Cupcake Picnic at Georgetown Waterfront Park

This past weekend I had the pleasure of joining the ladies of the Cupcake Crusaders at the waterfront park in Georgetown, DC.  We had such a wonderful time!  Everyone who participated brought some cupcakes and we did a good ole fashion cupcake swap and even had a cupcake eating contest!  The contestants rocked out!!  I was too chicken to participate, plus this diet I'm on would have been screaming at me! I have plenty of pics posted below, so enjoy scrolling through!

"Citrus in the City"

"Pina Colada in a Cup"

Individually "packaged-to-go" cupcakes
...such a neat idea! Thanks Pinterest!

"Bacon/Maple" cupcakes by Josie's Confections

"Strawberry Lemonade" cupcakes by Josie's Confections

"That's So Morie Cupcakes"

My friend Chuckie devouring a
That's So Morie Chocolate cupcake!

Cupcake eating contest contestant!

She's goin in, she's goin in...and she went hard!

Still going hard!

My love bug getting in on the cupcake fun...
no really, I think she just wanted her picture taken!

That's So Morie Cupcakes had a blast!!



'Olivia the Pig' Kid's Birthday Party

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of making cupcakes for an 'Olivia the Pig' themed birthday party.  I had so much fun creating the toppers and the cupcake stand.  Little projects like this bring out my creative side!

For the toppers I used a large (2 1/2 inch) scalloped hole puncher for the background layer and for the foreground smaller layer (personalized) I used a smaller (1 1/4) scalloped hole puncher. I placed each topper on a rounded toothpick and inserted into cupcake.  For the cupcake stand, I used two regular different sized wrapping boxes and decorated with wrapping paper, ribbon and glittered scrapbooking paper (for dots on top box - cut with 1/2 inch circle hole puncher).

Each topper was personalized

Boxes wrapped in wrapping paper and decorated w/ribbons and scrapbooking paper

Cupcake Flavor - 'Simply Strawberry'

Thank you Urban Annapolis Magazine!

On Saturday, February 4, 2012, I had the pleasure of displaying my cupcakes for an event held by Urban Annapolis Magazine http://urbanannapolismagazine.com/ The event turned out to be a total success, which included special guest Chuck Brown (the Godfather of the DC based popular form of music known Go-Go for those of you unfamiliar)! Tarsha Beavers and her UAM team are doing an exemplary job with this magazine in their effort to showcase the cultural spirit and diversity which embodies Annapolis, MD. Check it out!

The cupcakes are mini and the flavors consisted of my 'Simply Strawberry' (but of course), 'Mocha-Choca', 'The Usual' and 'The Usual Too' (w/cream cheese frosting). Check out the UAM's logo cupcake!

Holiday Tree Lighting Event

This past weekend I had a large order for a Christmas tree lighting event.  The three cupcake flavors I made were vanilla w/peppermint buttercream frosting, red velvet (RV) and devil's food chocolate (DFC) w/cream cheese frosting and before I go any further I have a disclaimer: Vanilla cupakes are not the easiest cupcake to make contrary to the thought that they are (in fact hard-as-heck in terms of getting the perfect fluffly & light cupcake).  I feel like my RV & DFC I have down packed, but those vanilla's can be a bear.  WELL! I think I've found what works and garners the best results.  This time I switched up my mixing methods (did away with the creaming method for this flavor) and I was sa-tis-fied!!  Yay to me for conquering such a feat..lol  So moving on, each cupcake was placed in an individual cupcake box which was wrapped in a gold or crimson bow.  Oh yeah, I labeled each box with a Christmas tag indicating the flavor of the cupcake.  I love these type of projects!

Bridal Shower

Just as sure as I want the taste to be great, I want the presentation to be equally as great!
My attempt at laying out the cupcakes in the shape of a ring...I think I succeeded with the yellow diamond!I made these cupcakes for a bridal shower. The theme was "Pink Passion" and the customer wanted cupcakes in the shape of a ring (which I managed with quick thinking at the last minute...whew!) along with brightly colored frosting to reflect the bride-to-be's profession (MAC Make-up Artist). The cupcake flavors are red velvet w/cream cheese frosting, carrot cake w/cream cheese frosting, yellow cake w/buttercream frosting. The event was a success; everyone was pleased with the presentation and more important the taste was amaaazing!