Mint Ice Cream Parfait

This is an extremely decadent dessert, perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or a summer party! What I really love about this recipe is the bottom layer of the parfait, it is cake-like, yet creamy like ice cream.  It’s a combination of angel food cake and chocolate marshmallow sauce. In order to really wow your guests,…

Mardi Gras Cupcakes

Have a Mardi Gras party to attend?  Or hosting your own Mardi Gras theme party?  Try your hand at making these cute Mardi Gras cupcakes!

Retro Robot Cupcakes

Know someone who is a geek at heart? Or who loves robots? These cute retro robots will certainly short circuit their sweet sensors!

Mint Chocolate Chip Cake with Cupcakes

A mint chocolate chip cake is quick and easy to make, and I am very pleased with how tasty it looks too! While mixing the batter I added in some chocolate chips. After putting the batter into the cake pan, and cupcake papers, I added a few more chocolate chips on top. While everything was…

Lizards of Many Colors

I’m always looking for new animal designs to put on cupcakes, so I really enjoyed making these lizards! Since lizards can change their colors I had an excuse to make these as colorful as I wanted! I first made a heavy glaze and dipped the tops of the cupcakes in it to produce a smooth…

Carrot Cake Bunnies

A cute design for Easter. I wanted to make these bunnies less ‘cartoony’. I tried to pipe a more realistic shape for more adult tastes since most kids I know don’t like carrot cake too much… since its called ‘carrot’ cake. I started out with regular carrot cake cupcakes and frosted them with cream cheese…

Mint Angel Food Cake

A great cake for St. Patrick’s Day! I’m sure it would look very nice next to a glass of green beer. First, I placed an angel food cake upside down on a cake board. Next, using mint flavored whipped topping (you can use Cool Whip and add mint extract and green food coloring.) I filled…

Football Cupcake

Football cupcakes in honor of the Super Bowl! I made yellow and chocolate cupcakes and decorated with buttercream frosting. I used a large sized grass tip to pipe grass all over the top of the cupcake. Next, I used a #8 round tip to pipe a football on top of the grass. I then outlined…

Faerie and Mermaid Cake

Here is a cake that was a lot of fun to do. This idea all started out in the imagination of my eight year old niece. She wanted a faerie and a mermaid on her cake. I wanted to do a two tier cake and decorate each according to the mythical creature that would be…