Cherry Blossom Cupcakes

Made for Rachelle's graduation party. Dark chocolate (with chocolate chips thrown in the batter again) and dyed pink butter cream frosting. Branches of the blossoms are melted and piped chocolate chips -- like i did with the thumbs up -- the blossoms are brighter pink frosting, and the centers are Wilton pearl sprinkles.

They're slightly off of what i envisioned them looking like. Oringially I had picked up white melting chips in hopes of piping out the flowers by hand. But that was fail pants. Big time fail pants. I ended up only piping out the branches.

And as (bad) luck would have it, it was super warm today. So even if the chocolate was melting as i was removing it from the wax paper. All of the wording was a mess. I only ended up with one cupcake that even said "congrats" on it lol. And then the hot pink frosting started being lame too.

Despite everything though, i think they came out pretty well! I love love love cherry blossoms. I had done some last year, that looked pretty ghetto. Haha. (No need to repost those.) So I am happy that I have something to replace that shame with.

I wonder how weird people find it that i travel with not just my cupcake carrier, but also my special cupcake stand? One of the best presents I've gotten, i think.


xo,
anna


P.S. By the way, i might have cupcake duty again this weekend lol. But i dunno since i don't have any ideas yet and i only have so much free time to run to Michaels and stuff. Anyone have any ideas for Serbian cupcakes? Yes, seriously.

"Like This" Thumbs Up Facebook Cupcakes

On the way to my friend's birthday party (45 minutes away) i almost had a heart attack b/c the chocolate started melting in the sun. I seriously would have cried if none of them had made it.

Milk chocolate cupcakes (with chocolate chips thrown into the batter for extra chocolaty goodness), cream cheese frosting dyed blue (Wilton gel food coloring) and melted semi-sweet chocolate chips on top.

The thumbs up sign and the "like this" were piped onto wax paper first, i let them harden in the fridge and then put them on top. And yes, my hand was numb after i finished piping all these words. Good thing that they keep well, so i was able to spread it out over two days instead of just one. The bad thing? I've been eating the chocolate chips this entire week. =x

i had my older brother make a quick template for me for the thumbs up sign, and was able to just put it underneath the wax paper and trace over it. The words i free handed.
I actually ended up making wayyyy too many of these. I hear the birthday boy (who does indeed love facebook and over uses the "like" feature) is going to start handing them out to people who look like they need that bit of external validation from a stranger.

xo,
Anna