Ever since I made my monkey cupcakes, I've been wanting to bake more cupcakes and unleash my creative side. I did a lot of research for designs for the monkey cupcakes, and I found some amazing cupcake artists, they really inspired me. Their cupcake art was beautiful, I could only hope to be half as good as them (click photos for their sites):

So last weekend was the annual block party at my old neighborhood. I wanted to do something special so I found a cute cupcake garden design by SG Cupcakemomma. I went out to Hobby Lobby to purchase some supplies - cake decorating bag, icing tips, fondant, cups, and icing color. I was going to buy a cupcake case to transport my cupcakes, but it was $20 for a case that would hold 12 cupcakes. I'm not ready to pay $40 to carry around two dozen cupcakes! Then it was off to my local Jewel-Osco to buy some frosting - because I'm too lazy to do anything from scratch. I want to give their bakery a big shout out because I went to the lady at the counter and asked if I could have some of their cupcake containers, and she was like, "You don't want cupcakes?" and I said as I pointed to my supplies, "No, I'm making my own" and she nicely gave me enough containers for 2 dozen cupcakes. I guess it never hurts to ask!

So I labored that night til the wee hours of the morning, baking, icing, cutting out fondant flowers and putting everything together. I'm happy with the results but I've left a lot of room for improvement. I did get tired of piping all the grass with the store bought icing that was too soft so I just did my second dozen with plain cream cheese frosting. Next time I'll definitely make my own frosting, so I can control the consistency.

Here's the results of my night of cupcake making!

Flowerpot Cupcakes

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Posted by Yano at September 12, 2006 04:18 AM

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