Sooooooooo cute!

I had made these little banana monkey cupcake toppers for my super awesome friend, Kalie! I just saw that she posted these pics of the cupcakes in action and I had to share. Cupcakes are awesome! And so is my friend...you will make a great Mommy, Kalie! Congrats!!

Ice cream cupcake

I was asked to do a fun cupcake tutorial at our church's youth group for girls yesterday. It was so fun and I had a blast doing it. I came up with this idea to do a cupcake ice cream sundae. I used my recipe for homemade marshmallow fondant and just thought I'd share the recipe.

For the fondant:

8 oz marshmallows

1 Tb water

2-4 cups powdered sugar

shortening

flavor/coloring if desired

All you do is melt the marshmallows in a bowl with the water. Grease a mixing bowl (a kitchen aid with the dough hook is ideal, but anything will work) and also the beater with the shortening. This prevents sticking. Once the marshmallows are in the bowl you can add your color and or extracts to flavor it. It also tastes fine by itself. Slowly incorporate the powdered sugar and beat and mix until it pulls completely away from the sides of the bowl. Cover in an airtight container or wrap with plastic wrap.

To make Chocolate fondant, follow the same instructions except with the melted marshmallows add 1 oz melted unsweetened chocolate and 1 TB cocoa powder.

To make this cupcake, just frost a cupcake with butter cream frosting. Then roll out the pink fondant on a surface lightly dusted with cornstarch or powdered sugar. Cut out a circle with a kitchen glass and cover the cupcake. Smooth it on there and trip any excess with a knife of kitchen shears. Roll out your chocolate and find a flower cut out shape and put on top of the pink fondant. You might need to put a dab of butter cream to make it stick. Take your butter cream used for frosting and pipe a cute "whipped cream swirl" on top of the chocolate. Add sprinkles or chopped nuts to it. Then if you want, take some additional fondant and dye it red and make a ball for the cherry. Poke a little hole in the top if you want to add the stem, then roll out some chocolate for a stem and add it. By the end, you will have a cute little ice cream cupcake sundae. So cute for birthday parties or a family night. Tasty! Good luck and enjoy!

The James Ladies

My girls a sweet and silly. What fun!

Birthday Cuteness!

Here is some cake cuteness from today. : ) The Elmo is a fondant topper for a cake coming up in a couple of weeks.

The Babies!!

Boy do I have myself some cute kids!! They were all smiles this evening which hasn't been the case the last week. Between teething, and an ear infection for Carson there have been some tears. Valentine's weekend was INSANE and I did a ton of cupcake orders for my friends. It was seriously so much fun. The kids had a good time being my little sou chefs. I am so lucky to have such sweet babies in my life. Love you guys!

So serious!

The simple joys of socks.

Owl love you forever

For Valentine's Day this year, I thought I'd do a fun play on conversation hearts. Using that color palette and the cuteness factor. Of course, I threw in a couple tradition items as well and those are fun, too! I did SO MANY cupcakes this weekend. These pics are only small portions of what I did. But many of the orders were the same...so...you see one owl and you've seen them all.

Be Mine

Cute as a button

Choco-halic

True Love

Hint...

Here's a hint for my valentine cupcakes I'm doing...

Owl love you forever!