Kitten cupcakes!

 For my friend Kasey's birthday, I made him kitten cupcakes! He and his girlfriend love their two kittens so much I created these cupcakes based on their babies.

 

 

The orange cat represents their orange tabby "Oliver B. Kitten". The grey cat represents their grey shorthair "Sadie the Lady".

 

Decorations:

"fish": melted chocolate piped into shape

"nose": pink runts heart

"cheeks": Mentos

"tongue": red starburst, quartered and molded

"eyes": green mini m&m's

"eyebrows": black licorice lace

 

 

The cupcakes clearly don't do Oliver (left) and Sadie (right) justice :) They are such cute kittens!



Moose cupcakes!

For Mal's 21st birthday, I made her moose cupcakes! I'm pretty sure I found this idea for a google.com search.

 

 

I made some minor changes and didn't bother with the "ears". There was no way they would stay on during travel, so I skipped that step. To me the antlers pointing down, just don't look right, so I had them point up. Both option look cute, and the overall moose effect is obvious :)

 

GO MOOOOOSE!

 

Decorations:

"head": nutter butter cookie dipped in chocolate

"antlers": half a mini pretzel

"eyes": mini m&m's

"mouth": red icing piped

"nose": white icing piped

 

 

Here is my inspiration for the cupcakes :)

 

Mighty Moose Ice Hockey

 

Spring 2013

 

Wilton Cake Decorating: Level 1

 My coworker and I took the Level 1 Wilton cake decorating class together in May. We had the class on Thursday night, and then took our creations into the office for a "decoration competition". Here were some of our creations from 2 of the weeks we went.

 

This was my "rosette" cake.

 

My coworkers "rosette" cake. So much better than mine :)

I think she won this round.

 

This was my "transfer" design, it turned out well...

 

... but it didn't survive the ride home from class :(

Apparently Marshmallow Fluff is NOT a good filling for a 2 layer cake!!

 

 

This is my coworkers "transfer" design cake. Again, I think she won :(

In the end we had fun, but decided what we learned in that class wasn't anything we couldn't teach ourselves. Plus, she works more with fondant, while I work more with candies and gummies to make my decorations :)