Finally!

So a few weeks ago I accidentally (don't tell my Aunt LuAnn as she purchased it for me) threw away my 1m tip. It's that big huge giant tip that makes huge fabulous swirls on top of cupcakes. Well I finally made my way to Michaels and bought not one but two. (You know, just in case I accidentally throw one away or drop it in the garbage disposal or run it over with the car). And just knowing it's sitting safely all tucked away in my drawer makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

And on a totally unrelated note, one of my favorite blogs I Heart Cuppycakes, made me so fabulously happy today! The author an uber cute girl named Clara announced she was started a business with her cupcakes! Check out her blog if you have a chance. Her cupcakes are beautiful and amazing. (Plus she knows how to do stuff like add pictures which makes her blog waaaaay better).

I don't have any orders for cupcakes until Thanksgiving. Ugh! I make a mean pumpkin cupcake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting and I have a few orders for those for Thanksgiving but nothing before that. However, my birthday, Halloween and the start of hockey season (Let's go Rangers!)are all before then so I think I can find some good reasons to make a bunch before then.

My Kitchen is OverRun with Cupcakes

I'm about halfway through the baking process for tomorrow. I've made all the full size cupcakes. They're cooled and covered and awaiting some fabulous frosting. I made two dozen of chocolate and two dozen of cinnamon. (The cinnamon sort of collapsed upon itself. I ate one. It still tastes delicious and once it has frosting on it no one will ever know, but it was kinda weird).

The jello with the rum in it is chilling in the fridge for the jello shot cupcakes. I'm going for a tropical fruity theme. Peach and raspberry. Total yum.

I still have to make the mini vanilla cupcakes for the actual jello shot cupcakes. That's all I'm going to do tonight. I'll make all the frosting tomorrow. The cinnamon are getting cinnamon. (Big shocker there, no?) One dozen of the chocolate is getting peanut butter frosting and the other dozen is getting vanilla. I'm going to make some whipped cream for the jello shot ones.

Again. We all know by now that I suck with pictures, but hopefully someone at the party will take pictures, that actually look good. It's only a matter of time until you guys think these cupcakes are imaginary.

Dana

Cupcakes 2.0

So it's Thursday and I'm making two sets up cupcakes for Saturday. I've got some for a BBQ my mom is going to and some for the birthday of a friend. I'm really excited for the birthday one since I'm doing jello shot cupcakes which I don't get to that often and are also a big crowd pleaser.

Plus the more people I can get to taste them, the more orders I'll get. At least I'm hoping that's the way it'll go anyway. Oh, speaking of orders, I recently finally decided on a price. I went back and forth and agonized over it for weeks. I ended up on $12/dozen or a dollar a cupcake for you non mathematical types like myself. I figure it's way less then you'll pay in a bakery, but more than a supermarket (which it should be because while I'm not braggart, mine are way better than the supermarket :P).

So I've got a busy Friday and Saturday with 4 dozen regular cupcakes and 3 dozen minis. Again, I'll try to take pictures, but my photography skills are really horrible.!