn't follow her recipe exactly.  I used my chocolate cake recipe and altered it a little, substituting milk with coconut milk and vanilla flavoring with almond.  This is, after all, ALMOND joy!   The coconut buttercream was divine!  Dipping them in melted milk chocolate really seals the deal and makes you feel like you're eating an almond joy!

I took a couple to Andrews school and his teacher's response: "OM-Triple G! Those are good!"  The secretary said she liked them even better than the "burnin' loves."  The rest of them went to work with Drew.  He didn't bring any home if that tells you anything.  

I only ate 1...ok fine...2!  They were dangerously delicious, so I had to get rid of them A.S.A.P!  But I will be making another batch next week!

I decided to dress these little cuties up in a wrapper. *Note to self: Must get decorative scissors from Parents' house before making decorative cups next time!*

I was really pleased with how these turned out, but I think I'll experiment with the almond joy coffee creamer for the next batch, just to see which recipe I like better!

Lullabies and Mudpies Sale

To all my local readers, don't forget to come out to Pace this weekend for the Lullabies and Mudpies consignment sale.  Sissy's Sweets will have a vendor booth set up.  On the menu: CUPCAKES!

Here's just a couple of our stars for the sale:

The Gracie:

chocolate cake filled with sweetened condensed milk, topped with chocolate frosting, caramel drizzle, and sea salt.  

 Ooey, gooey goodness

 The Funky Monkey

Banana nut cake with peanut butter buttercream

Baby Shower Cake

One of the teachers at Andrew's school is pregnant and the staff threw her a baby shower.  They asked me to do the cake.  My contact at the school found a design online that she liked, so I duplicated that.
It was a "mobile" type cake.  They didn't need all the extra cake from the top tier, so I covered a "dummy" cake.  (Styrofoam cake covered in tin foil.)
I apologize for the not-so-great photo.  I got a friend to snap a cell phone pic as proof that I did in fact make a cake.