Admin during day and Baker during the night!

If working a fulltime job wasn't enough... I come home cook dinner and start baking for orders that I have during the week. Truthfully, I'm starting to get a little exhausted. I might cut back on some orders, since I don't plan to cut back on work anytime soon. But that all talk. lol! I also love to bake.. I'm just going to have to figure out how the heck I'm going to do both without either one of them suffering. I wanted to share some cute simple cupcakes that I made last night for a last minute order. They were white cake with chocolate pudding filling. Simple silver foil cupcake liners and a dash of blue crystal sprinkles make the icing pop! Stay tuned... much more baking coming!

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Cricut Cake Heart Tutorial

Hi, Everone! How's everyones' weekend going? Mine started off with getting off of work Friday night and running home to start on a cupcake order I had for early this morning. I wanted to do a quick tutorial on how I made the toppers for these cupcakes, so I knew that it was going to take a little longer than normal to get these cupcakes done. First, let me start off by saying that if you love to cake decorate and bake some fun cakes, then you must DEFINITELY consider buying the Cricut Cake Machine. I absolutely love mine. Mine is the Martha Stewart Edition (duhhhh! I  ♥ Marth Stewart)! It takes a couple of tries to finally get the hang of it, but if you have used the Cricut expression or any other Cricut Machine then you are mort than likely not going to have any problem with this whatsoever.




Here is what you need for 32 hearts. The gumpaste goes under the cup so that it doesn't harden. If you have worked with gumpaste before you will know that it hardens very quick. The shortening you need to rub up and down in a thin layer on the Cricut mat.

I used the Cricut Love Struck 2010 Seasonal Cartridge.

Knead the gumpaste together with the coloring of your choice. Spread the shortening on your mat and then roll the gumpaste out to a very thin layer.

This is the shape I chose and the perfect size I have found for a cupcake topper with this heart is 1 3/4".

Load your mat with the gumpaste and position the blade where you want it to start and start cutting.

Once you are done cutting, remove the leftover gumpaste and slowly remove the hearts from the mat so that they don't stretch and get deformed. If you need to cut more hearts repeat the process by respreading shortening on your mat and rekneading your gumpaste and rolling it out. If your gumpaste is getting a little hard, add a pinch of shortening onto it while you are kneading it and it will soften again.

Place the cut out hearts on a plastic non sticky surface and let them air dry for about 4 hours and then flip each one of them onto the opposite side and let them air dry for at least another 6 hours.

So, with all that said and done I make the cupcakes. White cake with raspberry filling in them. The white icing was homemade and I decided to add some cute sugar crystals since these cupcakes are for a bridal shower.

And then once the hearts have harden completely, all you do is stick the hearts into the cupcakes and "TA, DA" they are done!

Thanks for stoppin by! I hope this little tutorial made you want to play with your Cricut Cake more, or helps you decide if it's for you or not, or maybe it just helped you realize you are now craving a cupcake! Lol! Hope to see you soon!

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Cake Class!

Yup! I started another cake class! I'm super duper excited about this! I get to learn to do more flowers and such! Here's what I learned last night!

I will be back soon with some baking goodies! Have a wonderful weekend!

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Chocolate Lover's Dream!

Hi Everyone! How's everyone's week going!? I wanted to share a delicious cupcake (made 24 of them, actually) that I made today! Someone ordered them for a birthday tomorrow and they were needed for today. So as soon as I got off of work, I drove home and started baking a storm. These cupcakes were chocolate with chocolate filling with chocolate frosting with chocolate shavings! My only regret was that I didn't make extra for us to try some! DORKY ME! Oh well, I shouldn't be having them anyways, but they sure did look yummy!

Thanks for stopping by! More to come this weekend! Have a great rest of the week and as always...

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First Topsy Turvy Cake!

Hi Everyone! I've dedicated my entire Saturday in making my very fist Topsy Turvy cake and let me tell you it's A TON HARDER than what a looks like.. and definitely more nerve wrecking. You already have the pressure of having to finish a cake for someone that is trusting you with it. So the additional stress of making a cake you've never made before doesn't really help. Lol! Here's the end result, just missing the topper... I will post another picture later with the topper. Thanks for stopping by!

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Memorial Weekend Baking

Hi, Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a great holiday. Many thanks and unlimited appreciation to the soliders and their families. May God bless them now and always.

I had a very very busy weekend. Friday, I held a scrapnight after work. Didn't get much scrapping done, but it was super fun. Saturday, I made the Mario cupcake below with the handmade cupcake toppers. These were for my nephew's adorable Mario Party that my sister in law threw! She did an amazing job. We then came home and worked on a cake that was needed for a neighbor's step mom. It was a lot of work, but so worth it. Sunday we had a get together for my grandfather's birthday and then Monday we did a TON of cleaning (still neeed to do 2 tons more!). I hope your weekend was relaxing or productive, whichever you want. Have a great rest of this short work week! :o)

I hope you all have a great rest of the week. Last week in May! Geez!

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Cupcakes Galore!

I have been so busy with my Fulltime job that I just haven't had much time for myself or my hobbies. But it definitely hasn't stopped me from baking! So I wanted to share some fun creations I made.

I didn't make the cupcake toppers, but definitely enjoyed making the cupcakes.

I made the adorable little butterfly toppers as well!

Hatching little peep for Easter

Little nests! :o)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful week! God Bless!

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