It's A Boy!!!! Diaper Cake!

Last week, close friends of ours welcomed their 2nd child into the world. Since I am the one who is known to bring cakes or cupcakes for any sort of gathering I decided to try and make a non-edible Diaper cake as a gift for the new baby.

I have seen these Diaper cakes before at many baby showers so I thought I would give it a go and make one myself!

I bought some cute monkey themed items at Carters including a hat, stuffed rattle, binki clip and a super soft plush monkey to adorn the "cake"

After some research on how to assemble the cake I got to work and have to say I am very happy with the finished product!









Our friends loved the cake and of course appreciated the diapers since you can never have enough diapers around!

I hope everyone has a happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Individual Boston Cream Pie

This past Friday evening the Hubz and I attended a very yummy dinner party with his cousins. One of the guests brought these cute and delectable desserts and after taking one bite I knew I had to make them myself!!!!

Saturday morning rolled around and after a quick trip to the grocery store I got to baking!

The person who made these on Friday said she used muffin pans and cut each muffin in half before filling. I decided to use whoopie Pie Pans instead. The cake is just a basic vanilla cake.



The filling is instant vanilla pudding mixed with 1/2 cup of cool whip. Very simple. I did make a small mistake with the filling..... I followed the recipe on the box for the instant pudding which called for 2 cups of cold milk. When making the filling only 1 cup of cold milk should be used to create a firmer filling. Once the pudding has set you can mix in the 1/2 cup of cool whip.

Each individual cream pie used about 1 1/2 tablespoons of filling.





So far this is probably one of the easiest recipes I have ever made and it continues to be easy.
For the chocolate topping, microwave 1 cup of cool whip with 1/3 cup of milk chocolate morsels. I microwaved in 30 second increments stirring in between to combine the melting chocolate with the cool whip. After combined let stand 15 minutes so the mixture can thicken before spreading about 2 teaspoons on top of each pie and WHA-LA!!!


DELICIOUS SIMPLE INDIVIDUAL BOSTON CREAM PIES!!!!!





p.s. These are also the perfect treats to keep away all these rainy day blues :)

Cookies n' Cream Cupcakes

These are probably one of my favorite cupcakes to make! Kids and Adults seem to LOVE them!

To start, these scrumptious delights start out with a half an Oreo in the bottom of each cupcake.



The batter is very simple... it is your go to vanilla cupcakes with crumbled Oreos mixed in. (You could use box mix for this if you are in a pinch since the cookies are really the dominant part of the treat)



To frost these I use a basic vanilla buttercream. Most of the time they can just be garnished with some cookie crumbs, but because the frosting is a pure white frosting it can be colored any color and decorated to match a theme.





This past weekend I made 6 Bruins themed cupcakes and 6 fishing themed for an order.
For the Bruins cupcakes I cut circles out of fondant and piped the Bruins Logo using royal icing. The cupcakes were cute! My piping/drawing skills still need some work but for the first time I think they look ok.



For the fishing ones I colored the frosting blue and used a different tip to try and make the frosting look like waves. I garnished with Red Swedish fish and TA-DA! Fishing Themed Cupcakes!





Happy Baking everyone!

30th Birthday Cake & Cupcake tower

I was very excited to make this cake once the order was finalized! The client requested a Tiffany Blue theme with silver and white accents.

For the cupcakes, the flavors were chocolate with buttercream and Cookies n' cream. They were frosted in Tiffany Blue and I used Silver and white sugar balls to decorate the tops.

The cake was the really fun part!

I started with 2 inch chocolate cakes. I filled the cake with chocolate filling and then crumb coated it using Tiffany Blue Buttercream.





After the crumb coat dried I generously frosted the cake in the same Tiffany Blue Buttercream.



The day before I Had constructed a cute white bow out of fondant. While the cake was frosting was setting on the cake I cut out my ribbon and tag pieces from the white fondant.

Once everything was cut out I added the Birthday message to the fondant tag and added all of the pieces to the cake.





I was so happy with how the cake came out! I assembled everything on the cupcake tower alternating the cupcake flavors.







I think it looked really cute! I hope Jackie had a Happy 30th Birthday and enjoyed her cake and cupcakes!!!

Have a great week eveeryone!

Margarita Cupcakes

Sometimes when I try a new recipe it doesn't always work out the way I planned.

Last week I made Margarita cupcakes for a Girls night out. Since I had made the Strawberry Margarita cupcakes before I thought this should be no problem. I started assembling my supplies but I broke the cardinal rule of baking. "Before you start assembling ingredients make sure you have all the ingredients". I failed!

I had all my dry ingredients mixed together and when I went to add eggs, I realized I only had 2 and needed 3. I decided to wing it and I added some oil to substitute the egg. Epic failure. The cake didn't rise correctly and the texture and taste were just not right.



Even though the cupcakes didn't come out perfectly, I decided to continue with them. I frosted them with a Margarita frosting and then topped them off with an "adult novelty" garnish.





These were meant to be more of a novelty item anyways that evening so when I arrived with them I told everyone the cupcake wasn't very good. I do plan to try and make them again though and hopefully next time it will work out better!

I would love to post pictures of these with the "adult novelty" but I don't think it is such a good idea in case any kids stumble across the page.....but if you are in need of something funny and outrageous for a bachelorette party let me know! I can definitely accommodate!

Happy Wednesday!!

Lemon Filled Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream

The last time I made these cupcakes I was not totally happy with the frosting. The last time I didn't have any fresh raspberries or any seedless preserve so I made the frosting with raspberry extract.... Not impressed!

This time I was making these for a customer order and used seedless raspberry preserve for the frosting and it came out divinely!



I also changed up the cupcake batter itself. I started out with my go to vanilla cupcake and then zested an entire lemon into the batter. I seriously cannot express my love for the scent of zested lemons or limes! The citrus smell is just so bright and fresh... it makes me happy!





Ok sorry for my zest tangent.... back to the cupcakes!

Once they were baked and cooled I "cored" the cupcakes and filled them up with lemon curd.





Lastly I piped on my yummy Raspberry Buttercream!





I don't usually taste test my own finished cupcakes... but when there is lemon involved I can not resist! I found them to be mouth watering and I hope my customer feels the same way!

I hope everyone enjoys their week!

Recipe: Raspberry Buttercream

1/2 cup of butter softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp clear vanilla extract
1 tsp raspberry extract
1/4 cup seedless raspberry preserve
pinch of salt
1lb confectionery sugar
water

Directions:
Cream butter and shortening with vanilla, raspberry extract and salt. Beat in raspberry preserve. Add confectionery sugar until incorporated. Add water a tsp at a time to get to desired consistency and mix on medium speed for 30-45 seconds.