It's been a while

Hi folks! It's been a long while since my last post. To be honest, I've been quite busy. Can you believe that I've had a couple of people place orders from me? WOW! What an answer to prayer! It's really neat and exciting to see what God is going to do with this. Will he keep the door open for this business venture? Or will the door be shut? Only God knows that. While I wait, I'm going to continue to pray and allow Him to lead me. More than anything, I desire to honor Him in all that I do, that includes opening a cupcakery.





Here are some pictures of the recent orders that were done:

Coconut Cupcake with Italian Meringue

Vanilla cupcake with Italian Meringue

Vanilla cupcake with Italian Meringue and Vanilla cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream

Coconut cupcake filled with pineapple filling with Italian Meringue

Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream

As requested, by my younger brother, I made a Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream. The same frosting I used with the Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcake. The reciped I used for the Vanilla Cupcake was similar to the Coconut Cupcake recipe except I changed it up a bit. Since the batch can yield 36 cupcakes (there's only 5 of us in our household), I packed a dozen and a half for my husband to take to his office. The others stayed here for the kids and I to devour.

notice there's two missing? How funny!

Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream

After my Red Velvet disaster, I was determined to make a yummy cupcake again. So that evening, we had a few friends over and I whipped up some Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcakes topped with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Success!

Coconut Cupcakes

Martha Stewart had a cupcake week recently. There she shared tons of yummy cupcakes which included her favorite, a Coconut Cupcake. I attempted her recipe and since then I've made this at least 4 times in the past 3 months. This recipe is definately a keeper!

photo courtesy of MarthaStewart.com

Chocolate Cupcake with Vanilla Buttercream

You can find the chocolate cupcake recipe in More From Magnolia: Recipes from the World Famous Bakery. This recipe is so light and fluffy. It's just yummy!

I'm going to go devour one right now...mmmm!

Princess Cupcakes

This one was for my daughter's 5th birthday. She had a Disney Princess Tea Party. These are chocolate cupcakes with strawberry buttercream. The buttercream didn't turn out as great because as I was making the frosting I got distracted. I ended up using granulated sugar instead of confectioner's sugar. Oh, well, the girls didn't mind.

Cherry Blossom

Here's one of the fist attempts at making cupcakes for a party, a bridal shower to be exact. This cupcake was inspired by my sister-in-law, Kristine. Cherry Blossoms was her theme and let me tell you, it was one of my favorites!