Easter Cupcakes

This is the story of my weekend adventure, culminating in the eventual consumption of cupcakes.

It all started when I went grocery shopping and saw the cake mix on sale at Safeway. I purchased one box of white cake mix and a little tub of white buttercream frosting. (This is the part where you figure out this blog post is not going to be an instructional recipe on how to make cupcakes.)

When I got home that evening, I mixed up the cake mix, recalling from previous experience that I should mix the liquids together first, then slowly stir in the cake mix and only reach for the blender once every bit of powder has been mixed in with liquids so as not to end up with powder all over the kitchen. Shortly thereafter, my cupcakes were in the oven.

I removed them from the oven, let them cool, then covered them in plastic wrap and then proceeded to play Lord of the Rings Online, achieving level 20 on my Warden named Eivalyn. I figured I could wait until Saturday to frost the cupcakes.

On Saturday I managed to score a nice new dining set on Craiglist for an unbelievably low price which could be equivalent to 95% off retail. Craigslist is the way to go if you know a nice guy with a truck.

How does this fit in with the cupcake story? Well, obviously I need somewhere to put my cupcakes and a nice new dining table is the perfect place to sit down and do some frosting.

I found a "Neon" food coloring set, which was perfect for Easter colors.

I split the buttercream frosting into a few bowls and put different colors in each. I had a lot of pale blue candy sprinkles left from baby shower cupcakes so I put those on top!

The End!

Too Many Candles

I made this cake for my friends, cause 4 of them have birthdays in the same month. Thus the number of candles on this cake is equivilent to the total value of their ages all combined.


The smoke detector did go off . . . .


How did i light this? I used fireplace matches. The are really long, so it's not like my hand is always in fire.


The cake itself is a combination of a Russian Nepolean and French Nepolean cake. Meaning two different types of cake are layered together. And the inside filling cream and the outside frosting are also different. This was hella yummy.

Birthday Cake Plushie

This was a present for a friend, I made an everlasting birthday cake for her.  Although I couldn't get the number of candles correct it was still both both cuter this way and I dont think my friend wanted to be reminded how old she was turning.





Tip:  If using glue instead of sewing, try to find a glue that dries soft.  Don't use hot glue, because when it dries you will be able to feel clumps when  squishing and hugging your cute little stuffie

Swiss Roll

A Swill Roll cake. It's so yummy. Wait is that a thread?
Oh yea I guess we shouldn't eat it, since it's made from felt cloth.



 
I used my sewing machine as much as a could since I wanted something durable, but in the end I still had to close it up with old fashion hand stitching.
 
-SmallRiniLady
Materials:  Felt, Stuffing