More Summer Inspiration

Now that it is officially summer, I thought I would share more summer inspiration with these luau pictures from a recent event at a local school's last day. The thoughtful principal provided her staff with a dessert buffet including pina colada cake pops, white chocolate macadamia cookies, dipped nutter butters decorated like flip flops and bright cupcakes.

Hello Summer

A few of his favorite things

I was delighted to be able to make a few things for a very special guy on his birthday. What makes him so special is that he makes someone I love very happy. Butter, sugar, and flour just doesn't seem to quite cut it.

Among the items on the birthday boy's list of favorite things is Guinness Draught. Instead of tackling one of the many chocolate stout cupcake recipes out there I simply replaced the water in a devil's food chocolate cake mix recipe with Guinness. I figured the Guinness company would not be too upset that I pirated one of their images for these cupcakes since I did use their product in the recipe. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the party where these were served but I hear they went over pretty well.
As for the cookies, he is a guy so no matter what they may say, these cookie designs are on most men's list of favorite things.

Inked

I am getting a little obsessed with my Kopykake frosting sheets and edible ink.

Happy Mother's Day

Blinged Out Bridal Shower

The bride wanted purple and bling, I think I delivered.




I have always wanted to try to make a champagne cake and I thought a bridal shower would be the perfect opportunity. I decided to to make champagne cake pops and the bride to be loved them. She has even requested them for her wedding! I simply replaced the water in the white cake batter with champagne. With the extra champagne I made an orange cake. Mimosa cake pops anyone?

Tequila!

Well, actually there isn't any tequila in these but that is where the inspiration came from. When searching for ideas for Cinco de Mayo desserts I found pictures from Cinco de Mayo a couple years ago. These mini trifles have layers of lemon lime cake and whipped topping, tinted green with food coloring, and garnished with lime zest. The rim is coated in lime juice and dipped in sugar. From what I remember they were quite good and the only complaint was that the "shot" was not large enough.