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. 

Pretty in Pink

Last summer, my friend Jenni married the love of her life, Blake.  Our friend Kate threw Jenni a lovely bridal shower for all of her work friends.  I was super excited when Kate asked if I would like to bake the cake and cupcakes for Jenni's shower. 

The cake was a 2-layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and topped with hydrangeas (one of my favorite flowers!).  I placed sugar pearls around the base and piped buttercream around the cake creating a scroll pattern.

I used the shades of pink from the bridal shower invitation to create the color scheme for the cupcakes and cake.  The cupcakes were also a vanilla cake topped with a swirl of vanilla buttercream. 

Half of the cupcakes were topped with white buttercream and a pink monogrammed fondant disc.

The other half of the cupcakes were topped with pink buttercream and small white flowers.