4 posts tagged “cupcakes”
Right, so, between the book and my discovery (after about 200 million others) of Facebook, I just haven't found myself in the mood much for blogging. Nor have I had the time. But if I really wanted to blog I'd have found the time and not started playing Sonny.
Anyway, some photos to tide y'all over until I get in the blogging mood again, or the book gets wrapped up or something like that. Today's Julia's baby shower, and that meant one thing to me: Cupcakes! So since we don't know if it's a boy or girl, I went gender-specific in both directions:
I had some Necco wafers and Smarties left from a gift bag and they turned out as fun kind of flowers. Naturally when I saw Martha Stewart's Web site and came across the little birdies in the nest I thought, "Now, that would have been great, if I actually had spare time. And spare coconut shreds. And a pipette. And no life."
These'll do, pig, these'll do.
So, prior to getting viciously ill, I set about making cupcakes for this past weekend. No. 1: For Cameron's birthday. No. 2: For Mike's Super Bowl party. For those who may have a vicarious cupcake interest, I present to you first the birthday cakes:
The Super Bowl ones were some of my favorites. Here are the two rivals against one another first. Ah, yes, you knew from the start that it was bound to be a delicious, sweet victory ... for someone.
And here, their playing field (partly saturated in warrior blood), 50 yard line, field goal posts, half-assed footballs and even a little heart for ole Eli Manning.
Winner: everyone.
Especially the Tiki gods at the birthday party:
And now, the final batch of cupcakes, for Mike's Dia de los Muertos party tonight. (The first ones are here.) Some of these were a ton of fun to make -- but by the end of about 40 I was pretty over the whole thing!
And then, the solos. These are mostly fondant-covered marshmallows.
Until at least tonight.
These were harder to do than they looked!
But tasty, too. My fingers are all multicolored and smudged from where the icing melted a bit there.
Anyway, as promised back here, with the Mandala O' Candy (sounds like a porn name) I have now designed several cupcakes for tomorrow's gathering. (The big gathering remains on Saturday.)
To wit:
Credit where it's due: Much inspiration (and candy ideas) from here. I hope to make the little Frankensteins at the bottom of the page with fondant later, but I don't know if that'll work....
Happy Halloween, all! And happy birthday, mom and Ben!
