Here comes the bride...

Congrats to Melanie and Mark Collier on your wedding!!! I am honored to have done your cupcakes for you!



Melanie & Mark's Cupcake Tower



This wedding is the first wedding I have done since I started I Want Cupcakes.  It was a fun learning experience.  I am finding out time management when baking in larger quantities. Also a first for me, I worked with fondant.

Fondant...YOU are not so intimidating to me anymore!  Since Melanie was doing a fall themed wedding, she wanted flowers in certain colors on the top of her cupcakes. We searched and searched for the perfect PRE-MADE flowers...and found none! That's when I suggested to make them. Inside, i was a little worried. But, I did not want her to worry and I wanted her to have exactly what she wanted.

Thank GOD for the Internet. Because I was able to go on YouTube, look up "how to work with fondant" and found some great tutorials. And It worked. I learned techniques on coloring fondant, shaping, etc.

Hand Made Fondant Flowers

 I am proud of the work I did for my first time and I know the bride was  a happy bride with the cupcakes. And not only did they look beautiful, they tasted fantastic as well!



  



 





Trial & Error

This past week has been a week of trial and error. It all started with making Ice cream cone cupcakes for labor day.  Oh, they came out so cute! They were soooo delicious and the kids loved them. HOWEVER, I had some issues with them.  First, they came out of the oven spilling over the sides! Okay, I filled them too much! Got it. Second batch came out perfect. So, I frosted and decorated them. Took some pictures. The one to the right is how excellent they looked BEFORE I went to bed.
Then, I woke up came down stairs. Fixed myself a cup of coffee, starting to think of what I was going to do that morning. I happened to glance over at the cupcakes and they were all tipped over. I was thinking what in the world??? Who would do that? Someone knocked over all my cupcakes and now it's going to be a mess.  I walked over and to my surprise saw that, the cone had softened and bent over to the right, like it was to heavy or something.  Now, I didn't look up a recipe to see if these needed to be baked differently and I guess I should have because I don't know what I did wrong. So, If anyone has any tips on ice cream cone cupcakes it would be MUCH appreciated :) Also, I was suppose to take these to my sister's which I ended up staying home for the day. How in the world are you suppose to transport these? Has anyone made these before? So needless to say, I have learned a few things and need some feedback if anyone has any!  I will leave you with a couple after pictures of my poor ice cream cone cupcakes! 

 The next morning!

Couldn't even stay up :(