Sweet Somethings

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2010-04-05T01:56:00.002-04:00

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HAPPY HEART DAY!

2010-02-16T23:02:00.005-05:00

For Valentine's Day, I made my fiance a White Chocolate and Strawberry Cheesecake, Chocolate Dipped Strawberries and today (2 days after V-Day) I made Chocolate cupcakes with a Cream Cheese frosting, topped with a Maraschino Cherry. YUM! It's a good thing I paced myself this weekend, LOL!

THE APPLE OF MY EYE

2010-02-16T22:50:00.003-05:00

Ever done something just for fun? I have! In this case, I made Red Delicious Cupcakes! They are made with applesauce and spice, so not only are they light, but they are soft and... delicious! These were fun to make. Except when it came to tinting the buttercream red. Pink pink pink! No red. Only pink. I started asking everyone around if it was looking more and more like red. I did the best I could. As did my mixing arm and my red gel paste. Enjoy!

TAKE THAT TIM HORTON'S!

2010-02-16T22:43:00.004-05:00

Home made Boston Cream Cupcakes. Enough said!

A TASTE OF THE SEASON

2010-01-03T22:59:00.003-05:00

Tis the season to BAKE! So I did! I made these GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES with CREAM CHEESE & BROWN SUGAR frosting, and then I sprinkled them with crushed CANDY CANES. They were soft and tasted just right! I made them for my fiance's car club, and a friend told me that they "taste just like Christmas." I made the regular batch that yield's about 12 standard sized cupcakes, but I made these in the mini cupcake pan, and got almost 55 mini gingerbread cupcakes. Great for the larger crowds, lol.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

2010-01-03T22:52:00.003-05:00

I made these cupcakes for a friend who was asked by her family to bring them, lol. Half of the batch were North Pole Penguins, and the other half were Snowman and Christmas Tree Snow Globes. The snow globes were lots of fun to make. So were the penguins, but they were quite time consuming. In the end, they all came out looking GREAT!

Not one baby... but TWO!

2010-01-03T22:46:00.003-05:00

You can imagine my surprise and excitement when I found out that my friend Ryanne was expecting... TWINS!! I was so excited to make cupcakes for her baby shower that she shared with her friends. Here is what I made: Bubble Bath Ducks, Chocolate Baby Booties, Floating Chocolate Flowers and TWINS! I also made Diaper Cakes fro Ryanne. She got two... one for each baby. I can't wait to meet them!

ONE BABY SHOWER AFTER THE OTHER!

2009-11-29T22:03:00.006-05:00

You guessed it, baby shower cupcakes! No picture posting yet. I still have one more baby shower to bake for, and I don't want to show them until I've done them both, that way there's no cheating and looking. Soon. Like, next week. So its been a month, and the baby showers are DONE! Here are the pictures from LINDSAY'S BABY SHOWER:

I also made a DIAPER CAKE made out of 72 baby diapers, and decorated with toys, books, face cloths and much more!

CUBA CUBA CUBA!!!

2009-11-29T21:52:00.003-05:00

Judging by the title, can yo guess where this is going? Yes, CUBA! In early November, myself, my new fiance and four other fantastic friends went to Cuba for a week, and to celebrate such a trip, I made Cuba inspired cupcakes. The graham cracker teddy bears seem to be having lots of fun! Lounging on the beach, swimming in the water, being surrounded by sharks... all the good stuff! That was the life for a week (minus the sharks, as there are non there thank God).

A SEXY PARTY...WARNING!

2009-11-29T21:35:00.005-05:00

October was an interesting month. Mainly because I was commissioned to make my very first order of... (brace yourselves)...PENIS cupcakes for a friends stagette party!! And not only did I make 30 of them (my mom's kitchen counter had an army of penis' on it), but I made a centerpiece mini cake with a (not to scale) penis. What a fun project. Needless to say, I didn't ask for any help with this one, lol. The cupcake 'toppers' are made out pf caramel squares and the "big guy' is a chocolate covered twinkie, well, two twinkies. They are pretty funny looking, but apparently much more fun to eat.

I'M THANKFUL FOR... CUPCAKES!

2009-11-29T21:19:00.005-05:00

So, I know that Thanksgiving was last month, but I've been busy. For Thanksgiving, my family had friends over and I couldn't wait to get into the kitchen and bake something super Thankgiving-y and cute! So I made a pumpkin patch and some turkey's (gobble-gobble). Both are Maple cupcakes. Very dee-lish! The pumpkins are just orange icing and orange sugar, with some green apple twizzler tops. As for the turkey's, the heads are almond marshmallows, homemade toasted coconut and a whole bunch of Mike & Ike's! They were much enjoyed.

PUPCAKES & MUFFINS

2009-09-24T00:17:00.007-04:00

So, I've been baking a lot, and I have this Doggie Festival coming up that I'm making like 250-300 cupcakes, and I thought, what the dogs? People are obviously going to buy the cupcakes that I made for the festivals fundraiser, so yesterday I made my very first doggie-friendly muffins, and today I made 2 different flavoured pupcakes! I can't even begin to tell you how happy and excited I am! Here they are...

ABOVE: Apple and Carrot Muffins. My boys (dogs) loved them!

ABOVE: Carob Pupcakes and Carob Chip Pupcakes. My dogs loved these too!

How cute are these? They look de-lish and they're soooooo easy to make. I can't wait to make more of these and possibly make some Doggie cookies too.

KEEPING TRACK

2009-09-21T01:32:00.004-04:00

This seems like a good idea. I'm going to keep track of all the events and amounts coming up, starting... NOW!

Mommy's Birthday September 20th, 2009: 20 Honey-Cinnamon Cupcakes with Hummingbird Flowers CAMP LOTSA DOGS Doggy Festival September 26th, 2009: TBA (approx. 250-300 cupcakes/cookies)

INSANITY

2009-09-21T01:17:00.002-04:00

As per Friday night, with help from Jen (my side-cake [side-kick]), it has come to my attention that between NOW and November 30th, 2009, I will need to make juuuuuuuuuuuuuuust over 500 cupcakes. This includes Thanksgiving, 2 baby showers (on the same day), 5 birthdays, a bake sale at a festival for the City of Caledon, a dinner party, a bake sale at the CAMP LOTSA DOGS Doggy Festival in Oshawa, 2 vacation parties, about 2 Halloween parties, and I'm pretty sure there are more, and I'm just forgetting them cause THIS IS MADNESS! :o)

BUTTERFLIES

2009-09-15T22:52:00.003-04:00

JUST AMAZING! I made these for my brother's 1 year wedding anniversary luncheon. People were surprized to find out that the wings were made out of chocolate and they could now "eat the whole thing!" These are lemon flavoured cupcakes with a yellow tinted frosting with chocolate butterfly wings. Easy to make, but very time consuming. Jen's look really cute too! I can't wait to get a picture of hers and post it on here too!

HOW IT ALL STARTED

2009-09-15T16:12:00.006-04:00

So, to really get this thing going, I'm posting pictures of just some of the yummy cupcakes I've made. The baking obsession really started in May 2009, when I made cupcakes, cookies and chocolate dipped strawberries for Mike's (the great boyfriend) Ride To Conquer Cancer BBQ Fundraiser. I think that was when the fanbase started to grow.

Here is a little something that was made for my friends daughter Lily, when she was born on July 7th, 2009. I call her my little Lily-bug; hence the ladybug on the cupcake. I know she can't appreciate it now, but she will, especially knowing that her 'aunty' Lala (that's me) loves her very much!

It was then that I saw a picture of a hamburger cupcake, and it BLEW MY MIND! I re-created the hamburger according to what I THOUGHT it was made from, and it turned out... pretty good. To it I decided to add a chocolate milkshake and french fries (I haven't actually gotten around to making the french fries...yet!). Now, I don't mean to toot my own horn but "TOOT-TOOT" they were good, and boy did they ever go fast!

And that's when SWEET SOMETHINGS was born. At first, Jen and I couldn't decide on a name, but SWEET SOMETHINGS just happened to take the 'cup'cake!

Bake Sale Thanks!

2009-09-15T00:36:00.002-04:00

For my first blog post (which is VERY exciting by the way), I'd like to thank everyone for their support at my CIBC Run For The Cure BAKE SALE! It was a great success. So much so that there seemed to be more angry people than happy. Angry people being those who did not get to savour any of the wonderful baked goods found at my desk. But worry not, there might be another bake sale in the near future - mostly to satisfy the angry mobs. I'll post pictures of the cupcakes and mini cheesecakes as soon as I can.