New Cupcake Adventure

Well, I am now obsessed with a new hobby; decorating cupcakes and I am super excited about it. There I was chasing Ahnnie thru Lowes while Tim was looking at garage organizers (super fun), when I saw this book called "Hello, Cupcake" and thought it looked easy enough to do and decided to order it and another book by the same author called "What's New Cupcake?" from Amazon, where they were five bucks cheaper and I had a gift card so....back to the cupcakes.

Flower Cupcake: This one is simply made by cutting mini marshmallows on a diagonal and then dipping the sticky side into colored sugars. Then you put them in rows around the top of the cupcake once it's been frosted. They were very easy to make, but time consuming and each one takes 22 marshmallows each. You can imagine how gross my cooking scissors were after, but they are so pretty.

Mermaid Cupcake: (Don't know why this pic is turned) I have convinced two mothers to let me do cupcakes for their kids' birthday parties so that I can practice and one requested a Little Mermaid theme. I used blue and white frosting for the water, crushed graham crackers for the sand and the mermaid is a teddy graham stuck in the cake with a green Airhead for a tail. The sun is a candy fruit slice and her bikini top is flower shaped candy confetti.

Pirate Cupcake: For the other mother's pirate themed party, I made this cake with a red Airhead bandanna (did you know you can microwave these to make them more pliable), a jelly bean nose, Cheerio ears, and an eye patch made from a Tootsie Roll Midge. His stubble is chocolate sprinkles. and his eye is a chocolate chip turned upside down.

I hope to try even more recipes from these two books, as well as ideas from online. There is a baby shower coming up in one group, I wonder who I talk to...