Cupcakes to someone who lost a loved one

This was the request I received this morning: A friend’s mother passed away this morning. This friend was a fan of my chocolate cupcakes. I was informed by another and they asked if I could make some for this friend as she is in grieving. The design almost seemed challenging. Nothing too fancy or big and googling ideas was hopeless. So I finally thought of powdered sugar stenciled heart shapes. Simple. I really hope she enjoys them and they help bring some happiness and comfort to her in these times.

I messed up on this many

Daisies for a Birthday

So my best friend visited me in Colorado and we celebrated her birthday! Of course there were cupcakes!

She loves pink gerbera daisies so I made some-in Zebra-striped liners; which she loves bright pink and zebra stripes!

They are vanilla flavored chocolate-filled and pink whipped frosting. While decorating the yellow middle, the bag seam broke and volia!

A happy accident turned into a caterpillar; what a cutie! I also decorated up the place too with the color theme

Boys and Girls of every age, wouldn't you like to taste something strange?

So finally Halloween came and I created TONS of cupcakes! The flavors were chocolate, banana cream surprise, and pumpkin spice. I did the full recipe of each. So for stats, I counted (after decorating) 62 regular and 33 mini which totals of 95 cupcakes! Now remember, a few had to be consumed for quality purposes and for the monsters I created they have 1-2 mini cupcakes on them. So I probably made over 110 cupcakes!! The frosting was whipped and I even went out on a limb and made some extra whipped frosting.

So for designs, here’s the line-up:

13 monsters-fell apart over the day from being moist-suggestion for next time: chill overnight then add eyes right before serving

12 mummies-super fun and easy

10 pumpkins-lined with Charlie Brown for The Great Pumpkin

9 black and white sprinkles-to use up cupcakes

9 witches-more like witch hats

9 mini-bones-again using up cupcakes

7 webs-made with almond bark and had a spider to go with

7 cauldrons-found idea online and loved the look

4 cats-from book; made with almond bark

4 hills (from Nightmare before Christmas)-made with almond bark

5 RIP-chocolate dipped graham crackers with bones

2 bats-almond bark

1 ghost-almond bark

1 Jack-almond bark-used 1 regular and 1 mini used—MY FAVORITE!

Everyone LOVED them and was excited by the designs! Also, my wonderful boyfriend finally put my cupcake box together so I captured photos of them in the box! J