Disney Halloween Cupcakes!

Trick or treat! I wanted to make some fun Halloween cupcakes for my friends and so I decided to make Disney Halloween cupcakes because I LOVE Disneyland and all the cute lovable characters. Chi Ba also suggested that I do Nightmare Before Christmas (great suggestion, thanks Chi Ba!) since I'm going with the Disney route so this is what I came up with! I made Jack Skellington and Zero, his pet ghost dog, and I made Mickey Mouse in his mummy costume and Minnie Mouse in her pumpkin costume! To find a fitting flavor to go with my themed cupcakes, I decided to make Pumpkin Spice cupcakes with Bavarian Orange Cream filling, mhmmm! I want to give special thanks like always to my wonderful assistant Jennifer for helping me with these lovely tricky creations! Thanks a bunch sissy!

So here's how I made these sweet treats! Mickey Mouse's eyes and ears out of fondant (thanks Khoa for jumping into eye duty last minute!) and piped on mickey's mummy wrappings! My pumpkin cupcakes were frosted with orange buttercream, topped with orange sugar crystals. The trunk of the pumpkin is green twislers, and the vines are green licorice rope. Minnie's bow and ears are made of fondant. Jack Skellington is decorated with buttercream and only his eyes are made of fondant. Zero is my absolute favorite and he is made out of fondant and I used black food coloring to dot his eyes! I wish I had a Zero of my own to be Luna's playmate! =)

So of course, how can I have fun Halloween cupcakes without some super awesome fun Halloween jokes?? Ready?? Here they are... How do monsters tell their future? With horror-scopes! What do ghosts add to their morning cereal? Boo-berries! Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the street? Because it had no guts! What do you do to mend a Jack-O-Lantern? A pumpkin patch! hahaha, ok that's enough =P. Anyways, enjoy and have a safe and fun time on Halloween, or as birds would say, "Trick or Tweet!" =)

Vroom Vroom Race Car Birthday!

Happy Birthday Andrew! So this is my sister Jennifer's first masterpiece for her boyfriend Andrew and she custom made this British inspired Lotus Formula One race car for him for his birthday!! All I did was bake the cupcakes and buttercream and she did the rest! She covered these mini green French Vanilla cupcakes with green frosting, and coated them in green sugar crystals. She used vanilla wafers for the head, and fondant for the driver's helmet and sunglasses. She used chocolate mini donuts for the wheels with yellow mentos for the hubcaps as well! The yellow bar in the front of the car and the spoiler in the back is a graham cracker held up with butterfingers sticks. The numbers 05, the number of speed racer, is made of fondant. The black thing in front of the race car is also a butterfingers stick covered in fondant! What a great job and I am super proud and impressed of her edible piece of art!! Ok so here they come, more super awesome corny jokes! What do you get when you mix a car, a fly, and a dog? A flying carpet! What happened to the wooden car with the wooden motor with the wooden wheels? It wooden go! What happened to the steel car with the steel motor and the steel wheels? It steel wouldn't go!!! =P Happy birthday Andrew!!

Chinese Take Out Anyone?

Happy Birthday Michael! My work asked me to make cupcakes for another birthday and we thought it would be funny to make chinese take out cupcakes (that I saw in my handy dandy cupcake book) since he's Chinese! I made French Vanilla cupcakes with Chai Coconut Frosting! The fried rice cupcake decorations are made up of rice krispies cereal, and the vegetables are cut up lemon and orange flavored tootsie rolls and green laffy taffy for the peas. The chowmein is piped buttercream, and the broccoli are made up of green apple flavored tootsie rolls dipped in frosting and then green sprinkles. The red peppers are red laffy taffies as well. I use caramel squares to make the fortune cookies and hand wrote little messages like "Today you're celebrating a birthday!". "You'll eat a cupcake today". and "Work is happiness!" for fun =P. Lastly, I asked another coworker of mine who's fluent in mandarin and she showed me how to pipe out "Happy Birthday" in the dialect where he's from in Taiwan! I hope I did it right... Anyways, happy birthday and can you pass the soy sauce? haha!

Roxana's 5th Birthday Part II

Cupcakes for School:
Cupcakes for Family Dinner:Happy birthday Roxana again! Today is Roxana's actual birthday and this lucky girl gets more cupcakes to celebrate her special day with friends and family. Her favorite animal are the flamingos, and so from this cupcake book that my boss got me, there's flamingos and alligators! So I made french vanilla flamingos for her and all the girls, and alligators for the boys. Later she's going to have a small family dinner and Roxana's other interest is music, so I made cupcakes with musical notes, treble and base clefs, and piano keys! I also would like to give special thanks to my fantastic assistant, my sister Jennifer, for helping me with these awesome animal cupcakes!!

The flamingos are made out of thin pretzels dipped in pink chocolate for the neck, and I used pink chocolate to attach the bubble gum jelly beans for the head and 3/4 length banana runtz for the beak. I then piped melted chocolate for the wings. The body was frosted with buttercream and coated with pink sugar crystals. The alligators' heads were made up of nutter butters that were chopped to size, frosted with buttercream, and dipped in green sugar crystals. I then piped on the jaggedly fierce teeth, eyes and nose with buttercream. The eyes are made of green fruit loops cereal! This project was quite fun to do because of all the leftover candy and nutter butters that I got to eat =P. mhmmm.... The musical cupcakes had buttercream frosting on them as well with fondant decorations. Once again, happy 5th birthday Roxana!

Khoackie's 1st Anniversary!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KHOA, my love, my Khoabit, my one and only babycakes!! <3 Khoa and I have now been husband and wife for a year and counting and what better way to celebrate than with close family, friends, and of course, cupcakes! I made Pina Colada Cupcakes with crushed pineapples, Coconut Swiss Meringue buttercream frosting (thanks chi hai for your faith in me!!!) filled with a coconut filling. We figured these would be the best choice for the celebration because it's tropical, just like our hawaiian wedding theme, and it's not as sweet in flavor for the adults to enjoy! The decorations are also made of fondant with some silver luster dust. I was so busy planning for this even that I completely forgot to take me usual pictures before the party, so these were the only pictures I managed to get before the cupcakes were all devoured! At least I'm happy to know that people loved them! Thank you everyone for sharing this special day with us and for all of your support and celebration! <3

Happy Anniversary Khoa, I love you more than words can describe. You light up my life and soul and you bring me such happiness. I am truly a lucky girl to have you as my husband, best friend, and soul mate. What did one light bulb say to the other? I love you a whole watt!! =) The Lovely Love Theorem states to love someone is madness, to be loved by someone is a gift, loving someone who loves you is a duty, but being loved by someone whom you love is life! Thank you honey for giving me the best life ever! I love you forever and a half!!! <3

Roxana's Science Birthday Adventure!

Mini Cupcakes:Pictures from Roxana's Party (cute girl in blue in the middle is the birthday girl!)
Happy 5th Birthday Roxana! This was probably my biggest order yet with such a fun and creative theme of Science! We came up with 5 different type of designs, DNA strands, atoms, H2O, CO2, and brains, and we included the birthday girl's favorite colors of pink, purple, yellow, red, and white! This was my biggest order yet, a production of 96 standard size cupcakes and 24 mini cupcakes, flavors include vanilla, chocolate, and red velvet with buttercream! that's 120 total cupcakes, wow! All the decorations are made of fondant, edible pearls, with some buttercream piping. This was definitely a grand production for a very special girl!

Also, special thanks to my lovely assistant Sarah who really helped me with the big project! Special thanks to Jack for keeping Khoa company, and to Luna for always being so cute and supportive =). So what's a fun science kid birthday party without some fun science jokes? From way down in my cranium, this prediction I will make: That if you eat uranium, you'll get atomic ache! hehe, also, what is Ba(Na)2? Banana! =) Oh and did you hear about the man who was reading a Helium book and couldn't put it down? hahaha, I love my corny jokes I find online....haha. Anyways, stay tuned next week for some more surprises for this Roxana's birthday celebration!

Ribbon Cupcakes

I was asked to make cupcakes to celebrate a bunch of birthdays all of which are females and 1 male. So I made pink ribbons on all of them an a manly black one for the man! These are red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese filling topped with fondant decorations! I used flower stamps and texture mats for extra detail on the fondant. Enjoy!

Boomer's Birthday

Happy Birthday Ken! I made Peach Walnut cupcakes with basic buttercream frosting topped with fondant decorations and metallic pearls. We celebrated Ken's birthday at Boomers so I made Boomer's themed cupcakes to go with this occasion! I made golf balls on tees with a little flag to represent mini golf, baseball mitts, baseball and baseball bats to represent the batting cages, go carts, and pac mans to represent arcade games! Special props to my sous decorator Jennifer, my sister, for all her help with the fondant decorations as well, it's always fun working with her! Anyways, I hope you have a boomerful birthday Ken! haha. Enjoy!

Designer Cupcakes

Happy Anniversary An and Linda! My brother-in-law, An, wanted to do something special for his girlfriend Linda for their 4 year anniversary, and so he thought it would be great to make some designer bags and stuff since she loves to shop with class! So I made apple cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, topped with fondant decorated designer bags, clutches, and heels. The three brands I chose to make were Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Gucci, and I had the help of my wonderful assistant, who is also my sister Jennifer, in giving me information on how the different styles should look! She also did a fantastic job making the clutches, flowers, and painting of the logos. These cupcakes were a great deal of fun to make and will surely satisfy any fashionista's sweet tooth! My sister's boyfriend suggested I charge big money for these cupcakes since they're designer cupcakes...that's not such a bad idea don't you think? haha! Anyways, these are expensive tasting cupcakes that for sure won't put a hole in your wallet! Enjoy your anniversary guys! Congrats!

Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AN!!!

Angie in Wonderland

Happy Birthday Angie! So Angie's boyfriend, Kid, wanted to surprise her with Alice in Wonderland themed cupcakes for her birthday and since I made some before, I knew just what to do. I added the Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum cupcake as well and it adds a nice variety to the group characters. These are red velvet cupcakes with basic buttercream frosting on them. Angie I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Happy Birthday Gay

Whooaa.....it looks like a TRIPLE RAINBOW! So intense... haha! So anyways, it's Drexelle's mother's birthday today, who's name is Gay, and she thought it would be great to make it a play on words with her name since Gay always has a great sense of humor with that. So instead of saying "Happy Birthday", Drexelle cleverly thought to make the cakes say "Happy Gay Day"! Afterall, it is her day! So she wanted me to have the cupcakes be rainbow themed and so I made french vanilla cupcakes that are rainbow colors in the batter, and some chocolate cupcakes topped with basic buttercream. The rainbow themselves, the flags, flower petals, and letters (props to my hubby Khoa and partner in cakes) are made of fondant and the cupcakes with rainbows on them have some white sprinkles around the edge. Working with all the colors was a blast and just looking at the end result can put a smile on anyone's face! So one thing's for sure and that is that Gay is going to have a very happy birthday today! Pop quiz: So what kind of bow can't you tie? A rainbow!! haha, anyways, I think everyone can literally taste the rainbow with these sweeties! Happy Birthday Gay!

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Birthday Trio

Andrea:

Audrey:

Jacob:
My work was celebrating not, one, or two, but THREE birthdays this month! So I made 3 different themed cupcakes to fit their different personalities. All these cupcakes are chocolate with basic buttercream frosting and all the decorations are made out of fondant, but for flower stamens, those aren't edible, same with the metallic pearls, but the pearlize white ones are edible.

For Andrea's cupcakes, her favorite Disney character is Tinkerbell, so I made the Tinkerbell slippers, her magic wand, and fairy wings. I brushed on some silver luster dust on the slippers for some magical touch to it as well. For Audrey's cupcakes, she is also a Disney fanatic and her favorite characters are Bambi and Thumper. However, when trying to portray any well known and recognizable classic Disney characters, you must be SPOT-ON with your design otherwise it won't look right. So instead of trying to go on that route, I went with the symbolism route and stuck Bambi and Thumper into the cupcakes with Bambi's tail sticking out, and depicted the popular butterfly on his tail. As for Thumper, the scene I remember most about his is his large thumping feet and him being in the flower bed.

For Jacob's cupcakes, he is the most different from the two, and his biggest hobby currently is playing World of Warcraft (WOW)...and he had a long history of being part of the Alliance, but then became a traitor apparently and join the Hord! All you WOW fans out there, please go easy on my with my designs for this because I am a "noob" when it comes to these games...haha. But here they are, the simplified logos for the Alliance (the yellow and blue logo) and Hord the red one), and xBox 360 game controllers because he really wants one, so hopefully this will get him that much closer to getting one =).

Roger's Birthday Pie Cupcakes

Happy Birthday Roj Poj! So since his favorite pastry is Apple Pie, I decided to make Chi Hai's super yummy Apple Cake recipe for these pie cupcakes! The cakes have a cinnamon walnut crust on top that adds a delicious texture to the cupcake and when decorated, it looks like cool pecan pie or something. For half of these cupcakes I put raspberry jam on top to make it looke like a raspberry or cherry pie for variation. The cupcakes have buttercream piping on top to make it look like the pie crust as well, and I figured the balance for this cupcake works out pretty well since you don't need frosting for this recipe. So less is more! Anyways, happy birthday Roger! I hope your day is pie-tastic!

Under the Sea Cupcakes

Happy Sweet 16th Birthday Sarah! For someone who loves chocolate and has a big sweet tooth, she'll surely be satisfied with these under the sea marble white chocolate and milk chocolate shells, starfish, and fishes! Dolphins are Sarah's favorite so I got these cake topper dolphins for keepsakes! I love themed cupcakes and I had bubbles of fun making these for my coworker's daughter. The seaweed, star, and "16" are all made out of fondant, while the cupcakes are chocolate flavors topped with basic buttercream. Put on your flippers and don't be afraid to make a splash with your sweet creations! There's so many things you can do with chocolate and pastries, so grab your fins and get creative! Don't let the waves pass you by! Don't forget to bring your sweet tooth! =) Once again, Happy Birthday Sarah! I hope you have a great time celebrating!