Wedding Cupcake Tower

My sister had asked me awhile back if I would make her wedding cupcakes!!!! Of course I said yes, how could I say no... However, they ALL had to be Gluten Free. Now is you have ever tasted anything Gluten Free you can understand my hesitation with this! I was really worried that they would taste funny or not turn out like my normal cupcakes! I had made Gluten Free cupcakes before and they were pretty decent for gluten free, but this wasn't just for fun cupcakes or for a random get together, this was for a wedding where 100 people would be eating them. I hate to make sure they tasted good, bakery quality good. So I experimented with a few flavors and talked with the Bride and Groom to see what they wanted. In the end we went with a plain Vanilla Cupcake and a Strawberry Cupcake with fresh Strawberries!!!!! The strawberry cupcakes we actually pretty amazing! I thought they were super yummy!!!! And you couldn't even tell they were Gluten Free which made them even more amazing! For the top tier I just did Vanilla cake layered with Vanilla butter cream. 

I had pre-made hundreds of these tiny red and black flowers with pearls in the center.The biggest challenge of this whole process was getting 100 cupcakes from my place in Whitby on a Thursday night to my parents cottage in Peterborough the Friday for the Wedding on Saturday without them getting stale and being able to get them iced and to the wedding venue among all the other final wedding preparations going on. Over all I think they turned out pretty great !!!!

Cadbury Cream Egg Cupcakes

For Easter this year with the family, I wanted to try something different. Last year I had heard about these Cadbury Cream Egg cupcakes with actual Cradbury Cream Eggs inside of them. I love these eggs, they are the best part of Easter..... So I knew I had to try these cupcakes.. So this year I made them, they aren't the prettiest cupcakes on the inside, but they were pretty tasty!!! The key to not having the chocolate egg melt completely while they bake is to freeze the eggs a few hours before hand!!! To finish off these cupcakes I added Chocolate Butter cream and just some vanilla butter cream tinted green for the grass, and added a few chocolate eggs to make a nest!! Yum Yum!!! very sweet though!!!

Bridal Shower

I co-hosted a bridal shower for my best friend at my place !!! The other bridesmaid and I wanted the bridal shower to be fun yet sophisticated!! Her whole wedding theme was very elegant so we wanted to make sure we stuck with that for the shower, yet had some fun with it as well!!! We wanted to do finger foods but didn't want the messy child's party feel that sometimes can come with that. 

We made individual vegetable  cups with some dip in the bottom.  

Fruit cups with yogurt dip. 

Ofcourse I made cupcakes. Lemon meringue cupcakes!!!!!!!!!! I made little blue flowers on top to go along with her blue, white and black wedding colors, and even sprinkled them with edible sparkles!! 

  

Mac and Cheese bites and Lasagna cupcakes! Not real cupcakes ofcourse, but bot are they a huge hit!!! So yummy!!!!! 

 The shower turned out amazing, and the bride made out like a bandit! We had a great time planning her shower! Congrats to the now happily married couple!!