Friday, August 26, 2011

Cupcakes, cupcake, and more cupcakes.



The past two weekends friends from Fort McMurray have visited the city for special occasions, one for a birthday and the other for a 5 year wedding anniversary.

I felt it only right that I bring them cupcakes, especially when they offered me a ticket to see Taylor Swift. For both I was asked to be creative, they like chocolate, buttercream and coconut, but not too picky.

So we delivered 12 chocolate cupcakes with a variety of icings: black forest cupcakes (not shown), strawberry margarita cupcakes, traditional chocolate and vanilla buttercream, cream cheese, and coconut, dubbed Snowball II.

All it takes is an email or a call and we can have your cupcakes whipped up for delivery. Also we just introduced a new product: Cupcake Jars. Similar to cupcakes, but they can be shipped.

Ballet sweetheart

A little girl turned 8, and Toot Sweet Cupcakes was lucky enough to create a birthday cake that she actually ate.

We created a chocolate cake with milk chocolate buttercream. We covered the cake with a green vanilla fondant pillow that we dusted with pearl dust to give it a shimmer. We then topped the cake hand moulded pink tutu and ballet slippers.

J's mom text messaged me on Sunday after the party and said that the cake was hit and that J, for the first time in a long time, actually ate her birthday cake. Melt my heart. Happy 8th Birthday J.

Welcome Baby!

I've been very fortunate to meet a lot of great moms through Momstown, one such mama just delivered a beautiful baby girl. To congratulate Mama T, Toot Sweet Cupcakes delivered Chai Tea Latte cupcakes with brown sugar cream cheese icing one day after baby Q was born.

This week, Mama T, is having a meet Baby Q party and asked Toot Sweet Cupcakes to create a cake for the occasion. She asked for the Chai cake with the brown sugar cream cheese icing. Mama T, told us that her husband really enjoyed the icing and told her to learn how to make it. We think Mama T has her hands full with four sweet little girls and we we'll take cake of the icing.

Summer patio drinks

I love summer patio drinks. Well, let's be honest, I love tropical beach umbrella vacation drinks. I got a call from a B asking if I could develop a tropical mickey cupcake for her future sister-in-laws bridal shower. YES!




Tropical themed cupcakes came swirling through my head faster than the buttercream could be piped. We created a Strawberry lime Margarita cupcakes - they were delish.

We started out with a lime tequila based cake, yes, we said TEQUILA, once the cake was cooled, we added more tequila. We then topped the cakes with a delectable fresh strawberry and lime zest buttercream. They were YUMMY!

Friday, August 5, 2011

Sandcastles and one year olds

On July 23rd, Toot Sweet Cupcakes celebreated a very special little boys birthday. It was especially sweet because C and the Lil' Cupcake are such good friends. C's mom and I were both on maternity leave at the same time and spent many a days with playdates, strolls through the mall with our matching strollers and diaper bags, and just hanging out.

Mr. C's mom asked me to create a sand castle cake with vanilla cake, bavarian cream filling and covered in fondant. To make it a bit more special, we added some chocolate seashells, which Mr. C immediately grabbed off and ate - before he even blew out his candle.

Happy Birthday Little Dude C, I hope you had a very happy birthday. To see pictures of Mr. C's cake smash check out the lovely Taryn Laine Photography.