Inspiration

Feeling inspired. Very inspired, by this picture.

Mmmmm, Creme Brulee Cupcakes. Yup, I just said it. Creme Brulee Cupcake.

Who wants one?

Made Especially for You.

After the Lil' Cupcakes birthday we had an influx of orders. I was extremely surprised by one in particular. My toughest critic, my cousin. Extremely picky and brutally honest with me, which I am glad of as it makes me a better baker.

She ordered a dozen Red Velvet cupcakes. What surprised me even more is that fact that there is cupcake store, literally a 5 minute walk from her office and she opted to order from Toot Sweet Cupcakes. I felt very honoured.

I have to admit, this is my fifth red velvet recipe. The first four were not good. Well they were fine, but I was looking for the ultimate, best tasting red velvet cupcake recipe. And after much R&D, I found the ultimate and best tasting red velvet cupcake recipe.

Don't forget, Toot Sweet Cupcakes, makes fresh to order, never frozen and never dry cupcakes. You contact us and we make them especially for you.

Happy First Birthday G!

Over the last year, while on Mat leave, I've met some really great people. I joined a network of moms called Momstown. I've enjoyed the events and getting to meet other moms who were in the same place as I was with the Lil' Cupcake.

Quiet a few of my new "mom" friends little ones are all turning one and I was delighted that L had asked me to provide a cake and cupcakes for G's first birthday.

So happy first birthday G! Also known as Cupcake's boyfriend.

For his birthday we created vanilla cupcakes with green and yellow frosting, for his smash cake we made a vanilla cake with strawberry preserve and fresh strawberries. Yummy. He even thought so when he destroyed his cake. Haha. Loved seeing the photos of him destroying it.

We also created a little lion for the top of his cake because he loves lions. Happy Birthday again G. I can't wait to see what you do next.

G's mom took advantage of Toot Sweet Cupcakes 1st birthday special. Contact us today, so your little one can have fun smashing a birthday cake.

Toot Sweet Cupcakes also creates simple 6 inch cake smash cakes for one year photos. If your interested in having 1 year photos done contact us today and we can create a special cake for the photos.

Back to work

Maternity leave is over and it is back to work. Where did a year go?

There was no slow transiton back in to the workforce me, my colleagues were happy to see me and followed up with, Friday is your snack day. "Hi guys, missed you too."

Every Friday, our team gets together for a meeting to discuss the days events and eat a Friday treat. Someone different is responsible for bringing in a snack and they are always delgihtfully delicious. Some bring in scones, pancakes, waffles, muffins, breakfast casseroles, frittatta's etc. No one breakfast snack is the same, well with the exception of fruit. We always seem to bring in fruit. I guess it is to compensate for the caloric content of main snack. Name a breakfast item that isn't high in content. I dare you.

So for my first snack duty, I had to treat my co-workers to some of Toot Sweet Cupcakes creations. So we created a delicious Stuffed French Toast Cupcake.

STUFFED FRENCH TOAST CUPCAKE?????????? What?????

Yes, Stuffed. French Toast. Cupcake. We started out with a french toast cake base, yummy, so delicious on it's own. Actually tasted like french toast. Yum. Then we stuffed it with Strawberry preserve AND fresh strawberries. Then we topped it all off with a swirl of the delightful brown sugar cream cheese frosting. YUM!

Mr. Toot Sweet Cupcakes, says I am a French Toast snob. I love French Toast, it is my favorite breakfast food. But if my french toast is soggy, I turn up my nose, but this french toast was moist, not soggy. My co-workers enjoyed it, a few of them may have had seconds and other floors and staff were pretty upset that they were privy to the French Toast Cupcake. Next time guys.

Now to perfect the ultimate Bacon Cupcake????????? Maybe???? Hmmm??? I'm off to the lab/kitchen for some R&D.

Our Lil' Cupcake turns 1.

Well the lil' cupcake turned 1. I can't believe this time last year I was holding a newborn. The Cupcake decided to surprise us and arrive four weeks earlier, messing with my schedule. Ha.

36 weeks and one day. I woke up in the morning after my water broke, let Mr. Toot Sweet sleep for an hour. Then when he woke up I told him, I probably wasn't in labour and to go to work. Haha. I decided not to go to the hospital right away, I still wasn't sure if in fact my water had broken? It was my first baby, I had no clue. So instead I opted to wait until my 11:20 am prenatal appointment, it was 6:40 am when I made this decision.

So in between Mr. Toot Sweet and I decided we better do some laundry, because if this baby was coming today, she needed some clean clothes, run to get snacks for Mr. Toot Sweet and go for a big breakfast because labour could be long and I may not eat again until the next day.

After that was all said and done, on the way to my prenatal, I figured I was indeed in labour as contraction were getting stronger and harder.

Got to the hospital and told the doc that I think I was in labour, he admitted me and 4 hours after, voila, the Lil' Cupcake was born. 7 Pounds 11 Ounces, a full head of hair and a spltting image of her momma.
For the lil' Cupcakes birthday, she had a giant chocolate cupcake with pink buttercream icing.

We also created the best ever red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing. I had many people tell me that they don't usually like red velvet, but when they tried those one, they were surprised at how good they were. I was very happy.

And I couldn't just stop at red velvet, we also made Vegan Chocolate cupcakes with pink buttercream. I had people once again, skeptical. How can vegan chocolate be good???? Well guess what, they were delicious. Even my mother-in-law was surprised at how yummy they were. She's from BC, were the original cupcakes started and she said the Red Velvet and Vegan Chocolate were the best she's tasted in a while.

Happy Dance for Yummy cupcakes from my toughest critics.

Cupcake stands and trees are available upon request. Cupcake liners will used to match your decor and theme of your party. Contact us today and book our birthday special. A 6 inch one-tier cake and 12 cupcakes for $50. Add on an additional 12 cupcakes for $15 per dozen. Or change your 6 inch cake to vegan chocolate for an extra $10.

First birthday special

We are so pleased to be apart of so many 1st birthday's. Having our own lil' cupcake celebrating her 1st birthday, we thought it might be nice to give a little special deal to our fans and friends.

Contact us today and get a 6 inch, buttercream or fondant cake with 12 cupcakes for $50. Or make your 6 inch cake vegan chocolate and get it all for $60. Each additional dozen cupcakes are $15.

We also create cake smash cakes for $20. Lots of coloured buttercream to make sure the pictures are great. Contact us today and we can create that cake for you in jiffy.

Happy Birthday Monkey

I was so excited for this cake. The lil' cupcake's good friend, possibly her future boyfriend, turned 1, they are 12 days apart so when H's mom asked me to create his first birthday cake, I was overjoyed.

H's nickname is monkey, he actually makes sounds like a monkey, which is too cute for words.

We created a two tiered chocolate cake filled with yummy yummy cherry pie filling. I was so impressed that the little man liked the cherries and the cake, but he loved the fondant.

The one on the top of the cake if made of rolled fondant as well. The entire cake is edible, just incase Mister H decided to dive in.

The monkey's are also made of rolled fondant and are hand made.

A very happy wedding shower

Toot Sweet Cupcakes was honoured to be part of a wedding shower over the long weekend. So for the celebration, we created a giant lemon cupcake filled with raspberry preserves. Our newest creation: Raspberry Lemonade - This just makes me think Summer.

The brides, future sister-in-law and bridesmaid, asked us if we could make butterflies to beautify the cake. The bride lost her grandmother a few months ago and they had a special connection with butterflies, so it was the least we could do for this bride to make it the cake that much more special.

We also created 36 Champagne cupcakes with coloured vanilla buttercream to surround the giant cupcakes.

I hope the future bride was pleased. Congratulations and thank you for letting us be apart of your celebrations.