Chocolate Cake

Not a whole lot can beat chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Unless you add raspberry whipped cream filling! (Plus the sugar stars don't hurt). I made this for a friend's "Going Back to Work" party last year. Mmmmmm, now I'm craving it!

Spiderman Cupcakes

Spiderman Themed Cupcakes for a 4-year-old boy's birthday party. The party was great too- nice and laid back and I relaxed the whole time! More pictures can be found here.

Simple Cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Simple and yummy! I think I did these on the fly, so there were no decorating tunes :(

-J

Pretty Liners

I recently bought these beautiful cupcake liners from Bake It Pretty. Hmmm... what should I bake in them? I'm leaning towards some fancy muffins with a huge dollop of cream cheese frosting up on top. What do you think?

Rainbow Cupcakes

In the post about Christopher's Birthday Cupcakes I didn't even mention the best part! Since I like to complicate things and because I thought it would look plain cool, I did all of the birthday cupcakes rainbow on the inside. I thought it'd be a nice little surprise for the kids when they ate them but they didn't seem to think it was as cool as the adults did. I thought they looked neat and the inside of the cupcake wrappers looked pretty too!

Birthday Cookies 2009

Besides doing cupcakes for Christopher's birthday I stuck to my speciality and did some cookies to give out in the goody bags. Since Christopher's starting to have his own little opinion I wanted to include him in the party planning so I let him pick out what colors he wanted the cookies to be. He first picked blue because that's his favorite color and then for the 2nd color he picked yellow "so it would look like Sprinkles." Sprinkles is his stuffed animal giraffe and his best friend. I thought that was too adorable!

Also to help keep him involved and because I needed someone to try them, Christopher stepped in as my cookie taster and they seemed to be good enough for him! They were sugar cookies with orange royal icing them time. Decorating music was Taylor Swift's "Fearless" album again :)

-J

Birthday Cards

If you'd believe it, baking isn't my only creative outlet. Before I ever started baking my main creative outlet was through scrapbooking and making cards. I don't get as much time as I'd like anymore, but once in a while I can get a couple things done. Here are some birthday cards I did last year for a 1 and 3 year old's. My style is definitely not to keep things simple (when I have the time) and I like lots of small details. I especially like that glitter on the 2nd card!

-J