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!! 

Smore Cupcakes

These cupcakes are a diabetics nightmare! They are definitely not diet friendly!! But boy o boy are they good!! Made with a graham cracker bottom, layered with chocolate chips, chocolate cake then another layer of chocolate chips and graham cracker bits on top, and stuffed with a surprise !!!! I took these cupcakes to work and they did not last long at all. They were gone within minutes of being placed on the table!

 I love these cupcake wrappers. The blue is so vibrant!!!

 Inside the cupcakes were chocolate rolos. To make sure the rolos didn't completely melt away while they were baking, I froze them before hand and took them out of the freezer when I was ready to use them. I placed 2 rolos in each cupcake before putting them in the oven to bake. The chocolate melted however the caramel inside was still chewy! The bottom of the cupcake tasted almost like a chewy brownie. So Yummy!

I topped each cupcake with a creamy butter cream icing, a piece of graham cracker and a square of chocolate.

Boston Cream Pie Cupcake

Well here they are...... Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes... YUMMMY!!! A light vanilla cake filled with a creamy vanilla custard, and topped with a chocolate ganache!! They turned out way better than I expected. I have never made a chocolate ganache, I thought it would be a lot harder to work with than it was as well. I actually love the look of the ganache, its smooth and shiny. The one complaint I do have is that I wish there was more filling inside the cupcake. These cupcakes were made for a woman's birthday at work so ofcourse I had to add colored sprinkles!!!

 

Stuffed Cupcakes "3D Cupcakes"

I like to call these cupcakes 3D Cupcakes!!! Not only is it cake topped with icing, but they are also stuffed with cream, fruit filling or whatever else you want!!! These cupcakes I made for Christmas 2010, and they were gone within a matter of minutes of hitting the table. Below are chocolate cupcakes stuffed with Strawberry cream and topped with Strawberry buttercream. Also, vanilla cupcakes stuffed with blueberry cream and topped with blueberry buttercream!!!! So yummy!!! I am addicted to filling cupcakes. I will find anyway possible to turn a "regular" cupcake into a 3D stuffed cupcake. What should I put into my next batch?