Cat Cupcakes on Catsparella

I am so glad to share this great news with everyone.  Catsparella has selected our cat cupcakes for their Cat Cupcake Tuesdays.  Go check out our adorable cat cupcakes and their amazing cat website.  They have everything associated to cats...if you are a cat/pet lover, you will surely love the website.

http://www.catsparella.com/2013/03/cat-cupcake-tuesdays_26.html

Snow White Cupcakes

It's a busy, but fabulous Fabruary!  Both my and my mother-in-law's birthday were falling in this Fabulous Fabruary.  I had a great birthday celebrationS (will be uploading pictures soon).  On top of celebrating both of our birthdays, we also celebrated an overdued birthday for our great aunt. 

Our aunt loves (or should I use obsessed with?!) Princess Snow White from Disney.  I made some Snow White cupcakes to surprise her at our birthday dinner.  She was so amazed by all the detials on the cupcakes.  We were glad to see her happy and enjoyed looking and eatting her favorite Princess.

Love is a many splendored thing!

I have made some engagment celebration cupcakes for my friend begining of this month for celebrating her cousin's engagement.  She gave me ideas of what the couple love (such as OPI nail polish, XBOX, the nephew they baby-sit, the school the groom graudated from, etc.) and I created few more love inspired cupcakes just to tight the whole love and engagement theme together.  They came out so "LOVE-LY"!  My friend told me that her cousin was surprised by this "LOVE-LY" cupcakes.  I am glad to create this special "LOVE-LY" moment for them=)

I think cupcakes are the best way to celebrate all the occassions!

Here comes the bride

suit and a bow-tie

XBOX remote control

OPI nail polish

The enagement date

The little nephew

Tie the knot!

beat headphones

Perfect match=)

A love set of engagement cupcakes

Mini Cupcake in a Jar

Happy 2013!  We just got our first order in 2013; I am  beyond excited to make some more decorative cupcakes for my customers. 

Over the Christmas, I made some mini cupcake in a jar as a gift for my family and friends.  They are so cute!  On top of their cutenesses, they are easy to transport, so convenient to eat and also make a great gift or party favor (*hint*).  I am  taking orders for making cupcake in a jar, so let me know what flavors you want and what theme colors/theme of your party, I will design them  to match your party.

GIVEAWAY!

Happy *ALMOST* 2013!  2012 has been a great year to us.  Thanks for all your supports and love!  I am looking forward to the new year and I am hoping to create more challenging and amazing cupcakes for you, you and you. 

In order to celebrate reaching over 100 "Likes" on our facebook page, I am giving away one copy of "What's New, Cupcakes?" to my loyal supporter. 

Leave us a comment on our facebook page and share with us why you love cupcakes so much.  Mrs. G will select the best winner in January 2013.

Under the Sea Baby Shower's Cupcakes

First of all, I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween.  Also praying for those who have been suffering from  Hurriance Sandy in the east coast. 

It's been too long since I last updated my "creations".  I got couple orders for parties this weekend.  The themes for both parites are very cute and unique.  I will share pictures of the second party with everyone later this week.

Here are some mini cupcakes I made for the first party.  It's a baby shower for a baby girl, the theme is "Under the Sea".  Since the mini cupcakes are so tiny, I needed to keep all the decorations simple and catchy.   The flavors of the cupcakes are carrot cupcakes with cream  cheese frosting, red velvet cupcakes with white chocolate rose water frosting and the last but not the least is Japanese honey cupcakes with vanilla buttercream  frosting...

A mini whale fondant topper

A colorful tropical fish dusted with edibile sprinking paint

Pink jelly fish dust with silver paint

A mini star fish

Done with 6 dozens mini cupcakes

Cupcake Camp in Cerrito (cupcakes for a good cause)

Earlier last month, I received an email from  one of the Cerrito High School Cupcake Camp's coordinators.  They would love to invite me to be one of their bakers for the charity event.  I SO SO SO wanted to be port of  it, especially this event is a fund raising event for a good cause.  Unfortunately, I got booked for few events and it's also my father-in-law's birthday that Sunday.  Therefore, I am  not able to be part of them  this year. 

If you are around Cerrito area, please stop by to get some cupcakes.  For buying their cupcakes, you automatically donating your money to the charities.

Where:Cerrito High School at 12500 183rd Street, Cerrito, CA 90703.
When:  This Sunday, November 4, from  1-4pm.
What:  $ 10 for 6 cupcakes
What more:  Raffle prizes and food trucks will also be standing by.

More details could be found on their facebook page, here.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!  Have a lot of sweet treats and cupcakes.

(more cute cupcake and Halloween postages could be found here.)

Our Schedule for next month: 

Nov 1 - Booked for a baby shower

Nov 3 - Booked for a tea party

Nov.  9-30 - Out of  town

Start accepting orders for December.

Totally Random Totally Cupcakes

OMG!  I can't believe that it's October already.  This year went by so fast that we only have 2 months left.  It's been a blessing year to me and C for Cupcake Cupckaery.  We've been done so many new and challenging projects and have been working with so many lovely clients.  Thanks for all your supports!  If you have not done so, please go to our Facebook page and click "Like" to help us to reach 100 "Likes".

Just want to share some random things (of course they are related to cupcakes) with you.

C for Cupcake Cupcakery's T-shirt!  Aren't they cute! 
Thanks to Homegrown customized t-shirt company to making them
A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

My 1st water color painting, not bad, huh!?  LOL

Cupcake Nuggets

I saw this very innovative creation on the Cupcake Activist's blog.  It didn't only make me craving for cupcakes, but chicken nuggets too.  They looked so real and so cute!  I need to make this one of these days=) Perfect sweet treats for kid's birthday party or bridal/baby showers=)

The recipe is originally from a blog, called the Cupcake Project.  According to the creator, "Cupcake nuggets are cupcake pieces breaded with cupcakes and then deep fried.  Cupcake nuggets look enough like fast food chicken nuggets to fool all but the nugget connoisseur, but taste like doughnuts with crispy, sweet exteriors."

For recipe and more interest cupcake projects, click here.

Free Cupcake Pineapple Pop!

This week is National Cupcake Week in the U.K.  What's a better way to celebrate this special week with a free chocolate covered cupcake pineapple pop from Edible Arrangements.  I love receving edible arrangments more than flowers because they could last a little bits longer in my tummy!  They just came out with a new arrangment, which is a chocolate covered cupcake pineapple pop arrangement.  They are absolutely cute to look at and good to eat, genius idea!

From now to September 21, go to Edible Arrangmentments' facebook page to sign up to be on their mailing list, you will get a free cupcake pineapple pop at your local Edible Arrangments store (refer to the details below).  I have signed up to get mine already, what are you waiting for!?

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

It's been a long time since I updated my last post.  I am so glad to report that our Cupcake-Sell-A-Thon for Brendan and his family was a great success! 

I made the following flavors for the Cupcake-Sell-A-Thon last week:

The Summer Cupcake (vanilla cupcake with strawberry frosting)

Coca-Pop Cupcake (chocolate and coca cola cupcake with cherry frosting)

Ms. Rosie Cupcake (vanilla cupcake with rose water frosting)

The Dude Cupcake (chocolate cake with bacon bits, PB frosting and champagne pomegrate filling)

The Classic Cupcake (vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream)

The Chocolate Lover (chocolate cupcake with strawberry frosting)

Everything was sold within the first half hour, and we even needed to limit people to buy only 2 max. for the first round.  Some people even gave me more money than the cupcake actually cost.  Besides selling those amazing cupcakes, we also have a secret auction for a half dozen cupcakes, which came with each flavor) to boost more funds for the family.  The secret auction went so successfully and it got sold for 100 dollars=)  I hope that the funds we collected during the sale could help Brendan and his family to pay off some of their bills.  Also, glad to hear that Brendan is a very tough little guy.  He has been recovered very well and hopefully, he could leave the hospital by end of this year. 

Ms. Rosie Cupcake without the rose pedal

The Classic Cupcakes and the Summer Cucpakes were both sold out quickly.

Coca-Pop cupcakes are a lot of people's favorites

Ms. Rosie Cupckes got dressed up with a edible rose pedal

The Dude Cupcakes are not just popular among the dudes. 
They were so popular among the ladies too.

Hurry up, only two Ms. Rosie left! 
And Tony (Brendan's dad) shared some recent pictures of the family and Brendan with us.

Gone Gone Gone...

The secret auction.  The half dozen got sold for 100 dollars!

This time, I gave up using fondant for decoration.  I used edible rose pedal for the Ms. Rosie Cupcakes, a small stripe of bacon for the Dude Cupcakes, and a cherry and a straw for the Coca-Pop Cupcakes...they came out as cute as my hand crafted fondant toppers.

I had so much fun of planning and organizing this Cupcake-Sell-A-Thon and I was touched by all the kind people, who came out and support.  This meant a lot to me, Brendan and his family.  You guys ROCKS!

Great Compliment

I have shared some cupcake pictures of Dana and Tim's travel themed wedding on my last post this week.  Today, I would like to share this great complimentary email I received from Dana's mom, Debbi, who I also mentioned on my last post. 

Below is her compliment about our service and our hand crafted decorative cupcakes:

I thought the cupcakes turned out fantastic!! They were soooooo adorable- everybody was commenting on them. All that attention to detail - just so cute!  They really pulled together the travel theme. And they were delicious too - that's the best part. (My favorite flavor was the chocolate peanut butter, and I still can't decide which was my favorite fondant topper - all so cute!.) Thank you so much...
 
Thank you again so much.  I'll definitely be recommending you to my cupcake loving friends.
Debbi

I have been very busy and stressful for my full-time job lately.  Debbi's compliment has certainly put a big smile on my stressful face.  I am happy to see my clients and all their guests enjoyed the cupcakes and amazed by the decoration on top of them.  Debbi even send me a link of the professional pictures of their wedding.  If you are interested to see more pictures of the wedding and our cupcakes, head over to here Jason Burns Photography.  The pictures are wonderful; they captured all the important and sweet moments of the wedding.  The wedding was absolutely beautiful and unique and it totally represented Dana and Tim.

Travel Themed Wedding Cupcake Tower

Congratulations to my lovely client, Tim and Dana, who just got wedded last Saturday!  They had their vintage travel themed wedding at Green River Golf Club in City of Corona last Saturday. the venue was great and at a convenient location (not too far away from the guests, who travel from Orange County, Los Angeles County and Riverside County). 

They were such an easy to get along couple, and gave me a lot of freedom to do my designs for them and showed them my creative ideas.  I could not ask for a better client!  Also, thanks for Debbi, Dana's mom for being such a great coordinator between me and the couple.  Since the couple was studying in Egypt and also travelling in Europe before heading back to the U.S., it's not easy to communicate with each other due to the time difference and the availability of internet access.  Debbi was such a big helper for me to help the couple to create the wedding cupcakes for the wedding. 

Here are some cupcake pictures from their wedding:

Luggage tag with Tim and Dana's name on it.  Yellow flower to match their invitation and flowers at the wedding.

This couple travelled many places together.  A little airplane was the perfect guest to be part of their witness at the wedding.

21 dozens cupcakes (favors from the top - Lemon cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting, chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting, French vanilla cupcakes with strawberry butterncream). 
Cutting Cake on top (vanilla cake with rasberry filling with vanilla buttercream)

Love cruise

Doesn't matter how far they go, their love always goes with them.

I start accepting orders for September and October.  Please contact me to scehdule your events.

laters, baby<3

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

Story of little Brendan -

On June 12th, 2012 Amy and Tony Belello took their 14 month old son into the emergency room due to an accidental fall from a changing table earlier in the morning. A CT scan revealed a “peach sized mass” in the back of his brain/skull and he was rushed into emergency surgery at CHOC hospital in Orange, CA to have it removed and tested. The test came back positive for a type of cancer referred to as Medulloblas toma, a Desmoplasti c style tumor. Neurosurgeons where confident that they had removed most of the tumor and additional fragments. Doctors informed Tony and Amy that he had two weeks to live if the tumor was not removed. Several MRIs, a lumbar puncture and ultrasounds followed and showed a good result with no cancer developing elsewhere in his body.

Brendan has been at CHOC since July 1st and will remain there until December 2012 receiving chemotherapy. The chemotherapy is additional treatment to destroy any remaining cancer cells that may be in his body, which could quickly develop into the original fast-growing brain tumor.

Tony and Amy Belello also have a 3-year old daughter named Collette. The family is forced to be separated during the next 6 months while Brendan undergoes treatment. They also must continue to work full-time jobs in order to maintain medical insurance. Brendan will have one of his parents at his side 24/7 during this process. Your support will help this young family get through this difficult time.

I have never worked with Tony (Brendan's dad) since he had transferred to our San Diego's office when I first started.  However, I did have chance to meet him and his family during our Company's Christmas party last year.  I still remember how cute his two little ones were at the party. It absolutely broke my heart when I hear about what little Brendan has been going through. 

I am always trying to sneak a way to give back to the people in need.  I contacted Tony few weeks ago about a cupcake-sale-a-thon's idea to raise money to help the family.  And Tony was so excited about my idea and very thankful to see someone loves to help his family.  I know that it's not a big event, but I guess every help and every penny count.  And I am glad to hear that Brendan is doing so good at the hospital.  He is such a strong little hero. 

This won't be my last cupcake-sale-a-thon.  I am sure I will organize more cupcake-sale-a-thon in future to help whoever in need.