My first paid client!!!

The Cupcake Experiment had their first paid client :) My co-worker asked me if I would make cupcakes for her son's carry in. I had a tough time deciding which one's to make because I haven't made that many and I of course wanted them to come out looking great! So I decided on fall cupcakes. I figured what kid wouldn't like sprinkles, frosting, twizzlers and pumpkin candies on a cupcake? This is the first time I made them and I thought they turned out rather cute. What do you think?

 Full pan of them :)

Close up :)

If you're interested in me making cupcakes for your next event, let me know :)

Just out of curiosity, does anyone read this?

Oreo Cupcakes

I was looking around on the web for cupcake ideas and came across this recipe. I wanted to give it try. I know they are much simpler than the previous cupcakes I have made but sometimes simple is good!

 I pulled apart the Oreo's (with the help from the boyfriend) and they get baked into the cupcake.

I then crushed the part of the Oreo's that were pulled apart, and put it in the cupcake mix to be baked in. Fill the cupcake liner 3/4 full.

 It's hard to tell from this picture, but it is the Oreo that is baked into the bottom of the cupcake.

Ta-da! My first attempt at piping! Some where bad and others (like this one) came out rather good. I definitely need to work on my piping skills.

Oreo cupcake with the Oreo on top! It doesn't get much better than this! Oreo on the bottom, Oreo crumbs in the cupcake itself and than an Oreo on top!

 Another nearly-perfect looking one :)

 All of them! Some of them aren't piped and just have frosting spread on top of them. You can only do so good on your first try.

This is going to be a busy week with cupcakes! I got my first paid customer!!! I making my co-worker cupcakes her son's carry in! I will be posting pictures up this week. Also, one of our managers is leaving to go to another store, so I am going to attempt to make a cupcake that I have never tried before. I don't want to give it away though, so stay tuned for pictures :)

The ants go marching one by one....

Hooray! Hooray!

So for a co-workers birthday (that was this weekend) I wanted to make her cupcakes. When I was deciding which one's to make, I looked through my cupcake books. I found a cute one, but they definitely didn't come out looking like I wanted.  ((Steph I promise I will make you cuter cupcakes at a later date))

The green frosting for the grass :) I don't have a picture of the ingredients because I used stuff that I already had in my pantry.

I know that it's a little blurry but here is the first attempt. I died coconut and put it around the cupcake. On top of the ant, is a watermelon gummy. It didn't stay on very well so I decided to not go with it. I also tried using icing to do the legs, but they didn't bend the way that I wanted them too.

The top of them. Like I said, they don't look very cute. They look like cupcakes I should be making for Halloween, not for someone's birthday ((again Steph, I promise I will make other ones)).

Then there were twelve ants! ((There is actually 24 but these look better than the other one's)) The legs worked a lot better when I used frosting. I decided to not use the coconut because it looks better without it to me.

Stayed tuned for the next set :) I'm looking forward to the one's I'm making next. Also, I'm rather excited because I signed up for a cupcake decorating class!

Me Want Cookie

I googled the word cupcake the other day and one of the images that I saw was a Cookie Monster cupcake. I decided that I had to try to make them because they were so darn cute. 

 

These are the ingredients needed to make a Cookie Monster. They include chocolate chip cookies (broken in half), candy wafers (I used White Mint), blue sprinkles or sugar, and blue die.

 I decided that I wanted to make the cupcake mix blue so go along with the theme of the blue cookie monster. It's neat to do different colored cupcake's. I've done tie-dyed ones before and they are really cute.

Cupcakes after they were baked. They look green in the picture but they're more like a blue-green color. They still came out good though.

While the cupcakes cooled, I then proceeded to die the icing blue. All you have to do is apply drops of blue die to the icing. Depending on how dark you want it, is how many drops you put in. I did around three or four.

I put the sprinkles in a bowl that way I could just dip the cupcake into the bowl. I wasn't sure which one I wanted to use: sugar or sprinkles. After trying both, I decided that the sprinkles looked the best.

Ta-Da! This is how he turned out. He is so cute it's going to be hard to eat him. For the first time, I think that it turned out rather cute.

All of them together at the end. They were quite easy and I can see myself making them again. Anyone need a cookie monster cupcake for a kids birthday?!?

First there was a penguin

So I am not expecting many to read this, however I still find it exciting to share my cupcake experience's with others (that chose to read).

My boyfriend bought me a cupcake book back around Easter time because I fell in love with it Target. Once I started flipping through the book, I found a penguin cupcake. Now anyone that knows me, knows that I am OBSESSED with penguins. If there was a better and bigger word than obsessed, I would use it. So the minute I saw the picture, I knew that I had to try to make them. And so I did.

Correction: My friend Lindsey and I made these cupcakes together!

These are all of the items used to make the penguins. There were so many places that I had to go. I went to Scott's (Kroger for some of you), Hobby Lobby, Dunkin Doughnuts, Walmart and a candy store in the mall. Ingredients include, doughnuts, doughnut holes, gummy fish, star bursts, marshmallows, black food coloring, and chocolate chip cookies.

Pre-cut doughnuts. These are used for the bodies. You have to ice the top of the cupcakes and then stick the doughnuts (which are cut in half) on top of the icing. You then have to apply icing to the doughnut.

This is what the cupcake looks like after you apply the icing and with the doughnut hole on there as well. The doughnut hole is used as the head of the penguin.

This is what NOT to do. I forgot to put the cupcake in the freezer after all icing was applied. You have to put in the freezer for ten to fifteen minutes. If you don't, when you go place the melted frosting on the cupcake, it falls apart.

 After the cupcake has been in the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes, you dip the cupcake in the melted icing. This is what it looks like after the marshmallow and star-burst are applied to the penguin.

The finished penguin! I know it has no wings, but I had a rather difficult time making the wings. I know it's not the greatest looking but you can still get what I tried to make. I thought for my first attempt, it turned out rather amazing.

These are the icebergs that go along with the penguins. They are cupcakes with coconut shavings on top of the frosting. I used blue and white rock candy to make it look like ice. The colored candies are fish gummies.