Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

Birthday cupcakes for a young Washington Nationals fan.  Once again, we went with both vanilla and chocolate cupcakes.  The selection featured baseballs, monograms, and blue sugars (the birthday boy's favorite color).

What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice.

I was recently asked to bake cupcakes for a little girl's seventh birthday.  I decided to go with my favorite shimmer monograms atop pink buttercream icing.  I topped both the dark chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with buttercream icing. 

The cupcake order featured 2 types of monogrammed cupcakes (G's and 7's).  Cupcakes topped with coarse rainbow sugars completed the darling arrangement. 

Birthday Luau

When my friend's baby girl turned 1, my friend and her husband hosted a Luau birthday party.  I was thrilled when she asked me to bake a small cake for the celebration.  I created an edible lei using fondant and shoestring candy to go around the base of the cake.  The top of the cake featured the Hawaiian birthday girl, McKenzie. 

Like the cake I baked for the first birthday of another friend's baby, this cake would be presented to the birthday girl when her adoring fans sang Happy Birthday to her.  Unlike my other friend's daughter, who as you may remember from my previous post face-planted in the cake, McKenzie was not a fan of sweets and refused to touch the cake.  What, you may be wondering, did the birthday girl reach for?  A pickle.  Priceless.

My First Tea Party

When my friend asked me if I'd like to bake a cake for her daughter's tea party-themed first birthday party, I didn't hesitate to accept the invitation.  The invitation, which served as my inspiration for the cake, featured a scene of two girls having a leisurely tea party.  The face seen on Avery's birthday cake is that of the little girl on the invitation. 

When it came time to sing Happy Birthday, the crowd gathered around the birthday girl as she was presented with her cake.  After the singing and the blowing out of the candle, she dug both hands into the cake and tried to grab handfuls to eat.  When this was unsuccessful, she face-planted into the cake.  Much more effective than her two tiny hands.  I think it's safe to say that she liked the cake.    

For the Love of Dinosaurs

What would a dinosaur-themed birthday party be without a dinosaur cake?  This birthday cake was made for a very special little boy who adores the PBS Kids show, Dinosaur Train.  The dinosaur was crafted out of fondant.  Vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with orange and green vanilla buttercream tied it all together. 

Bear-y Yummy Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes for my first grade class last year to help us celebrate earning 400 compliments!  The cupcakes were yellow cake with vanilla buttercream.  Yum!