Christmas/ Santa cupcakes!

For Christmas this year,  I decided to make Santa cupcakes. I found a relatively quick design on Pinterest.com.

I made both the cupcakes and icing from scratch. I thought they tasted delicious,  but I'm baised as always!

 

Decorations:
"Hat": red sugar
"Hat brim": white chocolate chips
"Eyes": brown mini m&m's
"Nose": red mini m&m's
"Beard": shredded coconut

As tradition, I dressed up my kittens in their Elf and Santa costumes and took some holiday photos. This was the best shot of them together ♡

I put the costume on my sister's cat Castor. He was too fat for the Santa suit. Ironic really :)   

 

Festivus cupcakes!

My boyfriend is a HUGE fan of Seinfeld. Especially the Festivus episode.  He throws a party every year. This year was my first. Beside the random pole in the room, it was a typical holiday party!

 

 

HAPPY FESTIVUS EVERYONE!

 

Holiday Party Cupcakes!

For a work Secret Santa, I decided to experiment with the different oil flavors in the icing. I decided to go with Peppermint oil since it reminds me of candy canes and Christmas. I also thought I'd mess around with food coloring and mixed in red and green into the batter.

For the decoration, I made Christmas trees and lights to go on top of the cupcakes.

My Secret Santa got me a 6-pack of Angry Orchard (my favorite!) and 2 Angry Orchard Pint glasses!

I got my Secret Santa a porcelain red solo cup (so he can stop using the plastic one/ looking like a 40+ year old frat boy!) and a multi-tool.

 

Happy Holidays!

Cat themed cupcakes!

For a PALs Volunteer Thank you party, my mom asked me to make 100 standard cupcakes. Since I can't just simply make box cupcakes anymore with store bought icing, I decided they needed to be 100 made-from-scratch cupcakes with cat-themed decorations.

 

  After searching Pinterest.com I found a few ideas to work it.

 

Decorations:

"fur": chocolate sprinkles (jimmies)

"eyes": spice or regular gum drops

"ears": chocolate melting squares cut into triangles

"whiskers": black licorice lace

"nose": chocolate icing

 

 

Decorations:

"paws": regular marshmallows cut in thirds

"toes": mini marshmallows cut in half

"nails": black icing

 

 

 I decided to make some fish bones with the extra cupcakes I had using white melting chocolate.