Baby shower cupcakes!

I made these baby shower cupcakes for my friend Katarina. She brought them into her work for a surprise shower for a coworker!

 

Decorations:

"bonnet": mini marshmallows cut up into fourths

"bears": assorted colored gummy bears

"pacifier": red fruit loops and red licorice lace

"clothes pin": melted chocolate piped into pin shape, with mini kiss (add kiss before cool chocolate cools)

"icing/ skin tone": dyed vanilla icing with brown bye to give it the pale skin tone color

 

Rainbow cupcakes!

After seeing this done on Pinterest.com a few times, I decided to try it myself!

 

 

The color in the first few photo doesn't show how vibrant the colors in the cupcakes were. They were really fun and pretty. You almost didn't want to eat them. ALMOST :)

 

 This pictures so the colors much better :)

I divided the batter into 6 bowls and dyed each bowl a different color. Then I layered the batter into the cupcake liners according to the order I wanted. In this case I started with purple, then blue, green, yellow, orange, and finally red.

 

 

As you can see the colors aren't perfectly level. The oven causes a convention and mixes the colors as the cupcakes bake. Either way they come out looking cool when you bite into them!!

Pina Colada cupcakes!

For my mom's 60th birthday, I made her pina colada cupcakes! She loves pina colada and this recipe from Wilton is fantastic!

 

 

My sister and I surprised my mom by flying in my grandmother, one of her sisters, and my cousin Kate. She was so happy to have her family with her for her big 6-0 :)