A different kind of banana split with a faux fondant cherry on top!!

Unique Banana Splits!!

I made these banana split cupcakes with my Katis Kupcakes FaceBook group, called Kati's Kupcakes Bake Along. This week a group member picked a banana split cupcake recipe from the website "www.howstuffworks.com." It started out as a box mix base, then you enhanced the mix with bananas, maraschino cherries and chocolate chips--plus just for fun and to go with the whole "banana split theme", I added sprinkles too! After cooking the cupcakes and allowing them to cool, you ice them (I used a marshmallow buttercream) and add some hot fudge and a cherry on top! To be different and since I love creating fondant decorations, I added some sculpted cherries which I fashioned out of fondant!! I tinted some white fondant red to represent the cherries and put a small dent in the top and inserted a small green stem!! These were fun. I even put them in a tall icecream parlor like glass for the old fashioned icecream shop feel!! Very fun to make--next up for the group--Rocky Road Cupcakes!!! Enjoy!

Cupcakes at the beach

Cupcakes at the beach

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Beach Scene Cupcakes

Sweet Suprise for a friend!

My friend invited me to a swim team gala she was having at her house for members of our local community. It was an adult social event for the parents of all those talented kiddies on the highly acclaimed town swim team. Sadly, my kids are NOT on the swim team and even more sad is that two out of three of my children are non-swimmers-but, that's a story for a different blog--back to the cupcakes!! She invited my husband and I to her "casual cocktails" event and we gladly jumped at the chance to have a night out. My mind starting working as to what kind of cupcakes I could suprise her with for the evening. I had wanted to do some summer themed cupcakes and started working on some fondant cut-outs and carvings and naturally you can guess what type of cupcakes she received---I present my beach themed cupcakes for a dear friend who allowed some "non-swimming parents" to her swim team party! Hope you like them!! Most of the cupcake toppers are made from tinting gumpaste and fondant. I created several templates for the fish and shovels and the rest just tried to be creative with!!

Mocha Cupcakes with Kahlua Cream Cheese Frosting

Mocha Cucpakes for my FaceBook Bake-Along group!

I have a group on facebook that follows Kati's Kupcakes and we decided to do the weekly baking group thing! I am so envious of those groups and thought I'd give it a go. The first week four of us made these mocha cupcakes with kahlua frosting! They smelled wonderful like a yummy coffeehouse drink and the cream cheese was decadent yet not overly boozy (main ingredient: kahlua-lightweights beware). Anyway, week 1 of our bake-along went great and week 2 is starting. We are making banana split cupcakes from the "How stuff works" website. If you'd like to join us, please feel free-lots of fun and a great way to get that extra baking practice in!! Here's some photos-complete with the large bottle of Kahlua--thought I would throw that in to give you all the full effect--cheers!!!

Graduation Cupcakes

Happy Graduation!!

Ah, remember the days; those last few days of high school and then freedom loomed-little did we know we were better off there than in the real world, but thats another story, lol. I had to make 80 graduation cupcakes for a new "almost out of high schooler" and found an idea on the internet. It required creating some graduation themed picks with popsicle sticks to stick in the cupcakes. Also, I created tiny graduation diploma scrolls with rolled up parchment paper and a little ribbon. Finally, I added a few little embellishments that I found at the grocery store: candles in the shape of a graduation cap. That coupled with graduation cupcake liners, and some gold icing dust created a nice looking group of graduation cupcakes! See the photos:

Here are the picks made out of black and gold scrapbook cardstock and some from prebought stickers pasted on cardstock:

The tiny scrolls made out of parchment looked adorable:

In the front row you can see the graduation caps I mentioned:

Here's a long view of the set:

One of two boxes-all ready to go! They made it just fine to their destination-no problems during delivery, lol!!

Yankees Cupcakes

I had an order for a young Yankees fan who needed some cupcakes to impress his fellow teammates and ballers, so I started getting to work on some cupcakes using fondant "accessories". A couple days ahead I cut out some fondant discs for baseballs and created a template for some jerseys. I also created tiny picks made out of Yankees images from the web. I went with red, white and blue to go with that hometown baseball feel and I think they were a "homerun!" He really got a kick out of them and his three brothers too, so that's all that really matters!! It was alot of fun making these too, plus I learned a little bit about the Yankees along the way!! Go Team!!

This was a special one of a kind created for the birthday boy:

Here's the whole group of them (sixty to be exact)

These are the baseballs, jerseys and matching swirled cupcakes. There is a Derek Jeter #2 jersey and of course, the birthday boy is #1. Also did the Yankees logo on some of the jerseys.

Close-up of jerseys

Close up of baseballs. I had an real baseball next to me while I was creating these and turned it in different angles to get the stitching as realistic as possible. They turned out pretty cool!

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

Beautiful Bridal Shower Cupcakes!!

I was asked to make some cupcakes for a bridal shower, so once again I found myself turning to those beautiful "speak for themselves" edible flowers. I had originally bought some cheesy plastic fake silver rings from Michaels, but they just didn't make the cut. I think I definately made the right choice on this one. Plus, I finally figured out how to make those beautiful thick piled up perfect swirls (want the secret?? 1m tip !!!!--but I am sure you all knew that!) Anyway, I mixed some colored gels into my tinted frosting and added some glittery sprinkles and viola-it's as if some fairies are having a tea party--don't you agree?? I just love pastels, flowers, swirls, glitter and pretty petite flowers--adorable combo!

Everything looks better when saturated in pinks, lol:

That's a heart shaped mini cake in the middle of the surrounding cuppies:

Pretty little pansies ready to be ooed and awwed and eaten!!