sweet.bliss.cupcakes

cabo cupcakes

2009-05-28T14:10:00.001-07:00

phew! what a break from weekendcupcakes!

we spent last week in mexico, so why not some margarita cupcakes?! (thanks for the suggestion, yaya!)

yes, they do have tequila. (cabo wabo, our favorite, to be exact). and yes, they were fab.

long time no cupcakes

2009-03-22T15:55:00.000-07:00

wow. its been almost 8 months since i've blogged last. i'm seriously like the.worst.blogger.ever.

ok, so here's some of the cupcake pictures that i managed to scrounge up from the past 8 months. our old laptop went ka-put, so once i retrieve those, i'll add more. so theres not many right now...

but here they are... drum roll please....

these are cupcakes that i made for a breast cancer awareness fashion show. i don't remember how many i made, but i made a sh*t-ton of them. (i think it was about 4 dozen) they were chocolate/strawberry marble cake w/creamycreamcheese frosting or chocolotae frosting though... and then, of course, the cute pink ribbons:

these cupcakes were christmas cupcakes :) (i LOVE holidays, if you can't tell...) these were my yummy pumpkin spice cupcakes (same recipe as the thanksgiving ones last year) with creamycreamcheese frosting. and, i also went ahead and posted pictures of some oreo truffles that i made for christmas as well. they were.to.die.for. (i know there not cupcakes.... but they were sooo delicious, i can't resist posting them)

these were the st patty's day cupcakes that i made for, well, st patty's day. they were chocolate cupcakes w/white chocolate + bailey's filling, and then topped with a mixture of buttercream, whipped cream, and cream cheese frosting. i wanted a super creamy (but still light) "topper" for these fellas. and they were pretty deliche.

these were HAPPYBIRTHDAYKIM!! cupcakes... kim is our wonderful neighbor who has two cute little pups, one thats best buds with tsavo, and one that's best buds with herself :) (she's a little diva at times, but little des is the cutest little yorkie ever!) but kim is a fabulous woman that would celebrate her birthday all month long if she could! (which i totally love, and understand, because i also want to celebrate my birthday all month long too if i could). but she loves lemon bars, and so i made her lemon cupcakes, with lemon pudding filling, with lemon icing. i was going to top it with lemon bars, but silly me forgot to grease the pan. so she go lemon cupcakes, and a pan of lemon sludge that she gets to eat with a spoon :)

ok, so i'll post more once i can retrieve them off our old laptop... enjoy!! :)

yellow balls

2008-08-11T09:48:00.000-07:00

more cupcake balls that i made out of the mess-up cupcakes during my corn-on-the-cobbies.

velvet balls :)

2008-08-11T09:44:00.000-07:00

so... my new fun thing to do, and a great compromise to jacobs unlovingness towards cupcakes (shocking! i know!!) is a new little creation i made on accident.

i made some red velvet cake the other day and was going to attempt cupcake pops, but considering we dont have a microwave (yet) i couldnt melt the chocolate that was supposed to cover them- and, with my short attention span, i got very frustrated trying to attempt double boiling.

anyways, all it is is cake mixed w/icing and then rolled into balls! they're the perfect size to munch on, and jacob loves them! so he got the naming rights :)

happy birhtday to me (again)

2008-08-11T09:39:00.000-07:00

so i didnt make these... but i wish that i did! they were soooo delic!
my awesome friend lauren made these for my birhtday/last night in houston. we ended the night at a mexican food joint and so she made tres leches cupcakes that i drool just thinking about!
thanks lauren :)

corn or cUpCakE??

2008-08-11T09:33:00.000-07:00

so happy birthday to meeee!
my mom got me a whole little kit of stuff to make corn-on-the-cobbie cupcakes. they turned out really cute, but i couldnt get the little corn holders to stick in the sides cuz i forgot about the altitude change (oops). but, here they are none the less!

7-up cake w/cream cheese (surprise, surprise) frosting.

happy birthday to... YAYA

2008-07-13T14:25:00.001-07:00

we were down in seguin a few weeks back and i wanted to make yaya some special birthday cupcakes. they turned out pretty cute considering i didn't have anything other than a butter knife!

cocolate w/whipped cream filling & dark chocolate chips. (i totally need to come up with a name for these!)

mexican hot chocolate

2008-07-13T14:16:00.000-07:00

so the kind ladies at latin women's initiative donated $5k to one of my events. i decided that some thank you cupcakes were definitely in order (considering that some of my other cupcakes have fetched $45k (2 boxes of the Tickled Pink) and $25k (1 box of Fredericksburg Peaches)...).

going w/the latin theme, i made some mexican hot chocolate cupcakes. i couldn't find churros anywhere in the city of houston, and they buenuelos that i finally did buy tasted aweful. so, like a true american, i went to taco bell. those little cinnamon crispies were acutally cuter anyways. (note: they become very very stale overnight... so i wouldn't recommend eating them).

basically, for those that do not know, mexican hot chocolate is chocolate with a bunch of spices in it. i added cinnamon and chili powder to a chocolate recipe i have... and they came out pretty delicious. i was extremely nervous putting the chili powder in it, but if i had to do it all over again, i'd double the amount i used.

anyways, here they are.

tiny boxwood inspiration

2008-07-13T14:03:00.001-07:00

so... one morning, at our tinys ritual coffee wednesday, kim asked me, lauren, and lesley for some ideas for a farewell party for a friend of hers. we, of course in our typical creative genius fashion, gave her tons and tons of ideas. and then, by the end of breakfast, we have volunteered ourselves to basically do everything but host a party for a girl we've absolutely never met. texas hill country style.
i was going to make the peach cupcakes (posted below) but since it was for a party, i decided mini's would be a better fit. and everyone knows the affinity i have for all things mini.
so, i decided on lemon blueberry lil guys. the icing didn't taste as blueberry-ish as i would have liked... but i have no idea on how to naturally make it more blueberry tasting (w/o having to use artificial flavoring). oh well, they turned out yummy and super cute. so here they are!

red, white, and blueberry lemon mini's to the rescue!

fredericksburg peaches

2008-07-13T13:47:00.000-07:00

mmmm...
so these are some cupcakes i made w/fresh fredericksburg peach filling. yum. yum. yum.

they were proably some of my most favorite cupcakes ever.

TICKLED PINK

2008-04-15T09:04:00.000-07:00

so i made 26 boxes of 5 cupcakes for our media contacts to invite them to Tickled Pink. 26 x 5 + 2 for me = 132 little cupcake babies. that's definitley the most cupcakes i've EVER made.

and, as my luck would have it, my camera died last night, so avi had to take pics of them for me this morning ::

chocolate cupcakes w/cream cheese frosting

st patty's day + VICTORY

2008-04-15T08:53:00.001-07:00

cupcakes i made for the VICTORY ladies... ::

marble cupcakes w/vanilla frosting

cupcake + stella

2008-01-17T12:39:00.000-08:00

2008-01-17T12:34:00.000-08:00

one of the girls i work with requested some pink girlie cupcakes for her daughter's 6th birthday party.
i apologize for the quality of the pictures... i took them with my cellphone :)
here are the vanilla cupcakes w/strawberry frosting and white chocolate hearts + flowers for princess juliet:

my friend lauren got me an awesome 3-d giant cupcake pan... so i'm totally excited about making that... i will definitely post pics.

CUPCAKE OVERLOAD!!!

2007-12-19T19:38:00.001-08:00

here are a bagillion pictures of cupcakes that i've made over the past 2 months...
enjoy!

(via lauren... she was the master mind behind these... i just helped)

time flies...

2007-10-29T07:39:00.000-07:00

woah... its been almost a month (exactly) since my last post... geesh!

here are some cupcakes that i made for Survivor Day last friday. there were 48 total. it was my first order!! i'm glad it was a success!!

i've made other cupcakes... i just have no idea where i put the pics. silly me. :)

happy breast cancer awareness month!

2007-09-30T13:13:00.000-07:00

so as you all know, i work for the american cancer society.... sooo... it woud be silly of me not to make cupcakes for the start of breast cancer awareness month right?!? (which is tomorrow by the way... since its oct 1.)

so here are some of the pics of my awesome strawberry cupcakes w/pink buttercream frosting. i've been making a lot of buttercream lately, but i'm trying to perfect my recipe. this batch was super yummy. i prefer cream cheese frosting on strawberry, but i didnt have any cream cheese and was too lazy to go to the store to buy some. plus, a lot of people i work with don't like cream cheese anyways... crazy... i know...

last thursday (i think) i walked around taking pictures of some people in my office and got some quotes from a few about what they would tell someone about breast cancer awareness month. plus, we have 2 survivors in our office, so i wanted to make sure they were recognized as well.

better than ?? cupcakes!

2007-09-27T18:49:00.000-07:00

mmm... so these are the cupcakes that i made tonight for our sweet treats silent auction tomorrow. hopefully someone will think they're absolutely adorable and pay tons & tons of money for them :)

these babies are essentially yellow cake, pineapple filling, vanilla custard, and then vanilla (w/a little bit of cream cheese... cuz i love cream cheese...) frosting. oh, & then a little yellow fondant star on top.

if i wasnt sick from eating so much batter... and then pineapples.... and then custard... and then frosting, i'd definitely eat one.

some old cupcake pics

2007-09-26T14:28:00.000-07:00

here's some pics of cupcakes that i made like a month ago or so... for absolutely no reason at all.
i bought some little "sour power" straws (mmm....) and wanted to make some cupcakes with them. so, i ended up making strawberry lemon/lime cupcakes.. they were yummy, and they looked super cute as well.

we're having a sweet treats silent auction at work on friday to help raise some $$, so i think i'm going to make Better Than ?? cupcakes. i thought the word "sex" was inappropriate. dontcha agree??

oh and i'm in the process of making some SUPER awesome cupcakes to bring on monday because its the start of breast cancer awareness month. (october is breast cancer awareness month... in case you didn't know... more info to come on that later!) it kinda stinks that i'm gonna be bringing cupcakes friday & monday... but it gives me stuff to do this weekend! (ha... did you actually think i was going to complain about making cupcakes??!?) i'll post pics hopefully soon of those... cuz you're gonna be soooooooo jealous :)

2007-09-25T10:35:00.000-07:00

oh and i totally forgot that i sent pictures of aiden eating a cupcake to "cupcakestakethecake" and they totally posted them! wohoo!
here they are just in case you missed it...

2007-09-25T10:14:00.000-07:00

pumpkin spice cupcakes (w/cream cheese frosting) that i brought to work last week...

in the beginning...

2007-09-25T09:56:00.000-07:00

so here goes nothing.
new cupcake adventures ahead!

jacob (my awesome husband), tiffany (my amazing friend) and anyone else i can grab (hopefully i can get yaya on board)... will join me in finding excitement, happiness, love, and possibly failures (though hopefully not as much) in our quest for sweet.bliss.cupcakes.

this blog will hopefully not only be a way for me to track our journey, but also a way for me to share ideas and give your inboxes a break from all the thousand pictures and emails i send with pictures, links, and stories about my love of cupcakes :)