Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Monday, March 8, 2010

Up-Cakes!

In celebration for the Oscars and of my favorite animated movie this year, I made Up-Cakes. These are mint cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting, topped with some sweetened coconut for the fluffy, sky-like effect and of course some Tootsie Pops to make the balloons that propelled Mr. Frederickson's house in the air.

I was inspired by a recipe on Serious Eats for 7-Up Cake, but these were much easier to make and provided the same adorable effect!




SQUIRREL!


Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Cupcake Happy


This post marks the beginning of the many cupcake blogs I hope to have on this site. As a fan of cute things and delicious things, one of my favorite recent hobbies has to make cute delicious cupcakes. I sometimes use a book (Hello Cupcake is a good one!), and sometimes use my creativity to think of new ones.

The first cupcakes I made were these adorable owl cupcakes, with chocolate frosting, oreo cookies, and m&ms.
The second ones I made were turkey cupcakes for Thanksgiving. I would have liked to have used candy corn for the feathers, but it was not readily available, so I used orange candy that I cut into fan-like shapes. The turkey's head is a donut hole, and the chocolate sprinkles are the neck feathers.
The third installment was the most successful and delicious. I used sweetened coconut flakes, fruit rollups, and m&ms to make an army of snowmen for Christmas/New Years. I made ear muffs using m&ms and fruit rollups!


My last experiment was making sunflower cupcakes with green and yellow frosting, Oreos, and red m&ms for ladybugs. They turned out less like sunflowers and more like regular flowers, but they were cute anyway.