A friend of mine asked me to make some baby shower cupcakes, 60 to be exact. She gave me complete freedom with what to do and what flavors to make. The only things she told me were: 1. the colors were red and yellow with a splash of pink and 2. the theme was roses. Here’s what I came up with:
I molded some chocolate roses to add on top of the frosting. I made a couple different cupcakes, Brooklyn Blackout (pretty much a darker devil’s), tie-dye, Cookies n’ Cream, Cinnamon Toast, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. The frostings I made were dark chocolate buttercream, vanilla buttercream, cookie dough, and cinnamon cream cheese frosting. I’ll be posting each one individually this week, so keep a lookout for them!
Cookie & Cupcake Bouquet with a Traveling Theme
One of my good friends, Robin, wanted to surprise her mom for her birthday and asked for a little help. Robin’s currently living in Europe for school/work, so she asked me to do a cookie bouquet to deliver to her mom on her birthday. Isn’t that sweet? Her idea was to make a bouquet that represents all of the places her mom visited this past year– the rest was up for grabs.
While strolling around my local crafts store for the supplies, I stumbled across an airplane cookie cutter and knew it was perfect for the bouquet. Although, it did look like a fish without any decoration. It was hard trying to figure out how to decorate it so you could tell it was a plane.
That’s the one I was the most proud of. All done with a toothpick because my piping bag was NOT cooperating that night. I need to invest in a good quality one.
Then, once the cookies are dry, I wrapped them up individually.
Next, I assembled it all together. This particular bouquet had cupcake pops and decorated sugar cookies. I’m really sad that my American flag stripes were droopy. I decorated it while holding it perpendicular to the floor because it was easier to make stripes that way and gravity kinda took over. Ugh. I did this bouquet at 4:30AM in the morning, so I didn’t have time to make another batch of cookies and start again. 🙁
And there you go! There’s the completed product. I included a personalized note from Robin, too, and tied it all together with some ribbon. I liked the idea of leaving the bag opened for this one, kind of like a bouquet of roses. For the recipe, I used my no fail sugar cookie recipe with royal icing, as posted before here.
Robin’s dad was in on the surprise and waited for my arrival so I wouldn’t have to ring the doorbell. I walked in and the birthday girl was SO surprised! Best part ever was that it was the perfect timing— Robin was actually skyping (video chatting) with her mom, so Robin witnessed the whole delivery and surprise. I gotta say, there’s nothing better than seeing someone’s face light up!
Note to self: Do not take a 4 dozen cookie order and a bouquet order on the same night that a 2,000 word essay is due. You’ll become nocturnal. (totally worth it to see those smiles, though!)
As for the Martha Stewart status, THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone that has donated! Keep an eye on the mail and the one marked from “kim” isn’t spam, so don’t throw it out! It’s a little thank you for your kindness. I’ve gotten $160 from donations, which is AMAZING! Not quite enough for a plane ticket, but with the cookie delivery fundraiser that I’m doing tomorrow night (ahhh i have to bake 24 DOZEN cookies tonight..), it’s enough to make my trip come true! Everything’s been booked and I cannot be any more excited. Actually, I lied, I can. My boyfriend is coming with me since I was able to bring a guest to the show! He’s never been to NY so his excuse for going is to celebrate our 2 year anniversary.
And WHOA MAMA, who knew there were so many haters? They even followed me over to my formspring to ask their nasty questions. All I gotta say is, please, for everyone’s sake, eat a cookie or two. There’s no reason why anyone should be so miserable.. especially on a food blog! Can’t we all just hold hands and sing Kumbaya?
Thanks to everyone else for the support! Seriously. I’ve never felt so much love from my fellow blog readers.
Crumbs Cupcake Porn
Just to let y’all know, I’m probably the worst dieter ever. Yup, I’m a complete failure and I have no shame in admitting it. I just can’t say no when someone offers me chocolate, kettle corn, or cupcakes! Granted, I went out of my way to get these babies because I’m only two days into my diet and I’m already having withdrawals. Whoops.
Nom nom nom.. The cotton candy didn’t taste much like cotton candy. It was just a vanilla cupcake with frosting that only slightly tasted like cotton candy when eaten alone, but it sure was the prettiest! My favorite was the dulce de leche, but I’m a sucker for caramel. I’ve always loved Crumbs cupcakes and prefer them over Sprinkles. I need to find some new cupcake spots to go to. Any suggestions?
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