Butterfly Cupcakes & Cookies

Sylvie wanted a Butterfly Cake for her fourth birthday. Due to a conflict in schedules, a cake was out of the question. So we decided on cupcakes.

Here's what I came up with:

I made cookies as well, but didn't get a picture. You can see enough to get the idea in this picture:

I can't believe you're four, Sylvie!! Hope you had a very Happy Birthday!!

Hydrangea Cupcakes

These hydrangea cupcakes were made for my sister's birthday as well. They were for the family party the day after our Tea Party. I guess forty is a milestone - we pretty much partied all week!

Here are a couple of close-ups. I used tip #2D. To get the variation in color, is layered blue and purple frosting in my bag.

These are one of my favorite cupcakes to make. So simple & quick! It's almost impossible to mess them up.

Credit for these beautiful cupcakes goes to Glorious Treats.


I also made them for Thanksgiving last year using fall colors. Here's the link to that post.

Poinsettia Cupcakes

Can you tell I'm completely obsessed with poinsettias? First, hundreds of poinsettia cookies, now poinsettia cupcakes!




I've had this idea ever since I made the hydrangea cupcakes for Thanksgiving. I made my favorite chocolate cake recipe, then flavored the frosting with peppermint extract.

I really needed a larger tip, a #366, but since I couldn't seem to find one other than ordering it, I made do with a #352.




I started at the edges, going around the cupcake, then worked my way in, making the ones closer to the center stand up more than the others.

I then used a #283 for the green center and a #3 for the yellow dots.




These were so much fun to make! I'm definitely going to be making some for our Christmas.

Hydrangea Cupcakes

This is my first attempt at making the hydrangea cupcakes that I found on this blog.



I love her work!! They look much better than mine, but I learned a lot about what not to do on these!! I will definitely be trying them again in the near future.

And, yes, I realize that hydrangeas don't come in these colors! But I was inspired by this large pot of fall colored velvet-silk hydrangeas that are sitting on my dining table. A terrible picture, but you get the idea.




My first mistake was trying a new frosting recipe. I loved the frosting, but it didn't do the flower thing very well!




But, everyone at our Thanksgiving dinner who didn't know any better thought they looked great!




And I tried out a new chocolate cake recipe that was absolutely delicious!

Cupcakes With Bright Flowers

My six-year-old granddaughter requested cupcakes for her birthday party this year. She didn't even care what they looked like, she just wanted cupcakes. This from the girl who has always had her next birthday cake picked out months in advance!

So here they are!

I swirled buttercream icing on top of white and strawberry cupcakes - not my best work, I might add.

I cut the flower parts out of tinted fondant a couple of days ahead of time and let them dry on the curved flower formers, both concave and convex. Then I stacked the pieces, gluing them together with a small amount of corn syrup. I attached them to the cupcakes with a small dob of buttercream icing.

All the little party girls loved them!