Super Mario Bros. Cupies

Super Mario Bros.

My son just celebrated his birthday Super Mario's Brother's style. Here is the set of cupies I made for his party. P.S It is very difficult to find Mario Bro. party supplies.Lots of homemade decor. But it was SUPER fun especially once the mustaches came out!

Cupies are "funfetti" cupcakes filled with Vanilla pudding topped with vanilla frosting and then finished off with sugar paste Mario Bros. Art.

Ninjas!!!!!!!!!

This was for a birthday party. Theme... Ninjas! I love it! I had so much fun making them and they were super simple to make.

These cupies were Banana cake, nutella filling and whipped cream topping. Covered with a sugar paste ninja.

Homemade Lemon Curd

I have lots and lots of left over lemons from this past weekends family reunion so I decided to make some lemony treats.(my personal Favorite!!!) So one of my baking project firsts is Lemon Curd. I made a white cake and will be filling it with lemon curd. I must admit I was alittle intimidated by the idea of making homemade lemon curd because I had no idea what it would entail. But to my surprise it couldnt have been easier!!! Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 cup lemon juice

3 Tbsp. butter

3 eggs

Preparation: Combine sugar and lemon juice in heavy medium saucepan. Stir in butter and eggs and beat well. Cook over medium heat for 8-10 minutes, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Pour into a one pint container and cover tightly. Refrigerate up to 2 months. Use as a spread on muffins or bread, or as a filling in cakes.
The flavor is amazing and with cans of filling costing over 4.00 this is a nice, easy and less expensive alternative.

Daisy

This weekend is our family reunion. I am making mini cupies. Strawberry cupies with vanilla cream cheese frosting and Lemoncello cupies with lemon filling and a lemon cream cheese frosting. All cupies will be topped with a Daisy. Here is one of the daisies ready to go :)

Art Show Cake

This is the cake I made for the art show at work this week. Had lots of people asking me if it was real and edible. :)

My First Fondant Cake

My very first Fondant Cake! I created it for a friends birthday. She had a Fall theme birthday. Cake was made October 2008.

It is funny the way I started making cakes. I needed to make cupcakes for a halloween party so I was online looking for ideas when I came across youtube videos of fondant cakes. They were beautiful and I said I CAN DO THAT! I stayed up all night that night looking at cakes. With in a week I had spend a small fortune on cake making supplies and I never looked back :)