Lavender & Aqua

Last night I taught my Primary girls how to make cupcakes.  We had cute liners, rainbow bit cake, sprinkles galore, and I let them choose what colors we'd make the frosting.  Aqua and lavender were the colors with the most votes, so those were the colors we made.  The cupcakes turned out really cute, but I forgot my camera- doh!

(syad ytivitca)

Store Bought- Stinky Butt

For our anniversary my dear husband got us some fancy cupcakes from the bakery at our fancy grocery store.  I had noticed them before so he chose an oreo one for himself and a lemon one for me.  Don't they look divine?  Yeah, they do, but they taste like garbage!  I've learned my lesson- make them myself!

My hubby also picked up a half-dozen of these simpler ones for the kids.  Since we only have 5 kids, we shared the last one.  These weren't too bad.  Still not as good as home-made, but not as bad as the fancy ones, sigh.

Birthday Parties

For my 4 year old's birthday in April I made up some cupcakes- Sesame Street style.  Cookie Monster was the one I wanted to make first, but Oscar ended up being my favorite.  Elmo turned out prety cute too, but poor Big Bird looks like an Angry Bird, ha ha!

(eugaet)

We had a Harry Potter for my 11 year old twins' party in March, so I had to make wizard hat cupcakes!

(lelak dna eon)

My baby turned 1 in October and I made these hoot owl cupcakes.

Who, who likes cupcakes?  Me!

(marih)

 

I did put these cupcakes on this blog already, but I didn't want to leave out my 6 year old!  All 5 of my kids got homemade cupcakes from mom this year!

(nivag)

 

Caramel & Butter Pecan

This cupcake is cute, but not too fancy.  However, it probably has the best flavor combo:  butter pecan cake with caramel frosting- yu...um!!

(yranimes lirpa)

Pastel Easter

For the seminary kids in March and for my kids' cultural food exchange at school I made up these little pastel Easter cuties.  The pink cake was strawberry flavored with lavender colored, white chocolate-raspberry flavored frosting.  The lavender cake was vanilla flavored with pink colored, bubblegum flavored frosting.  Notice a difference in the frosting textures?  The lavender frosting is fluffier because it was made with softened butter.  The pink frosting is flat and crunchy because it was made with melted butter.  Note to self if butter gets melted, get new butter, ha ha!

My camera doesn't photograph purple very well.  It makes dark purple look blue and lavender look gray, but trust me the lavender and pink looked so pretty in these little cuties!

(yranimes hcram, kcilrac)