Cupcakes in Wonderland

Tomorrow I get to go to a free screening of Alice in Wonderland... in IMAX 3D! My job has some pretty sweet perks. To celebrate the new film, I decided to make some Alice-themed cupcakes! These are based more on the Disney animated film. Maybe after I see the new one, I'll make some cupcakes based on it.

I went with a red velvet flavor in honor of the Red Queen.

Two group shots:




Red hearts for the Red Queen and Ace of Hearts cards:


"Eat me" sweets:


Cheshire Cat's face and mushrooms/flowers:


Mad Hatter's hat:


Tweedledee & Tweedledum hats and bow ties:

Made with Love

My mom's birthday is tomorrow. Since she's my baking partner in crime, I wanted the cake theme to involved that. A recipe card cake came to mind, but what recipe? A recipe for the "World's Best Mom" of course! My mom is wonderful. She's so supportive, generous, caring, smart and silly! She's a best friend and I don't know what I'd do without her.

I didn't come up with this recipe. I found a recipe for Motherhood and just changed it to "World's Greatest Mom." The cake is chocolate with crushed Thin Mints. Boy, oh boy, is it tasty!


I don't know why the red lines look wobbly. They're straight in real life! Promise! haha

B-I-N-G-O

The theme for this month's DWC birthday party is Bingo. I didn't attend the party prep meeting when the committee decided on the themes for 2010. I wish I had! But I have to say, the committee came up with some pretty snazzy themes. Bingo = fun!

I kept the cake simple. A Bingo board with some red markers. It only needs one more to win!



I can't wait to play Bingo with the ladies of the DWC tomorrow!

It's Goofy... Garsh!

One of the recruiters at work asked if I could make a Goofy cake for her niece. Goofy is her favorite. Goofy is awesome, I didn't think he was anyone's favorite though. But after posting on Twitter that I was making a Goofy cake, I found out tons of people love him. Who knew?

Wilton has a Goofy-shaped cake pan, but since it's discontinued it sells for big bucks on eBay. I didn't want to spend a lot of money and the shape of the pan wasn't complicated, so I just made the outline myself. Woot!

Valentine's Sweets

This isn't about cakes, but it's sweets related, so I figured I'd do a post! Last week at work we had a Valentine's Day potluck. I didn't know what I should make, so I asked for suggestions on Twitter and @sugarcrafter said chocolate covered pretzels. I LOVE chocolate covered pretzels. Best idea ever!

Here's the ingredients I used. The store didn't have regular pretzels, so I had to go with mini.


I melted the chocolate in my double broiler. I used paramount crystals to thin the chocolate.


I put the pretzels on parchment paper. I put pink and red sprinkles on some and drizzled pink and red chocolate on others.


Here they are in my Valentine's bowls!

Dora the Explorer's Quick Adventure

I got a very last minute cake request on Feb. 5th. Mike's mom needed a Dora the Explorer cake for the next day. It was for her step-granddaughter. I was a little irritated when I got the request for two reasons: 1. It didn't come across as a request. It was more like a demand. 2. She knew that her step-granddaughter's birthday was coming up. The date doesn't change. I made her birthday cake last year! But since I didn't have any other orders and her step-granddaughter is so dang cute, I made the cake.

I didn't have much time, so this was thrown together very quickly. I bought a Dora candle and made fondant flowers, clouds, stars and bees for a girly outside adventure cake.

Here are the fondant pieces:


And here's the cake:


It's cute! I just wish I had more time.

Nautical Nonsense

Another co-worker hit me up for a cake this week. She wanted one for her step-son who's into Bionicles and SpongeBob SquarePants. She didn't know what he liked more, so she wanted to double check and then get back to me. Thankfully, he likes SpongeBob more! I love SpongeBob.

I've already made a SpongeBob cake before. It was in the shape of him. See below:


I wanted to do something different this time. I found this candle at Michaels and created a nautical scene around it. Woot!