Saturday, November 27, 2010

American Alligator cupcakes

For my son's 5th Birthday I made him an alligator made out of 2 dozen cupcakes...
It was pretty easy when I followed the instructions in the Hello, Cupcake  book.
All that I needed to decorate it was icing, green tint, yellow banana-shaped runts, marshmallows, oreo (100 calorie) thins, 2 jr. mints, and 2 green jellybellies. The hardest issue that I ran into was having a surface large enough to display (& transport) this big guy!  (I found a large pizza box opened flat worked well for display!)


Friday, November 26, 2010

Cakepops!

Found a new book, Cakepops by Bakerella. This book is right up my alley! Creative yummy balls of cake & frosting dipped into candy melts, and stuck on a stick.

Here are my latest creations!

After baking a cake, crumbling it, and mixing it with frosting- I rolled them into balls. Then after chilling them in the freezer for 15 minutes, I shaped them into a "cupcake" shape using a flower-shaped cookie cutter. Next placed them back into the fridge to keep them from losing their shape while I melted the candy melts.


 I dipped the bottom of the "cupcake" into the melted chocolate candy melts...

Then I quickly dipped part of the lollipop stick into the chocolate and pushed it about halfway into the cakepop.
After the chocolate was dry, I dipped the top of the cupcake into the a different color candy melt. I did a batch of white & one of pink.
Then topped with sprinkles & a skittle!


Then I put each into a bag and tied it with a ribbon.



I also made Owls (for my daughter's 3rd Birthday)...


And turkeys for Thanksgiving....