Holiday Cream Cheese Snowflake Cupcakes

Holiday cream cheese snowflake cupcakes. YUM! The snowflakes were made by piping warm white almond chocolate onto parchment paper and then allowed to dry. I love the Christmas feel with the Snowflakes on top of the cupcake!

Baby Blue Feet Cupcakes

Fondant covered chocolate cupcakes for a baby shower. All handmade with homemade fondant. A great addition to a baby shower. So simple and eye catching.

Gluten Free Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

Gluten Free Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

Purple Minion Cupcakes

 Purple Minion Cupcakes 

My Sweet Son's Football Party

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

 My son wanted a Football Party so...I searched the Internet for fun football party ideas and threw him a party! I am not the biggest fan of planning kids birthday parties but I felt it was time for my son to have one.

 We decorated felt flags with the boys favorite football teams, face painted, had an amazing obstacle coarse, opened presents, threw a pinata around (like a hot potato), and ate cake! I think the boys had fun and they played together well.

Here is my son's requested football cake with green turf looking cupcakes. I had fun making these little treats. I made the MVP circles for the cupcakes out of cupcake holders. I cut the bottom out into a circle shape and layered it on card stalk. 

 I made invitations to look like footballs with the field in the center.

WHAT TIME IS IT? IT IS GAME TIME!

My husband ran football drills with the boys. He had them do warm-up knee drills, crunches, and jumping jacks then they were off to the obstacle coarse.
Next they did Cone Drills: The boys ran forward, side-ward, backward, and all around orange cones in the yard.  Then it was off to field goal training. The boys kicked their own football through a goal post my husband made hours before the party.
Finally they had Receiver Training: My husband threw a football to each boy who stood in a hula-hoop. The goal was to stand in the hula hoop and catch a football 4 times. If they caught 4 balls my husband would do sit ups. The boys really liked being active and playing hard outside. Despite the cold the boys were smiling and laughing as they did all the football drills and it was very entertaining to watch. 

Happy Birthday Cupcakes

I wished my friend a Happy Birthday with Cupcakes. I baked some chocolate cupcakes and decorated them lightly with chocolate sprinkles.

I wanted to say Happy Birthday in a creative way, so I gathered some melting chips and went to town decorating!

I melted the chips in the microwave and then stirred until all the the lumps were gone.

When the chocolate was smooth, I spooned it into a frosting bag with a basic Wilton lettering tip.

I wrote Thank you onto wax paper with the melted chocolate. After it dried I was able to easily peel the chocolate words off the wax paper.

I pressed the chocolate word into the top of the frosted cupcake and delivered them!

Mint Chocolate Cupcake

Here is a homemade mint chocolate cupcake. I made these for a neighbor around St. Patrick's Day. I prepared a regular cake mix and mixed up a mint cream cheese frosting to go on top. For the curled chocolate, I took a Hershey's minature chocolate candy bar and shaved pieces of chocolate off with a potato peeler. The curled chocolate added just the right look to top it off. I wish I could eat mint cupcakes every day!

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

COOKIE MONSTER CUPCAKES! YUM! YUM!

These cupcakes were a hit with my sons! Who can resist a cute monster cupcake?