Supremely Delicious

After 4 grueling years of classes, exams, and annoying the people in his life with law-themed factoids, a friend of mine recently managed to graduate from the Ivy-ish hallways of law school. 

Well, if I'm being honest, he graduated back in May... I'm just behind the times on blog updating...

Anyway! To celebrate, I supplied the SCOTUS cupcakes for his graduation party!

I bet you can't even tell which ones are cupcakes and which ones are people.

Have anyone in your life graduating from law school, going to trial, or just really into the Supreme Court? Why not show them you care with Supreme Court cupcakes of their very own!!

Cupcakes in a half-shell! Cupcake power!

Let's all sing "Happy Birthday" to young Mason, who turned one year old last month! 

To celebrate, I was asked to make Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cupcakes!

Once again, I'm not great at taking pictures... but we've got our four heroes (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rafael, and Donatello) and some of the their favorite food: pizza! 
Because it was Mason's first birthday, they wanted to have the "smash cake" for him to dig into, which was fittingly dressed up like a large pepperoni and sausage pizza. 

Kids and grown-ups alike seemed to love eating the faces of these beloved cartoon heroes!

My first baby shower: An experiment in normal(ish) looking cupcakes

Last March marked one of the first times I felt like a professional baker. Not because it was my first order or anything (I'd already cupcake-catered a few birthday parties and dinners by that time), but because it was the first order that wanted normal looking cupcakes. 

Typically, my draw is the interesting designs: the Legos, butterflies, popcorn, or even leather jackets. This time, they just wanted simple (but still cutely decorated) cupcakes for a baby shower.

Weirdly, this was more nerve-racking for me than the other, more complicated, cupcakes I've made over the last year. I mean, with interesting (usually cartoon-y) designs, I feel like people might be more forgiving of tiny errors because the cupcakes are still so fun! With regular cupcakes, however, you don't have that cushion. 

Anyway, I'm rambling now, so let's just skip the rest of this and get to the cupcakes themselves:

Despite my concerns, I think they turned out pretty well. 

I've got another baby shower in two weeks with a slightly more complicated design. Get excited!

Before and After

Long time no blog, huh? Well, fear not, citizens, for while I have not been good about updating the website, I have still been baking!! 

In March, I was asked to bake cupcakes for a couple's three-year anniversary. Now, as everyone knows*, the three-year anniversary is considered the "leather" anniversary, so of course I was asked to decorate them to look like leather. 

After a while of brainstorming with the wife and not knowing how to make normal cupcakes look like leather, we finally decided to go for a little before and after:

Maybe it is a little crass, but I'm okay with that.

Ignore the tissue paper. It's only there to take up space, since the couple only wanted 6 cupcakes.

Unfortunately, I'm terrible at photography (especially at phone photography), so the jackets don't really show well in the pictures. But believe you me, I think even the Fonz would have been tempted to wear these cupcakes. 


With the Three-year "leather" cupcakes behind me, I've started wondering how I'd do some of the other anniversary cupcakes. I mean, how would you even decorate a 10-year "tin" cupcake or a 14-year "ivory"? Ah well, I suppose I have some time to figure those out.

*To be clear, I had no idea the three-year anniversary was represented by leather until the couple told me. Even then, I didn't fully believe it and used Google to confirm.

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

After recently joining a book club that a friend of mine set up, we finally had our first meeting last Friday. This month's book and topic of discussion was The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.

In typical Cupcakes Schmupcakes fashion, I brought these:

"Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie,
who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?"

Homemade Funfetti cupcakes with M&Ms and icing to resemble miniature pies!

As always, these cupcakes are available to order any time! Just give me a call or e-mail me (contact information found on the "Place an Order" page)!

For next month's meeting, where we'll be discussing Bossypants, I guess I'll have to figure out how to make Tina Fey themed cupcakes or something... hmm.

Thoughts?

The 4th birthday party that Gotham needs

Two weeks ago, my beloved nephew and God son, Daniel, turned four years old. To celebrate, we had a superhero party at the park!

He absolutely loves super heroes... even though he only first encountered them on the show Super Y where they all had "the power to read" rather than kick butt or save towns. 

Obviously, his favorite hero is Batman, so we decided to celebrate the party with Batman cupcakes made by his Aunt Jenny (me). 

Throwback Thursday: Star Trek Edition

This throwback sends us all the way back to September of 2012. I had just finished working my way through Star Trek: Voyager, and some of my friends and I decided to celebrate with an evening full of some of our favorite episodes! Have I mentioned how super cool I am, yet?

To mark the occasion (and also to provide some sort of decorated dessert in celebration of a friend's birthday), I made Star Trek Communicator cupcakes!

Red for Command - Yellow for Engineering - Green for Science/Medical

This was before I was trying to bake professionally, so they're kind of messy, but I think they turned out pretty well. 


Also, this is not the first time I've bragged about these cupcakes online. They were originally posted on my once-up-and-coming-but-now-mostly-abandoned craft blog, What the Craft is Going On?

Throwback Thursday: Cupcake Edition

I am absolutely obsessed with popcorn. I mean, not to the extent where I've researched the history of popcorn or am adventurous in the kind of popcorn I eat in any way... I'm only obsessed with the popcorn to the extent that I eat a lot of it. Microwave popcorn, stove top popcorn, the kind that comes in tubs... I'm all for it. My love of popcorn was the main reason I worked at a movie theater in high school (sometimes they'd even let me take home clean trash bags full of leftover popcorn at the end of the night). It's also why I bought a stove-top cooker a few years ago (although, I can't figure out how to make it buttery enough for my taste). On more than one occasion, I've actually gone into the movie theater near my house, bought popcorn, and left. I have no regrets. 

Anyway, in my 26 years of life, I've only met one person that loves popcorn as much as I do. So, doing what I do, I made her these for her birthday a few month ago!

Each popcorn bucket had tissue paper in the bottom (because I didn't want to actually stack the cupcakes), and four mini-cupcakes covered with mini-marshmallows that were dusted, cut, and glued to look like popcorn. I mean, dusted with edible yellow coloring and glued with icing. I don't want anyone thinking that I'm making inedible cupcakes. 

Toy blocks that are technically not Legos

This week, one of my friend/coworker's son turned four years old. To celebrate, she decided to host a Lego-themed birthday party for him!

In an attempt to make cupcakes in line with the theme, I got some candy molds for "block men" and "toy blocks," because they can't technically use the term "Lego" due to copyright stuff, I guess. 

Someday, I'll actually take better pictures of my cupcakes... I've even had one of my photographer friends offer to help me out... but of course, that would require me actually making the cupcakes enough in advance that I'm not rushing at the last minute. Ah well, in due time, right?

I think they turned out pretty well, and the birthday boy seemed to like them!

Also, good news, everyone! I still have the "block" molds and the melting candy wafers, so if anyone would like to order Lego-themed cupcakes, I'd be more than happy to oblige! Just e-mail me at schmupcakes@gmail.com