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

Valentine's Day is coming to town...

You have about a month to prepare to surprise the one you love!  Instead of giving your loved one flowers, how about some customized cupcakes?!  This is such a unique way to surprise the person, who means the world you.  By saying the person, that could be your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister, friends and co-workers...anyone you think they are important in your love and you would love to appreciate their cares and loves.

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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!?

Hawaiian Birthday Cupcakes

This post is way overdue, but luckily I still remember to post it before it's getting too late. Last month, my husband's family was throwing a surprise birthday party for his uncle's 50th birthday.  We all had a great time at the Hawaiian themed birthday party.  We even got a pig for his birthday!  My mother-in-law asked me if I mind making them some cupcakes for our uncle's birthday; especially she knew that I got caught up with other orders.  I said no, I don't mind.  So I made some pineapple cupcakes with creamy coconut frosting and decorate with yellow plumeria flowers (made of marshmallows). 

They came out really cute and they were so easy to make.  If you want to decorate your cupcakes in a easy way, marshmallows will be your new best friend.  You need a bag of the big size of marshmallows and cut them in lenthwise four times, so you will get five petals.  And then just spread a little food coloring in the middle and arrange them on top of your frosted cupcakes.  And I also used some melted candy wafers to make some "50" decorations for the cupcakes.  Everything was so tropical and matching the theme of the party=)

LOVE is a Four Letter Word

I am so excited that we finally got our tickets to see Jason Mraz's concert at the Hollywood Bowl this October.  Jason Mraz is one of my favorite musicians and have been longing to see his live performance for ages.  I am now listening to his songs every morning when I drive to work and every night when I go to bed, just to get familiar with all his songs, so I could enjoy even more at his concert. 

From boring...

...to what not to LOVE

Yesterday, in order to show my love and support to Jason and his music, I crafted 4 fondant toppers inspired by Jason's new album, "Love is a Four Letter Word" to decorate some dull looking Oreo cookies.  This is a wonderful (and easy) way to show your beloved one how much you love, care and appreciate them or it will even make a great surprise proposal idea.  If you want to turn your Oreo cookies to be a cookies with mission or a special cookie with messenge for the one you love, but you have no time or no idea how to make it.  Contact us or check our C for Cupcake Cupckaery Etsy shop, we could HELP!

They are not ordinary cookies. 
They are cookies with mission to show people LOVE.

It's very hard to pick only 10 favorite songs from Jason Mraz because a lot of them are really welly made.  Here is my TOP 10 list:

1.  Butterfly (my all time favorite, so sexy and mystery)
2.  Man Gave Names to all the Animals (it's a cute revision from the Bob Dylan's version)
3.  I'm Yours (what not to love?!)
4.  Lucky (Mr. G and I sing this song at karaoke all the time)
5.  Remedy (First song I knew from Jason Mraz)
6.  Curbside Prophet (Very refreshing new music)
7.  You and I Both (Sad love song)
8.  Did You Get My Message (Love the melody and lyrcis)
9.  Make It Mine (Meaning song)
10.  Please Don't Tell Her (another sad song from him)

What are your favorite songs from Jason Mraz?  Share with us=)

Just because...

I made some cupcakes, which inspired by the Beatles' popular love songs "All You Need is Love" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" for my customer.  Her husband loves the Beatles and she saw the Beatles cupcake toppers I made last year; she immediately fell in love with it.  She once told me she will for sure come to me and order some from me.  She came to me last week and ordered some Beatles to surprise her husband.  She wanted the 4 members of the Beatles and the remaining two cupcakes, she left room for me to put on my own designs.  I figured since she ordered the cupcakes for her love, I made the remaining two with a love message on it. Sometimes we don't need a reason to send something sweet to the one you love, some "just because..." cupcakes are the best!

Mario Brothers Cupcakes (Encore)

Last weekend, I made another set of Super Mario Brothers cupcakes for my friend's brother's birthday.  My friend saw the one I made for another client a month ago (check this out if you are interested in what I made the last time.).  She circled the ones she and her family liked the most.  At first, I was thinking just to focus on making the face and minus the body.  However, my friend and her family liked the whole body better.  Of course, I listened to my client and went for it.  This time I adjusted the scale a little bits to make all the characters a little bigger than the last time.  So people could see the details a little better.  They turned out so cute and I am so happy that my friend and her brother loved them.

Super Mario Brothers Cupcakes for a surprise birthday party

The "BIG" secret/surprise was finally out!  I was so honor to create this happy memory for the birthday girl, Mary.  Mr. G's cousin, Josh wanted to surprise his girlfriend, Mary with 144 Super Mario Brothers themed cupcakes on her 25th birthday this month.  Since August, we had started planning on the design and throwing ideas together.  He had already had specific idea in his mind; he wanted the cupcakes to be like a real game (everything needs to flow appropriately).  He went online and saw a lot of different pictures of the Mario Bros cupcakes, but nothing came close to what's in his mind.  So we exchanged emails back and forward for couple weeks about his ideas and what is possible/what's not practical.  I used 2 days to draw everything out and started making all the toppers since the beginning of September.

I am so happy that the birthday girl liked it!  And everyone at the birthday party enjoyed the cupcakes.  I need to say a BIG thank you to my helpers here:

Mr. G - Thanks for giving me a hand on a Friday night midnight.  You truly did a great job of making couple of the main characters.  YOU ARE SO HIRED!!!

Ashley - Thanks for helping me for making the fondant toppers and sorry for making your hands turn bright red the next day (thanks to the red food gel color).  I hope that I was not too demanding or too bitchy about your works=p  You are hired too.

My mother-in-law, Karen - Thanks for helping me to do the baking and frosting the cupcakes.  You rock!  And once you are retired from your real job, please let me know.  I am going to save a spot for you at my shop (if I had one in future and if you didn't mind working after retiring).

My cousin, Josh - Thanks for giving me another great opportunity to make such a fun big project.  I had so much fun of making the cupcakes, and I was so glad to see Mary's surprising face and teary eyes.