Sunday, March 18, 2012

St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I have been anxiously awaiting St. Patrick's Day so that I use some tiny shamrock sprinkles...for our office St. Patrick's Day Lunch I made Chocolate Cupcakes with MINT Buttercream Frosting.  As a lover of all things peppermint, I was pretty excited.  Thankfully I used all but a tiny teaspoon of the frosting on the cupcakes because if there was anymore left over, I surely would have found myself on the couch eating a bowl of frosting.  I used Wilton grass cupcake liners and made the cutest cupcake picks courtesy of The Tomkat Studio blog.  




Seriously, how cute are these Shamrocks?


Tada! Done and ready to eat at work.



Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wedding Bells and Flower Cupcakes...

Well I successfully made it through my first ever wedding and wow was it crazy.  A total of 120 cupcakes and 1 "small" carrot cake for the bride and groom Megan and Jesse.  Half chocolate cupcakes and half yellow buttermilk with buttercream frosting.  i am literally sore today from what i assume is a combination of decorating 120 cupcakes as flowers and shredding 1 lb of carrots.  Really, i stapled something at work this morning and wanted to cry...i might have even yelped a little.  On that note, i shredded them by hand because i FORGOT that i have a very lovely KitchenAid Food Processor that would have done the trick in a matter of seconds.  Who forgets that? I guess since it's not on the counter i don't think about it. Speaking of KitchenAid appliances, what did people do before the KitchenAid stand up mixer? Really.  Anyway, I'm pretty exhausted so here are the photos.  There aren't many because Saturday was a mad dash to get everything done in time and get to the wedding not covered in sugar and food coloring.  

Flowers!







There they are in all their glory.
Congratulations Megan and Jesse! I am so glad I was able to be a part of your day!