Food Lover's Companion: 2011

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Popcorn!

Tiffany decided to have a carnival for her 30th birthday. So the popcorn cupcakes were created to keep with the theme. The macerated marshmallows top vanilla butterceam on chocolate and vanilla cake. The wrappers were hand cut from striped scrapbook paper....

In all honesty a guest at the party grabbed what he thought was a cup of popcorn and was surprised to find himself chewing on a marshmallow.

Summer Birthdays

Toy Story! Cesar celebrated with a Woody themed party.

The cake is pineapple cake with buttercream for the top tier and pecan cake for the bottom.

Color coordinated cupcakes for the sweet smash cake

Tequila!

The birthday girl's poison of choice is tequila... so here it is. The cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream covered in marshmallow fondant. I saw a photo online of the birthday girl holding the entire cake upside down pretending to drink from it. Guess she'd already had some real tequila.

Happy 50th Anniversary

Fifty years of marriage is a big deal! This family celebrated with a huge party. For their cake they wanted to recreate their parents wedding cake. The original cake was very simple white cake with buttercream icing. This time around the bride requested Italian Cream Cake with cream cheese icing. Delicous! The cake topper is the original topper from their wedding cake.

July's Flavor of the Month

Vanilla cake filled with raspberry filling topped with vanilla butter cream and raspberry drizzle

Chocolate cake, raspberry filling topped with chocolate buttercream and raspberry drizzle

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Think Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Tere has a reason to celebrate! She just finished all of the treatments for her breast cancer. In the spirit of the occassion, I created a woman's bust in a pink and black corset top. The cake itself is red velvet with cream cheese icing covered in fondant.

Edible silver dragees tie in the silver necklace around the neck area of the bust

On the necklace is a silver fondant flip-flop like the one Tere wears to remind her of her love of Kawaii.

Here's what Tere had to say about her cake:

"I had to send you an email to let you know what a hit the cake was at the party on Saturday night. Everyone not only loved the design, but they were all going on and on about how great the cake was.

So many people made the comment that, many times the cake looks great and then the cake part isn't that good. They were loving the cake!

Thank you so much for making the party such a success! It was perfect and exactly what I wanted to celebrate the end of my cancer treatment."

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Cupcakes of the Month

I have a corporate client that celebrates their employees' birthdays on the last Friday of the month. They let me get as creative as I like with the only stipulation being that half of them must involve chocolate. Here we have June's delivery.

Triple chocolate cupcakes with pistachio butter cream

and

Vanilla chai cupcake with cinnamon butter cream

Happy Birthday Sam!

My brother Sam's birthday was this week. He just returned from spending two weeks in Europe. I made him these Black Forrest cupcakes in honor of his visit there just last week. Happy Birthday, Sam!

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Toy Story for Girls

The birthday girl loves Jessie from Toy Story and was thrilled to see her on top of the cake!

The cake itself is yellow butter cake and the icing is vanilla buttercream with marshmallow fondant accents aka "cow spots".

Fore!

Golf themed cupcakes for my husband's birthday.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Pineapple Upsidedown Cake!

So, I posted this photo to my Facebook page and got 20 comments on it... don't you want one? It tastes even better than it looks!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Thank you, Thank you very much...

"Thanks to the fab Heather McClure for the kryptonite, I mean, cupcakes!! Peanut butter banana yumminess is going down in history as mind-blowing culinary masterpiece. Elvis knew what he was talking about!"
- Paige Webb, cupcake connoisseur

Happy Memorial Day!

The cupcakes-of-the-month were "All American" vanilla and chocolate!

Twin Princesses

Here we have a cupcake cake fit for twin princesses!

Cupcake cakes are ideal for quick and easy service since no knives are required.

Cowboys Stadium

This birthday boy wanted a Dallas Cowboy football stadium for his special day - complete with field goal posts and people in the seats....

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Tastefully Artistic

Two dozen cupcakes iced to look like Van Gogh's "Starry Starry Night."

Presented on a tray complete with a golden frame.

What a Girl Wants...

The Birthday Girl had definite opinions about her cake. She even put her design to paper in purple crayon. She wanted multiple tiers. The entire cake was to be purple and have pink hearts on it - except the top tier which was just to have candles that her mom would put on once the party started.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Going Bananas

Zander's birthday party was at Austin Zoo. Here's a monkey cake with matching cookie favors of monkey faces and bananas.

The Birthday Goes to....

I was told to make a birthday cake for a "movie lover" around Oscar time...

Minnie Mouse Cookie Favors

Minnie Mouse cookies for Leighton's 2nd birthday!

Go Dog Go!

What a cute theme! Hutch's favorite book is "Go Dog Go" so they had that as the theme of his party...

Cupcakes Galore!

"Girly" cupcakes...

Buttermilk cake, Maple Buttercream, Bacon

"Chocolate Covered Strawberry" - Strawberry filled chocolate cake, strawberry buttercream, chocolate chip

Heart Cupcakes - Red Velvet and Chocolate with Chocolate Icing

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Birthday at Tiffany's

My dear friend Kia loves Audrey Hepburn so when she asked me to make her birthday cake I thought I'd get creative. I made a fondant cutout of her favorite actress to top her requested red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. The candle sits at the end of her cigarette.