Double coconut cupcakes

So after posting pictures of my cupcakes on Twitter, I got asked by one of the Fiends Miss Summer to make her some cupcakes! She requested Coconut. I found this great recipe on the internet and gave them a test run last week and mmmm mmmm mmmm is all I have to say. Coconut filled cupcakes with a vanilla butter cream, topped with sweetened coconut!

I made another batch of the cupcakes last night and Summer came by to pick them up! She greeted me with a  Fresh Fiends fanny pack! I hadn't gotten one yet so I was thankful she brought me one. After thanking eachother and after she left, a little bit later I was browsing through Twitter to find that she thanked me once again saying that the cupcakes were delicious!!! I was very pleased to hear that she thought they tasted great.... 

This is as they were sitting on the cooling rack before I put them in the box:

And this is them packaged up. 1 dozen regular sized cupcakes and 6 mini cupcakes.

Stay tuned in next week to see pictures of the finished Monster cupcake, and the chocolate cupcakes filled with mini chocolate chips decorated to look like pumpkins!

Strawberry-Lemon cupcakes with extra whipped cream cheese frosting

These cupcakes turned out great tasting! You may not be able to see from the picture but yes there are strawberries in the cupcakes it's not just the strawberry filling. I thought the strawberries would cook too much or something of that nature, but they didn't! Here is what they looked like as I prepped them in the pan.

I made some regular size cupcakes too and this is what they looked like after they finished cooking.

I will be very honest with you my house never smelled so yummy as these were cooking. I guess you had to be there ;)

Here are the regular and mini cupcakes cooling on the rack.

This is what they looked like after I piped the frosting on them. When piping even the simplest design DO NOT USE extra or whipped store bought frosting. I bought the frosting to save some time WRONG idea! I will stick to making my own from now on. When I put the frosting into the piping bag it got softer and looked like glop when I put it on the cupcakes. :(

They shouldn't look like this you should be able to see each round right on top of the other. You see the one to the right pretty bad but that is when I ran out of frosting so I just smashed the little dome.

This is what they look like when you dip into them

Here is a sneak peak on what I am working on next. The logo I made was too big for the cupcake so I have to make it smaller so that it will fit perfectly on the top of the cupcake!

Hope you enjoyed...

Schnauzer Pup-cake!

In one of my earlier posts I promised Amy that I would try and duplicate the Schnauzer pup-cake. Time consuming but I believe I got it done! Since I didn't have jelly beans I used a tootsie roll for the nose, and since I didn't have any fruit roll-ups my brilliant daughters told me to use laffy taffy!

I took a couple of pictures from start to finish. Starting with the base and the ears which are made of marshmellow dipped in pink sugar crystal candies.....

Then I went on and added a bit more......

If you are wondering what is beneath the piping it is half of a marshmellow!

The piping took the longest to do!

Do you see his lil tongue sticking out!! ;p

Well I hope you like the pics of my Pup-Cake...More to come soon...Next project is a cupcake with the Monster drink logo for another person here at work! Then some coconut cupcakes with a Malibu meringue buttercream frosting on top....

Strawberry-chocolate chip cupcakes w/ milk chocolate frosting

I said that I would make a cupcake every weekend and will stay true to that. This has no special decoration on it but I wanted to make some treats. Enjoy!

Once my goodies start to look better I promise better photos!

Mom's B-day cake

My mom's birthday was last weekend but we had her party this past Saturday. She requested I make any kind of cake just as long as it had pudding between the layers. I am very pleased that it turned out the way it did being that I had none of the tools to make perfect cuts, nor did I have an air brush machine but mamaged to do my best! I ended up making a 2 layer chocolate satin cake with cheesecake pudding topped with fondant. Looks like a cake for a kids but my mom didn't mind and I am glad. I am happy that I will be taking classes soon though!I need to master putting fondant on a round cake it was hard! Oh yes and the dots all over the cake were so not on point. I wanted to get to sleep so it was done in a hurry!

Relay for Life

Super stoked!

I work in an executive suites building and a wife of one of the tenants came by. I showed her pics of my cupcakes. She saw them and went on to go and see her husband. When she came out she stopped and asked me to be a part of her annual Relay For Life Boutique. $25.00 for a spot and of course the proceeds go to the charity.She also holds this annual event to help women to promote their biz ventures! She said that it would be a great way to get my name/info out there! Rumor has it this lady knows plenty of people.So of course I agreed! She wants me to have an assortment of cupcakes so that I can sell and to also have mini plain cupcakes of different flavors so that people can sample. I can't wait.

Schnauzer cupcake...

So I showed some of my cupcakes to people here at work, and after lunch 1 of the girls came to my desk and brought me a cupcake book and a picture guide on how to make a Schnauzer cupcake. She has a cute lil doggie so I told her I would make it for her. This book has over 500 cupcakes in it. OMG!

Thanks Amy! I will hurry and make copies of the recipies and return your book :)

Triple Chocolate Fudge Spider & Baby

So here is the picture of the spider and her baby. They are made out of a triple chocolate fudge batter topped with dark chocolate frosting and black candy sprinkles. I used yellow vanilla candy melts for the eyes along with black chocolate frosting for the pupils! The only non edible part are the legs. I couldn't get the edible black spray to stick onto the pull and peel twizzlers, so I used black wire. I should have photographed these at home though! On the way to work today I had to come to a hault and they fell and got smashed!
Boo hoo......Wanted to share them with you anyways.

All of my ideas come from mutiple sites but the majority are from Flickr's website. So thank you to the many people that post all of their creations, and others creations. :)

~~Mia's Pieces~~

Not only will I be posting baked goods on this blog but I will be posting invitations that I make, scrapbooking pages, birthday cards, and party favors. I love crafty things. Stuff to keep me busy...As if I have the time right? Well in order to keep sane I MAKE the time to get these things done. I am just now starting the whole baking/decorating and love it. I am starting off simple and cute but I WILL get to the point to where I can decorate things to where they look professional. So spread the word!!!

Butter Pecan Owl Cupcakes

 So I got this great idea of making owl cupcakes courtesy of Ezra Pound CakeI couldn't resist so I had to try! I do not have the time to be making the cupcakes from scratch so I use store bought ready made mixes, however I do make my own butter cream!

Here is the recipe that I use:

1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine softened
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)

1 teaspoon of clear vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk
Makes: About 3 cups of icing.

You must first mix the vegetable shortening, and butter together. Once they are mixed add the vanilla extract. I mix on medium speed until well blended. I then mix in the sifted confectioners sugar 1 cup at a time. Once all of that is mixed in is when I add the milk and depending on the consistency you are trying to reach add more or less!

To make it into chocolate butter cream you add 3/4 cup of sifted cocoa powder and 1 teaspoon of milk.