Purple Flower Cake

A beautiful purple flower cake for a beautiful young woman! I layered 3 cakes and frosted in dark purple frosting. Then I covered it all in purple sprinkles. Then, to make the flowers, I used fruit slices candy. I cut them into thirds for the large petals and into fourths for the smaller petals. I used half for a leaf. I rolled those pieces flat on granulated sugar with my rolling pin. Then I pinched one side together to make a petal or leaf. I wanted it to look not so perfect, just pretty. I used mini chewy sweetarts candy for the middles. I am really happy with how it turned out!

Baseball Cake

Okay, I went the easy route! Just a round cake frosted in white with red licorice. I was going to go all out and make a 3D circle cake, but if you saw this 6-year old's face when he saw this cake you would have just gone easy, too! He LOVED it!

Butterfly Cake

Butterflies, butterflies and more butterflies! I wanted to do butterflies all over this cake and make it very pretty for my teenage girl. It didnt' turn out too formal but she loved it--that's all that matters to me! And, her brothers enjoyed the candy, so it was great!

I used white chocolate covered pretzels for the wings and sour gummy worms for the body, slicing part way down and spreading apart to make the antennas. I frosted the whole layered cake white and added sprinkles for more color.

If I were to do it again (and have more time) I would add flowers and/or leaves and do a light pink frosting so the butterflies would show up better.

Chicken Little Cupcakes

Chicken Little is a cute story about a chicken who thinks the sky is falling because an acorn fell from a tree and hit his head. So, I made chicken cupcakes and acorn treats.

For the acorns, use a donut hole and dip one end in melted chocolate. You could actually use anything you like such as frosting, carmel topping or peanut butter because you are then going to dip that into toffee bits. And, again, you could even use finely chopped nuts. Then, add a small piece of pretzel for the stem. Cute, huh?! These were a big hit at the party!

For the chickens, I used my own cake recipe to make mini cupcakes. I didn't use wrappers because you will be frosting the entire cupcake. For the 'feet' I cut orange jelly candies in half. Honestly, they didn't work very well and if I make these again I would just use orange tic-tacs. I frosted the whole thing with white frosting and rolled it in yellow tinted coconut. Then, piped chocolate frosting eyes and added a peanut for the beak and cinnamon candies for the top.

Shamrock Cupcakes

These were made for St. Patrick's Day the same way I made the heart cupcakes except I used 3 marbles as shown in the picture below. Only fill up the cups 1/2 way because you will be condensing the space! Also bake them for a shorter amount of time and check them because they will cook faster than normal. After frosting (I used green frosting and green sprinkles) you can add a green licorice for the stem! Enjoy!

Easter Cupcakes

This is part of our Easter tradition. My mom used to make the cupcakes with the green coconut 'grass' on top with the jelly bean 'eggs' on top. She even added chenille stems for handles but I never seem to remember that! A few years ago I found a cute idea for bunny cupcakes so we do them both now! To make the bunnies, just frost in white with white coconut. Add mini marshmallows for the nose, M&M's for the eyes and nose. Then, cut a large marshmallow in half and immediatley dip the cut part in colored sugar to form the ears! EASY and so cute for Spring!